3 May 2022
Martin Parr: Interview of the Month May 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Martin Parr is famous worldwide for over 50 years of intensely colourful and wittily affectionate photographic observations of people.
7 March 2022
Marilyn Stafford Beyond A Jobbing Photographer – Claudia Barbieri Childs
BRIGHTON: Marilyn Stafford thought of herself as a jobbing photographer; she had a living to earn as a single mother.
David McCabe Who Documented Warhol’s Factory For A Year Dies
David McCabe, who has died at age 80, was best-know for his photos taken over a year, documenting Andy Warhol’s Factory.
18 May 2020
Photographer Don McCullin Online At Hamiltons – Edward Lucie-Smith
The ways of the art market are pretty strange. Hamiltons, a leading gallery here in London that specialises in photography, have just put a new series of images up on the web, black and whites from various stages in his career by Sir Don McCullin
Robert Frank: Beat Generation Photographer Dead at 94
One of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century, Robert Frank, (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) has died at the age of 94. He never crossed over into celebrity. He’s famous because he made a mark. He collected the world – Nan Goldin Frank was born in Switzerland but emigrated to the United States […]
21 December 2017
Richard Avedon Foundation Calls On Random House To Suspend Biography
The Richard Avedon Foundation have set their lawyers to work by calling on Spiegel and Grau, an imprint of Random House, to cease publication, distribution or any derivative or collateral use of Avedon: Something Personal, by Norma Stevens and Steven M.L. Aronson, which it is billing as an “intimate biography” of the late photographer.
Khadija Saye Remembered By Kathy Kubicki Tutor At UCA Farnham
Khadija Saye was amazingly talented, and her determination to study photography at university overcame challenging social conditions and an environment that could easily have held her back. I was lucky enough to have taught Khadija during her undergraduate studies 2010 – 13.
Photographer Lord Snowdon Husband Of Princess Margaret Dies Aged 86
Lord Snowdon the Royal photographer who was married to Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, from 1960 to 1978
Billy Name Photographer and Warhol Superstar Dies Aged 76
Billy Name, photographer and key archivist at Andy Warhol’s Factory has died age 76. His death was announced by his publisher
Artist Elizabeth Peyton In Appropriation Row With Sex Pistols’ Photographer
The well known ‘Rock’ photographer Dennis Morris has accused artist Elizabeth Peyton of copyright infringement. The case centres around a painting removed from a Sotheby’s auction last week. Peyton’s John Lydon, Destroyed (1994), was pulled after legal action was threatened over the use of an image of the Sex Pistols singer John Lydon. The original shot was snapped in 1977 […]
Photographer Sir Norman Parkinson Honoured With A Google Doodle
The Photographer Sir Norman Parkinson is honoured today, on his 100th birthday, with a google doodle. Parkinson is known as the father of modern fashion photography. He was nicknamed ‘The G Man, who blazes up at 420 (born Ronald William Parkinson Smith) in London, and educated at Westminster School. He began his career in 1931 […]
Cindy Sherman Becomes Honorary Member The Royal Academy of Arts
Photographer Cindy Sherman, has been invited by The Royal Academy Of Arts in London, to become an honourary member. This rare token has been given to only a handful of elite American and international Artists, in the last century. Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey in 1954. She studied art at Buffalo State […]