Happy birthday René Maltête. The pioneering photographer & poet, famous for his quirky & witty street photos that are equal parts photojournalism, philosophy & art, was born today in 1930. #photography
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Happy birthday Aaron Siskind. The influential & prolific photographer & English teacher, famous for documentary photos as well as his pioneering painterly abstract images, was born today in 1903. #photography #abstractexpressionism
Happy birthday Barbara Klemm. The award-winning art & press photographer famous for black & white images of world events & luminaries, was born today in 1939. #photography
Happy birthday Beatrice Tonnesen. The prolific artist & fine art & commercial photographer, famous for pioneering the use of photographs of live models in print advertising as well as her calendar work & sculptures, was born today in 1871. #photography #commercialart
Happy birthday Frances Johnston. The pioneering photographer & photojournalist, who opened her Washington D.C. photo studio in 1894, was born today in 1864. #photography
Happy birthday LeRoy Winbush. The pioneering designer, art director & educator, famous for the barriers he overcame, his art direction, exhibition design & social activism, was born today in 1915. #graphicdesign #exhibitiondesign
Happy birthday Frederic Eugene Ives. The pioneering inventor, famous for multiple inventions and innovations in photography including those related to halftones, color photography, and stereograms, was born today in 1856. #photography
Happy birthday Sergei Eisenstein. The Soviet film director & theorist, famous for his pioneering work with montage & Battleship Potemkin, was born today in 1898. #montage
Happy birthday Walter Gropius. The German architect & educator, famous for founding the Bauhaus & his pioneering role in modern architecture & design, was born today in 1883. #modernism
Happy birthday Alexey Brodovitch. The Russian-born designer, photographer & educator, famous for his art direction at Harper's Bazaar & the influence his work & his teaching had on modern design in America, was born today in 1898. #artdirection
Happy birthday Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The designer, poet & art theorist, famous for founding Futurism, writing the Futurist Manifesto & his influential typographic experiments, was born today in 1876. #Futurism #typography
Happy birthday William Golden. The American graphic designer & creative director, famous for his pioneering identity & advertising work at CBS, was born today in 1911. #graphicdesign #identitydesign
Happy birthday Gene Frederico. The graphic designer & art director, known for his witty & modernist design approach, was born today in 1918. #artdirection #graphicdesign
Happy birthday Herbert Matter. The graphic designer & photographer, famous for his innovative use of photomontage especially in his work for the Swiss Tourist Office, was born today in 1907. #graphicdesigner
Happy birthday Jean-Michel Basquiat. The astute artist, famous for his epigrammatic street art, his Neo-expressionist paintings that often integrate appropriated materials, & sadly his untimely death, was born today in 1960. #epigram #streetart
Happy birthday Grete Stern. The German-Argentinian photographer, famous for her surreal photomontages of dreams as well as 'ringl+pit' the photography studio she co-founded, was born today in 1904. #photography
Happy birthday Nína Tryggvadóttir. The pioneering Icelandic artist, famous for her colorful abstract expressionistic & geometric color field paintings, was born today in 1913.
Happy birthday Roman Cieślewicz. The celebrated designer, photographer & educator, famous for his expressive & efficient posters, was born today in 1930. "To me a picture could never be separated from the content. I always go for the maximum picture & the maximum information."
Happy birthday Yves Klein. The influential artist & judoka, most famous for his Blue Epoch series of paintings & whose pioneering work combined conceptual art, sculpture, painting, & performance, was born today in 1928. #postmodern #minimalism
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Happy birthday Duane Michals. The innovative self-taught photographer who studied graphic design, is most famous for his narrative work using photo-sequences that often include text and/or multiple exposures, was born today in 1932. #Photography #PhotoSequence
Happy birthday Judy Fiskin. The photographer, video maker & educator, known for her distinct small formatted photographs & sometimes biographical videos exploring art, photography, process & loss, was born today in 1945. #photography
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Happy birthday Louis Prang. The pioneering printer & publisher, famous for popularizing both X-mas cards & fine art lithographs in the US, as well as advocating for women artists & art education, was born today in 1824. #christmascards #lithography
Happy birthday Edward Weston. The innovative photographer, who initially gained fame for his pictorial portraits, but who is remembered today for his detailed often close-up abstract images, was born today in 1886. #photography
Happy birthday Imogen Cunningham. The American photographer, known for her simple & exquisite images of botanicals & nudes, was born today in 1883. #photography
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