Vocab Padlet by Bella Pope

Ansel Adams

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Took black and white photos of the American wilderness and his passion for conservation. He helped found Group f/64 an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.

Richard Avedon

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an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance.

Oskar Barnack

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a German inventor and photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke in Wetzlar.

Mathew Brady

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est known for his scenes of the Civil War, he studied under inventor Samuel Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. His photographs, and those he commissioned, had a tremendous impact on society at the time of the war, and continue to do so today.

Bill Brandt

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British photographer and photojournalist. Born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazines as Lilliput and Picture Post; later he made distorted nudes, portraits of famous artists and landscapes.

Julia Margaret Cameron

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an ambitious and devoted pioneer of photography. Best known for her powerful portraits, she also posed her sitters – friends, family and servants – as characters from biblical, historical or allegorical stories. her photographs typically have a soft focus whilst her mind and eye have an acute sharpness, the combination of which created a pioneering quality in her work that still endures today

Henri Cartier Bresson

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a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. He photographed iconic images of artists and writers.

Louis Daguerre

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a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography.

George Eastman

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an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. Known for revolutionizing the photography, film, and motion picture industries. He was also one of the most influential philanthropists and humanitarians of his time.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

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an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. revolutionized photography, science, military surveillance, Hollywood filmmaking, and the media through his invention of the strobe light in the early 1930s.

Rodger Fenton

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a British photographer, noted as one of the first war photographers. His photographs of the Crimea in 1855 were the first large-scale photographic documentation of war. In addition, Fenton made landscapes, architectural studies of historical landmarks, Orientalist genre studies, and still lifes.

William Henry Fox Talbot

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credited as the British inventor of photography. In 1834 he discovered how to make and fix images through the action of light and chemistry on paper. These 'negatives' could be used to make multiple prints and this process revolutionised image making.

Brassai

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a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the world wars. Known primarily for his

Dorothea Lange

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an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.

Dr Richard Leach Maddox

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an English photographer and physician who invented lightweight gelatin negative dry plates for photography in 1871. lightweight gelatin negative plates for photography in 1871, which enabled photographers to use commercial dry plates off the shelf instead of having to prepare their own emulsions in a mobile darkroom.

James Clerk Maxwell

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a Scottish physicist with broad interests who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon. the speed of an electromagnetic wave was almost identical to the speed of light.

Don McCullin

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a British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and impoverished.

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

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a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process: a print made from a photoengraved printing plate in 1825. the first to make a permanent photographic image.

Guy Le Querrec

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a French photographer and filmmaker, noted for his documentary images of jazz musicians. He is a member of Magnum Photos.

Edward Steichen

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a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography. Steichen was credited with transforming photography into an art form.

Alfred Stieglitz

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an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. Stieglitz founded Photo-Secession, a radical and controversial movement that was influential in promoting photography as a fine art.

Edward Weston

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Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes, founded a collective called Group f/64. Sounding a death knell for Pictorialism, they championed the kind of sharply-detailed imagery now referred to as 'straight photography'.

Madame Yevonde

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an English photographer, who pioneered the use of colour in portrait photography. She used the professional name Madame Yevonde in a career lasting over 60 years. 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. Her most renowned body of work is a series of women dressed as goddesses posed in surreal tableaux exhibited in 1935.

Mary Ellen Mark

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an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes". an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes".

Man Ray

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Man Ray was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements. He was best known for his pioneering photography, and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.

Margaret Bourke-White

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an American photographer and documentary photographer. She was arguably best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry. 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.

Imogen Cunningham

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an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects.

Irving Penn

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an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique.

Gordon Parks

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an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography.

Annie Leibovitz

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an American portrait photographer best known for her engaging portraits, particularly of celebrities, which often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses.

Paul Strand

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an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century.

Walker Evans

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best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large format.

Robert Frank

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a Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society.

Cindy Sherman

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Her decades-long performative practice of photographing herself under different guises has produced many of contemporary art's most iconic and influential images.

Julius Shulman

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Shulman did not merely document significant architecture, but interpreted it, becoming one of the most important and influential architectural photographers in history.

Andres Kertesz

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a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. set the standard for the use of the handheld camera, created a highly autobiographical body of work, and developed a distinctive visual language.

Diane Arbus

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She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. Her most famous images are those of people outside the boundaries of “proper” society.

Jan Groover

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an American photographer. She received numerous one-person shows, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which holds some of her work in its permanent collection. an Groover is well known for her formalist still life photographs of household utensils.

Elizabeth "Lee" Miller

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Lee Miller was an American photographer who worked for British Vogue during the Second World War. She started working as a model, but was eager to move behind the camera. On the outbreak of war in 1939, Miller offered to work as a photographer for Vogue – an offer that was initially rejected.

Vivian Maier

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an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles

David LaChapelle

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He is best known for his work in fashion, photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages. his commercial fashion portraits of celebrities and models, including photos of Amanda Lepore and Angelina Jolie.

Robert Doisneau

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a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. a champion of humanist photography and a pioneer of photojournalism. His iconic black and white images of life in Paris some of the most recognisable to this day.

Steve McCurry

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an American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist. His photo Afghan Girl, of a girl with piercing green eyes, has appeared on the cover of National Geographic several times. McCurry has photographed many assignments for National Geographic

Andreas Gursky

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a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often using a high point of view.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images.

Robert Capa

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a Hungarian–American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history. Friedman had fled political repression in Hungary when he was a teenager

Jacques Henri Lartigue

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a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models. the spontaneous, joyful photographs he took beginning in his boyhood and continuing throughout his life.

Yousuf Karsh

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Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. his portraits of important and famous men and women of politics, Hollywood, and the arts, from Albert Einstein and Sir Winston Churchill to Walt Disney and Grace Kelly

Anne Geddes

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an Australian-born, New York City-based portrait photographer known primarily for her elaborately-staged photographs of infants. Geddes's books have been published in 83 countries. According to Amazon.com, she has sold more than 18 million books and 13 million calendars.

Cecil Beaton

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a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.

Willard Van Dyke

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an American filmmaker, photographer, arts administrator, teacher, and former director of the film department at the Museum of Modern Art.

Henry Swift

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an American photographer and member of the famous Group f/64. In the early 1920s he met photographer Edward Weston by chance in Carmel, California and began making photographs as a hobby. He was earning a living as a stockbroker, a career he continued throughout his life.

John Paul Edwards

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an American photographer and a member of the Group f/64. He was born in Minnesota on June 5, 1884, and moved to California in 1902.

Brett Weston

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he had perhaps the closest artistic relationship with his famous father of all four of the Weston sons. In 1925, Edward removed Brett from school and took him to Mexico, where the thirteen year old became his father’s apprentice. Surrounded by revolutionary artists of the day, such as Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and influenced as well by the striking contrast of life in Mexico

Consuelo Kanaga

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

Sally Man

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an American photographer known for making large format black and white photographs of her immediate surroundings—her children, husband, rural landscapes, and self-portraits

Phillppe Halsman

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an American portrait photographer. He was born in Riga in the part of the Russian Empire which later became Latvia, and died in New York City.

Jay Maisel

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an American photographer. His awards include the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Media Photographers, and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography.

Brian Duffy

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an English photographer and film producer, best remembered for his fashion and portrait photography of the 1960s and 1970s.

Martin Parr

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a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological

James Nachtwey

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an American photojournalist and war photographer. He has been awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal five times and two World Press Photo awards.

Jimmy Nelson

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an English photographer. He is known for his portraits of tribal and indigenous peoples

Michael Kenna

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an 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

Alex Prager

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an American artist and filmmaker, based in Los Angeles. She makes staged color photographs.

Betsy Schneider

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an American photographer who lives and works in the Boston Area.

Ella von Unwerth

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a German photographer. She began her career as a fashion model, before becoming a fashion, editorial, and advertising photographer

Frans Lanting

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a Dutch National Geographic photographer, author and speaker.

Helmut Newton

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a German-Australian photographer. The New York Times described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications.

Garry Winogrand

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an American street photographer, known for his portrayal of U.S. life and its social issues, in the mid-20th century. Photography curator, historian, and critic John Szarkowski called Winogrand the central photographer of his generation.

View from the Window at Gras

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a heliographic image and the oldest surviving camera photograph. It was created by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, and shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, as seen from a high window.

Man Jumping the Puddle

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Henri Cartier-Bresson's best-known photograph may be the 1932 image of a man jumping over a puddle behind the Gare St. Lazare. The meaning of “decisive moment” seems self-evident from this picture: the timing, the composition, the totality of the picture, an ordinary moment transcribed as a complete statement.

Lunch atop a Skyscraper

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a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam 850 feet above the ground during construction of the RCA Building in Manhattan, New York City. It was arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper.

V-J Day in Times Square

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a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger—a dental assistant—on Victory over Japan Day in New York City's Times Square on August 14, 1945.

Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel

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The charkha, in the hands of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists, became a symbol for national unity; and the simple act of spinning an act of protest. The charkha proved a highly visible symbol for India's political independence and economic self-sufficiency. The photo was taken by renowned photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White during a visit to India in the mid-1940s.

The Burning Monk

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In the national situation, the act was viewed as a plea to end the military conflict in Vietnam. Thich Quang Duc's suicide was captured in a series of photographs that revealed his flame-engulfed body. His act was a dramatic protest against the oppressive regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, head of South Vietnam. Journalist Malcome Browne took this iconic photo of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in Saigon in 1963.

Afghan Girl

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a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. taken by steven mccurry

Tank Man

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fter facing down the Chinese army's tanks, Tank Man became an enduring symbol of defiance in the face of violent authoritarianism. The image of him blocking the tanks was on the front pages of newspapers across the world. taken by stuart franklin

Death at the Gates of Paradise

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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.

The famous photo The Steerage

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a black and white photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1907. It has been hailed by some critics as one of the greatest photographs of all time because it captures in a single image both a formative document of its time and one of the first works of artistic modernism.

Saigon Execution

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shot by Eddie Abrams 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.

Cotton Mill Girl

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Hine used a slide of this photograph of a young girl named Sadie Pfeiffer, tending a row of spinning machines in South Carolina's Lancaster Cotton Mills, in his 1909 talk "Social Photography, How the Camera May Help in the Social Uplift," which he delivered to a national conference of social workers.

Blind Beggar

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This photograph is one of a series of portraits Strand shot of the poor, the old and infirm, and the working class in New York during the early 1900s, with the intent of promoting social reform. To preserve their anonymity and the candor of the shot, Strand used a fake camera lens to get close to his subjects without their knowing he was taking their picture.

Alberto Korda’s iconic photo of Che Guevara

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Alberto Korda was a Cuban photographer best known for his iconic image of Che Guevara. taken on March 5, 1960 at a Cuban funeral service for victims of the La Coubre explosion. The photographic reality of Che soon transformed itself into an iconic image which traveled around the world.

Dalí Atomicus

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a surreal photograph of the artist Salvador Dalí jumping, taken by the photographer Philippe Halsman in 1948. The photograph also features three cats flying through the air. At least 26 takes of the photograph were made before Halsman was satisfied with the result.

Migrant Mother

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a photograph taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California, by American photographer Dorothea Lange during her time with the Resettlement Administration. came to symbolize the hunger, poverty and hopelessness endured by so many Americans during the Great Depression.

The Horse in Motion

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In 1872, Muybridge began using a complex photographic method to capture horses in motion. In 1879, he proved that indeed all four hooves of a galloping horse are off the ground during the stride.

Milk Drop Coronet

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Harold Edgerton often claimed his photographic work was only an incidental result of scientific experimentation.

Woman Falling From Fire Escape

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a monochrome photograph by Stanley Forman which received the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1976 and the title of World Press Photo of the Year.

Starving Child and Vulture

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a photograph by Kevin Carter which first appeared in The New York Times on 26 March 1993.

Breaker Boys

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Lewis Hine traveled the U.S. in the early 20th-century, taking photographs of child laborers for the National Child Labor Committee. This photograph, taken in 1911 Pennsylvania, shows "breaker boys"—boys employed by mines to pick impurities out of newly broken coal as it rolled past on conveyor belts.

Elizabeth Eckford’s walk through a crowd of hateful tormentors

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Elizabeth Eckford, one of nine Black students, attempted to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Unlike the other eight, she had never received the message to stay away from the school, As she walked toward the school, a mob hurled racist slurs at her and threatened to lynch her, she said.

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

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an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War.

Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki

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Charles Levy captured the photograph with his personal camera while aboard the B-29 aircraft The Great Artiste, an observation plane that flew near the strike plane Bockscar to record the power of the blast.

Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare

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a black and white photograph taken by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris in 1932. The photograph has been printed at variable dimensions; the print donated by Cartier-Bresson to the Museum of Modern Art

The Falling Man

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a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City.

Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston

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Ali's right fist connected with Liston's chin and Liston went down. Leifer snapped the photo of the champ towering over his vanquished opponent and taunting him, “Get up and fight, sucker!”

The Tetons and the Snake River

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a black and white photograph taken by Ansel Adams in 1942, at the Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming. It is one of his best known and most critically acclaimed photographs

Marilyn Monroe, New York, May 6, 1957

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Richard Avedon's photo reveals a new face of the icon. Having posed for long hours, the photo session comes to an end. Marilyn is exhausted, she quickly releases the pressure, abandoning her pose with her charming eyes.

The Soiling of Old Glory

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a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken by Stanley Forman during the Boston busing crisis in 1976. It depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, assaulting a black man—lawyer and civil rights activist Ted Landsmark—with a flagpole bearing the American flag

Untitled [Greenwood, Mississippi]

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Shot by William Eggleston

Gun 1, New York

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Commissioned by Vogue to create a photographic book about the city, Klein recorded its vibrancy and grittiness, producing an uncompromising portrait

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

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taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz on December 8th, 1980, on the day John Lennon was shot. It became one of the most iconic images in rock 'n' roll history.

Abbey Road

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Iain Stewart Macmillan was the Scottish photographer famous for taking the cover photograph for the Beatles' album Abbey Road in 1969. He grew up in Scotland, then moved to London to become a professional photographer.

Earthrise from Apollo 8

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a photograph by William Anders of Earth and part of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Nature photographer Galen Rowell described it as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken".

Unpublished 9/11

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Shot by James Nachtwey depicting 9/11

The Soiling of Old Glory

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Keep Calm and Carry On

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The iconic 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster was designed months before the Second World War began. Its message was supposed to boost morale and ensure the public could bear the sacrifice and burden required of them.

Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh

isabellanpope — 2024-05-09 18:50:06 UTC

a black and white photographic portrait of a 67-year-old Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The portrait was taken in 1941 by Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh in the Centre Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Churchill lit a fresh cigar, puffed at it with a mischievous air, and then magnanimously relented. 'You may take one.' Churchill's cigar was ever present.

Country Doctor

isabellanpope — 2024-05-09 18:51:40 UTC

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.

Fort Peck Dam

isabellanpope — 2024-05-09 18:53:12 UTC

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.

American Gothic by Gordon Parks

isabellanpope — 2024-05-09 18:54:52 UTC

actually a photograph of Washington, D.C. Government charwoman, Ella Watson. This photgraph was exhibited in different museums and is among the most celebrated photographs of the 20th century.

Munich Massacre

isabellanpope — 2024-05-09 18:57:10 UTC

Kurt Strumpf's haunting photo of a terrorist at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games grew into a symbol of the 21-hour

Invasion 68: Prague

isabellanpope — 2024-05-09 18:58:47 UTC

In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet-led invasion, Koudelka took to the streets to document this critical moment.

Jewish Boy Surrenders in Warsaw

isabellanpope — 2024-05-09 19:00:23 UTC

the best-known photograph taken during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a boy holds his hands over his head while SS-Rottenführer Josef Blösche points a submachine gun in his direction.