Photographer Timeline

  • Joseph Niepce

    Joseph Niepce

    Created the first the photo ever
  • Louis Daguerre

    Louis Daguerre

    He invented the daguerreotype process of photography. Also he became as one of the fathers of photography.
  • Matthew Brady

    Matthew Brady

    Matthew was referred as the father of photojournalism. And is well known for his documentation of the Civil War.
  • Eadweard Muybridge

    Eadweard Muybridge

    He invented the zoopraxiscope. And is well known for early work of motion-picture projection
  • Lewis Hine

    Lewis Hine

    He photographed children working in factories
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea was an American photographer and photojournalist. She is well known for her depression-era for the Farm Security Administration
  • Ansel Adams

    Ansel Adams

    He did landscapes in black and white. He was an American photographer and environmentalist.
  • Margaret Bourke-White

    Margaret Bourke-White

    She was an American photographer who did social realism. Also Margaret is best known for being the first foreign photographer to photograph the Soviet five-year plan. And she was hired by Henry Luce for Life magazine in 1936.
  • Edward Weston

    Edward Weston

    He is considered to be a master of 20th century photography. The period of photography that he did was surrealism.
  • Henry Cartier-Bresson

    Henry Cartier-Bresson

    He was a French humanist photographer who was the first to start street photography and he was an early user of 35 mm film. And was considered a master of candid photography.
  • Richard Avedon

    Richard Avedon

    He was an American fashion and portrait photographer.
  • Arnold Newman

    Arnold Newman

    He is known for his environmental portraits of artists and politicians.
  • Diane Arbus

    Diane Arbus

    She photographed people who were different from everybody else.
  • Yousuf Karsh

    Yousuf Karsh

    Best known for his portraits of notable individuals
  • Jerry Uelsmann

    Jerry Uelsmann

    An American photographer who did photomontage
  • Annie Leibovitz

    Annie Leibovitz

    She is an American portrait photographer. Annie is well known for her pictures of famous people and she worked for Rolling Stone magazine.