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Joseph Niepce
He was a French inventor, usually credited as the inventor of photography, he was also a pioneer. He developed heliograph, a technique used to create the world’s oldest surviving product of a photographic process. -
Louis Daguerre
He was a French artist and photographer. He invented the daguerreotype process of photography. He became one of fathers of photography. -
Matthew Brady
He was one of the earliest photographers in american history. Most known for his scenes of the Civil War.He photographed many Presidents along with other public figures. -
Eadweard Muybridge
He was an English photographer mostly known for his work around pioneering studies of motion, and his early work in motion picture production. -
Lewis Hine
He was an American sociologist and photographer. He used his camera as a tool for social reform. His images were instrumental in changing child labor laws. -
Dorothea Lange
She is an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She is best known for the depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Her photos gave life to the consequences of the great depression, that also influenced the development of documentary photography. -
Ansel Adams
He was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist. He is mostly known for his black and white images of the american west, they have also been reproduced on things like calendars, posters, books, and the internet. -
Margaret Bourke-White
She was an American photographer who also did documentary photography. She is best known for being the first to be permitted to take pictures of the Soviet five year plan. She was also the first American female war photojournalist and had one of her photographs on the cover of the first issue of Life Magazine. -
Henri Cartier
He was a French humanist photographer that was considered the master of candid photograph. He generated the genre of street photography, as well as the founder of modern photography. He also viewed photography as a as capturing a decisive moment. -
Yousuf Karsh
He was an American-Canadian photographer, who was known for his portraits of notable people. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. -
Arnold Newman
He was an American photographer, people noted him for his environmental portraits of artists and politicians. His carefully composed abstract still life images was what he was also known for. -
Richard Avedon
He was a fashion and portrait photographer. Many have said that his fashion and portrait photographs helped define the countries image beauty, culture, and style of the last half-century. -
Diane Arbus
She was an American photographer, her most famous subjects were “outsiders” such as trans, strippers, carnival people, etc.. She was also equally drawn to “ordinary” subjects such as children, couples, and old people. -
Jerry Uelsmann
He is an American photographer, he was an early exponent of photomontage in the 20th century. -
Annie Leibovitz
She is an American portrait photographer, and her work has been used on many album and magazine covers. She is mostly known for her photographing John Lennon on the day he was assassinated. At Washington’s Portrait Gallery she became the first woman to hold an exhibition in 1991. -
Edward Weston
He is a 20th century American photographer and he is one of the most innovative and influential photographers of the 20th century. Out of his 40 year career he photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects.
