portrait+photographers

1) **Alexander Bassano** He was the second youngest child of Clemente Bassano, originally a fishmonger, later an oilman and Italian warehouseman of Jermyn Street, London. He opened his first studio in 1850 in Regent Street. The studio then moved to Piccadilly 1859-1863, to Pall Mall and then to 25 Old Bond Street in 1877. Bassano also had studios at: 122 Regent Street, 1862-76; 72 Piccadilly, 1870-81; 25 Old Bond Street, 1878-1903; 182 Oxford Street, 1889; 42 Pall Mall, 1891-92; 18 Alpha Road, 1892-96. There was also a company named "Bassano and Davis" at 122 Regent Street in 1866, a firm named "Bassano Limited" at 25 Old Bond Street from 1906 and a "Bassano's Studio's Ltd" at 25 Old Bond Street, 1904-05. The National Portrait Gallery, owner of a large number of Bassano's photographs, states that Bassano's firm was based at 25 Old Bond Street from 1876 to 1921.

2) Walker Evan's On November 3, 1903, April 10, 1975 Walker Evans was an American Photographer, he was known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Much of Walker Evans's work from the FSA period uses a large format, 8x10-inch camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent". Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan of Art or George Eastman House.