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Photographs are legacies passed onto future generations. FInd out who the 21 most iconic and famous photographers are that paved the way for others. #famous #photographers #photography #history

February 6, 2022One of the strangest and most beguiling books to cross our desks recently is a brazen but loving act of appropriation: Zone Eleven (Damiani). It is by the conceptual artist Mike Mandel, but its contents are 83 photographs by the lens legend Ansel Adams (1902–84), he of the mighty Yosemite landscapes in crystalline […]

These 20 famous photographs are significant in history each for their own reason. Learn how photography has literally changed history.

If you love street photography than you will want to study these famous street photographers who influenced the genre as we know it today.

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer who was known for "candid" photography. He was also an early user of 35 mm film. He was born in 1908 and died in 2004. Part of his book, The Decisive Moment, 1952 I personally like this photo because it shows how composed a candid photo can be. This photo clearly was taken quickly, as he had to capture the birds flying away, but it looks as if a lot of time and planning went into it. He talks about this candid, quick photography in his book The…

This iconic surrealist image of the women with the spherical tears is by avant-garde photographer and artist Man Ray (1890-1976). It is marvellously theatrical, and surreal because it only partly …

Who are the most famous photographers of all time?

You'll learn a little bit about the most famous photographers in history. An interesting summary is provided for each person photography.

Vivian Maier is the Emily Dickinson of street photography. Maier worked as a nanny in New York and Chicago for more than a half-century, and took thousands of brilliant photographs, never sharing them with anyone except, occasionally, for the children in her charge. Some of her negatives were found by chance, when a local real estate agent purchased them at an auction house; now an exhibition of her photography is traveling the world (this summer it's in the U.K.)....

Street photography captures the beauty of the everyday. We're all familiar with urban spaces, but street photographers observe their surrounding with a sharper eye. They can see the unusual in the everyday, the funny in the dull, and the extraordinary in the ordinary.