Harsh and uncompromising work from an overlooked exponent of in-your-face photography.
Although the forces of photographic change savaged him in the mid 20th century, his unique vision and methods foretold the momentous upheavals facing photography at the turn of the 21st century.
After the devastating 1923 earthquake, Tokyo was given a new, modern face and photography spawned an avant-garde.
While at Aperture, from 1976 to 1985, Ms. Kismaric was a force in changing the face of photography book publishing.
Its deadpan style, everyday subject matter and what would now be described as "zine aesthetic" flew in the face of photography's high-art aspirations – so much so that it was actually rejected as a book by the Library of Congress.
When faced with photography moving to the digital world, their leadership team at Kodak refused to believe it really was a new technology -- that the industry really would change so dramatically.
The latest in digital still photography — Face Detection and Face Chaser technology actually monitor the subject's face and adjust brightness and focus to incredibly clear photos.
But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram.
Before long the ideas poured out: crime-scene photography, face implants, telenovelas, Zoroastrianism, the Israeli martial art krav maga.
Before Robert Mapplethorpe's untimely death from AIDS in 1989, he utterly changed the face of art photography, by challenging the idea that pictures are just an image, extending ideas of beauty onto controversial territory.
Bizarre fish face wins Nikon photography prize.
