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Joseph Neipce
1765-1833 , he was the first to make a permeant photographic image, which helped ferment the idea of photography in peoples minds through his first image -
Louis Daguerre
1787-1851 , he helped make the amount of time for exposure from eight hours to only 20-30 helping photography begin to become practically , he also did self portraits -
Mathew Bradly
A civil war photographer one of the very few to do a photo journal of the war, he also took Politicians portraits, he lived between 1822-1896 , he helped take 10,000 photo’s with team of the civil war -
Edward Muybridge
1830-1904 he unlike many photographers during this time did work with motion, he experimented with 12-24 batteries and a special shutter to get to he speed to 2/1000 of a second , his work was published widely but coitized -
Lewis Hine
1874-1940 he took photo’s of immigrants and sweatshops , tenements where the immigrants worked and lived , which gave light to how poorly immigrants were treated -
Edward Weston
1886-1958 he was famous for carefully set up , sharply focused of natural form, landscapes, and nudes -
Dorothea Lange
1895-1965 she took pictures of the great depression showing the poor , which was ignored for greed and power during the time, they {the poor} were starving, dying. She also recorded the evacuation of the Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack. -
Ansel Adams
1902-1984, he was an American photographer who took environmental shots of the barren and unpopulated land scraped of Yosemite, Serra , his work helped path he way to making more environmental photographers more relevant -
Margaret Bourke White
1904-1971, she lived a life of takings pictures of architecture, in which she managed to capture Moscow before the Russian war and even photo journaled the WW2 as a select few, upon that she also did a photo essay with a colleague . Ghandi's death too -
Henri Cartier Bresson
1908-2004, French photographer who helped make photographer art , when he worked for a news paper he made shots and not prints, he made candid -
Yousef Karsh
1908-2002 he photographed famous people in politics from men to women -
Arnold Newman
1918-2006 who specialized in portraits of famous people posed in their work settings -
Richard Avedon
1923- 2004 he is famous for his work in portraits and fashion photography -
Diane Arbus
1923 -1971 known for her compelling , often disturbing portraits of people on the edges of society -
Jerry Uelsmann
1934 – present , he is the father of photo shop he used his mind to blend multiple images together and edited them much like the photo shop we use today -
Annie Leibovits
1949-2019, through her time being still alive she has made her portraits famous for her unique style being lightened and crisp, she has made many books, had a TV show made after her, she is a key figure in photography introducing her own quirk-ish style
