Masters-of-Photography
ABBOTT ANSEL ADAMS ROBERT ADAMS ALVAREZ BRAVO ATGET BELLOCQ BLOSSFELDT BOURKE-WHITE BRANDT BRASSAÏ CALLAHAN CAMERON COBURN CUNNINGHAM DeCARAVA DOISNEAU EGGLESTON EVANS FENTON FRIEDLANDER GOWIN GUTMANN HILL&ADAMSON HINE KARSH KERTÉSZ KLEIN KOUDELKA LANGE LARTIGUE LAUGHLIN LEVITT MAPPLETHORPE MEATYARD MEYEROWITZ MODEL MODOTTI MUYBRIDGE NADAR NEWMAN O'SULLIVAN OUTERBRIDGE PARKS PENN RIIS RODCHENKO SALGADO SHERMAN SHORE SMITH SOMMER STEICHEN STIEGLITZ STRAND TALBOT UELSMANN WALDMAN WATKINS WESTON WHITE WINOGRAND WOLLEH |
Photographer SummariesBerenice Abbott - architectural studies of New York City in the 1930s - the Atget of ManhattanAnsel Adams - Majestic landscapes of the American West Robert Adams - Documenting the environmental destruction of the American West in the late 20th century Manuel Alvarez Bravo - cultural and surreal imagery from Mexico Eugene Atget - documentary photos of Paris architecture in the early 20th century E. J. Bellocq - prostitute portraits from the red-light district of New Orleans in 1912 Karl Blossfeldt - Early 20th century, magnified photos of plant life revealed surreal, even Art Noveau forms Margaret Bourke-White - Photojournalist, made some of the first photodocumentation of the Nazi concentration camps. Bill Brandt - surrealist and working class imagery, British, 1930-60 Brassai - after dark in the Paris underworld between the wars Harry Callahan - formalistic, minimalist portraits and landscapes Julia Margaret Cameron - Victorian portraits, soft focus, from the early days of photography Alvin Langdon Coburn - pioneer of abstract photography with his "Vortographs" Imogen Cunningham - American modernist, best known for closeups of flowers and plants Roy DeCarava - documenting the African-American experience and its cultural icons Robert Doisneau - Happy photos of Parisian life in the mid 20th century. William Eggleston - deceptively banal color photos of contemporary American rural and suburban life Walker Evans - imagery of American society during the Great Depression Roger Fenton - the first war photographer: the Crimea, 1850s Lee Friedlander - Contemporary, humorous, visually exciting...my personal favorite Emmet Gowin - "Gowin's simple yet intensely seen daily events take on the quality of ritual" - Jonathan Green John Gutmann - 1930s America but NOT the Great Depression, a precursor of the street photographers of the 50s Lewis Hine - activist documentary work from early 20th century, from Ellis Island to child labor to sweatshops Hill & Adamson - mid-19th-century calotypists, interesting collaboration between artist and technician Yousuf Karsh - Canadian portrait master, created some of the iconic portraits of world leaders in the 40s and 50s. Andre Kertesz - Eastern Europe to Paris to New York, ranging from surrealist imagery to street photography William Klein - New York street photography in the mid-fifties Josef Koudelka - Czechoslovakian, 1970s images of his Exile in Western Europe Dorothea Lange - documented American poor during the Great Depression Jacques-Henri Lartigue - a child photographer, with exuberance and delight, France before World War I Clarence John Laughlin - haunting images of abandoned cotton plantations and cemeteries in New Orleans. Helen Levitt - street photography from early 1940's New York City. Robert Mapplethorpe - erotically charged imagery from a gay perspective Ralph Eugene Meatyard - surrealist vision from middle America in the 1950s and 1960s Joel Meyerowitz - moving from street photography to landscape; from black-and-white to color; and from 35mm to 8 x 10 format Lisette Model - an important pioneer in street photography and portraits from the edge Tina Modotti - revolutionary images from 1920s Mexico Eadweard Muybridge - 1880s, the first to use the camera to analyze motion too fast to be seen with the naked eye. Nadar - Paris, 1850-1870, portraits, early photographic pioneer Arnold Newman - One of the greatest portrait-makers in the history of photography Timothy O'Sullivan - Civil War and American West, wet plate photography Paul Outerbridge - 1920s and 30s surrealism and fetishistic nudes; a pioneer in color photography Gordon Parks - documented the post-WWII African-American experience, portraying the common people and icons of the civil rights era Irving Penn - much, much more than just a fashion photographer Jacob Riis - photos were only a tool for his crusade against poverty in early 20th century New York City slums Alexander Rodchenko - 1920-30s in Russia, formalist, odd angles, a new way of looking Sebastiao Salgado - documenting the human condition in late 20th century, from Ethiopian famine to Brazilian hell mines Cindy Sherman - artist using the photographic self-portrait as a means to express narrative. Stephen Shore - master of large format camera, working in color depictions of urban scenes and landscapes. W. Eugene Smith - documentary photography with a moral edge, the King of the Photo Essay Frederick Sommer - Surrealist imagery somehow from realist content Edward Steichen - protege of Stieglitz, pioneer in pictorialism before moving on to fashion photography Alfred Stieglitz - the Prophet of photography as an art form, his own excellent work is too often overlooked Paul Strand - another Stieglitz protege, pioneer of Straight Photography William Henry Fox Talbot - early photographic pioneer, developed some of the first methods of fixing shadows on paper Jerry Uelsmann - complex multiple prints utilizing "post-visualization" to depict ambiguous and humorous imagery Max Waldman - celebrating theatre and the dance, 1960s and 1970s. Carleton E. Watkins - premier landscape photographer of the American West in the 1800s Edward Weston - photographer's photographer, f64, landscapes, portraits, still lifes, all done in same realist manner Minor White - cofounder with Ansel Adams of the Zone System, also a great educator Garry Winogrand - compulsive street photographer, imagery is edgy, disorienting Lothar Wolleh - a master of the portrait, featuring photographs of modern artists
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