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Samuel Fosso (born July 17, 1962) is a Cameroonian-born Nigerian photographer who has worked for most of his career in the Central African Republic.His work includes using self-portraits adopting a series of personas, often commenting on the history of Africa.
Self Portrait as a Drowned Man Hippolyte Bayard ( French pronunciation: [ipɔlit bajaʁ] ; 20 January 1801 – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer and pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process that produced direct positive paper prints in the camera and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on ...
Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s) Guerrillero Heroico: 5 March 1960 Alberto Korda: Havana, Cuba The photograph depicts Che Guevara at a funeral for the victims of the La Coubre explosion. The portrait is commonly displayed as a symbol of student protest and revolutionary movements, and has appeared on clothing and other merchandise ...
William H. Mumler (1832–1884) was an American spirit photographer who worked in New York City and Boston. [1] His first spirit photograph was apparently an accident—a self-portrait which, when developed, also revealed the "spirit" of his deceased cousin.
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (/ ˈ m eɪ p əl ˌ θ ɔːr p / MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images
Robert Cornelius (/ k ɔːr ˈ n iː l i ə s /; March 1, 1809 [1] – August 10, 1893) was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography.His daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839 is generally accepted as the first known photographic portrait of a person taken in the United States, and a significant achievement for self-portraiture.
In 2017, she collaborated on a "selfie" project with W Magazine that was based on the concept of the "plandid", or "the planned candid photograph". Sherman utilized a variety of photo-correction apps to create her Instagram portraits. [52] From 2019 she showed self-portraits executed as tapestries by a Belgian workshop. [53] [54]
A 2017 exhibition of her self portraits depicting the effects of her struggle with anorexia, gained significant attention in Norway. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In interviews, and in a TED talk, she described her struggle between creativity and suffering from poor physical health.