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Joseph Niepce
Joseph was a French inventor and is also called the inventor of photography. They don’t know for sure if he really invented it they just give him the credit because he pioneered in the field. He invented heliograph which is a the way he was able to create the world’s oldest surviving product from a photographic process. -
Louis Daguerre
Louis was very special to the photography world. He was a French artist and photographer. He is greatly known for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He was the developer of the diorama theatre and the thing he is most known for is his contributions to the photography world. He is called one of the great fathers of photography. -
Matthew Brady
Matthew Brady was a man who was one of the earliest civil war photographers. In New York in 1844 he opened his own studio where he took photographs of Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and more famous celebrities. When the civil war started he great use of mobile studio and darkroom helped him make thousands of photos that are famous. Once the photos he took went out of fashion the government didn’t want to purchase them so he ended up dying in debt. -
Edward Muybridge
HIs surname Muybridge is believed to be a similar archaic. He was an English photographer who was best known his introduction in the work in photographic studies of motion and his early work in early motion projection. At age 20 he emigrated as a bookseller to America in New York but then he traveled to San Francisco where his photography career began around 1867. -
Lewis Hine
Hine was an American sociologist and photographer. HIs photos were life changinging, he changed child labor laws in the United States because his photos were so instrumental. He aso used his camera as a tool for social reform. In 1908 he became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee. -
Edward Weston
Weston knew from an early age that he wanted to become a photographer. At the beginning of his career his photos were typical soft focus pictorialism that was really popular at the time but in later years he branched out. He was a 20th- century American photographer that was know by the following: “one of the most innovative and influential American photographers”, and “one of the masters of 20th century photography”. -
Ansel Adams
Ansel was an American photographer who known for his black and white photos of the American West. What he is best known for is his photos of Yosemite National Park that are all over the internet, books, and calendars. He was also a famous environmentalist. -
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret was the first foreign photographer that was allowed to take photos of the Soviet five year plan. She was also the very first american female war journalist. Her photos were so good they were on the cover of the first issue of Life Magazine. In 1929 she was hired as an assistant editor and photographer of Fortune magazine. -
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret was the first foreign photographer that was allowed to take photos of the Soviet five year plan. She was also the very first American female war journalist. Her photos were so good they were on the cover of the first issue of Life Magazine. In 1929 she was hired as an assistant editor and photographer of Fortune magazine. -
Yousef Karsh
Karsh was an Armenian-Canadian photographer that was very popular and still is for his notable portraits of individuals. People think he was one of the best portrait photographers in the 20th century. He had an outbreak in 1941 with the portraits he took of Winston Churchill. Shortly before that in the 1920s he became a significant photographer in Ottawa. -
Henry Cartier-Bresson
Henry was a French humanist photographer. He was so good at candid photography people called him a master. He basically started that pf street photography and he always let other photographers influence his work. He got into the use of surrealism and the love of that deepened in 1931 and he became passionate about it. He was also one of the first users of the 35mm film. -
Dorothea Lange
Lange was a great influence for the development of documentary photography. She was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. One thing she is best known for is her depression- era work she done for the Farm Security Administration. She is well known for her use of humanization for the consequences of the Great Depression. She started photography in 1935 when she got out of a school she attended in New York City. -
Arnold Newman
Newman was an American Photographer that also took environmental portraits. He is well known for his environmental portraits of artists and politicians. He took abstract still life images very seriously and is known for how carefully composed they are. In 1938 he moved to Philadelphia and worked in a studio where he was making portraits and selling them for 49 cent. -
Richard Avedon
In 1944 Avedon started working as an advertising photographer for a large department store. He was an American fashion and portrait photographer. After he died there was an obituary written about him in The New York Times that said “his fashion and portrait photographs helped define america’s image of style, beauty and culture for the last half- century”. Avedon had a huge impact on fashion by using photography. -
Annie Leibovitz
Annie is an American portrait photographer. She started photography in 1969 and at this day is still taking photographs. She has an exhibit in the Washington’s National Portrait Gallery and is also the first women to do so. One really known thing about her is the fact she took portrait shots of John Lennon the day we was actually assassinated. Her work is so famous it has been on many album and magazine covers. She was also head photographer of Rolling Stone Magazine. -
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry was an American photographer. He was really famous for his wild looking photographs. They are like nothing you’ve ever seen. He is very famous and to this day there are showings where you can go view his photographs. He was also the forerunner of photomontage in the 20th century in America.
