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Joseph Niepce
He was a French inventor. He was the one who invented photography. He is known as the "father of photography". He was a amateur scientist. He invented heliography and more. -
Louis Daguerre
He was a French photographer. He was also a French painter. He invented one of the first processes of photography and its called the daguerreotype process. He is also known as one of the "fathers of photography". -
Matthew Brady
He was best known for taking pictures during the civil war. Referred to as the "Father of Journalism". He was one of the earliest photographers. He was born in Warren County. He is also most known for his portraits of the american politicians. -
Edward Muybridge
He was an American photographer. He studied motion. He also invented the movie projector, film and zoopraxiscope. He wanted to see motion in the pictures so he would take multiple to see them. -
Lewis Hine
He was an american photographer. He was also a sociologist. He took pictures with a 5 by 7 view camera. He helped with the child labor laws. He is known for reform movement. -
Edward Weston
He began photography at the age of 16. He made articles. He is best known for his images that are "sharply" focused on like landscapes, nudes, and natural forms. He started taking picture at his aunts farm and one of the parks in Chicago. -
Dorothea Lange
She was a documentary photographer. She look pictures of the depression-era which she is best known for. She was also a photojournalist. She took many pictures of the great depression to show social realism. -
Ansel Adams
He was a landscape photographer. He was best known for his black and white photography. He helped find a group called f/64. He got his first camera at age 12. He was born in San Francisco. His first photos were published in 1921. -
Margaret Bourke-White
She is known as the first foreign photographer. She took pictures of the soviet industry. She was the first female to be a war journalist. She became the first western photographer. She died of Parkinson's Disease. She also took pictures of the drought victims of the Dust Bowl. -
Henry Cartier-Bresson
He was born in France. He was referred to as the "Master of candid photography". He basically created street photography. He was one of the earliest photographers to use a 35 mm film. He also painted and took painting classes for some time. -
Yousef Karsh
He was an Canadian photographer. He was known to be one of the best portrait photographer. He was born in Turkey. He usually took pictures of famous men and woman of politics. -
Arnold Newman
He was an American photographer. He is best known for his environmental portraits and his "still" images. He said that even if you have the wrong camera, you can still do good work. He is of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. -
Diane Arbus
She was an American photographer. She worked to make people have a "proper" presentation of their selves. She learned at the Ethical Culture Fieldson School. She died from suicide. She is best known for taking weird pictures of people to show the real world. -
Richard Avedon
He is best known for his fashion work and portraits. He dropped out of school to go to Merchants Marines photographic section. People say his pictures and portraits help tell about Americas image style. He was born in New York. -
Jerry Uelsmann
He was an american photographer. He used adobe Photoshop to make his pictures look surreal. He is known for his images that are in black and white. He took multilayered images. He was born in Detroit. -
Annie Leibovitz
She was an American portrait photographer. She mostly took engaging photos of celebrities which she is most known for. A lot of her work has even been on the covers of magazines. She was born in Connecticut. She took the last picture of John Lennon on the day that he got murdered.
