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Photographer Summaries

Berenice Abbott - architectural studies of New York City in the 1930s - the Atget of Manhattan

Ansel 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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