-
Mathew Brady
Mathew Brady was born in 1822 near Lake George, New York. However some records indicate he was born in Ireland. It's speculated that he might have changed this information because of anti-Irish sentiment during the Mid-19th century. He was best known for his Civil War photography. This including the iconic photo of Abraham Lincoln that is found on the American five dollar bill today. -
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred was born in Hoboken, New Jersey . He led the Pictorialist movement, which promoted the rights of photographers in the United States.His own work defined the greater Pictorialist project. Some projects were exhibited in camea work magazine .Prior to his efforts some photographs were seen purely as historic records. -
Lewis Hine
Lewis Hine was born September 26, 1874 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He was known for his photographs of children workers and government projects. In 1911, he was hired by the National Child Labor committee to take pictures of child labor conditions, and he produced appalling pictures of exploited children. During World War I, Hines worked as a photographer with the Red Cross and later photographed the construction of the Empire State Building -
James Van Der Zee
James Van Der Zee was born June 29, 1886 in Lenox, Massachusetts. James was an African-American photographer that was best known for taking photographs of black New Yorkers. He had a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside that he produced the most comprehensive documentation of period. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was born May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. She was a photographer whose protraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary in photography. During the Great Depression, she photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets. Her photographs of migrant workers were often presented with captions featuring the words of the workers themslve. -
WeeGee
WeeGee was born June 12,1899 in Lemberg, Austria. He was a photographer that was noted for his gritty yet compassionate images of the aftermath of New York street crimes and disasters. WeeGee was in his own words "Spellbound by the mystery of murder." When he photographed he paid special attention to the expressions and gestures of his subjects. -
Ansel Adams
Ansel was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was an American photographer best known for his iconic images of the American West including photographs of wilderness areas. Adam's professional breakthrough followed the publication of his first portfolio."Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras", which included his famous "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome." -
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret White was born June 14, 1904 in Bronx, New York. She was an American photographer known for her extensive contributions to photojournalism particularly for her Life magazine work. Margaret is recognized as being the first female documentary photographer to be accredited by work with the U.S armed forces. Working directly with the U.S armed forces she covered World War II for Life magazine. -
Philippe Halsman
Philippe Halsman was born May 2 ,1906 in Riga ,Lalvia. He began his photography career in 1941 in Paris where he met surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Halsman's inclusive portraits appeared on 101 covers for LIFE magazine, a record no other photographer could match. He used an innovative twin-lens reflex camera that he designed himself. In the early 1950s he began to ask his subjects to jump for his camera, these images have become an important part of his photographic legacy. -
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks was born on November 30, 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas. He was a self-taught artist who became the first African-American photographer for Life and Vogue magazines. He also pursued movie directing an screenwriting. Gordon Parks became the first African Ameicn to direct, write, score and co-produce a major Hollywood film with 1969's The Learning Tree. -
Diane Arbus
Diane was born on March 14, 1923 in New York City. She had distinctive portraits that showed the world how crazy and beautiful New Yorkers wer in the 60s. During her wandering around New York City, she began to pursue taking photographs of people she found. Diane visited hotels, public park, a morgue and other various locations. These unusual images had a raw quality and several of the images were found in the July 1960 issue of Esquire magazine -
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann was born in Detroit on June 11, 1934. He is an American photographer whose internationally acclaimed artistic work that is presented in over 100 individual shows all over the US and the rest of the world in the last decades. Jerry creates composite photographs using multiple negatives and comprehensive alchemy of the darkroom in his search "the reality that transcends surface reality". He gets his inspiration for his artistic work to capture the true essence of life. -
Steve McCurry
Steve was born in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After working at a newspaper for two years, he left for India to freelance. His career was launched when he disguised himself in a native garb, he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan. He had film sewn into his clothes and images that would be published around the world. He focuses on the human conseguences of war, not only showing what war impresses on the landscape, but rathe on the human face. -
Ed Kashi
Ed Kashi was born November 16, 1957. He is a photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker, and educator dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our time. Ed a member of VII Photo Agency since 2010, he has been recognized for his complex imagery and it's compelling rendering of the human condition. He is a mentor to students of photography and an active participant in forums and lectures on photojournalism, documentary photography, and multimedia. -
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949 in Waterbury, Connecticut. She was considered one of America's best portrait photographers. In 1970 she landed a job at Rolling Stone and went on to create a distinctive look for the entertainment magazine Vanity Fair. While with Rolling Stone Annie developed a trade mark technique, which involved the use of bold colors and surprising poses. Annie was credited for an issue that featured a nude John Lennon curled around his fully clothed wife, Yoko Ono.
