Private Photography

Private Photography is an important thread within the history of photography. Photography that handles intimacy and fragments of daily life at the border between personal record and artistic expression. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

Basic facts
MovementPrivate Photography
Photographers2

Overview

Photography that handles intimacy and fragments of daily life at the border between personal record and artistic expression.

Photographers

🇫🇷FR1894–1986
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Private Photography
Private Photography

Jacques-Henri Lartigue began photographing as a child and produced a body of work that seems to crystallize the speed, leisure, and visual exhilaration of early twentieth-century modernity.

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🇺🇸US1953–
Nan Goldin
Documentary
DocumentaryPrivate Photography+1

Nan Goldin made intimacy itself into photographic method.

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