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Matthew Brady
one of the earliest photographers in american history best known for his scenes of the civil war. -
Joseph Niepce
a French inventor and was credited the inventor of photography and was a pioneer in the field of photography -
Louis Daguerre
French artist/photographer best known for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography -
Dorothea Lange
best known for her depression era work -
Ansel Adams
an american photographer who loved doing black and white landscape.he took photos of Yosemite national park -
Edward Muybridge
important for his work in the photography study of motion and early work with motion pictures -
Margaret Bourke-White
a documentary photographer who was best known for being the first foreign photographer permitted to take photos.and she was known as the first female war photographer. -
Henry Cartier-Bresson
was french humanist photographer also a user of 35 mm film and was also known as the pioneer of street photography -
Lewis Hine
an American sociologist and photographer used photography as a tool for social reform -
Edward Weston
Edward was a 20th century photographer he made journals he called day books and put all his work in them -
Diane Arbus
an American photographer who was best known for her work in marginalizing people like dwarfs, giants, transgender people -
Yousef Karsh
Canadian photographer best known for his portraits of notable individuals -
Jerry Uelsmann
a photographer best known for his work with surreal things was never a good student when it came to photography though -
Arnold Newman
an environmental photographer also known for his abstract life photos -
Annie Leibovitz
a portrait photographer she took pictures of john Lennon the day he was assassinated -
Richard Avedon
a American fashion photographer best known for his portrait work -
Dorothea Lange
best known for her depression era work for the farm security administration her photos humanized the great depresion
