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Master of Photography: Ansel AdamsBorn: February 20th 1902 Died: April 22nd 1984

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His black and white photographs of nature

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Ansel Adams was a visionary figure in nature photography and wilderness preservation. Adams' role in the Sierra Club grew rapidly and the Club became vital to his early success as a photographer. Adams was often criticized for not including humans in his photographs and for representing an idealized wilderness that no longer exists.

Ansel Adams work can be described as black and white photographs of nature. These pictures have a high contrast and have a wide range of grey’s. His photographs are crisp and clear and have unique angels.

January 15, 1896

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Master of Photography: Mathew BradyBorn: May 18th 1822 Died:

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First to photographically document the civil war.

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Mathew Brady is often referred to as the father of photojournalism and is most well known for his documentation of the Civil War. At his own expense, he organized a group of photographers and staff to follow the troops as the first field-photographers. In 1862 Brady shocked the nation when he displayed the first photographs of the carnage of the war in his New York Studio in an exhibit entitled "The Dead of Antietam."

Mathew Brady’s photographs can be described as black and white photographs of the civil war. They have a grim feeling to them.

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Master of Photography: Julia Margaret Cameron Born: Died:

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June 11, 1815 January 26, 1879

For her techniques used in her portraits.

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In December 1863, little more than a year after Roger Fenton retired from photography and sold his equipment, Julia Margaret Cameron received her first camera. Photography became Cameron's link to the writers, artists, and scientists who were her spiritual and artistic advisors, friends, neighbors, and intellectual correspondents. Her photographs were not universally admired, especially by fellow photographers. Cameron dismissed the condemnation of the photographic establishment, writing later that it would have dispirited her "had I not valued that criticism at its worth," basking instead in the positive judgment of artists and friends.

Julia Margaret Cameron has an unusual method of taking pictures. She uses the cameras focus to create a blur in her photographs. She likes to take portrait pictures and uses a sepia tone.

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Master of Photography: Alfred Stieglitz Born: Died:

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January 1, 1864 July 13, 1946

Known for his work in promoting the medium of photography as an art form.

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Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864, and schooled as an engineer in Germany, Alfred Stieglitz returned to New York in 1890 determined to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture.

Alfred Stieglitz uses black and white photography and he tends to use different subject matter instead of focusing on the same object or person. His photo’s have a wide range of grey’s and a high contrast.

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Master of Photography: W. Eugene Smith Born: Died:

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December 30, 1918 October 15, 1978

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In 1950, he was sent to the United Kingdom to cover the General Election, in which the Labour Party, under Clement Attlee, was narrowly victorious. In January 1972, Smith was attacked by Chisso employees near Tokyo, in an attempt to stop him from further publicizing the Minamata disease to the world. Although Smith survived the attack, his sight in one eye deteriorated.

Eugene Smith focuses on themes that bring out emotions such as grief and sorrow from the viewer. The subject matter along with the black and white coloring give the photo’s a depressing feel.

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Master of Photography: Dorothea LangeBorn: Died:

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May 26, 1895 October 11, 1965

Photographing the great depression.

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in 1919 she set up a successful portrait studio where she took works such as Clayburgh Children, San Francisco . In the late 1920s she became dissatisfied with studio work and experimented with landscape and plant photography, although she found the results unsatisfactory. With the Stock Market crash of 1929 Lange decided to look for subjects outside her studio. Turning to the effects of the economic decline she took photographs such as General Strike, San Francisco.

Dorthea Lange uses models that have a worn and sad look to them in hopes to make the viewer feel sorry for the people in the photographs. Her photos have high lighting and not many shadows.

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Master of Photography: Alexander RodchenkoBorn: Died:

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December 5, 1891 December 3,1956

His bold and unusual prespectives.

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He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography.

Alexander Rodchenko uses different objects in his photo’s instead of focusing on a single model or object. His photo’s have high contrast and a large spread of grey’s.

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Master of Photography: Robert Frank Born: Died:

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November 9, 1924 N/A

His use of grainy, dramatic, blurred and tilted shots.

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Though Frank and his family remained safe in Switzerland during World War II, the threat of Nazism nonetheless affected his understanding of oppression. He turned to photography, in part as a means to escape the confines of his business-oriented family and home, and trained under a few photographers and graphic designers before he created his first hand-made book of photographs, 40 fotos, in 1946. Frank emigrated to the United States in 1947, and secured a job in New York City as a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar.

Robert Frank’s photo’s can be described as tense, slightly out of focus and angled in an odd way. There’s low contrast in his photographs.

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Master of Photography: Lennart NilssonBorn: Died:

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August 24, 1922 N/A

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Lennart Nilsson was born in Strängnäs, Sweden. His father and uncle were both photographers. His father gave him his first camera at age twelve. When he was approximately fifteen, he saw a documentary about Louis Pasteur that made him interested in microscopy. Within a few years, Nilsson had acquired a microscope and was making microphotographs of insects.In his late teens and twenties, he began taking a series of environmental portraits with an Icoflex Zeiss camera, and had the opportunity to photograph many famous Swedes

Lennart Nilsson uses color pictures of microscopic objects. His photographs have this cartoony feel to them. His photo’s are bright and have a high contrast of colors.

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Master of Photography: Annie Liebovitz Born: Died:

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October 2, 1949 N/A

Controversial portraits of celebrities.

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When Leibovitz returned to the United States in 1970, she started her career as staff photographer, working for the just launched Rolling Stone magazine..

Annie Liebovitz uses lighting, angle and focus to create beautiful images that have high contrast and crisp detail.

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Master of Photography: Richard Avedon Born: Died:

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May 15, 1923 October 1, 2004

Pushed the boundaries of fashion

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He was the son of Jacob Israel Avedon, a Russian-born immigrant who after working menial jobs started a successful retail dress business on Fifth Avenue called Avedon’s Fifth Avenue. His mother Anna, came from a family that owned a dress manufacturing business. She had encouraged his love of fashion and art. At the age of 12, Richard Avedon’s interests sparked in the photography world when he joined the Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) Camera Club. In 1944, Avedon began working as an advertising photographer for a department store, but was quickly endorsed by Alexe Brodovitch, the art director for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar.

His photographs have high contrast and the models are always showing some different emotion.

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Master of Photography: Jerry Ueslmann Born: Died:

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June 11, 1934 N/A

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Uelsmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. While attending public schools, at the age of fourteen, there sparked an interest in photography. He believed that through photography he could exist outside of himself, to live in a world captured through the lens. Despite poor grades, he managed to land a few jobs, primarily photographs of models. Eventually Uelsmann went on to earn a BA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and M.S. and M.F.A. degrees from Indiana University. Uelsmann is a master printer, producing composite photographs with multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work. He uses up to a dozen enlargers at a time to produce his final images, and has a large archive of negatives that he has shot over the years.

His photographs have an unrealistic and fantasy theme to them.