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Joseph Niepce
While many people experimented with photography, none was successful until Joseph Niepce. He basically created photography. He sculpted his first camera in 1816. He continued experimenting for years. The family finally declared 1822 as the birth of photography. Niepce and Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre met and set a 10 year contract together. But unfortunately Niepce died 4 years after their contract was set. He died on July 5th, 1833. -
Louis Daguerre
Daguerre was a painter and a photographer. He is the most famous for the creation of daguerreotype. It is one of the earliest methods of photography that was successful. He was also the painter of the scene for the opera. Daguerre also has an interest in lighting effects. He died on July 10th, 1851. -
Mattew Brady
People would like to refer Matthew Brady as the father of journalism. He is well known by his documentation that he did on the civil war. Brady shocked the nation in 1862 when he released "The Dead of Antietam". That was the first carnage photos from the war. After the war Matthew Brady continued to work in Washington with his nephew Levin Handy. Brady suffered from a bad car accident and died later on in January of 1896. -
Edward Muybridge
Muybridge took a step into recorded movement of photography. In 1872 he got really involved with motion photography. He invented the zoopraxiscope in 1879. He gave his first moving pictures project to a group at the California School of Fine Arts. He became the father of motion picture. He died on May 8th, 1904. -
Lewis Hine
Hines father died in 1892 and left him to take care of his family.He worked 13 hours a day, 6 days a week and only earned $4 a week. He worked many different jobs until he found his love for photography. He then went a studied at New York University and received his master's degree in pedagogy. Hines became a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee. He traveled from the Northeast to the Deep South photographing children working under extreme conditions. He died in November 3rd, 1940. -
Edward Weston
Weston pursued a modernist style. He creates sharply focused and rich in detail, black and white photographs. From the time he got back to the U.S, he wanted to change the direction of photography in this country. Weston also does a lot of nude photography.
But all his photographs are captured in black and white. He died on January 1st, 1958. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea was born in Hoboken New Jersey. She was studying to be a teacher when she realized in 1913 that she wanted to be a professional photographer. In 1917, Dorothea studied at the Clarence H. White School. Later on, her photographs caught the eye of Paul Taylor, they soon after that got married and collaborated. Her portraits of displaced farmers influenced her documentary photography later on in her career. Dorothea Lange is now one of the greatest documentary photographers in the Nation. -
Ansel Adams
Adam first learned about photography as a child on a family vacation. He also shared a love for the piano, but in 1930 he devoted his life to photography. Adams worked originally in pictorialist style. In 1941 he was invited by the secretary to photograph the National parks and to create large mural prints for a new Washington D.C. interior building. Ansel was mostly known for his nature photographs. He has some very beautiful pictures. Adams died on April 22nd, 1984. -
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret was born on June 14th, 1904. She attended the Clarence H. White High School of photography in New York. After she graduated college she opened a photography studio in Cleveland. She was brought to the attention of Henry Luce, and he hired her in 1929. Soon after being hired, he sent her to the Soviet Union. She became the first foreign photographer to photograph the Soviet Union. She was also the first woman to accompany Air Corps on bombing missions. Margaret died in 1971. -
Henry Cartier-Bresson
Henry has influenced many other photographers with the way his photos create a sense of humor, mystery, and a meaning behind everyone of his photographs. He studied literature at Cambridge University. In 1940, He was drafted into the film and photo unit in the French army. That same year he was taken as prisoner by the Germans. He escaped 3 years later and began working for the French Underground. In 1966, he left Magnum, which was his agent, and started drawing. He died August 3rd, 2004. -
Yousef Karsh
Yousef is a Armenian Canadian photographer known for his portraits of people in politics. His father sent him to Canada as a child to be with his uncle. There he began to learn the art of photography. His uncle is a photographer. He attended evening classes at an art school. He then got the opportunity to photograph some actors at the Ottawa Little Theatre. After he completed that , he bacame a regular photogapher with the canadian government and became an Canadian citizen in 1947. -
Arnold Newman
Arnold Newman was one of the best known portrait photographers of our time. His career very quickly elevated when he came up with the idea of photographing his subject in their own environment. He was more interested in what motivated his clients and what they do in their personal life. He wanted the picture to tell a story about that person. He worked for lots of magazines all across the globe in his career. Newman is said to serve as a role model for future photographers. -
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus studied in New York City at the Ethical Culture School. She worked with her husband, who was also a photographer. She took some classes with Lisette Model, who encouraged her to publish some of her own work. Arbus published for the first time in 1961, she then began her very successful career. Her work was shown at the Venice Biennale, it was the first time an American Photographer was represented. Diane also taught at a couple of design schools. She died on July 26, 1971. -
Richard Avedon
Avedon is known for breaking the photography boundaries in the fashion and political world. He was born and raised into a family involved deeply into fashion. He took on a love for fashion photography early in his childhood. He was a master in portraiture. He photographed people like Dr. Martin Luther King, Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles and many more. Avedon died on October 1st, 2004. -
Jerry Uelsmann
Photography caught Jerry's high earlt in life on a high school eild trip. He went on to study at Indiana University. There he earned an MFA in 1960. He creates some surreal photographs in the darkroom. There are many steps in this process, but the outcome is worth it. He likes to try different techniques with positives and negatives. In 1967, he received a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. His work has now been widely exhibited and is held in collections internationally. -
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz is a American photographer. She is best known for her portraits of celebrities. Annie actually studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute with the intentions of becoming an art teacher. But she also took night classes for photography. She worked as a commercial photographer for the rolling stones magazine in 1970. She was the first woman ever to have a solo exhibition at the Nation Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. She is currently working and lives in New York City.