Mr. Hunt Photographers Exam

Niépce

Considered the pioneer of photography

First photo was of a triangle roof

1826-27

Daguerre

Worked with Niepce, but when Niepce died in 1833, went on to invent the Daguerre-type involving mercury

Talbot

Worked in England in the 1840s taking photos using his own method. Photos of streets, construction

Muybridge

1860s '70s and '80s

'60s in Yosemite

'70s in Central America

'80s back in the US

Life in motion (Human and Animals)

Published photos in rows of motion

Curtis

Made a Series on Native Americans

Most photos were intimate portraits or pictures of Native American Life

Black and White and faded.

Made a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt

Brady

Civil war photographer who took photos of Presidents, Generals, and photos of wartime conflict.

Hine

Took photos of child labor. Most of his photos, the subject is in the middle and the background is out of focus.

Atget

Street Photography in Paris in 1800s

wispy and blurred due to long exposures, and relatively wide angle of view

Vignettes in some images. Look up on google for better pictures

Stiechen

Sensitive photographs in the Symbolist style of landscapes, genre scenes, and New York cityscapes and perceptive portraits of wealthy and creative individuals in Paris and New York

Stieglitz

Photographed places in New York City

Cunningham

Photographed plant forms

Strand

Photographed urban sites and machine forms. Also lady holding the blind sign.

Man Ray

Photographed the human figure as well as photographs of eyes.

Sudek

Took photos of Prague. Still lifes. One arm.

Kertèsz

Took photos of people in Hungary. Cubism movement in Paris. A series called "Distortion" in which two nude models were photographed in a house of mirrors, sometimes allowing only certain parts of their bodies to be seen.

White

Photojournalist who photographed the Fort Peck Dam as well as the Dust Bowl. Also, during WW2, she went to Russia and took photos of the war. Also photographed Stalin smiling and Ghandi.

Koudelka

Street photographer who commonly photographed desolation, waste, departure, despair, and alienation

Weston

Bell pepper photo. Cabbage leaf photo. Angles as framing objects for nudes. Natural form and figure. Some of his nudes were very out of focus.

Adams

Most famous black and white landscape photographer.

Newman

Photographed famous political and cultural people

1936-2005 he took photos

Laughlin

Surrealist photographs of the U.S. South

Siskind

Abstract expressionism movement.

Brassai

Took photos in Paris, mostly at night. Both people and places.

Bresson

Took street photography.

One of the first to use a handheld camera.

Some of the time the people were dark and blurry.

Lange

Took photos of people during the Depression Era.

Evans

Also took photos of during the Depression Era, similarly to Dorothea Lange

Frank

Photographs of streets and people. The book was called The American and featured people in windows next to a flag. Also had a famous photograph that he took of people looking out of a train.

Salgado

Photos of workers and migrant-looking-people in South America. Sad photos mostly.

Uelsmann

Pioneer of multilayered imagery. Surreal landscapes that combine rocks, trees, and people.

Smith

Photojournalist in a clinic, during WW2, and pollution damage in Japan.

Penn

Fashion photographer who took portraits of women for vogue, as well as men.

Arbus

Black and White Portraits

Mostly Square

Took photos of "ugly" people (Transgender, Deformed, Dwarf, Giant, Circus)

Famous: Grenade Boy, Twins

Late '60s to '70s in NYC

Photos of sex and nudists

Porter

Color photographs of nature. Started taking pictures in color in the 40s, using Kodak's Kodachrome.

Weegee

Ambulance chaser in the '30s and '40s

Photographed mostly disaster and horror.

Made pictures that displayed the "disorder of the streets."

Photographed the antagonized, shocked, and depressed.

Photos had an uneasiness in the scene

Avedon

Portrait photographer who mostly photographed people's head and faces, as well as some odd photos like the one shown.

Wegman

(Mostly color) photos of dogs

Sherman

Black and white portraits of women looking away from the camera and color photos of clowns and women with heavily painted faces.

Klett

Pictures of landscapes with other photos copied over. Most photos have color.

Carter

Photos of people, usually with heavy vingnette, that are blurry around the edges and focused only in the middle. Black and White. Search on google for photos.

Nachtwey

American photojournalist and war photographer who took photos of starvation and people suffering. Black and White photos.