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Joseph Niepce
Joseph Niepce was a french inventor and he developed heliography. He was the first person to make a permanent photographic image. His first picture was taken in 1826 and its known as the oldest surviving image. -
Louis Daguerre
Louis Daguerre invented the first process of photography, known as daguerreotype. It was invented in 1839. Daguerre was known as the father of photography. He used his invention to capture the first photograph of a human being. -
Matthew Brady
Matthew Brady photographed every U.S President from John Quincy Adams to William McKinley, except one which is William Henry Harrison. Brady also exhibited portraits of Edgar Allen Poe and he was best known for his scenes of the civil war. -
Edward Muybridge
Edward is most famous for his work in studies of motion and motion picture projection. Some people call him 'the father of motion picture'. He started working with motion picture in 1872. His most famous image is a man riding a horse. -
Henry Cartier-Bresson
In the late 1960s Cartier-Bresson began to concentrate on making motion pictures including 'Impressions of California' and 'Southern Exposures'. Henry never used flash in his photography because he said it was impolite. -
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann did photo montage work in the 20th century and did darkroom effects for the use of adobe photoshop and he also made surrealistic images. His work was very detailed and drew attention to a lot of people. -
Lewis Hine
Lewis Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. Hines really liked to photograph child labor. He was hired and worked for the National Child Labor Commitee. -
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz contacted John Wenner who works for the Rolling Stone magazine and hoping she would get a job working for him as a photographer. She photographed pictures of John Lennon and it went on the cover of the January 1971 issue of the magazine. Leibovitz got tons of awards for her amazing work and a portrait gallery in Washington exhibitied some of her work. -
Edward Weston
Edward Weston is best known for his carefully composed, sharp, focused images of landscapes and nudes. His work is fairly odd. Some of his art is the halved onion, a cabbage leaf, mushroom, and a shell. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange is best known for humanizing the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. Her work greatly influenced documentary photography. -
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus was an American photographer who took photos of strange people. She photographed transgender people, strippers, carnival performers, nudists, and drawers. She also took ordinary pictures of couples, elderly people, mothers, and children -
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret was the first foreign photographer to take pictures of the Soviet Industry. She also photographed the Dust Bowl for Fortune in 1934. After World War II broke out, Margaret traveled to India to photograph Mohandas Gandhi and record the mass migration of an Indian subcontinent. -
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams helped promote the National Park Service through his stunning photographs. Adams was greatly influenced by Paul Strands for his work. Most of his photography is pictures of nature around the world. -
Yousef Karsh
Yousef Karsh was a Canadian photographer known as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. Karsh photographed famous people such as George H. W. Bush, Martin Luther King, Franklin Roosevelt, and Albert Einstein. All who were very intelligent people. -
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon is best known for his work in the fashion world and for his minimalist portraits. He worked first as a photographer for the Merchant Marines, taking identification photos. -
Arnold Newman
Arnold Newman was noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed and abstract images.
