Alfred Stieglitz

one photographer: Alfred Stieglitz

"Alfred Stieglitz and Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe"
An American Place, New York City, 1944

Bio: American photographer, born in 1864 - "father of modern photography" - mainly because he tried to influence the public to recognize photography as an 'art' like painting, sculpture etc.

1875 - started to interest in photography, fool around in a darkroom.
1882 - studied mechanical engineering and photography at the Polytechnic of Berlin.
1883 - bought his first camera.
1902 - became one of the founders of the Photo-Secession movement. More info about Photo-Secession @Wiki
1903 - created and became editor of Camera Work journal.
1916 - started to take photographs of painter Georgia O'Keeffe, hundreds of portraits & nudes.
1924 - married with O'Keeffe.
1930 - started to take photographs of Dorothy Norman, portraits & nudes. (not married her.)
1937 - stopped taking photographs due to health problems and died in 1946.

At first sight: looks like every cliché is firstly discovered by Steiglitz.

Main subject: portraits of O'Keffe & street snapshots.

one photograph: "Spring Showers, NY, 1902" by Alfred Stieglitz

Links:
biography @Wikipedia
some of his work @master of photography

Joel-Peter Witkin

one photographer: Joel-Peter Witkin

portrait from a tribute to genious

Bio: American photographer, born in 1939, studied sculpture, photography & art history at various universities, made researches about poetry - became Master of Fine Arts - In the army in vietnam he photographed accidents and suicides, he was always interested in corpes, spent most of his time in morgues.

Seeks for models by newspaper advertisements. Preferred models are listed below at main subject part.

At first sight: Shockingly weird, a very powerful attack to change public opinion.

Main subject: Dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, physically deformed people, bearded women, women with tail, wings or horn, women with more than two nipples, disabled people, people with unnaturally big organs, dead bodies, dead born childs&fetus...

one photograph: "The Kiss, (Le Baiser) - New Mexico 1982" by Joel-Peter Witkin

Note that it is a real dead man head, bisected and composed by Witkin.

Links:
biography @Wikipedia
a detailed analysis @fotografya (in Turkish)
discussion @Metafilter

Hannah Starkey

one photographer: Hannah Starkey

- will be added soon if I could find one -

Bio: British photographer, borned in 1971, still lives and works in London, studied photograph and film at Napier University and has master of arts degree in photography from Royal College of Art. First solo exhibition is in 1998 wow! @age 27!

At first sight: Loneliness.

Main subject:Young women alone in boxes (cafes, rooms, shopping malls, tubes etc.)

one photograph "Untitled - May 1997" by Hannah Starkey

Links:

biography&additional info @Saatchi
a very cool article @Frieze

additonal note: I came across by her name while I was reading an article about Automat of Edward Hopper - an artist that also deals with alone people.

Toni Frissell

one photographer: Toni Frissell

"I'd Rather Stalk with a Camera Than a Gun", 1935

Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Bio: American photographer, borned in 1907, was a fashion photographer, became one of the freelance photographers of World War II, official photographer of the Women's Army Corps, after WWII took informal portraits of formal people and in 1988 died of Alzheimer.

At first sight: Snapshots of very life.

Main subject: Human, espcially woman @ every part of life.

one photograph by Toni Frissell

Links:
@Wikipedia
@Library of Congress

Jan Saudek

one photographer: Jan Saudek

Photograph from aktualne.cz

Bio: Czech photographer, borned in 1935, jew, raised in a children's concentration camp, survived - thank god -, now lives in Prague.

At first sight: Photographs for questioning the normality, esthetic norms, ethic norms, all norms.

Main subject: Flesh.

one photograph from 1995 "Sarah goes strong..." by Jan Saudek

personal note: I saw one of his exhibitions last June. I'm a lucky bitch.

Links:
@Wikipedia
Official Website

Antoine d'Agata

one Photographer: Antoine d'Agata

Photograph by Atila Cangır

Bio: French photographer, borned in 1961, joined Magnum Photos in 2004, travels around the world, no permanent residence.

At first sight: Photographs of violence combined with intimacy. Mostly in black & white.

Main subject: Human body.

one Photograph from Stigma by Antoine d'Agata

Links:
Biography @Magnum Photos
Works @Documentsdartistes