Nonetheless, his modesty was sometimes a posture, shyness, a way to avoid competition from other photographers who called their work art. In particular, Lange resisted the central motive of photographic modernism – the use of the camera to express his inner consciousness. This indifference to exploring her inner life by photography seems surprising at first glance, given that her success…

One of Arbus’s creative achievements was August Sander, who created hundreds of portraits of the citizens – and social structure – of Weimar Germany. Earlier this summer, the museum opened an exhibition of Arbuss photographs in the Met Breuer headquarters. Here are all Arbus’s most iconic images including works from the year before his death in 1970. Perhaps other titles…

Hockney was a distinguished academic at the Royal College of Art after a distinguished career as an award-winning student and achieved international success when he was 20. Hockney rose to prominence with the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Art in London at the age of twenty-five and quickly became one of the defining figures in the British pop…

I was a huge Jeter fan and they had all these great guys on their team, so it was hard to not love them. I was always chasing my dog and I always active too I think that helps a lot too. David was the proud father of four wonderful children he loved Skyler Nicole, Kaylee Michelle, Lauren Jean and…

Damien Hirst has created installations, sculptures, paintings and drawings that address the complex relationships between art and beauty, religion and science, life and death reinterpreting the traditional plot of landscape painting with a playful irony. Since his appearance in the international art scene in the late 1980s, his work challenges modern belief systems by tracking down the character of character…

Monet’s performance declined when he retired, although he worked with great financial success on several panels for the French government from 1914 to 1918 and would later create works for the state. In October the weather forced Monet to stop painting open air and sold four of eleven paintings with water lilies the next month despite the fact that he…

Sherman appears in his historical photographic series Untitled Stills (1977-80) as actress in the B and Noir movies. When asked if she had thought about acting in her photographs, Sherman replied: “I never thought about acting. Many of Sherman’s dramas, such as 1981 Centerfolds, draw attention to stereotypes about women in society, movies, TV and in magazines. Sherman has been…