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20 biographys of famous photographers

1. Edward Weston:

·  Born: March 24, 1886, Highland park, Illinois

·  Died: January 1, 1958

 His early works were soft-focus, pictorial works, but in 1922, Weston shifted to a more direct, sharply focused and structured photographic composition known as "“straight” photography.

Best Known Work:

 

2. W, Eugene Smith

·  Born: December 30, 1918

·  Died: October 15, 1978

He took up photography because he loved aircraft; collecting photos of planes from an early age, and later taking them himself. Pg. 28

Best known work: photo-essays, 

3. Robert Frank

(the 1958 book titled the Americans) – his best work

November 9, 1924 (age 89)

He is also a film director

Best known work:

 

4. Ansel Adams

(February 20, 1902- April 22, 1984(1984-04-22) (aged 82)

He developed the Zone system and for his photographs of Yosemite. Ansel was also an environmentalist.

Best known work:

 

5. Alfred Steiglitz

(January 1, 1864- July 13, 1946(1946-07-13) (aged 82)

He’s known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. He was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe.

Examples of work:

6. Henri Cartier-Bresson

(August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) age 95

This French photographer considered to be the father of photojournalism. He was the master of candid photography.

Best known work:

 

7.Walker Evans

(November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) age 71

His best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression.

-uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera

Best known work:

 

8.Paul Strand

(October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) age 85

His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

Best known work:






 

9. William Eggleston

(born July 27, 1939)

He is known for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries.

Best known work:

 

 

10. Eliot Erwitt

(born  July 26, 1928 Paris, France)

He is an advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings.

Best known work:

 

11. Dorathea Lange

Birth name: Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn

(May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965)

Shes best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.

 Best known work:

12. Edward J. Steichen

(March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973)

His photos of gowns for the magazine Art et Decorations in 1911 are regarded as the first modern fashion photographs ever published. Together Stieglitz and Steichen opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, which eventually became known as 291 after its address.

Best known work:

 

13. Lewis H. Hine

(September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) age 66

Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.

Best known work:

14. Edward Sheriff Curtis

(February 16, 1868 – October 19, 1952)

Edward was an ethnologist and photographer of the American West and of Native American peoples.

Best known work:

15. Jacob August Riis

(May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) age 65

He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography.

Best known work:

 

16. Eadweard Muybridge

(Born 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, birth name Edward James Muggeridge)

He was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge, believing it to be the original Anglo-Saxon form of his name.

Best known work:

17. Gertrude Käsebier

(May 18, 1852- October 12, 1934)

She was known for her evocative images of motherhood, her powerful portraits of Native Americans and her promotion of photography as a career for women.

Best known work:

18. László Moholy-Nagy

(July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946)

He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.

Best known work:

 

19. Andre Kertesz

(2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985)

Andre was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition.

Best known work:

 

20. Julia Margaret Cameron

(11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879)

She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary or heroic themes.

Best known work:

 

 

Anthotypes- alternative processing

  Spinach, daisies, wine, strawberries, onions, and other plants are all light sensitive. If you leave them out in the sun long enough, you’ll have your very own plant prints, just like that.

 

Anthotypes: Grind up plant matter and paint the juices onto paper. Plop a positive film on top and allow nature to execute its handy work.

 

 Different plants you can use and how long it would take with each:

Spinach: 4-5 hours, light green (This is what we used.)
Daisy: 1 week, sepia
Red Wine: 1 week, burgundy
Pansy: 2 weeks, purple
Onion: 3-4 weeks, orange
Beetroot: 4-6 weeks, fuchsia

 

What you need:

• Petals from a colorful flower, berries or other plant
• Mortar and pestle or electric food blender
• Glass container or ceramic bowl for mixing
ingredients
• Water (distilled if possible) or alcohol
• Cheesecloth, coffee filter, cotton cloth or very fine masked strainer
• Brush
• Art paper
• Glass clip frame or a contact print frame
• A large size positive (not negative) or items to make photo grams
• Sunshine

Good to have:

• Newspaper to cover work surface
• Scissors
• Rubber gloves
• Apron or an old shirt
• Cleaning cloth

 Steps of the anthotype process;

STEP 1: Transform the plant into emulsion

 

STEP 2: COAT YOUR PAPER

 

STEP 3: Frame it

 

STEP 4: Give it to the sun

 

Then all done!