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Lewis Hine
Social documentary photographer
Photographed child labour in the US
American photographer
Created composite portraits
Worked on the Ellis Island project with students, photographed people entering the US
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Imogen Cunningham
1883: Born in Portland, Oregan
Known for plant images, developed an interest in horticulture when she stayed home to raise her kids
Had a chemistry background
1907 - 1909 works as an assistant to Edward Curtis
Early work is characterized as pictorialism
1932: She becomes a founding member of the group f/64 with several other photographers including Ansel Adams and Edward Weston
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Dorothea Lange
Had polio as a young child
Born in NY in 1985
Emotional documentarian
Talked to her subjects, interacted with them, recorded a lot of notes
1919 owned a studio
"Migrant Mother" is her most famous work
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Alfred Eisenstadt
Lived in the US
Used a 35mm camera for photojournalism (Leica)
German/American photographer
Staff photographer for Life magazine
Known for working with available light
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First Graflex camera is released
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Kodak Brownie Camera is released
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Modernism was a rejection of Victorian era tradition that focused on the exploration of the industrialized era and the real life problems and politics that came with it. Many avant-garde French artists were iconic contributors to the movement. Impressionism and post-impressionism were the catalyst to Modernism and subsequent movements include cubism, dada and surrealism. -
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Open a museum showcasing Mexican photography
Created a publishing company to produce books on Mexican artists
His work was associated with surrealism
Self taught
Did own a commercial studio
Images were rooted in exploring indigenous Mexican culture
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Harold "Doc" Edgerton
Interested in two things: photography and electricity and is credited with being the inventor of electronic flash
Learns to use a camera from his uncle
Was a professor as well, teaching in the Science field
Motivation to do photography was to help him understand things in real life: speed, fluid dynamics, electronics etc.
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First airplane flies
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Margaret Bourke-White
Independent woman who achieved many great "firsts"
Moved from industrial photography to documentary/portraits
First female staff photographer for LIFE magazine, her image was on the first cover and was part of the first true photo essay
First western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union to shoot
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Painting and drawing were his first love
Well traveled, took photos around the world
Formed Magnum Photo
Known for the Decisive Moment
French photographer
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Julius Schulman
Architecture photographer
Comes out of retirement at the age of 90 to work with Juergen Nogai (a German architecture, art and documentary photography)
2009 - passes away at the age of 98
Was interested in nature at a young age, so understood natural light well - this is seen in his work
His client list included many famous names including Charles and Ray Eames and Frank Lloyd Wright
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Gordon Parks
Composer, author and film maker
Most iconic image is a shot of Ella Watson
Photographed a lot of challenges for the Black community
1948 First African American photographer for LIFE
Directed The Learning Tree - a movie based on his life
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WW1
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Hiroshi Hamaya
Photojournalist
Created images for propaganda
Originally trained in aerial photography
First published image was in Home Life Magazine
First Japanese photographer for Magnum
Later in his career switched to nature photography too, unspoiled landscapes
Social, economic photography earlier in his career
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Women's Suffrage in Canada
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Irving Penn
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey
Attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts
Known for his fashion, portrait and still life photography
Traveled to Mexico
1943 hired by Alexander Liberman
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Diane Arbus
1923 born in New York
1941 Marries Allen Arbus who is a photographer and they worked together as a team
Grew up in a very wealthy family
Arbus once said, “May favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been”
Known for striking and confrontational images of people on the streets
By 1960 she had over 100 photographs published in magazines like Esquire and Harper's Bazaar
Her suicide drew a lot of attention to her work
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Richard Avedon
Becomes interested in photography at a young age and joins the Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) camera club at the age of 12
Portrait photographer
Born in New York
Shot for Harper's Bazaar, eventually becoming lead photographer
Had many styles throughout his career (minimalist portraits, motion blur/out of focus portraits)
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First 35mm Leica is introduced at Leipzig Spring Fair
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Vivian Maier
Worked as a nanny for more than 40 years
Did street photography
Did a lot of self portraits
There were still many undeveloped rolls of film when she passed away
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First transmitted TV signal
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First Rolleiflex camera is released
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Wall Street crashes and triggers the Great Depression
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WW2
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Sebastiao Salgado
Documentary photography
Joined Magnum Photos in 1960
Joined his own agency with his wife after leaving Magnum
Later in his career, switched to taking photos of wildlife and landscape
Traveled the world documenting people, places, poverty, human condition
Did long format projects - could take him years to finish a series
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Became interested in photography in high school
Heavily inspired by minimalism/conceptualism
1970: Graduated fro St. Pauls in Tokyo
1971: Starts study at Art Center College of Design, receives BFA in 1974
1978: Begins the Theatre series, shooting movies with long exposures, called this "time exposed"
Time is a big theme throughout his work
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The first Polaroid camera is released
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Annie Leibovitz
Her family is living in the Philippines when she becomes interested in photography
Worked for Rolling Stone magazine and she became chief photographer
1970: Given her first assignment for Rolling Stone magazine to photograph John Lennon
Enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute to pursue painting but decides to pursue photography
Chief photographer for Vanity fair too
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Carrie Mae Weems
American photographer
She received her first camera as a birthday present
Traveled to Europe for the first time in 1975
1969 gives birth to her only daughter named Faith
Well educated in photography, received her BFA and MFA
Her work addressed questions of race and representation
Her most iconic series is the Kitchen Table series which was published as a book
Another one of her famous series is Family Pictures and Stories which exhibited at the Multi Cultural Gallery in San Diego -
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Nan Goldin
Left home at a young age of about 13 or 14
She is known for her documentation of the LGBTQ2S+ community
Became her school photographer - how she got into photography
Focused personal and candid portraits of the people around her
Describes her work as "the diary I let people read"
At the age 18 moves in a with a man that introduces to a group of drag queens who she befriends and photographs -
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American Civil Rights Movement
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Cindy Sherman
Known self portraits
Often in series
Captured the art of self expression
Met fellow artist Robert Longo at SUNY then they moved to NYC together
Born in New Jersey, grew up in Long Island, the youngest out of many siblings
Untitled Film Stills is her most iconic series (1977 - 1980)
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Events of May 68 in France
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Moon landing
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The internet is born
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Digital cameras hit the market
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First smartphone is released