Hans Namuth

Place: Germany

Born: 1915

Death: 1990

Biography:

Hans Namuth was a German-born photographer who specialized in portraiture. He photographed many artists, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, and Clyfford Still. Namuth's work captured not only his subjects in their studios with their works, but also the relationship between photographer and subject as well as the subjects' levels of self-consciousness. He died in a Long Island car crash in 1990.