Photographer Timeline

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  • Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
    The most important photography in history. He was a French inventor that invented the permanent images. He contributed the pyreolophore.
  • Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

    Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
    He was important for the development of daguerreotype this was the first methods of photography. He contributed the daguerreotype.
  • Mathew B. Brady

    Mathew B. Brady
    He is most important for his documentation of the Civil War. He contribute his portraits of politicians and his photographs of the American Civil War.
  • Eadweard Muybridge

    Eadweard Muybridge
    He was a photographer with still photography and recorded movement. He went in to visual world of motion.
  • Edward Henry Weston

    Edward Henry Weston
    He is important and contributed the focused images of natural forms, landscapes , and nudes.
  • Arnold Abner Newman

    Arnold Abner Newman
    He was important for his environmental portraits of the artists and politicians. He contributed he photos of abstract still life images.
  • Ansel Easton Adams

    Ansel Easton Adams
    He is important because of his black and white photography. His contribution to photography was that he took a bunch of photos of everything he could.
  • Richard Avedon

    Richard Avedon
    He is important because of his photos in fashion and for his first photo for Merchant Marines. He contributed was his portraits and fashion photos
  • Yousuf Karsh CC

    Yousuf Karsh CC
    He is important because of his portraits of people. He is one of the greatest portraits photographers in of the 20th century.
  • Lewis Wickes Hine

    Lewis Wickes Hine
    He is important and contributed his photographs changing child labor laws in the United States.
  • Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz

    Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz
    She is important because she is a portrait photographer who is 1970 landed a job at Rolling Stone and went on to create a distrive look for the publication as chief photographer. She contributed for the internment magazine Vanity Fair, continuing to produce images that would be deemed iconic and provocation.
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange
    She is important because of American documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influence later documentary and journalism photography. He was born May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, NJ. He died October 11,1965.
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Henri Cartier-Bresson
    He was important because he covered many of the world biggest events from the Spanish Civil War to the French uprisings in 1968. He helped establish photojournalism as an art form.
  • Margaret Bourke-White

    Margaret Bourke-White
    She is important to the world of her scenes did during the Great Depression. She contributed to photojournalism, partially for her Life magazine work.
  • Diane Arbus

    Diane Arbus
    She was important for creating intense black and white photographs of very unusual people. She contributed artistic talents emerged at a young age, having created interesting drawings and paintings while in high school.
  • Jerry N. Uelsmann

    Jerry N. Uelsmann
    He is important because he was a awarded in 1967 for his creativity in the art of photography. He also got a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972.