Hamaya began teaching himself photography from the age of 15 and became a freelance photographer in 1937. He gained recognition in the immediate...

During a visit by Magnum members to Japan in 1961, Hiroji Kubota came to know René Burri, Burt Glinn and Elliott Erwitt. After graduating in political...

Herbert List was a classically educated artist who combined a love of photography with a fascination for surrealism and classicism. Born into a...

Born in Chanteloup, Seine-et-Marne, Henri Cartier-Bresson developed a strong fascination with painting early on, and particularly with Surrealism. In...

Harry Gruyaert, born in Antwerp (Belgium) in 1941, studied at the School of Film and Photography in Brussels from 1959 to 1962. Then he became a...

Hans Wild (1912 – 1969) was a British photographer who worked for Life magazine from 1938 to 1946. Some of his best known work appeared on the cover...

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Born in 1941 in Paris into a modest family from Brittany, Guy Le Querrec shot his first pictures of jazz musicians in London in the late 1950s, making...

Pinkhassov's interest in photography began while he was still at school. After studying cinematography at the VGIK (the Moscow Institute of...

Trained as an engineer, Gjon Mili arrived in America from Albania in 1923 and began working for LIFE. He later collaborated with Professor Harold...