Archive representative: Wolfgang Frei

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Born in Dublin in 1920, Edward Quinn was a professional musician and served as a flight navigator in the Royal Air Force during World War II. After the war, he eventually made his way to the Côte d’Azur, where he learned photography and captured images of world leaders, glamour girls, as well as figures from the worlds of film, art, music, and literature. His most memorable work included images of a then-unknown Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and Brigitte Bardot. His keen eye also captured Picasso, T.S. Eliot, Gary Cooper, and many others.
In 1951, Edward Quinn met and photographed Pablo Picasso for the first time. Their friendship lasted until Picasso’s death in 1973. This encounter with Picasso proved to be hugely influential for Quinn and shaped much of his later work. Quinn is the author of several books and films about Picasso.
Starting in the 1960s, Quinn focused his work on artists, including Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Francis Bacon, Salvador Dalí, Graham Sutherland, and David Hockney. Quinn passed away in 1997.
The Edward Quinn Archive, located in Switzerland, is managed by his nephew Wolfgang Frei. It contains more than 180,000 photos (negatives) from the 1950s through the 1970s.
A curated selection of about 16,000 photos is published on edwardquinn.com.
The most significant part of the archive is the approximately 9,000 photos of Picasso.
About 25,000 pictures have already been digitized.

Carl Corey
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Carl Corey is a Guggenheim Fellow in Photography and the recipient of over 100 awards from the photography and publishing communities including National INDIE Book Publishers Best Photography Book, The Crystal Book Award, Midwest Publishers Gold Book Award, New York Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, Print Annual and USA National Best Book Awards. Carl’s work has been featured in many of photography’s most prestigious periodicals, including Camera Work Bicentennial Edition, Communication Arts, Columbia Journalism Review and Visual Communication Quarterly. Carl’s work is in many art collections and museums.

Corey’s photographs have been the subject of five monographs including: Rancher (Bunker Hill / GalleryPrint, 2007), The Tavern League: A Portrait of the Wisconsin Tavern ( The Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2011), For Love and Money: A Portrait of the Family Business (WHS Press, 2014), The Strand ~ A Cultural Topography of the American Great Lakes (Cottage Industry Arts 2021) and Pants On Fire (Cottage Industry Arts 2024). He is a featured photographer in Contemporary Photography in New York City, edited by Marla Hamburg Kennedy (Rizzoli, 2011).

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Awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship in 1981 for “a year of independent study and travel abroad,” Saïd lived with the pastoral Huweitat bedu in Arabia. He sought to replicate the sojourns of al-Muttanabbi, a 10th century poet from Iraq who celebrated a purity of Arabic language that thrived far from urban centers. The experience transformed his creative centers from a focus on verbal poetry and onto that of the visual language and poetry. Saïd’s subsequent “Desert Portfolio” was first exhibited in 1984 at Vision Gallery, San Francisco and comprised the first solo exhibit of photography at the Jordan National Museum of Fine Art, Amman.

A practicing architectural photographer, Saïd was commissioned by Harvard emeritus professor Oleg Grabar and the Palestine Welfare Association (Geneva) in 1992  to document the 7th-century Umayyad mosaics in the Muslim shrine Dome of the Rock-Qubbat al-Sakhra, Jerusalem-alQuds. Two volumes resulted, “The Dome of the Rock” and “The Shape of the Holy” published by Rizzoli and Princeton University Press respectively in 1996.

Awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant in 2005, Said engaged the surviving Umayyad aesthetic legacy in Bilad al-Sham (Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria). With that archive and his visions of geometry and inter-connectedness, he works to this day.

Saïd Nuseibeh was raised in San Francisco, California and Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended Reed College (BA in English Literature, 1980) in Portland, Oregon and Bir Zeit University, Bir Zeit, Palestine.

Ken Hawkins
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Ken Hawkins is a photojournalist who has covered politics, disasters, and conflict zones—including Vietnam, Nicaragua, and El Salvador—since 1970, working globally for publications and agencies such as TIME, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Forbes, Paris Match, Stern, the New York Times, Newsweek, Wired, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. For over two decades, his work was represented by the premier photo agency SYGMA Paris/New York.

Ken has served on the boards of several nonprofit agencies relating to the arts, social action, and photojournalism. He was a founder of the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar in 1973 and worked with the organization for thirty years. Ken also served as the Atlanta/Southeast chapter president of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), sitting on its national board and executive committee, and serving as ASMP’s national secretary.

In 2016, Hawkins authored “Jimmy Carter – Photographs 1970 – 2010” with a foreword by Carter White House Deputy Press Secretary Rex Granum.

Alan Fisher (1913-1988)

Robin Matt
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Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1913, a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, Alan Fisher became a noted, award-winning daily news photographer in New York City while still in his twenties, taking many iconic photos of people and events, some of which are to be seen in the collections of the Library Of Congress, and elsewhere.

He began freelancing for the New York World Telegram around 1934, and shortly thereafter became a staff photographer for that paper. In 1940 he began working for the daily tabloid, PM.

His career took a new direction when, at the U.S. entry into WWII, he was tapped to work for Nelson Rockefeller’s diplomatic mission to Brazil (OCIAA), where he documented Brazilian daily life, agriculture and industry to introduce America’s new ally to the U.S. public. In the course of his duties, Fisher created many striking portraits of Brazilian farmers, workers and indigenous people. In 1944 he accompanied the FEB (Brazilian Expeditionary Force) as a war corespondent documenting their military achievements in Italy.

After the war, Alan Fisher commenced a long career as a Foreign Service Officer, serving two long tours of duty in Brazil, first in Rio De Janeiro, and later, starting in 1966, in Sao Paulo as a U.S. Consular official. In between, he managed the motion picture division of the USIA in Washington D.C.

Upon retiring to Sarasota, Florida in 1972 he kept his hand in as a part-time staff photographer for the Sarasota Journal and the Sarasota Herald Tribune.

Alan Fisher died in 1988 at the age of 75.  An archive of an estimated 1500 photos is being curated by his nephew, Robin Matt.