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History of Photographers
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Photography
Undergraduate 1
11/16/2011

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Frederick Scott Archer
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invented the the photographic collodion process which preceded the modern gelatin emulsion.
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Eugene Atget
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made thousands of photographs of the streets, cafe, shops, monuments, parks, and people of the Paris he loved.
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Mathew B Brady
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is known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War. He is the father of photojournalism.
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Julia Margaret Cameron
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A British photographer known for her celebrity portraits of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legend themes.
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Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
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The earliest known daugerrotype-inventor of the process. -picture by window.
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Andre Adolph Disderi
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a French photographer who started his photographic career as a daguerreotypist but gained greater fame for patenting his version of the carte de visite, a small photographic image which was mounted on a card. Disdéri, a brilliant showman, made this system of mass-production portraiture world famous.
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George Eastman
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Built Eastman Kodak Company. He invented the equipment to mass-produce film. New gelatin emulsion-international
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Peter Henry Emerson
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rejected High Art Photographers. Photography should not imitate art but should strive for a naturalistic effect that has not artificially contrived.
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Roger Fenton
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One of the first war photographers
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Robert Frank
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had ironic view of America exerted a great influence on both the subject matter and style of photography as an art form.
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Hannibal Goodwin
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patented a method for making transparent, flexible roll film out of nitrocellulose film base, which was in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, an early machine for viewing animation.
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Lewis W. Hine
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a trained sociologist with a passionate social awareness, especially child labor. He documented it to provide evidence for reformers.
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William Henry Jackson
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was an American painter, Civil War, geological survey photographer and an explorer famous for his images of the American West.
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Dorothea Lange
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during the Depression of 1930s, photographed people with expressions and gestures revealing their lives and reelings.
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Stefan Lorant
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the photo essay, a sequence of photographs plus brief textural material in european magazines LIFE and LOOK IN AMERICA later on.
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Leopold Mannes & Leopold Godowsky
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they developed a process whereby a single sheet of film is coated with three layers of emulsion each sensitive to of the primary colors of light otherwise know as kodachrome. and developed the color reveal film ektachrome
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Eadward Muybridge
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the studied motion with long exposures
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Joseph Nicephore Niepce
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created the first photographic image- 1826
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Jacob Riis
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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. He attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their traditionalism to middle class ridicule.
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Henry Peach Robinson
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used his High Art photography and it was inspired by Romantic literature.
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August Sander
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social types rather than portraits of individuals during pre-WWII Germany.
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Alfred Stieglitz
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he championed pictorialist works that resembled paintings. his early did not include handwork or other alternations; charcoal drawing, mezzotint.
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William Henry Fox Talbot
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english amateur scientist- a way to fix the image of the camera obscura. made his images on paper rather than metal.
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Carleton Eugene Watkins
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He became famous for his series of photographs and historic stereoviews of Yosemite Valley in the 1860s that helped influence Congress' decision to establish the valley as a National Park in 1864.
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Edward Weston
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objective and personal with straight photography. - clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smokestacts, are but interdependent interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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