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Joseph Niepce
He coated paper with different light-sensitive substances in an effort to copy engravings in sunlight. From this he progressed in April 1816 to attempts at photography, which he called sun drawing, with a camera. He recorded a view from his workroom window on paper sensitized with silver chloride but was only partially able to fix the image. -
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Louis Daguerre
Daguerre had made the first photograph by using a light-sensitive paper and a box with a mirror in it to reflect the building or area he wanted to capture onto the paper. -
Matthew Brady
Matthew Brady was one of the earliest photographers in American history. He is referred to as the father of photojournalism, he is well known for his photographs of the battle ground during the civil war. His photographs had an impact on society. -
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was an inventor and photographer who is known for his work with motion and motion-picture projection. Muybridge's innovative camera techniques enabled people to see things too fast to understand. -
Lewis hine
Within two years of being introduced to photography, Hine had published several articles for The Elementary School Teacher, The Outlook, and The Photographic Times, to promote photography as an educational tool. In 1917, Hine photographed children working under extreme conditions in mills, factories, mines, fields and canneries. -
Edward Weston
Edward was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers..." and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Edward photographed many things such as landscapes, still lives, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. -
Dorothea Lange
During the Great Depression, Lange began to photograph the unemployed men who wandered the streets of San Francisco. Pictures such as White Angel Breadline (1932), showing the desperate condition of these men. -
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was a landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64. -
Margaret Bourke-white
Margaret was the first female photographer for LIFE and she had made the first cover photo. In 1930 she decided to take photos in Germany and the soviet union. -
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Taken prisoner of war in 1940, he escaped on his third attempt in 1943 and subsequently joined an underground organization to assist prisoners and escapees. In 1945, he photographed the liberation of Paris with a group of professional journalists and then filmed the documentary Le Retour (The Return). -
Yousuf Karsh
Karsh is recognized as one of the best-known and great portrait photographers of the 20th century.The Metropolitan Museum of Art described him as "one of the greatest portrait photographers of the twentieth century who achieved a distinct style in his theatrical lighting." -
Arnold Newman
Newman is often credited with being the photographer who employed the genre of environmental portraiture, in which the photographer uses a carefully framed and lit setting, and its contents, to symbolize the individual's life and work. Newman normally captured his subjects in their most familiar surroundings with their visual elements showing their professions and personalities. -
Diane Arbus
Arbus worked with a wide range of subjects including members of the LGBTQ+ community, carnival performers, dwarves, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. She photographed her subjects in familiar settings: their homes, on the street, in the workplace, in the park, celebrating imagery that seem to reflect our deepest fears and most private wish. -
Richard Avedon
His interest in photography began at an early age, and he joined the Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) camera club when he was twelve years old. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he co-edited the school’s literary magazine, The Magpie, with James Baldwin. He was named Poet Laureate of New York City High Schools in 1941. He joined the armed forces in 1942 during World War II, serving as Photographer’s Mate Second Class. -
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann is an American photographer best known for his innovative work. Throughout his practice, Uelsmann creates surreal compositions through painstaking handmade collage. His photographs are made using only analog tools. Uelsmann relies on multiple exposures and uses many enlargers to achieve his dream-like imagery. -
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz is a celebrated American photographer best known for her engaging and dramatic celebrity portraits.her images reflect intimate or staged moments that reveal the playful and expressive aspects of her sitters, as seen in her Disney Dream Portraits (2011). “I no longer believe that there is such a thing as objectivity,”
