Biographies of photographers whose images shaped art, fashion, journalism, and film culture. Explore their backgrounds, signature styles, and most influential work.
Photography
Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and organizer whose work linked Beat writing, experimental photography, underground film, performance, mysticism, and psychedelic culture. In arts contexts involving Allen Ginsberg, reflective Mylar portraits, Bardo Matrix, or underground cinema, the name refers to this New York-based artist,
Photography
Ike Altgens was a Dallas-based Associated Press photographer whose Dealey Plaza photographs became some of the best-known still images of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963. Standing on the south side of Elm Street as the motorcade passed, he photographed the limousine just after
American filmmakers
Hollis Frampton was an American experimental filmmaker, photographer, writer, and theorist who made films about how images, words, memory, and time are organized. Rather than telling stories through characters and plot, his work often lets viewers experience a system: an alphabet, a sequence, a spoken account that does not match
Photography
Gerard Malanga is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, and performer whose early work at Andy Warhol’s Factory made him a visible figure in 1960s Pop art and the Velvet Underground’s performance world. At the Factory, he helped produce screen prints, appeared in films, and danced in the Exploding
Photography
Deepti Naval is an Indian actor, writer, painter, photographer and director whose best-known Hindi-film roles include Chashme Buddoor, Saath Saath, Ek Baar Phir and Kamla. She became a distinctive presence in the late 1970s and 1980s through performances that felt natural, observant and rooted in ordinary emotional life.
Modern art
David Wojnarowicz was an American artist, writer, and AIDS activist whose photography, painting, collage, film, writing, and text-based work joined personal experience to public politics. His art confronts queer desire, poverty, violence, grief, ecological damage, censorship, and the deadly neglect surrounding the AIDS crisis. It can feel intense or
Photography
Brad Everett Young was an American actor, celebrity photographer, and arts advocate. He appeared in film and television, later became known for photographing Los Angeles entertainment and charity events, and founded Dream Loud Official to support arts education and creative opportunities for young people. He died at 41 in a
Reggae
Roger Steffens is a widely cited reggae historian and Bob Marley specialist whose work also includes broadcasting, writing, collecting, curating, and photography. Journalists, filmmakers, collectors, and fans refer to him because he has spent decades assembling and interpreting recordings, documents, interviews, images, and firsthand accounts connected to Jamaican music. He