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Joseph Niepce
He invented photography by using a primitive camera, Niepce's other inventions was the pyeolophor, the world's first internal combustion engine. 1825 -
louis daguerre
He was a French artist and photographer mostly known because he invented daguerreotype process of photography. He was also an accomplished painter and a developer of the diorama theater. -
Matthew Brady
He is famous for photographing and documenting the civil war, known as the father of photojournalism. He followed the union as they pushed the south and took pictures of the battlefields and camps. -
Edward Muybridge
He is known for his work on the photographic studies of motion. Also known for killing his wife's lover major harry larkyns. He’s known for animal locomotion which use multiple cameras to capture motion. -
Lewis Hine
He is famous for using his camera to show the terrible sights of child labor and because of it later started the reform movement. He also documented the empire state building while it was being built. -
Ansel Adams
He was a landscape artist and environmentalist who focused on black and white photos of the west. Him and Fred Archer made a developing system called the Zone System.He helped found the photography magazine Aperture, and co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. -
Edward Weston
He is known as the master of photography in the 20th century. Weston photographs are really expansive sets of subjects, including landscapes, still lives, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. -
Margaret Bourke-White
Is a photographer from New York and she was the first foriegn photographer to take pictures of the soviet union. She was also the only western photographer to witness the german invasion of Moscow. She photographed the korean war and also gandhi's fight for india's independence and other major events. -
Yousuf Karsh
He was a Armanian genocide survivor then he moved to Cananda. He traveled the world taking portraits of political leaders and most famous for taking a portrait of Winston Churchil in 1941. He is known to be the best portrait photographer of the 20th century. -
Dorothea Lange
She was a documentary photographer and photojournalist who is known for her depression era work for the FSA. She also described the consequences of the depression on her documentary. She photographed the Japanese Americans who were about to leave. -
Henry Cartier-Bresson
He photographed the liberation of Paris in 1945. He was also Jean Renoir's assistant and helped with three major films. He took photos of Gandhi before he was assassinated. -
Arnold Newman
He was an american photographer who focused on environmental portraits of other artist and politicians. Pablo Picasso. -
Richard Avedon
He was a American fashion and portrait photographer. He was known to be the one who helped define america's image and took portraits of marlyn monroe. -
Diane Arbus
She is best known for her black and white portraits. She photographed people that were the edgy part of society. -
Annie Leibovitz
She is known for her portraits mostly of celebrities in different poses. She photographed John Lennon the day he was murdered. She was the first woman to hold an exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery. -
Jerry Uelsmann
He was an early exponent on photo montage. His work in darkroom effects has made into a process in Photoshop that was uses in the late 20th century.
