What is it about photography that makes it such a powerful medium? The ability to capture images has inspired us beyond words and has provided us with many uses since its invention. There are very few things ever invented that have impacted the entire world quite like photography has. Photography makes a universal impact because [...]
Helmut Newton is a famous photographer who primarily specialized in fashion photography early on but later became well known for his portraits of nude women. His start in life was relatively difficult in comparison to many other well-known photographers. He was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. By 1938 as he was from jewish decent [...]
Baron Wolman is one of the most well-known photographers of the rock and roll years. He is infamous for his photographs of people like Jimmy Hendrix and other pioneer and revolutionary musical artists. What started out as being the chief photographer for a new magazine known as Rolling Stones, he has claimed some of the [...]
Eadweard Muybridge is one of the earliest and most popular photographers in the entire world. He had very revolutionary work for his time period, and much of his work is still well-known even to those who may not really follow the history of photography much. His pioneering came in the form of using still photos [...]
Ansel Adams is a prominent photographer primarily known for his work throughout Yosemite National Park. He was also well known for his scientific accomplishments in the field of photography. Ansel Adams had an interesting life growing up. He was actually born to an upper class family in the state of California. He is well known [...]
Dorthea Lange has taken one of the most recognizable and influential photographs of all time, called the Migrant Mother. She is well known for this photograph single-handidly and is almost always used to depict the Great Depression era in the history books. Dorthea Lange grew up in a fairly average household. However, Dorthea actually was [...]
