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Nicéphore Niépce
April 1816 Nicéphore Niépce made his first attempt at photography, which he called heliography. He succeeded in 1822 in obtaining a photographic copy of an engraving superimposed on glass. In 1826/27 Niépce took a photo from his workroom on a pewter plate,it was the first permanently fixed image from nature. In 1826, he produced another heliograph, a reproduction of an engraved portrait by the Parisian engraver Augustin-François Lemaître. He invented the photomechanical reproduction process. -
Louis Daguerre
Louis Daguerre was a French painter and physicist who invented the first practical process of photography, known as the daguerreotype.Though the first permanent photograph from nature was made in 1826/27 by Nicéphore Niépce of France, it was of poor quality and required about eight hours’ exposure time. The process that Daguerre developed required only 20 to 30 minutes. -
Mathew Brady
Mathew Brady is known for his documentation of the Civil War. His photographs had a huge impact on society during the war and still do today. He photographed battlefields and took pictures camp life. He took portraits of some of the most famous people of his time including Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. -
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge is a most known for his photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection. His large photographs of Yosemite Valley, California, made him world famous. Muybridge’s began experimenting in photographing motion in 1872, when the railroad magnate Leland Stanford hired him to prove that during a particular moment in a trotting horse’s gait, all four legs are off the ground simultaneously. He succeeded in 1877 -
Lewis Hine
Lewis Hine worked as a photographer at the Ethical Culture School in New York. Hines primary job was to document the social and academic aspects of the school. Within two year of being introduced to photography, he had written articles for The Elementary School Teacher, The Outlook, and The Photographic Times. Hine traveled to the South, photographing children working under extreme conditions in mills, factories, mines, fields and canneries. -
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams is known for his blank and white images and being a photographer of the American West. His breakthrough came with the publication of his portfolio, which included his famous image “Monolith, the Face of Half Dome.” Between 1929 and 1942, Adams focused on close-ups as well as mountains and factories. -
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White is known for her industrial photography. she was sent to the Soviet Union by Henry Luce, and she was the first foreign photographer to take pictures of the Soviet industry. She also photographed the Dust Bowl in 1934. Have Seen Their Faces in 1937, it documented the human aspects of the Depression . -
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson is known for Surrealism. He had his first exhibition in New York at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1933.
In 1945, he photographed the liberation of Paris with a group of professional journalists, then filmed the documentary Le Retour (The Return). In 1947, he founded Magnum Photos. -
Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh is known for his portraits of famous men and women from Albert Einstein and Sir Winston Churchill to Walt Disney and Grace Kelly. John H. Garo, introduced Karsh to artificial lighting. which formed the basis for Karsh’s dramatic lighting in his portraits. -
Arnold Newman
Arnold Newman is known for making the environmental portrait popular. He placed his subjects in similar settings their work life, aiming to show the individual’s life and work. The technique is considered common today, it was considered unconventional in the 1930s. Newman is also known for his composed and abstract still life's. -
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus was best known for intimate black-and-white portraits. She photographed those who were considered odd, like the mentally ill, transgender people, and circus performers. -
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon is an fine art photographer. He is known for his portraits of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, and Tupac Shakur. Avedon is also known for capturing American Western figures such as drifters, miners, and cowboys. -
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann is known for his black and white photos. He produces photographs with multiple negatives and works in the darkroom. He uses enlargers for his final photos from archive of negatives that he has shot over the years. They are known to show up again in his work. -
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz is known for her celebrity portraits. She captures her subject’s personality through intimate or staged moments.
Leibovitz famously captured the last image of John Lennon and Yoko Ono before his death in 1980. She is the first woman ever to have a solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 2008. -
Edward Weston
The first of Weston’s photographs captured the parks of Chicago and his aunt’s farm. Weston's career kicked of from his soft-focus, pictorial style Photos.He won many salons and professional awards. He also gained an international reputation for his high key portraits and modern dance studies. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange is an American documentary photographer. She is known for her portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression.Her photographs of unemployed men who wandered the streets of San Francisco brought the conditions of the rural poor to the public’s attention. she photographed migrant worker and had captions of words from the workers themselves.
