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Joseph Niepce
Joseph Niepce was a French inventor. Niepce developed heliography, used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic, print made from a photoengraved printing plate. -
Louis Daguerre
Louis Daguerre was a French artist and photographer, he invented the daguerreotype process in photography. He became a very famous photographer throughout years, more famous after his death. -
Matthew Brady
Matthew B. Brady was one of the earliest photographers known of in American history. He was best know for his scenes of the Civil War. Brady began his photography path and even opened his own studio in New York in 1844, he photographed presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, Andrew Jackson and many other public figures. When the war began he took many photos of what was going on in the war, his assistant took most. No one would buy the photos causing debt, which shortly later he died. -
Edward Muybridge
Edward Muybridge was an English photographer, he did early work in photographic studies and motion pictures. He adopted the first name Eadweard as the original Anglo-Saxon form of Edward. He's most known for his work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs and his zoopraxiscope, device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the film used in cinematography. -
Lewis Hine
Lewis Hine was a photographer who used his camera as a tool for social reform movement. His photos changed child labor laws in America. -
Edward Weston
Edward Weston was a 20th century photographer, he's been called one of the most "influential and innovative photographer". Over the 40 years he practiced he did a different set of images like landscapes, still lives, nudes, portraits. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She's best known for her depression-era work for the farm security administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. -
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams was an American landscape photographer and heavy environmentalist. Many of his black and white images of the American West have been on books, calendars, posters, and the internet. Him and a partner Fred Archer created the process of the
"Zone System" this is a way to determine proper exposure and adjust contrast of the final. He mainly used large format cameras because the large film was used with these cameras. Adams created the photography group f/64 along with partners. -
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She was best known for her foreign photos with the Soviet Union,she was the first American female war journalist. Her photo "The construction of Fort Peck Dam" on the cover of the first issue of Life Magazine. She died with Parkinson's disease after suffering for 18 years at the age of 67. -
Henry Cartier-Bresson
Henry Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography. He was a very early user of 35mm film. He started street photography as we know it. He viewed photography as capturing a "decisive moment". He's known as the "father" of "photojournalism" as well as modern photography. -
Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh was known for his memorable photos of famous individuals. His biggest most well known photo was of Winston Churchill. He took numerous photos of political leaders. -
Arnold Newman
Arnold Newman was an American photographer in the mid 1900's, he was best known for his environmental photos. He was well known for abstract still life images. He did lots of black and white portraits of famous people. He died in 2006 while recovering from a stroke, thought to be brought about through a lot of pressure and anxiety in his life. -
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus was an American photographer who photographed very differently than most she took many photos of strippers, carnival freaks, transvestites, nudist, etc. She was drawn to odd subjects most people wouldn't choose. She liked people who had their own identity. -
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon started out taking photos for merchant marines, then onto taking identification photos. He is now best known for changing people's idea on photography, fashion and lifestyle due to his photographs of people. -
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann is an American photographer, his work in dark rooms foreshadowed the use of Adobe Photoshop. He has received many awards throughout the years. He's in the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. -
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer. She is most known for her images of celebrities. She photographed John Lennon on the day he was assassinated. Her work has been used on numerous media soures. Leibovitz was the first woman to hold an exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery in 1991.
