photographer timeline

  • Joseph Niepce

    Joseph Niepce
    Joe used oil based ink and a combination of sun light to make his photos. He was kinda doing the same thing today with pinhole
  • Louis Daguerre

    Louis Daguerre
    He took the first photo ever of a man and a customer. this was the first ever photo taken in history.
  • mattew brady

    mattew brady
    Matthew Brady liked to take photos of civil war moments, the camp grounds, and the people in the civil war. this was taken right before they went to war
  • Edward Muybridge

    Edward Muybridge
    Edward like taking things in motion just like the photo "the horse in motion" and he used stop-motion for a lot of his work.
  • Lewis Hine

    Lewis Hine
    Lewis liked taking pictures of little children working in factories with dangerous machines, with no shoes, or supervision. When the phones got taken and shown to people out side, people began to get upset of house they use and treat the children
  • Yousef Karsh

    Yousef Karsh
    He was a very famous black and white portrait taker and took portraits of Martin L. King.
  • Edward Weston

    Edward Weston
    Weston like to take picks of fruits and vegetables but in black and white. he was a very famous still life photographer and liked to shoot things up close.
  • Margaret Bourke-White

    Margaret Bourke-White
    she shot a photo that says "worlds highest standard of living", is really dealing with blacks in america cause it has a group of colored people lined up in the front of the wall that says that and has a just with people on it. this was taken during the great depression.
  • Henry Cartier-Bresson

    Henry Cartier-Bresson
    Candid photography. He was more in street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a good moment. In 1933 he took this photo called Children in Seville at the time of The Decisive Moment.
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange
    Dorothea shot photos of woman and children the were homeless and starving of the great depression because she was drawn to the looks and the feeling.
  • Ansel Adams

    Ansel Adams
    Ansel was a landscape photographer, known for his black-and-white images of the American West. The photo The Tetons and the Snake River was created in 1942 for Department of Interior building in Washington, DC.
  • Arnold Newman

    Arnold Newman
    He said he didnt want just anything in the background, it had to really pop the photo out of the persons interests. Everything had to be something about the person.
  • Richard Avedon

    Richard Avedon
    Richard was more into fashion photography, but not like the ones today. he put things in the photos no one would really think about putting in a fashion photo. They where not like any others.
  • Diane Arbus

    Diane Arbus
    She liked taking pictures of things that seemed weird to her, she liked to define them as freaks.
  • Jerry Uelsmann

    Jerry Uelsmann
    Jerry was considered to help to expand the artistic boundaries of photography. He did alot of work you cant normally do with just one shot photo. he did alot of editing and protecting to get his photo graphs the way he wants
  • Annie Leibovitz

    Annie Leibovitz
    she was most famous for her portrait photos, but one that she did stood out the most was the photo she took of john Lennon and his wife.