20 Potographers-Pochawan Calvert

Berenice Abbott is well known for her spectacular photograph of New York City. Her photographs are highly detailed with an array of interesting subject matters (soup bubbles, bouncing ball, wave patterns, buildings, local shops, twirling wrenches, and light beams).

Diane Arbus use to work in the fashion industry as a photographer, and most of her famous photographs are from her innovative work in magazines.

Bill Brandt was a self taught photographer who is was acknowledged as the master of the 20th century photography. His work included the vivid document of Great Britain.

Harry Callahan took pictures of different subjects including a self portrait of his wife. His photographs are known for simplicity and gracefulness.

Walker Evans was best known for his images during the Great Depression. His photographs push the boundaries of what was acceptable to society during that time. He took pictures of non icon, hard working individuals who he knew throughout his career.

Frederick Sommer was a trained architecture from Brazil. His work includes self portrait, gruesome subjects (chicken carcasses), and assemblages of unusual objects taking from the trash.

Robert Doisneau was a famous French photographer who took pictures of random people wondering the streets of Paris. His work includes common people in common situations. Kiss by the Hotel de Ville was his most famous photograph.

Roy DeCarava was known for the master of dark tomes. His work relied on available light allowing viewer to see into the shadows. Some of his work includes pictures taken in dim night clubs or cramped apartments.

Garry Winogrand took pictures of the city and urban landscape, his main subject was America. The image captured in his photograph was best known as ‘decisive moment’.

Minor White was a textural photographer (bush, tree, cracks in the roads, and rusted up car). He also took images surrounding spiritual issues (Roman Catholicism, Zen Buddhism, and mysticism).

Edward Steichen was a self-taught photographer whose style was known as Pictorialism. He later changed his style to straight photography where the images are cluttered free and very geometric.

E. J. Bellocq was a commercial photographer who took images of young to old women with different shapes and sizes. The women he photographed where prostitutes and he photographed them honestly and respectfully.

Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer who was known to have pornographic content in his photograph. He also took photographs portraits of famous celebrities, flowers and nude.

Jerry Uelsmann work has been exhibit more than in 100 solo shoes in the America and abroad. His photographs are unique in their own ways. The images in his photograph are configured into two dimensional scenes.

Paul Strand was a strong advocate for Straight Photography.

W. Eugene Smith most famous work was the Minamata which was a wartime photograph. The photos show the reality of individuals, situations, and human suffering.

Cindy Sherman was an American photographer who is knows for her disguised self portrait that comments on the society sexual stereotypes in women. She also took disturbing images of dolls and doll parts to show her interest in artificiality.

Alexander Rodchenko was inspired by his own illustration and commercial designs and decided to incorporate it in his photography. Photomontage was the technique he fell in love with.

Paul Outerbridge photograph nude and still life on large format. His work include everyday object of sill life abstractions. His work had great lighting and composition.

Clarence John Laughlin was born in Lake Charles. He is known for the images of decaying southern civilization during the Great Depression. He later took photographs for Vogue magazine.