Famous Photographers

  • Joseph Niepce

    Joseph Niepce

    Is known as the father of photograph. The Niepce family declared 1822 as the birth of photography
  • Louis Daguerre

    Louis Daguerre

    Is known for creating daguerreotype process in photography. He was a very influential french photographer.
  • Matthew Brady

    Matthew Brady

    Is known for his photos of the civil war. He trained with artist William Paige and inventor Samuel F.B.
  • Eadweard Muybridge

    Eadweard Muybridge

    Eadweard Muybridge was an English-American photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.
  • Lewis Hine

    Lewis Hine

    Hines was a photographer and a sociologist in the 1880s . Hines photography helps with child labor
  • Edward Weston

    Edward Weston

    Weston is known for his incredible focus and his nudes photography. He was called the “ most innovative and influential photographers."
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange

    Lange best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. She was training to be a teacher before she decided to be a photographer.
  • Ansel Adams

    Ansel Adams

    Adams was a landscape and environment photographer. He founded the group f/64 with the help of others.
  • Margaret Bourke - White

    Margaret Bourke - White

    The first foreign photographer to take pictures of the Sovient industry, photographed the Dust Bowl . One of the first photographers hired to LIFE.
  • Yousuf karsh

    Yousuf karsh

    Karsh was an Armenia genocide survivor. he moved to Canada as a refugee. he was known as one of the best portrait photographers.
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Bresson was a french photographer “To take a photograph means to recognize, simultaneously and within a fraction of a second‚ both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning,” one of Henris many quotes.
  • Arnold Newman

    Arnold Newman

    Newman is known for his environmental portraits of politicians and his abstract photography . He was awarded the Infinity Award in 1999. The Lucie Award in 2004.
  • Diane Arbus

    Diane Arbus

    Arbus was a freak show photographer. She took unusual photos of people all over the place. Some portraits other just candids.
  • Richard Avedon

    Richard Avedon

    Avedon was a fashion/portrait photographer. He took a lot of outside portraits with lots of emotions.
  • Jerry Uelsmann

    Jerry Uelsmann

    Jerry known for his juxtaposed photography. He makes photographs that didn’t go together but you won’t notice they don’t till after you look at if for a little while.
  • Annie Leibovitz

    Annie Leibovitz

    Annie photographed many celebrities including John Lennon the same day he died. Annie was awarded the glamour award for the visionary.