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Matthew Brady
Brady is well known for being one of the earliest photographers in American history, and specialized in depicting scenes of the Civil War. He is often referred to as the father of photojournalism. He died on January 15, 1896. -
Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz was not only a photographer, but also an art dealer, exhibition organizer, editor, and publisher. He is well known for promoting the rise of modern photography in the early 20th century. He died on July 13, 1946. -
Lewis Hine
Hine was an American photographer and sociologist, who's photos played a major role in the transformation of US child labor laws. He died on November 3, 1940. -
Dorothea Lange
Lange was an American photojournalist and documentary photographer, who is popular for her work during the Great Depression and also her contributions to the Farm Security Administration. She died on October 11, 1965. -
WeeGee
Born Usher Fellig, WeeGee was a photographer and photojournalist. He was popular for his stark black and white street photography. He first began working as a photographer at age 14, and by the 1940s his photos were shown outside the mainstream press while also having success there. He died on December 26, 1968. -
Ansel Adams
Adams was an American photographer as well as an environmentalist. He is well known for his black and white landscape photographs of the American West, and his work has been reproduced in many forms of visual media. He died April 22, 1984. -
Margaret Bourke-White
Bourke-White was an American photojournalist. She is popular for being known as the first American female war photojournalist, and her talent led one of her photos to be on the cover of the first issue of Life magazine. She died on August 27, 1971. -
Philippe Halsman
Halsman was a well known American portrait photographer born in Riga, Latvia. He moved to America in 1940 with his family, where he continued to develop his passion for photography. He was later elected the first president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP) in 1945, where he helped protect photographers’ professional and creative rights. He died on June 25, 1979. -
Gordon Parks
Parks was not only a photographer but a musician, writer and film director, and humanitarian with a strong passion for social justice. He earned a position as the first African American staff photographer and writer for Life Magazine from his popular 1948 photo essay on the life of a Harlem gang leader. He died on March 7, 2006. -
Diane Arbus
Arbus was an American photographer and writer, popular for taking photos of people who were perceived by the average person as ugly or abnormal. These people often included transgender people, nudists, dwarfs, giants, and circus performers. She committed suicide on July 26, 1971. -
Jerry Uelsmann
Uelsmann is an American photographer who began teaching teaching photography at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1960. Uelsmann is an expert in darkroom techniques, and discovered a way to calibrate negatives on enlargers to blend various photographic images into one individual surrealistic photo-montage. Over the past thirty years, his work has been exhibited in more than 100 individual shows in the United States. He is currently 82. -
Annie Leibovitz
Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer who is well known for her work as Chief Photographer at Rolling Stone. Her work has been showcased in many major exhibitions around the world. Leibovitz is also popular for her Rolling Stones issue cover featuring John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, which was shot hours before Lennon's death. Leibovitz is currently 67. -
Steve McCurry
McCurry is an American photographer and photojournalist. A majority of his popularity comes from his 1984 photograph "Afghan Girl", which appeared first in the National Geographic magazine. He is currently 67. -
Ed Kashi
Ed Kashi is a photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker, and educator with a passion for documenting social and political issues. In 2002 Kashi partnered with his wife, Julie Winokur, to found the non-profit TALKING EYES MEDIA, which has produced many award-winning pieces discussing social issues. He is currently 59.
