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also known as ‘Man Jumping the Puddle‘

taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson

We see the perfection in the picture. How the reflection of the man is so precise about the position of the focal subject. We understand the uncertainty and the candidness of the scene by observing the details. The feet are about to touch the water, the whole reflection of the man is shown, a man is standing behind the fence, objects in the water amplify the horizontal depth of the surface and the man is just about to exit the frame. According to Cartier-Bresson, the background is every bit as important as the subject. It doesn’t provide a harmony, but rather, its melody — one that competes in a way that turns the result into something transcending. The photograph is a wholesome experience of not only seeing but also living the scene.

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Richard Drew

Drew, an AP photographer, had been shooting a maternity fashion show for New York Fashion Week in Bryant Park, in the city's mid-town area, when he received a tip from a CNN cameraman that a plane had just crashed into the north tower of the Twin Towers.

Of the scenes that began to unfold, many survivors still say the bodies falling from the sky were one of their most haunting memories.

They were either "forced out by the smoke and flames or blown out", Ellen Borakove, the New York City medical examiner's office spokeswoman, told USA Today.

Captured at 9.41am the man, falling from the north tower of the World Trade Centre, is believed to have been trapped on one of the upper levels.

Controversy initially surrounded the picture, which was thought at the time to be the most controversial of all to come out of 9/11 at the time, and it disappeared until it resurfaced in an Esquire article in 2003.

Critics said it was one of the only images to show someone dying and it was labelled "exploitative".

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One of the most iconic works by the American photographer Margaret Bourke-White, Fort Peck Dam, Montana was published on the cover of the inaugural issue of Life magazine on November 23, 1936. Assigned by Henry Luce to cover the massive New Deal project, Bourke-White photographed the dam, the spillway, and daily life in the surrounding boomtown. A striking representation of the machine age, this photograph depicts the construction of stark, massive flood gates as well as piers for an elevated highway on the spillway, some three miles from the dam. Monumental in stature, these structures tower over two workers located along the bottom center of the print. The two men not only provide the necessary indication of scale, but also quietly reveal the vulnerable position of the worker in the modern industrial landscape.

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Parks met Ella Watson in 1942, when he had a Rosenwald fellowship with the Farm Security Administration in Washington, D.C. She was a cleaning woman in the offices there, and he went on to photograph her at work, at home with her family, in her neighborhood, and at St. Martin’s Spiritual Church.

“American Gothic” — a reference to the famous Grant Wood painting — is a construction that afforded rare attention to a black female subject who was not a celebrity or entertainer, but a mother and a worker. In this photograph, Parks formed an image of Mrs. Watson at work, her loosely fitted work dress pinned closed, allowing the viewer to link the necessity of her role as a family provider with the harshness of her existence. The American flag that hangs behind her frames her with the tools of her labor.

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Kurt Strumpf - September 6, 1972

It was just after 4 a.m. when an attack that would shock the world began — quietly.

Eight men in tracksuits hopped the fence at Munich's Olympic Village, carrying with them Kalashnikov rifles and grenades in duffel bags.

They were members of the group Black September — an affiliate of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Their mission was to hold Israeli athletes hostage and demand the release of 236 prisoners: 234 in Israel and the two leaders of the West German Baader-Meinhof terrorist group.

Their mission failed. About 20 hours after it began, five of the hostage-takers would be dead, along with 11 members of Israel's Olympic team and a West German policeman.

But the Munich massacre of Sept. 5 to 6, 1972, would have lasting repercussions on an international scale, waking up Western governments to the threat of terrorism, showing the power of live broadcast and setting the stage for future violence.

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Josef Koudelka | Invasion 68: Prague

Invasion by Warsaw Pact troops in front of the Radio headquarters. Prague, Czechoslovakia. August, 1968.

The events leading up to the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia were, for many observers looking back, inevitable. After two decades of oppressive Communist rule under the auspices of the Soviet regime, the country was ready for radical change. When Alexander Dubček was elected as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia the politician seized the opportunity for democratic reform. A period of ‘liberalization’ known as the Prague Spring was enacted, allowing an expansion of citizen civil rights and liberties, partial democratization, and decentralization of the economy. Restrictions on press freedom, travel and free-speech were also loosened. All much to the vexation of the USSR, who, in between failed negotiations with Dubček, watched closely.

On August 21, 1968, forces from five of the countries grouped in the Warsaw Pact invaded. Tanks flooded Prague’s streets as residents buffered the sidewalks and buildings, protecting the Czechoslovak Radio Centre and destroying street-signs to misdirect the Eastern Bloc invaders. During the political turbulence, Josef Koudelka was moved to document his country during the upheaval.

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likely taken by Franz Konrad, an administrative officer in the SS. After the war, Konrad stood trial with Stroop and was convicted of killing seven Jews and sending 1,000 others to death camps. He was executed with Stroop in March 1952.

The look of terror and confusion blankets a young boy's face as he raises his arms in surrender to a German soldier pointing a gun at him.

The image, captured in a photograph during World War II, has been seared into the minds and souls of millions since it was seen. But the identity of the little boy — his thin, fragile legs visible beneath a long coat — remains unknown.

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James Nachtwey awoke early on September 11, 2001, having flown in from France late the night before. It was unusual for him to be in the city at that time, when he would normally be on assignment elsewhere in the world, documenting conflicts. He took his morning coffee to the east side of his Water Street loft, and looked out across the East River to the Brooklyn Bridge. He remembers that the sky was the bluest and clearest he’d seen in a long time. Nachtwey glanced down, and noticed some people standing on an adjacent roof, looking west and pointing toward the sky. He crossed the room to the windows on the other side of the loft and saw the north tower of the World Trade Center in flames. A few minutes later, the second plane hit the south tower. Nachtwey, the greatest war photographer of our time, knew instantly that this was an act of war. He packed up his cameras, loaded all the film he had, and ran toward the burning towers.

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The Pulitzer Prize-Winning photo, The Soiling of Old Glory, was taken by newspaper photographer Stanley Forman on April 5, 1976 in Boston during a protest against the city's plan to desegregate its public schools

Nearly 50 years ago during a protest against Boston’s plan to desegregate its public schools, newspaper photographer Stanley Forman snapped a picture that came to symbolize the country’s racial division. The image depicting a white protester using an American flag to attack a Black man taken on April 5, 1976, ran in newspapers nationwide and later won a Pulitzer Prize.

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The slogan ‘keep calm and carry on’ was never actually officially used. It was printed on posters to be hung inside post offices in the event of a Nazi take over. However, as WW2 ended how it did, they were never used. Even so, this image depicts the defiant spirit of the time.

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One of the most iconic photographs of the twentieth century is Yousuf Karsh’s portrait of Winston Churchill. Taken in 1941, the photo shows Churchill looking resolute and determined, with a cigar clamped firmly in his mouth. The photo was taken during a brief meeting between Karsh and Churchill, and it quickly became one of the most famous portraits in the world. Today, the original photograph hangs in the Library of Congress, and it continues to be an enduring symbol of Churchill’s courage and resolve.

Supposedly Karsh took the cigar that Churchill was smoking at the time out of his mouth right before taking this picture.

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For his groundbreaking 1948 LIFE magazine photo essay, “Country Doctor” — seen here, in its entirety, followed by several unpublished photographs from the shoot — photographer W. Eugene Smith spent 23 days in Kremmling, Colo., chronicling the day-to-day challenges faced by an indefatigable general practitioner named Dr. Ernest Ceriani.

Born on a sheep ranch in Wyoming, Dr. Ceriani attended Chicago’s Loyola School of Medicine but opted not to pursue a medical career in the big city. In 1946, after a stint in the Navy, he was recruited by the hospital in Kremmling, and he and wife Bernetha, who was born in Colorado, settled into the rural town. Dr. Ceriani was the sole physician for an area of about 400 square miles, inhabited by some 2,000 people.

Eugene Smith’s at-times almost unsettlingly intimate pictures illustrate in poignant detail the challenges faced by a modest, tireless rural physician—and gradually reveal the inner workings and the outer trappings of what is clearly a uniquely rewarding life.

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William Eggleston

Bucking popular opinion, William Eggleston embraced color photography at a time when it was widely dismissed as too commercial. His subject matter matched his medium: the mundane details of daily life considered unworthy of art photography. Nonetheless, he captured the spirit of his native South with a bold command of color that paved the way for color photography’s acceptance. Eggleston was particularly devoted to the dye transfer process for its clear and vivid rendering of color and its permanence relative to the more fugitive chromogenic prints typically used for color photography. Of this picture Eggleston said, “When you look at the dye [transfer print] it is like red blood that’s wet on the wall. . . . A little red is usually enough, but to work with an entire red surface was a challenge.”

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William Klein - 1954, printed 1986

Upon his return home in the late 1940s after eight years abroad in the army, Klein found his native New York City familiar but strange. Commissioned by Vogue to create a photographic book about the city, Klein recorded its vibrancy and grittiness, producing an uncompromising portrait that the magazine ultimately rejected. He subsequently took his photographs to Paris and published them under the title Life is Good & Good for You in New York. For this photograph, Klein asked two boys on Upper Broadway to pose. One pointed a gun at the camera, his face erupting with rage, mimicking the stereotypical poses of criminals in our image-saturated society.

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Annie Leibovitz's intimate and evocative portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono for Rolling Stone magazine in 1980 is more than just a lighthearted snapshot. The powerful image captures the essence of the couple's relationship and continues to resonate with audiences decades later.

Leibovitz eventually decided on a simple yet provocative black and white portrait, with Lennon curled up naked next to a fully clothed Ono. This striking composition highlighted the couple's unique bond and the vulnerability of their relationship. The photograph was taken on December 8, 1980 – the very day Lennon was tragically assassinated.

Tragically, just hours after the shoot, Lennon was assassinated outside of his New York City apartment building. The photo, which was initially intended to be a lighthearted representation of the couple's relationship, suddenly took on a much deeper meaning.

The photograph of Lennon and Ono has become one of the most iconic images in the history of music and photography. It remains a testament to the powerful love between the couple and serves as a poignant reminder of Lennon's untimely death. The image is also a prime example of Leibovitz's remarkable ability to capture the essence of her subjects and tell a story through her photography.

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On the morning of Friday 8 August, 50 years ago, The Beatles were photographed walking across a pedestrian crossing in London.

The image of George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon striding across the road outside EMI studios in St John's Wood became the cover shot of their Abbey Road album and probably the most iconic photo of the Fab Four.

It was taken by the late Scottish photographer Iain Macmillan who stood on a ladder in the middle of the street while a policeman blocked the traffic.

The whole thing was done in roughly 10 minutes.

relations between the band members were strained at the time and it was just weeks before they split up entirely.

He said: "They were professionally and personally exhausted".

Mr McNab said it was one of the most iconic photos in rock history.

The zebra crossing outside the famous Abbey Road studio has become a massively popular spot for tourists to recreate the album cover.

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Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders, this iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon, with astronauts Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell aboard.

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The photo we are looking at is an iconic sports photograph taken in 1965 by photographer Neil Leifer with his Rolleiflex camera. It is a photo of the greatest heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali.

Neil Leifer is an American sports photographer and filmmaker. He has shot covers for magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Time, and People. Leifer followed Ali from the beginning of his career to its end.

It was on the 25th of February 1964 in Miami when Cassius Clay beat the reigning heavyweight champion of the world, Sonny Liston. The match was surrounded by expectations since Clay started a psychological war against Liston, calling him “the big ugly bear.” Clay beat Liston in seven rounds after Liston threw in the towel, as he had injured his shoulder and could not continue the fight.

The day after the fight, he announced he was a member of the Nation of Islam or Black Muslims and he converted to Islam. He picked (or was given) the name Muhammad Ali. The media, however, ignored this fact, and the match was advertised as the “Clay-Liston” fight. The rematch took place on May 25, 1965.

After 1 minute and 44 seconds, what many called a phantom punch, Liston’s body hit the ground. It was a knock out.

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Ansel Adams

This 1942 photograph was originally conceived as part of The Mural Project for the US Department of the Interior, a once-in-a-lifetime commission upon which Adams worked through one trip during the fall of 1941 and another in May and June of 1942. The project was initially planned to celebrate the US’s National Parks system in a suite of large-scale mural-sized prints, possibly as many as thirty-six, that would have lined the walls of the Department of the Interior building, separate from, but in concert with, the pre-existing painted WPA murals already installed. Adams thus had to consider his work both in relationship to the scale and color of the artwork in the building, the space of the building itself, and the teeming crowds of visitors to the building. Although no exact descriptions of how Adams would have composed this sequence have survived, it is clear that he was thinking in lofty terms. Each of his operatic views, of which the above photo is part, sings of wild grandeur on an epic scale.

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Richard Avedon

Actress and pop culture icon Marilyn Monroe was also among Avedon’s sitters. Recalling a portrait session with Monroe that took place in his studio in May 1957, he said, “For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s—she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn’t photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.” Avedon managed to capture one of the most photographed stars with her public façade down, producing an image that provides a rare glimpse of her inner life.

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Lewis Hine

In the late nineteenth century, young “breaker boys” worked in anthacite coal mines in Pennsylvania removing impurities such as slate from the coal before it was shipped out.  The coal would be broken into smaller pieces in the coal breakers and the young workers, hunched over conveyor belts, would pick through it to remove contaminants.

In 1908, the National Child Labor Committee hired the photographer Lewis Hine to photograph children at work. Hine’s photos of the “breaker boys” and other child miners helped build public support for legislation barring child labor.

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Elizabeth Eckford’s walk through a crowd of hateful tormentors

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Elizabeth Eckford’s walk through a crowd of hateful tormentors

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Ira “Will” Counts

come morning she would be starting high school, and under very dramatic conditions—Elizabeth Eckford, 15, spent the night of September 3, 1957, preparing for her first day of classes at Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.

When she stepped toward the school doorway, however, two soldiers suddenly closed ranks, obstructing her path. Believing she had picked the wrong entry point, Elizabeth walked further down the line to another sidewalk.

As she again tried to enter the school, Guardsmen crossed their rifles. Still supposing she simply had not found the right spot, she continued to a walkway near the school’s main entrance. Across Park Street from the National Guard line a mob of angry white protesters was milling. Finally, Elizabeth understood what the soldiers had been trying to convey. Again blocking her path, men with guns solemnly shunted her toward the mob.

Her parents had taught her to look to adults for help, so she scanned the crowd for a visage that showed a trace of empathy, focusing on an older white woman. “It seemed like a kind face, but when I looked again, she spat on me,” Elizabeth recalled. “Safety, to me, meant getting to that bus stop.”

The Arkansas Democrat had assigned photographer Ira “Will” Counts, 26, to cover the desegregation of Central High. As he was documenting the chaos, Counts noticed directly behind Elizabeth a hysterical white girl spewing hateful language. He framed Elizabeth in the foreground, slightly blurred, with her snarling tormentor in focus

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perhaps no Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph is better known than Joe Rosenthal’s picture of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. It was taken on Friday, Feb. 23, 1945, five days after the Marines landed on the island.

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PHOTOGRAPH BY U.S ARMY AIR FORCE VIA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Clouds covered Nagasaki when Bocks Car arrived. Contrary to orders, weaponeer Ashworth determined to make the drop by radar if they had to due to their short fuel supply. At the last minute a small window in the clouds opened and bombardier Captain Kermit K. Beehan made the drop at 10:58 A.M. Nagasaki time.

A mushroom cloud towers over Nagasaki after the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945. Albert Einstein struggled with his role in the creation of the bomb and the devastation wrought by the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

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From the moment it first appeared in the pages of a San Francisco newspaper in March 1936, the image known as “Migrant Mother” came to symbolize the hunger, poverty and hopelessness endured by so many Americans during the Great Depression. The photographer Dorothea Lange had taken the shot, along with a series of others, days earlier in a camp of migrant farm workers in Nipomo, California.

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In June of 1878, before the rise of Hollywood and even the earliest silent movies, Eadweard Muybridge shocked a crowd of reporters by capturing motion. He showed the world what could be guessed but never seen—every stage of a horse’s gallop when it sped across a track.

In the 19th century, it seemed as though Muybridge had used photography to stop time. When the Industrial Revolution was underway, and scholars were obsessed with identifying, cataloging and potentially mechanizing nature, Muybridge’s photo sequence of a moving horse was a milestone.

“The breakthrough is that the camera can see things that the human eye can't see, and that we can use photography to access our world beyond what we know it to be,” says Shannon Perich, the Smithsonian’s curator of photography at the National Museum of American History

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Dr. Harold Edgerton often claimed his photographic work was only an incidental result of scientific experimentation.  Edgerton began trying to photograph drops of milk in 1932, and in 1936 produced an image almost identical to the one here, but in black and white, of two milk drops colliding in a crown-like splash. He continued to experiment with this subject for two decades until he finally achieved visual clarity in vivid color, which can be seen in Milk Drop Coronet, 1957.

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Stanley Joseph Forman - Woman Falling From Fire Escape

22 July, 1975

Boston, USA. Nineteen-year-old Diana Bryant and her two-year-old niece and goddaughter Tiare Jones are hurled off a collapsing fire escape during an apartment fire on Marlborough Street. The two waited with firefighter Robert O’Neil for a rescue ladder to reach them. As the firefighter climbed onto the rescue ladder, the fire escape collapsed under their feet and they fell to the ground five floors below. The woman was killed but the child survived, her fall cushioned by the woman's body.

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In the year 1994, Kevin Carter submitted a photograph he had taken during a trip to Sudan to cover the civil war that was ravaging the country. He had no idea at the time that he would eventually win the coveted Pulitzer Prize. He had even less of an idea that soon after receiving the award, he would succumb to depression. The photograph, although it brought about Carter’s untimely death, showed the world a tragedy occuring in Sudan. It shattered the complacency that existed among people generally walled off from such struggles. It was a disturbing call to action to help those in other parts of the world that truly needed it. The confrontational photograph was taken during the early 1990s when Sudan was engaged in its decades-long civil war. The country had always had an enormous budget deficit as well as a large national debt, given the fact that in its early colonizing years, Britain had opted to slow down Sudan’s industrialization efforts (Metz, 1992). Famine struck the poor country as it tried to pull itself out of a terrible debt and economic ruin. The United Nations had already begun to aid the country by establishing food centers and helping teach the citizens other ways to grow crops and speed up the economy. However, Carter published this photograph originally in The New York Times to show people how there should be more effort put into helping the people of Sudan.

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Eddie Adams' iconic Vietnam War photo

The snub-nosed pistol is already recoiling in the man's outstretched arm as the prisoner's face contorts from the force of a bullet entering his skull.

To the left of the frame, a watching soldier seems to be grimacing in shock.

It's hard to not feel the same repulsion, and guilt, with the knowledge one is looking at the precise moment of death.

Ballistic experts say the picture - which became known as Saigon Execution - shows the microsecond the bullet entered the man's head.

Eddie Adams's photo of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting a Viet Cong prisoner is considered one of the most influential images of the Vietnam War.

At the time, the image was reprinted around the world and came to symbolise for many the brutality and anarchy of the war.

It also galvanised growing sentiment in America about the futility of the fight - that the war was unwinnable.

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In 1906 the National Child Labor committee hired Lewis Hine, already known for his photographs of immigrant families arriving on Ellis Island and steelworkers in Pittsburgh, to document scenes of child labor. In a South Carolina cotton mill, Hine discovered 48-inch-tall Sadie Pfeifer and photographed her directly next to the dangerous machinery that she faced each day.

their repeating forms evoking the monotonous, mechanical nature of factory work. Hine’s images originally appeared in periodicals, posters, and booths at anti-child labor conventions. In 1914, 35 states ruled to prohibit the employment of children under the age of 14 and to require an 8-hour workday for individuals under 16. These photographs, therefore, represent one of the first instances of photography helping to enact social change.

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PAUL STRAND - Blind Woman, New York, 1916

In 1916 Strand made a series of candid street portraits with a handheld camera fitted with a false lens attached to its side, allowing him to point the camera in one direction while actually taking the photograph in another. This seminal image of a street peddler was published in 1917 in Alfred Stieglitz's magazine Camera Work. It immediately became an icon of the new American photography, which integrated the humanism of social documentation with the boldly simplified forms of modernism.

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Alberto Korda’s iconic photo of Che Guevara

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Alberto Korda’s iconic photo of Che Guevara

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One morning in March of 1960, Alberto Korda snapped a quick photograph of Che Guevara.

when Che died in Bolivia seven years later it garnered global attention. It is believed to be the world’s most reproduced photograph and the second most reproduced image in the history of Western art behind da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

Then in school I learned that he was Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, and that he’d been given pop culture immortality by a former fashion photographer named Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, who’d later changed his name to Korda. Everything about the man and the myth was always a little off-kilter.

When I was a child in the late ’70s in Havana, during the never-ending blackouts, I was terrified by the shadows on his face.

printed on a huge poster my grandmother had scavenged from the streets of Havana following a military parade: It was heroic, seemingly immortal, and yet a decade had passed since he’d been killed in the jungles of Bolivia, a country I couldn’t have pointed to on a map.

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Philippe Halsman- Dali Atomicus1948

It took photographer Philippe Halsman and artist Salvador Dalí 28 tries to achieve the playful weightlessness of Dalí Atomicus.is a portrait of the artist inspired by his painting, Leda Atomica (1949), which appears in the composition’s right-hand corner—hanging suspended above the ground like the easel, chair, stepstool, cats, water, and Dalí himself.

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Photographer Malcolm Browne

things began to look ugly in central Vietnam. I took a much greater interest in the Buddhists of Vietnam than I had before, because it seemed to me they were likely to be movers and shakers in whatever turned up next.

Along about springtime (1963), the monks began to hint that they were going to pull off something spectacular by way of protest–and that would most likely be a disembowelment of one of the monks or an immolation. And either way, it was something we had to pay attention to.

At that point the monks were telephoning the foreign correspondents in Saigon to warn them that something big was going to happen.

I felt that they were certainly going to do something, that they were not just bluffing, so it came to be that I was really the only Western correspondent that covered the fatal day.

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The haunting expression, a mixture of pain and resilience, of a child thought to be around 12, was dubbed the “Afghan Girl.” (A photograph of Sharbat Gula) She became a symbol of war, displacement and defiance after American photographer Steve McCurry captured her image in a refugee camp in Peshawar, on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

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At first, Jeff Widener was annoyed by the man entering his shot.

Widener, a photographer with the Associated Press, was focusing his camera on a line of tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square when out of the blue came this man in a white shirt and dark trousers, carrying what appeared to be shopping bags.

Widener thought the man was going to mess up the composition of his frame.

It was June 5, 1989, a day after Chinese troops began violently cracking down on pro-democracy demonstrators who had been in the square for over a month.

From the hotel balcony, Widener watched as the man confronted the lead tank, standing directly in front of it. The tank stopped and tried to go around the man. The man moved with the tank, blocking its path once again.

At one point during the standoff, the man climbed aboard the lead tank and appeared to speak to whoever was inside.

The man was eventually pulled away by onlookers. To this day, we don’t know who he is and what happened to him. But he remains a powerful symbol of defiance.

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In this photograph, two tourists are shown sitting idly in front of the dead body of a migrant who was traveling to Europe. The Pulitzer Prize was given to Javier Bauluz for this well-known image that highlights the stark differences in social divisions throughout the world.

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The Steerage is a photo that was taken by American photographer Alfred Stieglitz on board the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II in June 1907. He was traveling first class with his family from the United States to Great Britain. He took the photo of travelers in the steerage, or third-class section of the ship, during the voyage.

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-The world’s first photograph, a persistent image made by exposing chemicals to light, was taken in 1826 by Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce. [NEES-uh-fore NYEHps]

-the view from a window of his house in Le Gras. It was made by projecting the view through a camera obscura onto a small pewter plate coated with bitumen and developed with lavender oil. The exposure took several days [The sun can be seen hitting opposite sides of the buildings.] Niépce called it a heliograph.
Niépce eventually partnered with Louis Daguerre who was also working to fix images chemically, but Niépce died, his less inventive son stepped into the partnership

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also known as ‘Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare‘

taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson

We see the perfection in the picture. How the reflection of the man is so precise about the position of the focal subject. We understand the uncertainty and the candidness of the scene by observing the details. The feet are about to touch the water, the whole reflection of the man is shown, a man is standing behind the fence, objects in the water amplify the horizontal depth of the surface and the man is just about to exit the frame. According to Cartier-Bresson, the background is every bit as important as the subject. It doesn’t provide a harmony, but rather, its melody — one that competes in a way that turns the result into something transcending. The photograph is a wholesome experience of not only seeing but also living the scene.

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unknown photographer snapped a picture of 11 ironworkers eating lunch while sitting on a steel beam 850 feet above the ground in New York City. Called Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, the iconic image captured just some of the more than 40,000 men—many of them immigrants—hired to build Rockefeller Center during the Great Depression.

Today’s guests don’t actually dangle precariously above the ground like the ironworkers did in 1932. Instead, they’re safely strapped in—and the beam remains above the observation deck the entire time.

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The “Victory over Japan Day in Times Square”, known as “V-J Day in Times Square”, is a photograph taken in 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt. He was an American photographer and photojournalist who was born in Germany. After he emigrated to the US in 1935, he worked for the Life magazine, which featured more than 90 of his photographs on its cover and published more than 2,500 of his photo stories. He was one of the most important and most active photojournalists of the 20th Century.

It was Tuesday noon August 14, 1945 when Radio Tokyo broadcast a statement by Emperor Hirohito. The Second World War ended four years after the United States entered the war. President Harry S. Truman had just announced the end of the war. The day was called “Victory over Japan Day.” Times Square was crowded with people celebrating.

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The photo was taken by renowned photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White during a visit to India in the mid-1940s.

It is an image of serene simplicity: Gandhi sitting on the floor of his room, reading, with his famous spinning wheel in the foreground.

Burt said he was thrilled to have the chance to see such a rare and historic print by such an important 20th-century photographer, estimating the retail value of the print at between $40,000 and $50,000.

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-Why they are significant

-What are they most famous for

-What was their biggest/major contribution to photography

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-Madagascar, where he documented wildlife and tribal traditions never photographed before

-coverage of the Okavango Delta in National Geographic has been credited with inspiring a surge of international interest in wildlife and conservation in Botswana

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-can be considered the father of modern photography

-completely disrupted fashion photography by introducing eroticism and nudes with an unmistakable taste for transgression, which he conveyed through bold and, sometimes, stunning shots.

-provocative images of women in high heels and provocative poses for the book "White Women" (1976) garnered international attention and solidified his status as a groundbreaking fashion photographer.

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-American street photographer known for his spontaneous images of people in public engaged in everyday life

-didn't invent street photography, but he transformed it from an art of observation to an art of participation.

-capture the energetic streets of New York City in the 1960s

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-makes the viewer aware of the voyeuristic nature of photography and film, establishing the uneasy feeling of intruding upon a potentially private moment.

-her uncanny images and films that blur the line between artifice and reality to explore the human condition.

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-awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal by the Overseas Press Club of America five times, the World Press Photo of the Year award twice, and has been recognised with numerous other accolades for his exceptional coverage of the events that shape our world.

-For more than four decades...documented conflicts and disasters across the globe, including the 9/11 terror attacks, the European refugee crisis and the genocide in Rwanda.

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-a profound impact on the way we perceive and appreciate indigenous cultures. His photographs not only showcase the beauty and diversity of these communities but also serve as a reminder of the importance of preserving their unique way of life.

-covering war zones and producing "Literary Portraits of China" for Shell Oil. Later, he celebrated global diversity with "Before they Pass Away" and "Homage to Humanity. " Through his lens, Nelson immortalized indigenous cultures, inspiring cultural preservation and appreciation worldwide.

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-English photographer best known for his unusual black and white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours.

-He has held over 475 solo exhibitions in 40 countries and his photographs have been the subject of over 70 monographs.

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-While his portfolio includes the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Miles Davis, he is perhaps best known for capturing the light, gesture and color found in everyday life.

-One of Maisel's most notable images is his photograph of Miles Davis that appears on the cover of Davis's album Kind of Blue (1959).

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one of the three photographers who defined the look of London in the 1960s. Duffy's cutting-edge photography documented the vibrancy of the new “Swinging 60's” scene when the city was at the height of cool.

-an eclectic and innovative photographer and one of the few photographers to have shot three Pirelli calendars.

-Duffy's work is exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide.

-Duffy is considered one of the top 100 most influential photographers of all time.

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-an American photographer and writer who became well known for her photographs of African-Americans.

-She is one of the pioneers of modern American photography, began her career as a photojournalist in 1915 in San Francisco.

-successfully combined a Pictorialist aesthetic with a realist strategy, producing handsomely composed and carefully printed images. She was one of few white American photographers in the 1930s to make artistic portraits of African Americans.

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-experimental and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: family, desire, mortality, memory, and nature's indifference to the human condition.

-best known for her black-and-white photographs, featuring portraiture and landscapes in the southern United States.

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-Apart of Group f/64 - The group's general purpose was to promote "pure" photography with sharp focus and full tonal range.

-He photographed people in romantic poses, manipulated the negatives by extensive retouching, printed through texture screens, toned the photographs a glowing

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-a pictorialist photographer in the thirties, recalled the spirit of change that distinguished these years

-also apart of Group f/64

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-twentieth century—is best known for his scenic images

-first photographer to make negative space the subject of a photograph.

-Brett Weston may be said to be the first successful artistic heir in the history of photography. The son of Edward Weston

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-elaborately-staged photographs of infants

-best known for “Down in the Garden,” a 1996 coffee-table book featuring tiny babies adorably (or tweely, depending on your perspective) tucked into unlikely horticultural scenarios, as if they're hiding by chance in someone's flower bed

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photographs of the British Royal family by Sir Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980) were central to shaping the monarchy's public image in the mid 20th century

-the opportunity to design the costumes for the film production of My Fair

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-American photographer and documentary filmmaker, well known for his role as a founding member of Group f. 64, a collective of photographers dedicated to the creation of “pure” and unmanipulated imagery.

-he spent several years with Edward Weston

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He published images of the Spanish War. He also documented five wars, volatile elections and the official founding of the state of Israel. one of his most famous photographs is “Death of a Loyalist Soldier”. For the first time in history a man, at the absolute moment of death, who had just been hit by a bullet was caught on film.

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A french photographer and painter that created spontaneous joyful photographs. He signed an act donating his entire photographic output to the French government and was the first living French photographer to do so. His photographs were acclaimed in part because of their departure from the formal, posed portraits that had been typical of early photography and also because of their ingenuous charm.

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He played a large part in diverting the attention of the American public to the plight of Britain and convincing them of our fighting spirit and determination to survive. He also photographed iconic figures such as Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Einstein, and Audrey Hepburn; he also captured the famous "Roaring Lion" portrait of Winston Churchill in 1941, which became one of the most widely reproduced images in history.

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Best known for his photograph Afghan Girl. He shot contemporary photography and was one of the most influential voices for over three decades now. He shot for mostly magazine and book covers

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Was the first to produce prints that measured as large as 6 × 8 feet or larger. He also holds the title of the most expensive photograph ever auctioned off at Christie's in New York which sold for more than $4 million in 2011.

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His work is considered taboo by many but his powerful black-and-white portraits and self-portraits both challenge us and present us with images of classical beauty.

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-American amateur street photographer

-a nanny and caregiver in the suburbs of Chicago while producing an expansive body of photographic work that became a media sensation in late 2010

-photographed the customs of the families she was with (birthdays and parties) and took pictures on the streets of a city immersed in a paradigm shift for the postwar opportunities

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what they're most significant/famous for: commercial fashion portraits of celebrities and models.

biggest/major contribution to photography: colorful, conceptual imagery bears the influence of both Surrealism and Pop Art.

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what they're most significant/famous for: her stark, documentary style of photography.

biggest/major contribution to photography: unrelenting direct photographs of people who are considered social deviates. She also portrayed “normal” people in a manner that exposed the cracks in their public masks.

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what they're most significant/famous for: formalist still life photographs of household utensils.

biggest/major contribution to photography: Her first large-format camera

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what they're most significant/famous for: photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.

biggest/major contribution to photography: series of black-and-white photographs, “Untitled Film Stills” (1977–80), which advanced the concept of narrative photography.

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what they're most significant/famous for: one of the most important and influential architectural photographers in history.

biggest/major contribution to photography: photographs of architecture

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what they're most significant/famous for: lyrical and formally rigorous pictures of everyday life.

biggest/major contribution to photography: nude photographs to the men's magazine Le Sourire (The Smile).

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-creator of modern American photography

-sharp-focused, objective images in 20th-century American photography.

-photographed street portraits to city scenes, machine forms, and plants with his distinctive clarity, precision, and geometric form.

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Irving Penn- vouge, fashion, portrait, and still lifes

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Irving Penn- vouge, fashion, portrait, and still lifes

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-He's renowned for breaking down the boundary between commercial and fine-art photography, working in a style of refined, elegant minimalism.
-One of the most famous vogue photographers
-created the Small Trades series — one of the most significant bodies of work in his career. Specifically, he photographed individuals like butchers, bakers, or workers carrying their tools. - iteresting portraits of famous ppl

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Edward Weston-20th century, many different styles, Californian approach 

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Edward Weston-20th century, many different styles, Californian approach 

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-the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera.
-best known for his carefully composed, sharply focused images of natural forms
-pioneered a modernist style characterized by the use of a large-format camera to create sharply focused and richly detailed black-and-white photographs.

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Guy Le Querrec- jazz, french, also filmmaker

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Guy Le Querrec- jazz, french, also filmmaker

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-photographed numerous jazz festivals and African subjects, Le Querrec has traveled to China and documented American Indians. He has also taught many photography workshops in France.
-documentary images of jazz musicians.
-numerous reportages on the Concert Mayol in Paris, subjects in China and Africa, and North American Indians.

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Edward Steichen- magazines, transforming photography, "the greatest photographer that ever lived"

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Edward Steichen- magazines, transforming photography, "the greatest photographer that ever lived"

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-prominent photographer and influential curator.
-Steichen's interest in the interrelationship between photography and Tonalist painting is evident in his famous images of the Flatiron Building.

-greatest accomplishment was to blur the lines between celebrity portraiture, fashion photography, and advertising, creating a hybrid genre of images with a potent mix of glamour and desire that dominates magazine photography to this day.

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Alfred Stieglitz - NY art galleries, Wifed Georgia O'Keeffe

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Alfred Stieglitz - NY art galleries, Wifed Georgia O'Keeffe

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- an advocate for the Modernist movement in the arts, and, arguably, the most important photographer of his time. A photographer, publisher, writer and gallery owner, he played a key role in the promotion and exploration of photography as an art form.(1864-1946)
- photographed New York for more than 25 years, portraying its streets, parks, and newly emerging skyscrapers; its horse-drawn carriages, trolleys, etc.
-he founded the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York, which later became known simply as 291 . He elevated photography's status to the level of painting and sculpture through the numerous pioneering exhibitions that he organized.

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Man Ray - dada & surrealist, rayographs, painter

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Man Ray - dada & surrealist, rayographs, painter

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- best known for his pioneering photography, and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer
-photographer, painter, and filmmaker who was the only American to play a major role in both the Dada and Surrealist movements. He is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.
-rediscovering how to make “cameraless” pictures, or photograms, which he called rayographs. He made them by placing objects directly on light-sensitive paper, which he exposed to light and developed

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Henri Cartier Bresson- french, candid, street 

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Henri Cartier Bresson- french, candid, street 

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-pioneered photojournalism as an art form by traveling the world and capturing honest scenes of day-to-day life.
-black and whites, a pioneer of candid and street photography as well as some of the most compelling photographic portraits of notables
-Cartier-Bresson discovered the hand-held Leica camera and was practically consumed by the new art form.

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James Clerk Maxwell- color photograph, ribbons, physicist

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James Clerk Maxwell- color photograph, ribbons, physicist

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-one of the greatest scientists who have ever lived.
-theory of electromagnetism.
-Maxwell also contributed to the development of color photography. His analysis of color perception led to his invention of the trichromatic process. By using red, green and blue filters he created the first color photograph. The trichromatic process is the basis modern color photography.

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Brassai- hungarian-french, streets at night in france, 

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Brassai- hungarian-french, streets at night in france, 

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-His body of work, documenting high and low society in Paris between the two world wars, influenced many photographers to come.
-known primarily for his dramatic photographs of Paris at night.
-Brassai captured stark, revealing images of the people of the night.

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-Documentary photographer notable for her striking images of Depression era America.began photographing the homeless in order to bring attention to their plight.
-best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
-Documentary photographer notable for her striking images of Depression era America.

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-revolutionized photography, science, military surveillance, Hollywood filmmaking, and the media through strobe light in the early 1930s

-creating high-speed photography techniques that he applied to scientific uses

-invented strobe light

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-capturing the American vernacular

-leading photographers in the history of American documentary photography

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- He is often referred to as the father of photojournalism
-Most well known for his documentation of the Civil War
-His war scenes demonstrated that photographs could be more than posed portraits, and his efforts represent the first instance of the comprehensive photo-documentation of a war.

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Ansel Adams- american, landscape, B&W, 'Group f/64' founder

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Ansel Adams- american, landscape, B&W, 'Group f/64' founder

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-his photographs contributed to the American conservation movement
-his iconic images of the American West, including Yosemite National Park.
-He was actively involved in developing techniques (commercial and art photography) Famous technique is the Zone System (a codification of creating technically proficient images)

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Oskar Barnack- german, optical engineer, LEICA, 35mm, brought photography to the masses

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Oskar Barnack- german, optical engineer, LEICA, 35mm, brought photography to the masses

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-the inventor of the Leica
-used the prototype camera he developed (Ur-Leica)
-He captured various events in entire series of photographs and became one of the earliest photographers to document the relationships between man and the environment.

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-a photographer and filmmaker who explores and documents transformations of individuals and families over time and place.

-Arizona based photographer and educator Betsy Schneider talks about her drive for intensity, beauty and complexity in her work.

-photographer Betsy Schneider embarked on a project to explore the experience of being thirteen.

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-worked in the fashion world
-a master in portraiture
-worked in political photography (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles, and President Eisenhower., ect.)
-known for his extended portraiture of the American Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam war and a celebrated cycle of photographs of his father
-Ranging between commercial work, fashion photography, and ground-breaking fine art portraiture. The breadth and creativity of his work has made him one of the most influential photographers of the 20 th century.

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Gordon Parks- civil rights, "blaxploiatation"

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Gordon Parks- civil rights, "blaxploiatation"

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- one of the most groundbreaking figures in 20th century photography. His photojournalism during the 1940s to the 1970s reveals important aspects of American culture, and he became known for focusing on issues of civil rights, poverty, race relations and urban life.
-He was best known for photographs of American life, but mostly of the Black experience. With his camera he captured the cruelties he saw
-photo essay captured the violence and fear experienced by gang members and their families, and positioned him as an important documentary photographer. A year later, Parks would become the first African American to be named staff photographer at Life.

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Madame Yevonde- portrait, vivex colour process, tecniques

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Madame Yevonde- portrait, vivex colour process, tecniques

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- an innovator committed to colour photography when it was not considered a serious medium, Yevonde's work is significant in the history of British portrait photography.
-Yevonde's work is significant in the history of British portrait photography. Her most renowned body of work is a series of women dressed as goddesses posed in surreal tableaux exhibited in 1935.
- She was the greatest pioneer of colour photography. There is only one other person that one could mention in the same breath as Madame Yevonde

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Rodger Fenton- first war photographer, british, exibition

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Rodger Fenton- first war photographer, british, exibition

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-the most celebrated and influential photographer in England during the medium's “golden age” of the 1850s.
-One of the first war photographers. best known for his photographs of the Crimean War, one of the most accomplished landscape and architectural photographers of his time.
-photographs of the Crimean War, a conflict in which British, French, Sardinian, and Turkish troops battled Russia's attempt to expand its influence into European territory of the Ottoman empire.

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Louis Daguerre- daguerreotype, french, diorama theatre

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Louis Daguerre- daguerreotype, french, diorama theatre

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-was a french artist, photographer, and physicist that created daguerreotype
-invented the first practical process of photography, known as the daguerreotype.
- his invention "daguerreotype." (developing)

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what they're most significant/famous for: champion of humanist photography and a pioneer of photojournalism.

biggest/major contribution to photography: His first book of photographs was published in 1949. More would soon follow. In 1950, Doisneau took what is perhaps his most famous image, The Kiss (Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville), on the streets of Paris. It was subsequently published in an episode of Life Magazine.

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Margaret Bourke-White- first female war photojournalist, permited -->soviet pics

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Margaret Bourke-White- first female war photojournalist, permited -->soviet pics

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-known for her extensive contributions to photojournalism, particularly for her Life magazine
-a woman of firsts>>
-was a woman of firsts: the first photographer for Fortune, the first Western professional photographer permitted into the Soviet Union, Life magazine's first female photographer, and the first female war correspondent credentialed to work in combat zones during World War II.

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Don McCullin- war, british photojournalist, sad

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Don McCullin- war, british photojournalist, sad

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- one of the most important war photographers of the late twentieth century, best known for his broad war reportage and critical social documentation.
-recognised as the world's greatest war and documentary photographer.
-capture the human cost of war taken in Vietnam and Cambodia.