Photographer Timeline

Joseph Niepce

Mar 7, 1765

Joseph Niepce was an inportant man in the history of photography. He made the fist permanent photograph; by capturing the views of nature on a piece of metal.

Louis Daguerre

Nov 18, 1787

Louis Daguerre was a french painter and who invented the first practical process of photography called daguerreotypes. It had the best exposure time only requiring 20 to 30 mins.

Mathew Brady

May 18, 1822

Mathew Brady was a photographer in the 19th century that was famous for his photography on the civil war. He was best known for taking the picture of Abraham Lincoln; the one we see on the $5 dollar bill today.

Edward Muybridge

Apr 9, 1830

Edward Muybridge was a british motion photographer. He was famous for the work he did in photographic studies of motion. He made the first motion-picture projection, of the " horse in motion."

Lewis Hine

Sep 24, 1874

Lewis HIne was an american photographer that took pictures of social reform. He mainly focused on and documented child labor.

Edward Weston

Mar 24, 1886

Edward Weston was an American photographer that influenced a lot of other photographer in his time. He was best known or famous for his focus; the way when he took pictures it was focused and it had a clear focal point. These images included things like landscapes, natural forms and nudes.

Dorothy Lange

May 26, 1895

Dorothy Lange was an american documentary photographer. she was best known for the portraits she took of farmers during the great depression.

Ansel Adams

Feb 20, 1902

Ansel Adams was an american landscape photographer best known for his iconic images of the American West. He took the picture of the iconic Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, photograph.

Margaret Bourke- White

Jun 14, 1904

Margaret Bourke- White was an american photographer. She was best known for her contributions to photojournalism and for the work she did for Life magazine. She is also famous for being the first female documentary photographer to be officially recognized and had worked with the U.S armed forces.

Henry Cartier-Bresson

Aug 22, 1908

Henry Cartier-Bresson was a french photographer that helped photojournalism get introduced as a form of art. He had a famous theory of photography; he believed that photography could captured the meaning of something beneath the overall appearance. He was known as " The father of modern photojournalism.

Yousef Karsh

Dec 23, 1908

Yousef Karsh was a Canadian photographer, he was famous for the pictures he took of and women in politics.

Arnold Newman

Mar 3, 1918

Arnold Newman was an american sill life and abstract photographer. He was famous for his work of environmental portraits. He was called the "pioneer of the environmental portraits" because of this.

Diane Arbus

Mar 14, 1923

Diane Arbus was an american photographer. She was known for taking pictures of some of the most disturbing or unusual looking people in society.

Richard Avedon

May 15, 1923

Richard Avedon was an american photographer. He was famous for the work he did on fashion magazines like Harper's, Bazaar and Vogue.

Jerry Uelsmann

Jun 11, 1934

Jerry Uelsmann an American photographer that was recognized as " A pioneer in the art of multilayered imagery." He was famous for combing more than one image to make one whole image.

Annie Leibovitz

Oct 2, 1949

Annie Leibovitz is an american photographer best known for the work she on the rolling stone magazine. she was considered to be one of America's best portrait photographers. Also she was the last person to take a picture of John Lennon (former member of the Beatles) alive.