Famous Photographers

Robert Adams
Robert Adams is an American photographer who took part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow photography in 1973. His archives are held at the Yale University.

Geoff Winningham
Geoff Winningham is a photographer, filmmaker and a journalist. He received a bachelor’s degree at Rice University in England. His photography was about all Texas which includes rodeos, professional wrestling, and football games.

Bruce Weber
Bruce Weber is an American photographer and filmmaker. His work was simply on fashion that included magazines. His photography are mostly in color, but some of them were in black and white with shady tones.

Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson is an African American artist and a photographer. Her works combine words with photographs of cropped images of women and men. In 1989, Lorna created “Necklines” a photograph that showed two circles with a picture of a woman inside the circles.

Sebastio Salgado
Sebastio Salgado is a Brazilian documentary photographer and photojournalist. He began working as an economist often traveling to Africa and taking several photographs. He is also known for his works in less developed nations.

Bill Owens
He was famous for his suburbia series featuring people living in the newly suburbs in the 70s. His images are also about travel, and fashion. I really enjoy looking at his photography.

Frank Martin
He graduated from Spokane Falls Community College in 1986 with a degree in Visual Media. His photography is used in advertising materials such as coca-cola. He also opened his own studio in 2001.

Barbara Kruger
An American photographer whose work is very interesting. Her work is very similar to graphic designing and she worked as an art director. One of her slogans is listed as “Your body is a battleground” positioned in the center of the image.

Ralph Gibson
Ralph is a photographer who was born in Los Angeles in 1939 and resides from New York. I really enjoyed his photograph about fashion and other ones. He traveled to different countries to take photographs about fashion.
Tina Barney
She was an American photographer and best known for her large-scale portraits of her family and friends. She is represented by Janet Borden Inc. in New York.

Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson was a member of Magnum in 1958. His photography was simply about emotion. What I mean by this is how he photographed people on eye-on-eye level.

Michael Kenna
Michael is an English photographer and also known for his landscapes. I really liked his portraits in Russia and in the United States and it attracted my attention. I think it is his manner of obtaining his photography used literally.

Josef Sudek
Josef is a Czech photographer known for haunting night-scapes. Some of his photography is modernism and neo-romantic. He did a great job in creating posters of every country.

Clarence White
She found the Photo-Secession movement in the early 1900’s. His photography is about pictorial into modernism. This means that he created ideas for modernism.

William Klein
William grew up in New York. Most of his photography was taken in the mid-1950 and it included motional pictures. I liked his idea of motion because this is the most interesting ideas.

Lewis Baltz
Lewis is a known photographer who became an icon for the New Topographic in 1970. His work focused much on architecture of the human landscape.

Jan Groover
She is an American photographer residing in France. Her artwork focuses much on color rather than black and white.

Danny Lion
Danny studied at the University of Chicago in 1963. His talents was recognized at the Guggenheim Foundation which he was awarded a fellowship in 1969. His photography focused more on people.

Irving Penn
Irving Penn is an American photographer. He focused more on fashion and his portraiture rather than other things. This seemed to be very interesting because it catches everyone’s attention.

Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry is an American photographer and focused more on printing composite photographs. I really liked his ideas where he took all body parts and created it into a nice portrait.