An Italian freelance photographer won the top prize in the World Press Photo competition with an image of a woman shouting her protest at the results of the Iranian presidential election from a Tehran rooftop at dusk. Judges said Pietro Masturzo’s image was beautiful and captured the tension and emotion of the moment, as the [...]
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 [...]
Robert Doisneau is one of France’s most well-known and easily recognizable photographers. He is known for his playful sense of style. Rarely are his photographs serious or taken with a heavy heart. Rather, his work is fairly light-hearted, taking pictures of everyday people, often children, throughout France. Most people would view Robert Doisneau as though [...]
Henri Cartier-Bresson, like many of the early photography pioneers, was one that started as a painter. He had an appreciation for capturing life. He loved the artistic side of it and had a candid eye for it. As a native to Paris, he was inspired by another photographers work and realized how amazing photography was [...]
Alfred Eisenstaedt has quite an amazing story primarily because his talent was good enough to make him popular not only once, but twice. Alfred Eisenstaedt was a citizen of Germany as his Jewish family moved there in 1906. Early on, even as a young adult Eisenstaedt was able to make a name for himself as [...]
I believe the world should be thanking James Nachtwey for his commitment to photography. There are several photographs who could say that they have put their lives on the line to document conflicts, but probably not as frequently as James Nachtwey has. James Nachtwey started out as most other photographers have. They started out working [...]
