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

Neck Face is a graffiti artist born in 1984 in Stockton, California. He is known for his frightening drawing style. Neck Face originally worked in Stockton and Lodi, California, where he attended Bear Creek High School and Tokay High School. Neck Face gained a great deal of notice through his affixin

Abstract, Experimental, Funny, Grotesque, Profane, Rebel

The artist to represent Canada in the 2007 Venice Biennial, Altmejd's large-scale sculptures are crystalline, hairy, decomposing, holy-hollow and pastel-painted. Often an important component of the sculptures are low lying plinth like supports, which give a museum-type feel to the werewolves, birds,

Architectural, Fantastic, Geometric, Grotesque, Kaleidoscopic, Modern sculpture, Phallic, Sprawling

Absurd, Agitated, Angry, Bright, Cartoonish, Clever, Cool, Dense, Funny, Grand, Grotesque, Huge, Illusive, Improvised, Mythic, Pioneering, Playful, Political, Pop, Profane, Repetition, Sophisticated, Subtle, Urban, Wise assy, Witty