Ansel Adams
American Photographer
Environmentalist
American West
Moon and Half Dome
Yosemite National Park
1941
1902-1984
1932
Still Life - A painting or other two-dimensional work of art representing inanimate objects such as bottles, fruit, and flowers.
"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind," said Dorothea Lange. "To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking. I have only touched it, just touched it."
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Started taking photographs at age 6FrenchAutomobile races, planes, fashionable Paris women
Grand Prix de Circuit de la SeineJune 26th 1912
1894-1986
In my Room: Collection of my Racing Cars1905 (age 11)
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PaulStrand
1890-1976
Photographer and documentary film maker
Wall Street1915
1890-1976
Used Formal Abstractions
Interested in using the media for social reform and politics
Edward S. Curtis1868- 1952
Known for photographing and documenting the life of the Native American
40,000 images of 80 tribes10,000 wax cylinders recordings of music and language.
Raised controversy by altering
and staging photographs.
Josef Sudek1896-1976
Czech PhotographerLost his Arm in World War 1Photographed
Cathedral InteriorsCity NightscapesWooded LandscapesWindow to his garden