Captured in Blue: A Brief History of Cyanotypes
Cyanotypes are one of the oldest photographic print processes in the history of photography. It is distinctive from other forms of photography because of the resulting shades of blue from its exposure to ultraviolet light.
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Published July 2, 2025 by Nicole Webb
The Lens of Humanity: Documentary Photography
Before the popularity of television and the rise of the internet, documentary photography was an important way for people to learn about world events or see what life looked like across the globe.
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Published September 1, 2024 by Nicole Webb
Portraiture: Photographs to Selfies
In 1839, Robert Cornelius took the first known photographic portrait of a human taken in the United States, an image of himself.
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Published September 2, 2022 by Nicole Webb
Celebrating Women's History from Behind the Lens
The GVSU Art Museum would like to recognize all the amazing women artists in the collection. We take this opportunity, Women’s History Month, to highlight a few of the women photographers.
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Published February 1, 2022 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Walter Iooss
Walter Iooss Jr. is an American photographer best known for his award-winning images of some of the world's greatest athletes,
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Gloria Baker Feinstein
Since the young age of two years old, Portland, Oregon-based Jewish photographer Gloria Baker Feinstein had a camera in her hand. Her reflections, stories, and connections in her images ask viewers to find beauty in tragedy.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Robert Koropp
Through his photography, Robert Koropp combined his backgrounds in science and art in experimental ways.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Joyce Tenneson
Joyce Tenneson's portraits, floral or human, strive to expose the inner life of her subjects.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Caleb Cain Marcus
Caleb Cain Marcus is a New York City-based photographer whose images inspect themes of environmental justice or injustice through depictions of nature, people, and the invisible.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Sarah Wong
From 2003 to 2018, Dutch photographer Sarah Wong followed and photographed the lives of cross-gendered children.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Sally Gall
Throughout Sally Gall's career she has focused on the natural world, using her keen eye for composition to create abstractions of familiar subjects.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Ralph Gibson
Ralph Gibson's images are often high-contrast, black and white, abstract photographs that feature everyday objects.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Peter Turnley
Peter Turnley's photographs drawn attention to the plight of those who have suffered great hardships or injustice, while finding that many aspects of life are also beautiful, poetic, just, and inspirational.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: W. Howard Bond
A former student of Ansel Adams, Ann Arbor, Michigan-based photographer W. Howard Bond has been regarded as a master of large-frame film photography.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Douglas Gilbert
Douglas R. Gilbert has been a serious photographer since the age of 14, when he could be found taking pictures of his local Michigan neighborhood and friends.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Donna Ferrato
Donna Ferrato is an internationally recognized photojournalist and activist best known for her documentation of the hidden world of domestic violence.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Dick Dokas
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based photographer Dick Dokas' black and white images are most frequently of landscapes and flowers.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: Patty Carroll
Chicago- based photographer Patty Carroll has become known for her use of highly intense, often life-size, saturated color photographs that address women and their complicated relationships domesticity, identity, and excess.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: David Plowden
Illinois-based photographer David Plowden's images focus on the struggle between civilization and nature, old and new.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb
Artist Profile: David Lubbers
Through his black and white photography, Grand Rapids-based photographer David Lubbers strives to capture a moment in time that may never be captured the same way ever again.
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Published January 1, 2017 by Nicole Webb