20 Famous Photographers

Famous Photographers

Tuyet Huynh

Ansel Adams:

(Feb. 20 1902 — Apr. 22, 1984) a musician to photographer, Adams developed the "zone system" of controlling and relating exposure and development, enabling photographers to creatively visualize an image and produce a photograph that matched and expressed that visualization. His major concentration of photography was in the wilderness and the environment, most if not all of his works has everything in focus to the small detail.

Julia Margaret Cameron:

A British,1815 – 1879, Cameron took up photography late in 1863. Initially Cameron experimented with allegorical and religious subjects, but by 1866 she had begun the expressive portraiture for which she is best known. Most of her subjects’ expression in the portraits are more of sorrowful and seriousness rather than hope, and joy.

Imogene Cunningham

1883-1976 American Tonalist Photographer, In 1901, she commenced the longest photographic career in the history of the medium. Cunningham soon turned her attention to both the nude and native plant forms in her back garden. The results were staggering; an amazing body of work comprised of bold, contemporary forms. I favored most of her works for it’s soft light and shadow creating a misty like effects that grabs the viewer’s attention.

Lee Friedlander

He focuses on Documentary, Landscape, Photojournalism, Portraiture photographs. His landscape photographs show amazing detail and provides a very interesting composition.

Jacques- Henri Lartigue

He is not only a photographer but also a painter; it seems because of his painter background his principle in doing photography is to compose pictures out of the flux of life. His photography is partially abstracted.

Joel Meyerowitz

Meryerowitz’s works are very intriguing view of a situation, place or thing. His works were meant to let the view see themselves in the particular time of the photographs.

Tina Modotti

She concentrates on still lifes, documentaries, and portraits. Her works is a perfection of focus and contrast, presenting the object or person in the photo really well.

Irving Penn

He worked on photographing fashion, portraiture and still life most of the time. In addition, he is also consistently expanding his range of subject matter and method. He is said to be a master of reducitona and refinement, as he works with simplicity and a controllable setting to create timeless images of an ephemeral world.

Jacob Riis

Riis’ photos are conveyer of a message about the people’s needs that is neglected by many. The way he does this really grabs the view attention, it makes the audiences thinks and wonder and because of this the image he creates is imprinted in the mind of the viewer for a long time.

Ralph Steiner

Steiner’s focus on the design of his photos a lot more than anything else, he almost always try to pursued different techniques to present his works. He always insisted that successful photography required deeply personal interpretation. He is good at making something that is really simple seems much more intriguing.

Alfred Stieglitz

His works present an attracting composition. Some of them seems to be really busy and then some come to a very simplistic presentation.

Weegee

The photographs are very detail, some are gruesome because of it was of crime scenes. His photograph actually is very natural, as documentation of people in their natural habitat.

Edward Weston

He works with nudes, portraits, nature and landscapes. His photos have a very compelling composition and exquisite tonalities to them. His technique is called Straight Photography.

Minor White

He works as a textural photographer. White’s photo are displaced to viewer to lets the eye of the audience shape their own view about the photograph. His study with Edward Weston.

Garry Winogrand

The photographs are of every day life of people in the city, it seems to be of a documentary. He has good contrast which generates, helped the composition of the photos.

Jonathan Frantini

His works are relatively associates with a certain theme for each photo if not a set of them. The photo have great composition of color and depth.

David Lynn

His works are of nature and landscapes. The photos are close up of the subjects allowing the viewer to see the expression of the subjects. His work is quite detail and eye catching.

Frans Lanting

The photos are great images that compile a great sense of life and elegant into the composition of the piece. The piece themselves is very developed, almost like a painting.

Benedict Redgrove

He photography more of aesthetic, non living object. However the pictures’ composition is executed, captured very well, no matter if is the color or the objects’ placement it is all well position on the end print.

Jonathan de Villiers

He photograph fashion, architectural structure and rare landscape. All of them are perfectly executed to make a good compositional representation, as he give his works an ‘edgy’ look.