Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night

Atmospheric, Dark, Dramatic, Ethereal, Grand, Moody, Romantic art, Spiritual

When Jacob A. Riis, a police reporter in New York, began his personal campaign to expose the misery of the underprivileged living in the crime-infested slums of the lower East side, he soon found that the printed word was not sufficiently convincing, and so he turned to photography by flashlight.

19th century photography, Dark, Depressive, Documentary photography, Egalitarian, Grotesque, In-your-face, Monochromatic, Political, Social realism, Social revolution, Urban

Christian Boltanski is a French photographer, sculptor, painter, and installation artist. Born in Paris in 1944 to a Jewish father of Ukrainian heritage, and a Corsican Christian mother, Boltanski was attracted to painting and drawing as a young child, and left school at the age of 12. In the late â€

Architectural, Atmospheric, Contemplative, Dark, Death, Dramatic, Ironic, Melancholy, Monumental, Tragic

He worked as a war photographer between 1961 and 1964 during the Vietnam war. In 1967, he decided to work as a freelance photographer and became City Walls Inc. official photographer. Later, he attended Cooper Union in New York where he studied sculpture and became Bachelor of Arts in 1974. After the

Absurd, Baroque, Biomorphic, Dark, Death, Dystopic, Surreal, Visceral