Famous photographers (zt)

• Berenice Abbott

  
  American, 1898-1991
  Berenice Abbott was a successful documentary photographer. In the 1920s she was an assistant of Man Ray in Paris. In 1926 Abbott opened her own portrait studio. She returned to the USA in 1929 and started an ambitious project to document the rapidly changing landscape of New York city.

• Ansel Adams

  
  American, 1902-1984
  He decided to become a photographer in the 1920s. Ansel Adams became famous for his spectacular landscape photos of the American West. He is also very influential with his zone system method of exposure and development control. His technical books include Making a Photograph, Basic Photo Series, and Polaroid Land Photography Manual.

• Diane Arbus

  
  American, 1923-1971
  Arbus is one of the most influential photographers in history. She grew up in Central Park West in New York where her father owned a 5th Avenue department store. Diane Arbus has made powerful disconcerting portraits of freaks and attacked the conception of “proper” art.
  Her most memorable images comes from her innovative work in magazines. Arbus ended her own life in July 1971.

• Eugene Atget

  
  French, 1856-1927
  Born near Bordeaux, Eugene Atget first was a painter before starting with photography in the 1890s. He is best known for his thousands of images of Paris and Versailles he photographed for thirty years.

• Karl Blossfeldt
  

  Berlin, 1865-1932
  Karl Blossfeldt is famous for detail close-up studies of plants, showing forms and textures. Some of his thousands of pictures were published in 1928 with the book ‘Urformen der Kunst’.

• Margaret Bourke White
  

  American, 1904-1971
  Margaret Bourke White is famed for her images published in Fortune and Life from the in the 1936 throughout the 1950s, with stories about the Great Depression, World War II and the Korean War.

• Bill Brandt

  
  British, born Germany, 1904-1983
  Bill Brandt was an assistant in Man Ray’s studio in 1929. As photojournalist he made social documents of Great Britain in the 1930s. In the 40s and 50s he made experimental wide-angle photographs of nudes.

• Brassai

  
  French, born Austria-Hungary, 1899-1984
  He was born as Gyula Halasz in Brasso, Hungary. Was initially a painter, later became a journalist in Paris and began to take photographs. Brassai is famous for his Parisian nightlife pictures. He photographed for journals as Labyrinthe and Harper’s Bazaar.

• Harry Callahan
  

  American, 1912-
  Greatly influenced by Ansel Adams. Harry Callahan’s subjects include portraits of his wife, landscapes, seascapes, nature studies, and photojournalism.

• Julia Margaret Cameron
  

  British, 1815-1879
  She was born in Calcutta in 1815, educated in France and turned back to India. Cameron got her first camera as a gift from her daughter, to pass the time. Julia Margaret Cameron made stunning portraits in an unconventional and loose way.

• Henri Cartier Bresson

  
  French, 1908-2004
  Henri Cartier Bresson started as painter. With a 35mm Leica camera he took pictures for magazines and newspapers. He covered the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In 1947 founding magnum Photos with Robert Capa, David Seymour and George Rodger. He is very famous for capturing the “moment decisive”, he described in Images � la sauvette (The Decisive Moment, 1952). In 1966 he retired from Magnum, and concentrated on painting again.

• Roy DeCarava

  
  American, 1919
  One of the first afro americans that made the black culture as subject. Roy DeCarava has photographed primarily in New York, and has always relied on available light and become a master of dark tones.

• Robert Doisneau

  
  French, 1912-1994
  One the most famous French photographers. Robert Doisneau’s photography is witty and specialized in urban people photography. His photograph is Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, has become one of the icons of photography.

• William Eggleston
  

  American, 1937-
  William Eggleston was among the first photographers to work regularly with new color technologies in the 1960s and became “Father of Color Photography.”

• Walker Evans

  
  American, 1903-1975
  Walker Evans is best-known from his photographs of the Great Depression, but also photographed
  Cubans and rural residents in West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas. Many of his photos were published in the Fortune magazine.

• Robert Frank

  
  American, born Switzerland, 1924-
  Robert Frank became famous with his controversial book ‘The Americans’ which the critics disguised and the public ignored it. The book consisted of candid black-and-white photographs of American life in the late 1950s. It influenced photographers like Gary Winogrand and Lee Friedlander.

• Lee Friedlander
  

  American, 1934-
  Lee Friedlander made several series of street scenes, flowers, trees, desert landscapes, nudes, memorials, portraits, self-portraits and studies of the American culture.

• Dorothea Lange

  
  American, 1895-1965
  Dorothea Lange was a documentary photographer who made famous and compassionate images of Americans in the Great Depression. Her main subject were farmers, and homeless migrants, with her most famous photograph, “Migrant Mother” becoming a symbol. In World War II she photographed Japanese-American internment camps in the United States. After the war she documented Asia, Latin America and Egypt.

• Eadweard Muybridge
  

  American, born England, 1830-1904
  Edward James Muggeridge was born in Kingston on Thames in Surrey. In his early twenties he went to San Francisco and was one of the best early landscape photographers of the American West. Eadweard Muybridge’s became famous for capturing movement of a galloping horse using twenty four cameras and capturing movement of men and women.

• Man Ray

  
  American, 1890-1976
  Born as Emanuel Rudnitsky in Philadelphia, he later changed his name to Man Ray.
  In New York City he was, with his friend Marcel Duchamp, a member the New York branch of the Dada movement. He moved to Paris in 1921, where he established as portrait and fashion photographer. Man Ray revolutionized the art of photography with his experimental photos with solarization.

• Cindy Sherman
  

  American, 1954-
  Cindy Sherman grew up in New York. She is famous for her series of disguised self portraits in various stereotype roles.

• Edward Steichen

  
  American, born Luxembourg, 1879-1973
  Born as Eduard Jean Steichen, he moved with his family to the US in 1881. He was a self-taught photographer at young age, and had a very long career in photography. Edward Steichen was one of the most successful commercial photographers ever, as artist, portraitist and chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair. From 1947-1962 he was Director of the department of photography of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York.

• Alfred Stieglitz

  
  American, 1864-1946
  Alfred Stieglitz organized the first exhibitions in America of work of modern European artists, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cezanne. He was a driving force in making photography a respected art form. Alfred Stieglitz’s own photographs include portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe, whom he married later, and a group of photographs of New York City skyscrapers.

• Paul Strand

  
  American, 1890-1976
  Paul Strand was a son of immigrants from Bohemia and born in New York City. He joined the Camera Club of New York and traveled through Europe. In 1916 Paul Strand’s photographs were published in Camera Work. In 1920s Strand was a motion picture cameraman. He became a committed socialist and produced socially significant documentary films. Later photography got his primary focus again and he moved to France.

• Weegee

  
  American, 1899-1968
  Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig. He was a photojournalist for the New York press during the thirties and forties. With a shortwave radio in his car, Weegee often was at scenes only minutes after crimes and accidents, sometimes resulting in shocking pictures.

• Edward Weston
  

  American, 1886-1958
  Edward Weston was born in 1886 in Highland Park, Illinois. In 1908 he was a founder of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles and made soft-focus pictorial style photos. Later he renounced Pictorialists and made photographs of the Armco steel mill in Ohio. Edward Weston continued to experiment with style, travelling Mexico. In 1932 he founded Group f/64 with Ansel Adams, Consuelo Kanaga, Imogen Cunningham, and others. In 1948 he made his last photograph suffering from Parkinson’s disease, but photographs continued to be printed under his supervision.
  
  
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