Alex Webb---- A photographer with Magnum Photos.

Alex Webb (born 5 May 1952) is a photographer associated with Magnum Photos. He has primarily worked in color, has published 11 books, and has contributed to such magazines as GEO, Time, and the New York Times Magazine.

Webb first became interested in photography as a high school student and in 1972 attended the Ape iron Workshops in Miller ton. By 1974 he was working as a photojournalist and in 1976 he became an associate member of Magnum Photos. During this time he documented small-town life in the American South. He also did some work in the Caribbean and Mexico, which led him, in 1978, to begin working in color, which he has continued to do.

Webb has produced six monographs with bodies of work from The Tropics (Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, Africa, and Asia,), Haiti, Florida, the Amazon region, the U.S.-Mexico Border, and Istanbul, and one retrospective monograph, The Suffering of Light.

Webb now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Rebecca Norris Webb, who is also a photographer.

Jim Marshall ----- Music Photography

MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL: Famed rock photographer Jim Marshall's images of Haight-Ashbury live on in new book

The New York Times said Jim Marshall's images of rock stars in the 1960s and 1970s "helped define their subjects as well as rock 'n' roll photography itself." And Annie Liebowitz, who has shot her share of rock photos for Rolling Stone, deferred to Marshall as "the rock 'n' roll' photographer."

INDIA EXPRESS: Rock Through the Ages

After opening in London three years ago, “Gibson Through The Lens”, a photo exhibition curated by music photography archivist Dave Brolan that traces the history of the iconic guitar brand, will debut in India.


SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: The Beatles acting naturally: a photo collection.

To commemorate the Paul McCartney concert at Candlestick Park on Aug. 14, almost 50 years after the Beatles' last gig at the same venue, San Francisco Art Exchange is offering a selection of five intimate, limited-edition archival photos shot by Jim Marshall from the final concert.

Joel Meyerowitz------New York Street Photographer

JOEL MEYEROWITZ

 is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He was born in New York in 1938. He began photographing in 1962. He is a “street photographer” in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, although he now works exclusively in colour. As an early advocate of colour photography (mid-60’s), Meyerowitz was instrumental in changing the attitude toward the use of colour photography from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance. His first book, Cape Light, is considered a classic work of colour photography and has sold more than 150,000 copies during its 30-year life. He is the author of 20 other books, including Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks (Aperture), and his 50 year retrospective book, "Taking My Time", was published by Phaeton Press in 2013. He currently has a major retrospective exhibition at the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf. In November another large scale exhibition, "Immersion", opens in la Piscine Museum in Roubaix, France.

Martine Franck&Richard Kalvar ——— Magnum Photos Documentary Photography

    

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"Not that the wall between the two is totally impermeable. I’m the same human being taking both kinds of pictures, and my professional work, while not as deep or mysterious, is I hope informed by the same acuity and sense of play, and the same visual values."

                                                                                 -----Richard Kalvar 

At the time it didn't seem to me that I could do that through my personal photographs, so I began to seek professional work taking pictures. I suppose that to support my habit I could have driven a taxi, or become a customs inspector like Henri Rousseau or Nathaniel Hawthorne, but using the camera seemed like the path of least resistance.

“ A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective   impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.”

                                                                                 ——Martine Franck

Bob Mazzer---Metro photographer

"Every day I travelled to King's Cross and back. Coming home late at night, it was like a party and I felt like the tube was mine and I was there to take the pictures."

                                                                                         - Bob Mazzer.

Bob Mazzer received his first camera as a Bar Mitzvah gift at 13 years old; an Ilford Sporty he called “a crap little camera of plastic and tin”. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, he used a 35mm Leica M4, creating highly textured, grainy shots marked by a unique colour and tonality. As Mazzer says, he is a 'diarist photographer', taking intimate shots of people he finds interesting as a way of recording his day. 

Bob Mazzer is a social documentary photographer born in White chapel, East London. In the 1970s and 80s, he worked as a projectionist in a porn cinema called 'The Office Cinema' (“so guys could call their wives and say, 'I'm still at the office'”). Late at night on his way home from work, Mazzer began photographing London commuters as they journeyed through the capital's network of tunnels. Unseen for many years, this social history amassed over four decades offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Londoners in pictures alive with hum our and humanity. 

With his own unique perspective, Mazzer captured a time that many living in London will remember, but the younger generation will have never known. This nostalgic insight documents a time when you could still smoke on your morning commute, before the smoking ban on the London Underground in 1987. In a time when the floors were still wooden, late night revellers carry glasses of beer as buskers and musicians perform in shadowy corners. The inside of the carriages reveal London's changing times, capturing a moment when the original infrastructure that had not been changed for fifty years was about to modernise. Mazzer captures the subcultures, fashion and diversity of London life; the 1980s punks and rockers in studded leather jackets, couples in love, the mad, the lonely and the dispossessed. These anonymous photos are at the same time tender and tough, captivating the viewer with a myriad of poetic moments. The anonymous people Mazzer engaged with now engage the viewer, offering captivating shots of the human condition.

Helen Levitt-----PoeticPhotographer

One of the most important figures in contemporary photography is the New Yorker Helen Levitt.  For over 60 years her quiet, poetic photographs made on the streets of the city she has inhabited for most of her life have inspired and amazed generations of photographers, students, collectors, curators, and lovers of art in general.  Throughout her long career, Helen Levitt’s photographs have consistently reflected her poetic vision, humor, and inventiveness as much as they have honestly portrayed her subjects—men, women, and children living it out on the streets and among the tenements of New York.  

One of the tribute’s highlights will be a selection of never-before-exhibited “first proofs.” These early documents of her working methods are often unique. Some are vintage, others were printed as late as the 1970’s, but all were printed by Helen in her bathroom that doubled as the darkroom. Often they are variants of iconic images, and often they are sequences of several shots taken at the same time.  They all reveal the photographer’s “dance” as she observes boys climbing up a tree, a large family gathering on the front stoop, two men seated beside a curious cat, or four boys peering into a pool hall.  In combination with the film In the Street, the early sequences reinforce her reputation as a cinematographer, and are genuine and valuable records of the working methods of a canny and poetic photographer.

Saul Leiter&Eve Arnold——Great Photographers

Photographer Saul Leiter, a rabbi and a painter who really make Hamlet fame is his New York street photography. In 1953, Edward Steichen his work in New York MoMA exhibition "Always the Young Strangers" in the exhibition, he began to emerge. That same year, his work in Saul Leiter: Early Color was launched in by the historian Martin Harrison wrote the foreword. Compared to other New York photographer, such as Virginia and Arbus, Everett did not known, although he had held in 2006 at Milwaukee Art Museum had an exhibition.

Overlooked color photographer

Photography started to gather some inspiration, he took a borrowed camera onto the streets of New York Lycra, with black and white photographs grab those fleeting poetic scenes, lines under the sun, dark shadow of silver and overlay images with surreal meaning of the window reflection. After that, he turned to black and white photos from color photos, and the establishment of a unique color street photography style.

His works describe the complex relationship between people, buildings, the weather, the picture is full of split, local, concealed or multi-space and shape. People in the picture are arranged in the glass, mirrors and other fragmented space. Their bodies may be placed in deep shadow, outline, some are hidden in the snow, and some were huge canopy cover. His work is the visual experience of the city - not street people, but people have seen.

Lift Eve Arnold, who are familiar with photography will not be unfamiliar, her Marilyn Monroe up to 10 years of shooting not only made her known in the world, but also let her become Marilyn Monroe girlfriends. In addition to Marilyn Monroe, she also filmed a number of Queen Elizabeth, Mrs. Kennedy and other influential women. She is also the first in the lens at the China Western photojournalists, in the 1970s, she had visited China several times, shooting a lot of precious photos literature, and published albums "in China." Eve Arnold life won numerous awards, including the Journal of the American Photographers Association awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the British royal awarded Order of the British Empire in recognition of its contribution in the photography industry.

Eve Arnold, who writes: "I have destitute, so I will focus on poverty; I had lost a child, so I'm fascinated by the newborn; I am interested in politics, I want to know that it has brought to life what; I am a woman, I want to know whether they want to show what a woman, as long as they are willing to give, I will be shot. ".