Criticizing Photographs

Nick Ut's "Napalm Girl", Marc Riboud's "Flower Girl" or Robert Doisneau's "Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville": Everyone remembers these famous shots, but few can name the photographer behind them, despite these photographers being highly acclaimed by their contemporary critics. Let's take a look back at these famous art photographers who have managed to take their art on a journey through the years.

There is no need to introduce Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer considered one of the pioneers of photojournalism combined with art photography. Nor Steve McCurry, the author of the famous photograph "Afghan Girl", which was on the cover of National Geographic magazine. On the other side of the Atlantic, Walker Evans gives a moving, honest and intimate view of those who lived in poverty during the Great Depression. Diane Arbus portrayed "freaks", those people on the fringe of society. To this day, many of these photographers are internationally renowned. Dominique Leroy, a French documentary photographer, was awarded the Kodak Prize in 1987 and has been the winner of the Best Car Photographer Award on several occasions. In the UK, Martin Parr received the prestigious Royal Photographic Society Award in 2008.

These artists use photography as both a vehicle for protest and a tool to celebrate and document the beauty of the world. They silently capture and show a moment of life that will perhaps go down in history. Discover these famous photographers who venture to the four corners of the world, or even to the corner of their street, to create powerful and striking images...

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No77 Spirit

Picasso Preside la Corrida - Frejus, 1962

Fashion on the Street, Paris 1963

Mr Chino - Prayers (S)

Bill T. Jones

Café des Cascades Paris

Andy Warhol and Keith Haring

Trio de Saltimbanques, Arles

Barrio Chino, Barcelona

Deep Thoughts (Gill with Glove)

Succession

Mia Villiers-Farrow on a bed

Elan

Veris

New York city ballet, paper interactions 13, 2014

Asphodel

la légèreté

No77 SPIRIT Series

No 81 SPIRIT Series

The Gun Chronicles: A Story of America, USA, 2022

Marilyn Rare Black Dress (1962)

Marilyn Laughing in Black Dress

Verse

Rise

Marilyn in the wedding veil

Marilyn Rare Black Dress Large

Marilyn in the clouds

No36 Spirit Series

No44 Spirit Series

Arabesque

The Last Sitting: Marilyn With Pearls (hand signed C-Print)

Marilyn in Black Dress

No81 Spirit Series

Rue Mouffetard

To live and die in LA (S)

Julianna and Nicole (S)

Liem barber (S)

Salvarore (S)

Lost Angels (S)

Rue Mouffetard

Rue Mouffetard

Rue Mouffetard - Triptych

Made in glory (S)

1948 Fleetline (S)

Two roses (S)

Vele di scampia (S)

Christ is king (S)

The Last Sitting - Marilyn Looking at You

Payin respect (S)

District 4 (S)

Rue Mouffetard

Death is a saint (S)

Primeros Club (S)

Royal Hawaiian motel 2 (S)

Royal Hawaiian motel 1 (S)

Marilyn with Bert's Nikon

Marilyn looking up in the wedding veil

Julianna and Nicole (M)

Salvarore (M)

Mr Chino - Prayers (M)

Barrio 18 (S)

Marilyn in Famous Black Dress (1962)

Royal Hawaiian motel 1 (M)

1948 Fleetline (M)

Two roses (M)

Vele di scampia (M)