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. ".

Vivian Maier—Eccentric street photographer

Vivian Dorothea Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an eccentric street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as nanny, mostly in Chicago's North shore, pursuing photography during her spare time. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her career, primarily of the people and architecture of New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed worldwide.

During her lifetime, Maier's photographs were unknown and unpublished, and in fact she never developed many of her negatives. 

John Maloof, curator of some of Maier's photographs, summarized the way the children she nannied would later describe her:"She was a Socialist, a Feminist, a movie critic, and a tell-it-like-it-is type of person. She learned English by going to theaters, which she loved. ... She was constantly taking pictures, which she didn't show anyone.”

A free spirit but also a proud soul, Vivian became poor and was ultimately saved by three of the children she had nannied earlier in her life.

“Well, I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel. You get on, you have to go to the end. And then somebody has the same opportunity to go to the end and so on.” 

                                                        – Vivian Maier

David Terrazas ——Graphic designer in the best photographer

David Terrazas is a brilliant photographer born in 1980 Spain and now living between Bangkok and Madrid. He has made a lot of amazing portraits, each of these having its very own particular atmosphere. There is really a story behind each face. 

He has been engaged in graphic design work, love photography, but his photographs are beautifully flat picture effect, delicate details, bright feeling.

Year round living in Asia, the majority of Asian photography background. So that more people understand the beauty and truth of Asia. His works Vietnamese audience learned more different Vietnam.

Jerry Schatzberg——Film photographer

Jerry Schatzberg(born June 26,1927 in Bronx,New York) is a photographer and film director .As a still photographer, one of Schatzberg's most famous images was the cover photo of the Bob Dylan album Blonde on Blonde ,released in1996. A collection of  Schatzberg's images of Dylan was published by Genesis Publication in 2006, titled Thin Wild Mercury .

1954, at the University of Miami as the artist's assistant, Bill. Two years later, he left there and worked as a freelance photographer. And a few years later, he would have been filled with a unique style of photography film photography shine.