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Joseph Niepce Born: March 7, 1765
He was a French inventor, now he is credited as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in that field. -
Louis Daguerre Born: November 18, 1787
Louis is more
known as Louis Daguerre a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. -
Matthew Brady: Born May 18, 1822
was one of the earliest photographers in American history. he was best known for his scenes of the Civil War. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and he photographed Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams -
Eadweard Muybridge Born: April 9, 1830
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. -
Lewis Hine Born: September 26, 1874
Lewis was an American sociologist and photographer. he used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States. -
Edward Weston Born: March 24, 1886
was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers, one of the masters of 20th century photography." -
Dorothea Lange Born: May 26, 1895
was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression era work for the Farm Security Administration. her photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. -
Ansel Adams Born: Feb 20, 1902
was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black and white landscape photographs of the American West, mostly Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, books, and the internet -
Margaret Bourke-White born June 14, 1904
was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of the Soviet five-year plan -
Henri Cartier-Bresson Born August 22, 1908
was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography. He pioneered the genre of street photography, His work has influenced many photographers. -
Yousuf Karsh Born: December 23, 1908
was an Armenian-Canadian photographer best known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. -
Arnold Newman Born: March 3, 1918
was an American photographer, noted for his environmental portraits of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images. -
Diane ArbusBorn: March 14, 1923
was an American photographer noted for photographs of marginalized people like dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers and others who are normally perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal. -
Richard Avedon Born: May 15, 1923
was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century -
Jerry Uelsmann Born: June 11, 1934
is an American photographer, and was an early exponent of photo montage in the 20th century in America. -
Annie Leibovitz Oct 02, 1949
is an American portrait photographer. She photographed John Lennon on the day he was killed and her work has been used on many album covers and magazines.
