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Joseph Niepce
French inventor Nicéphore Niépce was the first to make a permanent photographic image. -
Louis Daguerre
Louis Daguerre was a French artist and physicist who gained international acclaim when he invented the process of photography. -
Mattew Brady
Mathew Brady was a 19th-century photographer best known for his Civil War photography and portraits. -
Edward Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge's photography of moving animals captured movement in a way that had never been done before. His work was used by both scientists and artists. -
Lewis Hine
Lewis Hines was a photographer known for his documentation of exploited child workers and government projects. -
Edward Weston
Edward Weston's photography captured organic forms and texture. Portraits of his family taken in the 1940s are some of his best work. -
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary photography. -
Margaret Bourke-White
American photographer known for her extensive contributions to photojournalism, particularly for her Life magazine work. She is recognized as having been the first female documentary photographer to be accredited by and work with the U.S armed forces. -
Yousef Karsh
Yousuf Karsh was a Canadian-Armenian photographer whose portraits consisted of shadows playing with light. He had a humanistic vision and the revelation of his subject’s personality using photography was the core of his work. -
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams was an American photographer best known for his iconic images of the American West, including Yosemite National Park. -
Richard Avedon
American photographer Richard Avedon was best known for his work in the fashion world and for his minimalist, large-scale character-revealing portraits. -
Diane Arbus
Photographer Diane Arbus's distinctive portraits showed the world how crazy (and beautiful) New Yorkers were in the 1950s and '60s. She was married to actor Allan Arbus. -
Arnold Newman
Arnold Newman (American, 1918–2006) was one the most celebrated and influential portrait photographers of the 20th century, known for his “environmental portraits” of artists and cultural icons. -
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann is an American photographer whose internationally acclaimed artistic work has been presented in over 100 individual shows all over the US and the rest of the world in the last three decades. -
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz, considered one of America's best portrait photographers, developed her trademark use of bold colors and poses while at 'Rolling Stone.'
