Photography

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (French: August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered the master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He helped develop street photography, and approvingly cited a notion of the inevitability of a decisive moment, a term adopted as the title for his first major book. His work […]

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Alfred Eisenstaedt  was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. One of the most prolific photographers of the twentieth century, he began his career in pre-World War II Germany, and after moving to the U.S., achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life Magazine which featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers with […]

William Eugene Smith

William Eugene Smith

William Eugene Smith (December 30, 1918 – October 15, 1978), was an American photojournalist, renowned for the dedication he devoted to his projects and his uncompromising professional and ethical standards. Smith developed the photo essay into a sophisticated visual form. His most famous studies included brutally vivid World War II photographs, the clinic of Dr […]

Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh: December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was an Armenian–Canadian portrait photographer.  According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he is “one of the greatest portrait photographers of the twentieth century, [who] achieved a distinct style in his theatrical lighting.” Yousuf Karsh was born in Mardin, a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire (present […]

Camillus “Buck” Sydney Fly

Camillus “Buck” Sydney Fly

Camillus “Buck” Sydney Fly (May 2, 1849 – October 12, 1901) was an Old West photographer who captured the only known images of Geronimo before he surrendered, along with other pictures of life in mining boom town ofTombstone, Arizona and the surrounding region. He was also a witness in 1881 to the Gunfight at the […]

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