Famous Photographer #23

Joel Meyerowitz

Born 1938 (81 years old

He is mostly known for his street photography but has also done portrait as well as landscape work. He was also one of the early adaptors of color during the time when it was still looked down on.

He has work is many public and private collections, such as the MOMA, NY Library, he also has many awards as well for his photography work.

In the early 60’s he quite his job working at an agency as an art director to become a photographer after seeing Robert Frank.

During the 70’s is when he began to use color film more than BW. He also used large format camera to photograph portraits.

He went to school at Ohio state and studied art.

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Famous Photographer #22

Neil Leifer

Born 1942 (77 years old

He is a photographer and film maker. He is mostly known for some of the most famous sports photos like the first one on the side.

His first photography experience was with the Henry Street Settlement House. They offer classes for the lower class.  John Iacono, Manny Millan, and Stanley Kubrick are also some big names to come out of the classes.

He was an average American boy working odd jobs till he could buy his first camera.

When he first started taking sports photos, they were at Giant’s games, he got to go in for free in exchange for helping handicap guests. He got to go on the field with the other photographers.

He went to the “Greatest Game Ever Played.” which was between the  Baltimore Colts VS giants game. He sold some photos of the game to SI (sports illustrated).

He got his first cover photo at SI when he was just 19 years old and they loved working with him.

Neil was also known to be a risk taker with his camera, putting the camera in places where he and or the camera could have caused an accident or gotten him self hurt.

Besides working for SI, he also worked with TIME.

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Famous Artist #17

Joyce Pensato

Born 1941 died 2019

There is not a lot of info about her, I found her on IG and love her work.

She was an American painter who took things from pop culture and did her abstraction to it, with rough lines. Her work is at the MOMA as well as the Whitney as well as other galleries and has also won awards.

She studied at NYSS (New York Studio School) after the second try getting in.

Most of her work is black and white she would at times add silver or gold as well as colors to her work.

Her art career took of around the age of 50.

She worked with Mercedes Matter who helped her with her work.

She would collect pop icon things for her studio.

Joan Mitchell was a mentor of hers.

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Famous Artist #16

Paul Klee

Born 1979 and died 1940

He was an expressionist, cubist and surrealist.

In his early years his parents encouraged him to play instruments. He wanted to be a musician but decided to focus on visual art.

During his school years he would draw and color in his school books.

Started studying art at Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He was an amazing drawer but thought he could never paint.

He received his Fine Art Degree. 1901-02 him and his friend went to Italy and studied master painters.

Lived at home and took art classes. he was playing with many techniques.

Became a soldier in 1916 WW1.

1919 he failed to get a teaching job but got a contract with a successful art dealer.

Klee was a teacher at Bauhaus 1921-31. he also helped create advertising material.

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Famous Artist #15

Gerhard Richter

Born in 1931 (87

German abstract painter but has also done photorealistic work, photographs and glass work.

He left school in the 10th grade to work with a advertising and staging paintings before studying at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

Around 1949-51 he was working as a sign painter and as a painter.

Early in his career he helped prepare a wall for a Picasso for a room in the art academy for his BA.

1957-61 was a master trainee in the academy and did commission work.

Him and his wife left Germany before the start of the Berlin Wall. All of his work was painted over. Some of his work was recovered.

He was introduced to the term Capitalistic Realism which can be an anti art style. It can be related to the Socialist Realism.

Gerhard was a teacher at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and Nova Scotia College and of Art and Design and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where he was a professor for over 15 years.

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