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Joseph Niepce
Joseph Niepce was a french inventor. He was interested in lithography, which was a form of painting. Surprisingly, he as very unskilled at drawing. -
Louis Daguerre
Louis was a French artist and a scientist. He invented the chemical photographic process (also known as daguerreotype.) As a great accomplishment, he was acknowledged as one of the fathers of photography. -
Matthew Brady
As one of the earliest photographers in American History, he was best known for his scenes of the civil war. Matthew was also known as a publisher and a pictorial historian. -
Eadward Muybridge
Eadward was an English Photographer. The spelling of his name has an interesting story behind it. When he was 20 years old, he changed his first name to conform to the Saxon spelling and a possible Spanish lineage, from then on he became "Eadweard." -
Lewis Hine
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 U.S. -
Edward Weston
20th century photographer, very influential. He is known for his half-nude, black and white photos. His photos have always been greatly detailed and Edward was also interested in landscapes, and organic forms including close-up studies of shells, vegetables, and rocks. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea is one of the photographers that has meaning behind their work. Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression. -
Ansel Adams
Not only was Ansel interested in photography, he also did everything he could to help and conserve the environment. Since he had a love for nature, most of his photography was made up of landscapes. -
Margaret Bourke-White
American photography and documentary photographer, the first female war photojournalist, and the first to have her photograph on the cover of the first issue of Life magazine. -
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. His work has influenced many photographers. -
Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh was an Armenian/Canadian photographer who was well known for his portraits of notable people. He has also been called one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. -
Arnold Newman
Newman first started his career in photography in 1938 working at chain portrait studios in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and West Palm Beach, and then went to begin working in abstract and documentary photography on his own. Not only a photographer, Arnold authored many books. -
Diane Arbus
Diane was a very unique photographer with interesting work. It has been said that her crazy, yet beautiful artwork showed how New York people were in the 50s and 60s. They were different. She started out working with her husband in advertising and fashion photography. -
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. It's been said before that, "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century". -
Jerry Uelsmann
Uelsmann was included in Florida Artists Hall of Fame, if that tells you anything about his work. He is well known for famous black and white photos. Jerry Uelsmann is the founding member of the Society of Photographic Education and his photos are part of the permanent collections of many major museums all over the world. -
Annie Leibovitz
Annie was the type of photographer that everyone likes and is interested in. She is well known for taking pictures of celebrities, the ones we actually want to see.
