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Louis Daguerre
Daguerre was a French artist and photographer. He was known as the father of photography. He worked during the Romanticism period. Louis invented the first practical process of photography and it was known as daguerreotype. -
Joseph Niepce
Joseph Niepce was a French inventor that is known for being the inventor of photography. -
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Photographer Timeline
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Matthew Brady
Matthew Brady was known for his photographs of the Civil War. He is also known as the father of photojournalism. He had created a documentation of the Civil War. Matthew’s photographs were mainly shots of the war, the battlefield, and the soldiers. -
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard was an English photographer and was known for his photographic studies of motion. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea was a documentary photographer and a photojournalist. She took many of her photos during the depression-era work. Dorothea’s most famous photograph was the Migrant Mother. The picture was a mother holding her kids outside of a tent that was their home and was depressed. -
Edward Weston
Edward was called “one of the most innovative and influential American photographers” and “one of the masters of 20th century photography. Edward took photographs of many different things like landscapes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and etc. -
Ansel Adams
Ansel was an American photographer and environmentalist. He captured pictures of landscapes in black and white. His most popular photographs are pictures of the American West and the Yosemite Park. -
Margare Bourke white
Margaret was known as the first female documentary photographer and also worked with the U.S. armed forces. In the 1930’s, Margaret went to Germany and the Soviet Union to start on photo-essays. She covered World War 2 for Life magazine. After WW2 she traveled all over to work with different people. In India she photographed Mohandas Gandhi and to record the mass migration. Working as a war correspondent during the Korean War she also traveled with South Korean troops. -
Henry Cartier-Bresson
Henry was a French humanist photographer and was considered the master of candid photography. He was an early user of 35 mm lens. Henry viewed photography as a decisive moment. His work was considered street photography. -
Arnold Newman:
Arnold was a photographer that focused on environmental portraits of artists and politicians. -
Yousef Karsh
Yousef is known for his photographs of notable people. He is now named as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. -
Annie Leibovitz
Annie was a portrait photographer and photographed John Lennon on the day he was assassinated. Her work was on Rolling Stone magazine, she also became the first woman to hold an exhibit. Annie also photographed The Rolling Stones and was known as the concert- tour photographer. -
Richard Avedon
Richard was an American fashion and portrait photographer. TIME magazine says his pictures define America’s image of style, beauty and culture.
