New York City, ‘the city that never sleeps’ as it is famously called, has been lensed by countless photographers over the years, but it is through Berenice Abbott’s documentary approach that some of the best known photographs of the city were created.
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Robert Mapplethorpe remains as one of the best remembered photographers of the 20th century, most noted for his black and white portraits of celebrities, flowers, male and female nudes.
One of the most iconic images in sports history is, amusingly, taken inside of a pool in South Florida. In 1961, Flip Schulke captured an up-and-coming black boxer
Jan Groover is best remembered as one of the first proponents of both painterly color photography and table top constructions.
There were few twentieth-century celebrities more legendary than Frank Sinatra. He was one of the most accomplished and revered American entertainers to make a lasting impact on the country’s history.
Some Superbowl commercials became ingrained in American minds, one of the most memorable being Cindy Crawford’s early 1990s Pepsi Ad. The minute-long commercial, which showed supermodel Crawford stopping at a remote gas station for a can of Pepsi, captured a special moment in the brand’s history.
One of the richest and most fascinating architectural sites globally is in a valley near Cuzco, Peru. It is the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu has fascinated the multitudes with its glorious past. Why it existed, how it was built into the valley, and why it was suddenly abandoned all add to its mystery. One of the site’s most vital and early visual records was made by one of the greatest Peruvian photographers, Martín Chambi.
In a 2005 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, with an interview titled The Cult of Darth Vader, made after the last release of the new Star Wars trilogy, George Lucas looks back at one of the greatest movie villains of all time, Darth Vader. Albert Watson was commissioned to photograph the costume, and one of the resulting pictures became the issue’s cover.
The cover image of “David Bowie, Aladdin Sane” became the defining visual presence for Bowie. Bowie understood its power to brand his visual image.