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Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce
He was the first person to make a permanent photographic image. He called his attempts at making photography Heliography which meas "sun drawing". The first "picture" he took was of his working area. -
Louis Daguerre
He invented the first practical process of photography. It is known as daguerreotype. It only required 20-30 minutes. In 1839 his invention fully got announced at a meeting of "Academy of Sciences". -
Mathew Brady
He was a photographer best known for his work of the Civil War. He also took the photo of Abraham Lincoln on the $5. He opened his first daguerreotype studio in 1844 in New York city. -
Eadweard Muybridge
His photography in motion began in 1872 but it did not go so well because his camera lacked a shutter. For his next attempt in 1877 he used a special shutter of 2/1000 of a second. Some people believed him while other did not. The ones who did no thought a horses leg could not assume such positions as his photos where showing. -
Lewis Hine
He was trained as a sociologist. He started taking pictures of immigrants who crowded New York streets in 1905. He also photographed where the immigrants where forced to live and work. In 1908 is when his photographs where published in "Charities and the Commons". -
Yousuf Karsh
He is most famous for his photography of important and famous men and women of politics. H first began t learn about arts and science of photography in 1926 from his uncle in Canada. He establishes a studio in 1931 with financial help from his uncle. -
Margaret Bourke-White
She was hired in 1929 for her originality by Henry Luce for his new magazine "Fortune". She was one of the first four photographer for "Life" magazine in 1936. Her photos where used on the cover of the first issue. -
Henri Cartier-Bresson
He started photography from being in Africa hunting things but becoming uninterested in actually eating it he started to adore photography. He said it is like being a "vegetarian hunter". He went back to France and purchased different lenses. He edited his own photos in a Dark Room as well. -
Ansel Adams
He was the most important landscape photographer. He decided to devote his life to photography by about 1930. By 1935 he was famous in the photographic community. -
Dorothea Lange
She studied photography at Columbia University. In 1918 she decided to travel around the world. Her famous photo of "Migrant Mother" was considered by the FSA director Roy Styker to be the iconic representation of the agency's agenda. -
Arnold Newman
He specialized in environmental portraiture of well-known people. In 1938 he took a job as a assistant in a photography studio. In 1946 he opened his first portrait studio. He is best known for one of his portraits of Igor Stravinsky at his piano. -
Edward Weston
He is most known for his sharply focused images of natural forms, landscapes, and nudes. He received his first camera at age 16. Until well into his 30's he was geographically and intellectually isolated from advanced photography forms. 1948 was his last working year where he focused on the things he is mostly know for now. -
Jerry Uelsmann
He is known for his surreal photography. In 1967 he had his first one man exhibition at the "Museum of Modern Art" in New York City. Instead of interacting mentally to his work he interacted emotionally to put more feeling into it. -
Annie Leibovitz
She was a photographer for Rolling Stones.She is considered one of the best portrait photographers. She began working for a magazine called "Vanity Fair" in 1983. Her work has been show in books and exhibitions around the world. -
Diane Arbus
She is best know for her "compelling, often disturbing, portraits of people from the edges of society". She studies with Lisette Model from about 1955-1957. In 1960 "Esqire" published her first photo-essay. She made a living as a freelance photographer and a photography instructor. She received fellowship to be part of "American Rites, Manners, and Customs" in 1963 and 1966. A lot of her photos where published in 1972 after she committed suicide in 1971. -
Richard Avedon
He is most known for his "large-scale character-revealing portraits". He studied photography in the "U.S. Merchant Marines" and took identification pictures. He became the first photographer in The "New York Yorker" in 1992. His first fashion photographs where in great black-and-white contrasted photos. Many of his photographs where collected in "Observations".