Photographyand the Still Life

1826Oldest surviving photographTaken by French inventor Nicephore Niepce

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.

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother1936

Mother of seven childrenOn the brink of starvation

1895-1965

Family1957

"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

Abstraction, Twin Lakes Connecticut

1916

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.

Apache still life1907

Josef Sudek1896-1976

Czech PhotographerLost his Arm in World War 1Photographed

Cathedral InteriorsCity NightscapesWooded LandscapesWindow to his garden