Photographic moments in history – The announcement of the death of the great spiritual leader and preacher of nonviolence, Mahatma Gandhi, by Nehru (India, January 30, 1948)

Photographic moments in history – The announcement of the death of the great spiritual leader and preacher of nonviolence,...

Dora Maar: Double portrait with hat, 1936-37

Dora Maar (Henriette Theodora Markovitch, 1907-1997) of French-Croatian descent, born in Paris and raised in Argentina, was a photographer,...

Gordon Parks & Ella Watson, 1942

(In 1942 Gordon Parks will make one of his most famous photographs, known as American Gothic – reference to...

”Streets of the Lost” – Mary Ellen Mark & Cheryl McCall

In April 1983, reporter Cheryl McCall and photographer Mary Ellen Mark went to Seattle  to write an article about...

Eadweard Muybridge – The Horse in Motion

In 1872 Leland Stanford seeks the help of photographer Eadweard Muybridge to prove his theory: that horses while galloping...

Eugene Atget: Photographe de Paris

Eugene Atget dies in 1927, after forty years of photography career. Atget’s work has remained in obscurity for years...

Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath, W. Eugene Smith, Minamata,1972

Minamata disease is first discovered in the Minamata fishing village of Kumamoto province, Japan. Doctor Hajime Hosokawa officially states...

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry by John Phillips

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, was not only the author of the beloved book The Little Prince, was also a pilot...

The Role of Art

by Spiros Skiadopoulos We, people, live in a world given in such a way that we easily forget that...

The revolutionary role of photography in mass communication

by Charalambos Giannakopoulos Photography has been, since its birth, and to a degree continues to be today, a revolutionary...