Photographers
A photographer is a person who creates an image of the world using a camera. Given that nowadays, everyone takes photographs with their smartphones, it is necessary to distinguish this mass flow of images from the work of fine art photographers who have an artistic intention and aim to create original artworks.
Thus we consider an fine art photograph to be a work that is created with artistic intention and includes a reflection on ideas and technique. Art photography must be an original work by an artist who recognises their role in the creation by signing their name. The concept of an original work is also linked to the limited edition. Generally, the fewer copies are made, the higher the price of each photograph.
All the photographic processes are based on two fundamental requirements, first of all the ability to capture an image and then capacity to fix image onto a support, rendering it visible. It took a lot of experimentation in order achieve this. The very first photograph dates from 1826 and was taken by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce. This photograph shows an image of his house and it took ten hours of exposure time to capture it. It was over ten years until the first photograph representing a human being was taken in 1838. It is an image of the Pont Neuf in Paris on which we can distinguish two passerbys. This photograph is the work of a former student of Nicéphore Niépce: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre. Daguerre gave his name to a new technique which consists of fixing a negative image onto a silver plate: the daguerreotype.
The next major breakthroughs were the replacement of the glass plate with dry gel on paper or film which allowed for a wider diffusion of photography and the appearance of colour photography at the beginning of the 20th century. All these techniques can be grouped together under the term analog photography. In the mid 20th century the invention of digital photography revolutionised the medium. It was a technical and artistic revolution, photographers could now see on a screen the image they had just captured and could adjust their shots accordingly and they could also take advantage of the infinite possibilities offered by computer retouching.
Photography is often broken down and classified into different groups including: fashion photography, nude photography, conceptual photography, colour photography, black and white photography, street art photography, and so on.
Some of the greatest photographers in history include: Robert Mapplethorpe, Li Wei, Bert Stern, Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier Bresson, Vivian Maier, Philippe Ramette, Bernard Pras, Steve McCurry, Richard Avedon, David LaChapelle, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton and Martin Parr.
Discover the styles & movements
Li Wei
Li Wei falls to the car
Li Wei
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
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Reinhard Gorner
Admont Abbey, library Hall, Austria
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 132 cm Photography - 50 x 52 inch
€6,000
Wren library, Cambridge
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 159 x 2 cm Photography - 50 x 62.6 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Trinity College Library - The Long Room IV
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 157 x 2 cm Photography - 50 x 61.8 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Open Space II - City Library, Stuttgart
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 159 x 2 cm Photography - 50 x 62.6 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
George Peabody Library II, Baltimore USA
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 158 x 127 x 2 cm Photography - 62.2 x 50 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Library of the Abbey in Waldsassen, Bavaria
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 152 x 160 x 3 cm Photography - 59.8 x 63 x 1.2 inch
€8,100
Milich'sche Library I, Görlitz
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 130 cm Photography - 50 x 51.2 inch
€6,000
Neustift Abbey library
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 151 x 3 cm Photography - 50 x 59.4 x 1.2 inch
€6,000
Pierre Moreau
S'envoyer en l'air
Pierre Moreau
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€1,900
Renault Pangea (concept car)
Pierre Moreau
Photography - 30 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€500
La Grande Bouffe
Pierre Moreau
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€990
Á marée basse
Pierre Moreau
Photography - 50 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€2,100
Emre
Good Boy Jeff - Green patina (1)
Emre
Sculpture - 60 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
€18,000
Arthur Di Nunzio
Série des mètres
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,250
Un instant relatif
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 50 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€680
Série des mètres
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 100 x 100 x 0.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
€1,250
Série des mètres
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 100 x 100 x 0.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
€1,250
Série des mètres
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,250
Série des mètres
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,250
Les chats de Schrödinger (9)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
€165
Série des mètres
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 100 x 100 x 0.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
€1,250
Jean-Pierre Fleury
USA Valley of fire 0934
Jean-Pierre Fleury
Photography - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,150
Un air d exotisme : Mahe Seychelles
Jean-Pierre Fleury
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
€2,460
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Femme dans le désert
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
La mécanicienne
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 28 x 43 x 1 cm Photography - 11 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
€700
Le photographe
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€700
Enfant école coranique sénégal
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
Bouche homme
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
Jeune touareg
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 45 x 38 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 15 x 0.4 inch
€700
Bouche femme
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
Sourire Omar
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 28 x 43 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11 x 16.9 x 0.1 inch
€700
Richard Gaylon
Stronger
Richard Gaylon
Photography - 114.3 x 76.2 x 0.254 cm Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€2,810
Evolution
Richard Gaylon
Photography - 114.3 x 76.2 x 0.254 cm Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€2,810
Fissure / Traveler Collection
Richard Gaylon
Photography - 114.3 x 76.2 x 0.254 cm Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€2,810
Ace of Spades
Richard Gaylon
Photography - 114.3 x 76.2 x 0.254 cm Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€2,810
Volumes - Palm Blu Collection
Richard Gaylon
Photography - 114.3 x 76.2 x 0.254 cm Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€2,810
Straight to the Heart
Richard Gaylon
Photography - 114.3 x 76.2 x 0.254 cm Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.1 inch
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Jean-François Mollière
Paysages sensibles 5
Jean-François Mollière
Photography - 50 x 48 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
€1,130
New York 44
Jean-François Mollière
Photography - 66 x 66 x 1 cm Photography - 26 x 26 x 0.4 inch
€1,840
New York 20
Jean-François Mollière
Photography - 58 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 22.8 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,840
New York 46
Jean-François Mollière
Photography - 58 x 58 x 1 cm Photography - 22.8 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,840
New York 64
Jean-François Mollière
Photography - 58 x 58 x 1 cm Photography - 22.8 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,840
Paysages sensibles 7
Jean-François Mollière
Photography - 45 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,130
Shulan Wang
Eternal sleeping
Shulan Wang
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,400
The reduction in self-awareness
Shulan Wang
Photography - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
Being and nothingness
Shulan Wang
Photography - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
Have a soft dream with the moon
Shulan Wang
Photography - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
Feng Wang
Joséphine Vallé Franceschi
American Dream
Joséphine Vallé Franceschi
Photography - 100 x 150 x 0.4 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.2 inch
€4,200
Trois soeurs
Joséphine Vallé Franceschi
Photography - 20 x 34.41 x 0.5 cm Photography - 7.9 x 13.5 x 0.2 inch
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