Ann Mandelbaum (born 1945) is an American artist and photographer. She has an MA in Media Studies from The New School and an MFA from Pratt Institute in Painting and Drawing. She retired in 2021 after over 40 years teaching Fine Art and Photography at Pratt Institute.
Her 4th monograph, Matter, will be published by Hatje Cantz in 2022. It offers both analog black and white work from 1990-2000 and digital color images from 2007-present. None of the 105 examples have been exhibited or published before. The richness of the volume is in the 35-year process delineated. It reveals a continual obsession with the organic world, weaving through abstraction and sensation. Using both darkroom manipulation and later digital layers - Mandelbaum consistently reinvents and rediscovers a language of surprise. It follows 3 others: Ann Mandelbaum [ edition Stemmele 1994], Ann Mandelbaum, New Work[ Edition Stemmle, 1999], and Thin Skin[ Hatje Cantz, 2006].
She had had over 20 solo international exhibitions in museums and galleries including: Grey Art Gallery, New York; Southeastern Center for Photogrpahy, Winston Salem; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Musee del'Elysee, Lausanne; Arge Kunst, Bolzano; Fotomuseum, Munich, Canal Isabel, Madrid; Galerie Francoise Paviot, Paris; Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt; Rena Bransten, San Francisco; Jane Jackson, Atlanta.
In 2005, Hatje Cantz Verlag released a monograph on her work. [1] She is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, [2] the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, [3] the Brooklyn Museum [4] and the Center for Creative Photography. [5]
Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer. He photographs tableaux of American homes and neighborhoods.
Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.
Lynn Davis is an American photographer known for her large-scale black-and-white photographs which are widely collected publicly and privately and are internationally exhibited.
Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-American Fine Art Photographer of a North-African and Bukhari descent. She is based in New York City.
The Helsinki School was a name introduced in an article by Boris Hohmeyer, Aufbruch im hohen Norden, in art Das Kunstmagazin in 2003. This was the first time it was used as a brand name to describe a selection of artists who had studied under adjunct professor Timothy Persons at the University of Art & Design in Espoo from the beginning of 1990s. So far, with over a 180 international publications, the Helsinki School represents a collaborative approach, where students of photography, not only work together by presenting each other's works but, exhibit with their professors, mentors and former alumni in a joint effort to share in mutual contextual dialogue that uses the photographic process as a tool for thinking.
Sylvie Fleury is a Swiss contemporary pop artist known for her installations, sculpture, and mixed media. Her work generally depicts objects with sentimental and aesthetic attachments in consumer culture, as well as the paradigm of the new age, with much of her work specifically addressing issues of gendered consumption and the fetishistic relationships to consumer objects and art history.
Bill Jacobson is an American photographer. He received a BFA from Brown University in 1977 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981.
Mitra Tabrizian is a British-Iranian photographer and film director. She is a professor of photography at the University of Westminster, London. Mitra Tabrizian has exhibited and published widely and in major international museums and galleries, including her solo exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2008. Her book, Another Country, with texts by Homi Bhabha, David Green, and Hamid Naficy, was published by Hatje Cantz in 2012.
Isca Greenfield-Sanders is an American landscape painter based in New York City.
Trine Søndergaard, is a Danish photography-based visual artist. Trine Søndergaard lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Max de Esteban is an artist working mostly in photography and video whose work is best known for his examination of the human condition under a technological regime.
Oliver Mark is a German photographer and artist known primarily for his portraits of international celebrities.
Shirana Shahbazi is an Iranian-born photographer who now lives in Switzerland. Her work includes installations and large prints of conceptual photography.
Mona Kuhn is a German-Brazilian contemporary photographer best known for her large-scale photographs of the human form and essence. An underlying current in Kuhn's work is her reflection on our longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As a result, her approach is unusual in that she develops close relationships with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable intimacy. Kuhn's work shows the human body in its natural state while simultaneously re-interpreting the nude as a contemporary canon of art. Her work often references classical themes, has been exhibited internationally, and is held in several collections including the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum and the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Michael Reisch is a German artist and photographer. Reisch exhibited nationally and internationally. His works are included in collections worldwide, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA and National Gallery of Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland. His works combine aspects of documentary photography, painting and sculpture. He lives in Düsseldorf.
Pola Sieverding is a German photographer and video artist. She works in the field of lens based media.
Ken Schles is an American photographer based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York. He has published five monographs over 25 years. Schles' work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and others.
Andreas Schmidt is a Berlin based artist and gallerist.
Stephanie Buhmann is a German art critic, art historian, and curator. Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, she lives in New York City and Lübeck, Germany. Her book series "Studio Conversations" focuses on contemporary female artists from different cities. Each book is in a different city. The concept for the "Studio Conversations" project goes back to 2012 when Buhamann became increasingly disenchanted with the media’s fixation the soaring art market. Buhmann states, "I wanted to counterbalance that trend while supporting my community by creating a permanent record of something private and simple: conversations with artists in their studios about the works on their walls."
Sanna Kannisto is a Finnish photographer who is noted for her photographs taken in rainforests and for her studio photographs of birds.