Marilyn Minter is best known for her work that is done in a photorealism style. Her paintings and photographs blur the line between commercial and fine art. Minter lives and works in New York City.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Duane Michals
Duane Michals is one of the most renowned photographers of the 20th century. He is well known for his singular works of multiple photographic panels, his multiple exposures, and his photographs incorporating text. Michals first made a name for himself in photography in the 1960s. Turning away from photojournalism which prevailed in the day, he began constructing narratives, uninterested in the strictly evidentiary function of the medium.
Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938)
Joel Meyerowitz is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art.
Sheila Metzner
Born in Brooklyn, Sheila Metzner attended Pratt Institute, where she majored in Visual Communications. Shortly after graduating, she was hired by Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency as its first female art director. She took pictures all the while, amassing them slowly over the next thirteen years, while raising five children. One of these photographs was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s groundbreaking exhibition, “Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960.” Gallery shows and commercial clients soon followed, launching a career that has taken Metzner around the world on assignments for clients like Valentino, Shiseido, and Revlon; as well as for her own photographic projects, which have focused largely on details of the human form, and natural and urban scenes.
Metzner’s photographs are featured in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and Saks Fifth Avenue, all in New York City; The Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and The Art Institute of Chicago; as well as the collections of the Agfa and Polaroid Corporations.
Monika Merva
Monika Merva is a fine-art photographer and educator most known for her portraits of the human condition. Merva lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Michael Meads
Michael Meads earned a BFA from Auburn University in 1987, and an MFA from State University of New York at Albany in 1990. In the early 1990s Meads returned to his hometown in Alabama and developed a style as a painter, draftsman, and photographer. His work shows a deeply personal narrative filtered through the lens of classical themes and a deep sense of place.
Ryan McGinley
Ryan McGinley is an American photographer working and living in New York City. In 2003 at the age of 25, McGinley became one of the youngest artists to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Carey Maxon (b. 1978)
Esko Männikkö (b. 1959)
Sally Mann
Sally Mann is an American photographer most known for her black and white photographs large scale photographs. Mann’s subject matter was at first her young children, then later became landscapes suggesting decay and death.
Christopher Makos
Christopher Makos is an American photographer and artist. Makos has collaborated with Andy Warhol, and was an apprentice under Man Ray. His photographs of Warhol, Haring, Tennessee Williams, and others have been auctioned regularly at Sotheby’s.
David Maisel
David Maisel (b. 1961, New York) is an artist working in photography and video, and the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. Among his chief concerns are the politics and aesthetics of radically human-altered environments, and how we perceive our place in time via investigations of cultural artifacts from both past and present. His work focuses on power and the production of space by examining landscapes and objects that are off-limits, quarantined, or hidden from view. Maisel received his BA from Princeton University, and his MFA from California College of the Arts, in addition to study at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Robert Longo
Robert Longo is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician. Longo became first well known in the 1980s for his Men in the Cities drawing and print series, which depict sharply dressed men and women writhing in contorted emotion
Joshua Lutz
b. 1975
Joshua Lutz is an American artist working with large-format photography and video. Lutz was given his first solo exhibition at Gitterman Gallery during the summer of 2004. In 2008, Lutz’s first book, Meadowlands, was published with powerHouse Books. In essayist Robert Sullivan’s introduction to the monograph, he describes the Meadowlands as “. . .that giant swath of swamp and space that separates New Jersey from New York City, or, put another way, from New York City and the rest of the United States of America.” The New Yorker wrote: “Joshua Lutz takes the New Topographics of Adams, Shore, and Sternfeld into its current era of urban sprawl.” In the fall of 2008, Lutz had a solo exhibition for the “Meadowlands” series at CLAMP in New York. 2013 saw the release of Lutz’s second book, Hesitating Beauty. A series of photographs revealing a different side of Lutz’s work—this body of work tells an extremely personal story of his mother. The book’s narrative carefully and thoughtfully encompasses the generally sensitive topic of mental illness. An exhibition of the work was mounted at CLAMP in New York to coincide with the release of the monograph from Schilt Publishing. More recent books from the artist include Mind the Gap (Schilt Publishing) and Orange Blossom Trail (Image Text Ithaca Press), which both grapple with the challenges of life in contemporary America.
Joshua Lutz graduated with an MFA in photography from Bard College/The International Center for Photography in 2005, and is now Assistant Professor of Photography at SUNY Purchase. He has received many prestigious awards and grants, including The Aaron Siskind Fellowship; The Tierney Fellowship; and the Hudson Year Fellowship. Lutz has exhibited his work internationally in numerous shows over the past fifteen years.
Michael Lundgren (b. 1974)
Michael Lundgren draws on a deep current in photographic tradition that takes the natural world as a seat of transcendence. Having spent his formative years in upstate New York, Lundgren was pulled west by the vastness of the desert. His first monograph, Transfigurations (2008), seeks to refine the value of the primitive landscape. Through photographic formalism, these images parallel the extremities of desert experience. Lundgren’s process depends on the creation of a body of work over time, with new images altering the course and meaning of the whole.
David Levinthal (b. 1949)
American photographer David Levinthal re-stages historical events using toy figures, play sets, and other miniatures. “Ever since I began working with toys,” the artist explains, “I have been intrigued with the idea that these seemingly benign objects could take on such incredible power and personality simply by the way they were photographed.” Charles Hagen of The New York Times adds, “What distinguishes Mr. Levinthal’s work is his interest in emotionally charged historical material. But the real force of his images comes not from his choice of subjects but from the way he tells their stories.”
Levinthal is the co-author, with Garry Trudeau, of “Hitler Moves East,” originally published in 1977. Dark Light, a ten year survey exhibition of his work, was organized in 1994 by The Photographers’ Gallery in London, and traveled throughout the United Kingdom. In 1997 the International Center of Photography in New York City presented the first retrospective “David Levinthal work from 1977 to 1996”. Levinthal has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is included in numerous museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, and The Menil Collection.