Biographies of photographers whose images shaped art, fashion, journalism, and film culture. Explore their backgrounds, signature styles, and most influential work.
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Burr McIntosh (1862–1942) was an American stage actor, photographer, writer, and publisher. *Burr McIntosh Monthly* was the illustrated periodical founded under his name, so a record bearing “Burr McIntosh” can refer to the man, his photographic work, or the magazine. His career brought together theatre, portrait photography, society journalism,
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Brigid Berlin, also known as Brigid Polk, was a New York artist and a major presence in Andy Warhol’s Factory scene. Although she is often remembered as a Warhol Superstar, her own work—tape recordings, Polaroids, photographs, drawings, and “Tit Prints”—made an unusually intimate record of 1960s and
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Berry Berenson was an American photographer and actress, a member of the Berenson family, and the wife of actor Anthony Perkins. Born Berinthia Berenson, she built a professional photography career, appeared in films, and was the mother of Oz and Elvis Perkins. She was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11
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Barry Sonnenfeld is an American director, cinematographer, and producer best known for giving comedies and fantastical stories a carefully controlled visual style and dry, straight-faced humor. He began as a cinematographer before directing films, a shift that helps explain his attention to lenses, framing, camera movement, and production design.
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Barret Oliver is the former child actor best known as Bastian Balthazar Bux in 1984’s The NeverEnding Story, and he is not generally known as an active screen actor today. After a busy run in 1980s films including D.A.R.Y.L. and Cocoon, he shifted into fine-
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Allan Arbus was an American commercial and fashion photographer who became a well-known actor, best remembered as Army psychiatrist Dr. Milton Sidney Freedman on *M*A*S*H*. He was also Diane Arbus’s husband and early professional partner, but their shared history should not obscure that they built
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Alexandra Hedison is an American photographer, director and former actor. She is known for her photographic work as well as for earlier television roles, and she has been married to Jodie Foster since 2014. Although her marriage has brought wider attention, Hedison has built a separate public career through gallery
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Alexandr Hackenschmied and Alexander Hammid were the same Czech-born photographer and filmmaker. He used Alexandr Hackenschmied in his early Czechoslovak career and Alexander Hammid after moving to the United States, so programmes, archives, and film credits often use different names for the same person. His work connects interwar European
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Affonso Beato is a Brazilian cinematographer, or director of photography, whose work runs from Brazil’s Cinema Novo era to major international films. He is known for images that make light, color, texture, and real locations carry dramatic weight. His career includes politically charged Brazilian cinema of the 1960s and
American actors
Aaron Ruell played Kip Dynamite, Napoleon’s older brother, in the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, and Kip remains his best-known role. Ruell did not disappear after the film: he acted occasionally while shifting much of his career toward commercial directing and photography. If you remember Kip’s chat-room
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Dick Blau is an American photographer and educator known for intimate, color-rich documentary photographs of people in homes, neighborhoods, workplaces, and social settings. His work centers on sustained attention to relationships, local culture, and the visual details that give a place its character. He is also closely associated with
American actors
Meeno Peluce is a former American child actor best known as Jeffrey Lutz in the 1979 horror film *The Amityville Horror* and Jeffrey Jones in the early-1980s TV adventure series *Voyagers!*. If you recognize him from an older movie or rerun, those two roles are the likeliest reason. His