ROBERT DOISNEAU Robert Doisneau (1912–1994, born Gentilly, France) was a French photographer whose humanist vision of Parisian street life produced some of the most beloved and enduring images in the history of photography. Trained as a lithographer at the École Estienne in Paris, he turned to photography in the early 1930s and worked briefly as…

GAVIN BOND Gavin Bond (born London, England) is a British photographer whose practice spans three decades of fashion, celebrity, and entertainment photography at the highest levels of the industry. Educated at Central Saint Martins, Bond was among the few photographers granted sustained access to the exclusive backstage world of the early 1990s supermodel era, documenting…

JULIE BLACKMON Julie Blackmon (born 1966, Springfield, Missouri) is an American photographer whose meticulously staged, large-scale colour photographs occupy a singular position between domestic observation, art historical reference, and social commentary. Raised as the oldest of nine children, Blackmon studied at Missouri State University where she discovered photography through the work of Sally Mann and…

HARRY BENSON Harry Benson CBE (born 1929, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish photographer whose seven-decade career has produced one of the most comprehensive records of public life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Born in Glasgow and raised in Troon, Benson began his career at a series of Scottish newspapers before securing an assignment in…

CECIL BEATON Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (1904–1980, born London, England) was a British photographer, designer, and diarist whose six-decade career produced some of the most elegant and enduring portrait and fashion images of the twentieth century. Born into a middle-class London family, Beaton was largely self-taught as a photographer, developing his practice through an obsessive…

MILES ALDRIDGE Miles Aldridge (born 1964, London, England) is a British photographer and artist whose vividly saturated, psychologically charged images occupy a distinctive space between cinema, painting, and fashion photography. The son of the illustrator and art director Alan Aldridge, he studied illustration at Central Saint Martins before working as a music video director throughout…

SLIM AARONS Slim Aarons (1916–2006, born New York City) was an American photographer whose five-decade documentation of the leisure lives of the wealthy, the beautiful, and the celebrated produced one of the most distinctive and widely recognized bodies of work in the history of twentieth century photography. Born George Allen Aarons and largely self-taught, he…

TERRY O’NEILL Terry O’Neill (1938–2019, born Romford, Essex, England) was a British photographer whose six-decade career produced one of the most comprehensive and culturally significant bodies of celebrity portraiture of the twentieth century. Beginning his career as a technical photographer at Heathrow Airport’s BOAC unit in 1958, O’Neill developed his signature approach through chance encounters with…

Cy Twombly Cy Twombly (1928–2011, born Lexington, Virginia) was a painter, sculptor, and photographer whose synthesis of classical references, poetic allusion, and gestural abstraction produced one of the most distinctive and intellectually rich bodies of work in postwar art. Educated at the Art Students League of New York and Black Mountain College, where he formed lasting…

Joan Mitchell Joan Mitchell (1925–1992, born Chicago, Illinois) was a painter of exceptional force and lyrical intelligence whose work represents one of the most sustained and distinctive contributions to Abstract Expressionism. Educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Columbia University in New York, she became associated in the early 1950s with…