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Edward Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American pho

An Intro to Wet-Plate Collodion Photography by Jenn Libby I attended a lecture and demonstration today on the wet plate collodion pro

Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs: 1949-1962 Robert Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipat

Man Ray (August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Man Ray was an American visual

Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) Bernice Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio, and raised by her single mother. She atte

Mary Ellen Mark: March 20, 1940 - May 25, 2015 I met Mary Ellen Mark for the first time at the 1982 Ansel Adams Workshop in Monterey, Cal