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He is well known as the “Father of Photojournalism”. He took photos of the Civil War. These included battlefields, camp life, and portraits. 1823 - 1896
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The “Father of Photography” he created the first permanent photo. His first image produced was a view from a window.
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He was a french painter and physicist who invented daguerreotype. Daguerreotype is “a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silver plate and mercury vapor.”
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He was an English inventor and photographer. Edward was known as the "Father of the Motion Picture”, for his work with still photography.
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He is best known for his composite images in black and white. A “pioneer in the art of multilayered imagery.”
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A trained sociologist, he used photography to bring “social ills” to public attention. He also wrote a book about child labor with documentary photos called Child Labor in the Carolinas.
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An american photographer, best known for her work with the Rolling Stone magazine. In particular, a photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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Also known for his work with landscape and nude photography, he was a major photographer of the 20th Century.
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Best known for her photography of the unemployed men and farmers during the Great Depression.
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She is known as the first female documentary photographer to work with and be recognized by the U.S. armed forces. She is also known for her work with Life magazine.
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Her unusual images of the people she saw while living in New York created a unique and interesting portrayal of the city. She commit suicide in 1971.
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An american photographer best known for his photos of the American West. He was considered the most important landscape photographer of his century.
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Canadian photographer known for his portraits of important and famous men and women of politics, Hollywood, etc. Some big names he photographed are people such as Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill.
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He was a french photographer, and also a filmmaker. Known as the “Pioneer” of street photography. He wrote a book called The Decisive Moment in which he explored his theory of photography being a “candid medium”.
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Known for his work in the fashion world and the fine arts. He worked first as a photographer for the Merchant Marines, taking I.D. photos.
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American photographer, who specialized in portraits of well-known people posed in settings associated with their work. This was known as “environmental portraiture,” influenced portraits in the 20th century.
