WHERE STREET KNOWLEDGE MEETS PHOTOGRAPHY
The Street Is Watching
Danny Lyon
Brooklyn native Danny Lyon received a BA in history in 1963 from the University of Chicago, where he served as staff photographer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. A self-taught photographer, he traveled with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club in 1965-1966 and published his pictures of the club members as The Bikeriders (1968). Since 1967 he has been an independent photographer and an associate at Magnum, and he has made films since 1969.
Pasquale De Antonis
Pasquale De Antonis was born in Teramo in 1908 and died in Rome in 2001. After his childhood in Teramo, he moved with his family to Pescara and devoted himself professionally to photography since the early 1930s. In the two-year period 1936 - 1937 he attended the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome and in 1939 he moved permanently to Rome where he took over the studio of the photographer Arturo Bragaglia in Piazza di Spagna.
Michael Donovan
Michael Donovan is an image maker towing the line between art and commerce. His iconic images cut through the noise via their graphic nature. Donovan’s primary modalities are photography, video, and illustration.
Miron Zownir
Hailed by Terry Southern as the "Poet of Radical Photography" Miron Zownir's photographic work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in several countries from 1981 on. Some of his photographs were shown amongst artworks of the likes of Goya, Picasso, Alfred Kubin and Cindy Sherman in the exhibition ‘El salvaie europeo’ (2004) in Barcelona and Valencia.
Elisabetta Catalano
Elisabetta Catalano lived and worked in Rome. Considered one of the greatest witnesses to the work and lives of artists and other important cultural figures in Italy from the 1970s onward, Elisabetta became a portrait photographer of international fame.
Glen E. Friedman
Glen E. Friedman’s work has appeared in countless publications and exhibitions and is part of permanent collections, including those at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., among others.
Boris Mikhailov
Boris Mikhailov was born in Ukraine in 1938. His challenging and provocative photographs document human casualties in post-communist Eastern Europe after the demise of the Soviet Union.
Paolo Pellegrin
Paolo Pellegrin is one of the world’s leading photojournalists who has documented many of this generation’s major disasters and conflicts, from revolutions to wars to tsunamis.
Letizia Battaglia
Born in Sicily in 1935, Letizia Battaglia began her photography career in the early 1970s and started photographing the Sicilian Mafia in 1974, even receiving death threats.
Claudio Abate
Claudio Abate, born in 1943, was born in Rome, the son of an artist with a father who was a painter in a house-studio in Via Margutta. This path will also be the starting point of his career and his life; here, in fact, using his first camera, he will open a photography workshop at the age of 15 in his father's room.
Jonathan Mannion
For two decades, Jonathan Mannion has been the photographer whose lens has defined hip-hop. From rappers, actors, athletes, artists, designers and other tastemakers, his eye is the most trusted by industry legends and those who seek to carefully craft their public person to truly connect with their enigmatic audience.
Tim Davis
Tim Davis was born in Malawi. He graduated from Bard College and earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. Davis' first body of work, “Office Series,” was made in the offices of the small publishing firm where he worked as an editor.
