The Art of Photography

Masterpieces of photography

The classics of photography Alfred Stieglitz (1864 1946)

O Recognized as a

pioneer in the advancement of Pictorial photography in America and abroad

The artist and his muse

O Being in love with the young

painter Georgia OKeeffe he created a lot of photographs of he. Being the first photographer to be able to display in a still/frozen picture the personality and individuality of a person

he photographed her hands, her face, her body in different movements

He photographed the sun rays

O He

photographed the workers

O He photographed

things that impressed him

The streets of New York

Edward Steichen
O (March 27, 1879 March 25, 1973)

was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. O Steichen's photos of gowns designed by couturier Paul Poiret in the magazine Art et Dcoration in 1911 are regarded as the first modern fashion photographs ever published. Serving in the US Army in World War I (and the US Navy in the Second World War), he commanded significant units contributing to military photography. He was a photographer for the Cond Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair

John Szarkowski
O (December 18, 1925 July 7, 2007) was a

photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art

The dog

O He published a book entitled The Photographers Eye

in which he stressed the importance of having the eye of what to photograph in order to get to the core of things

The Cells of Holmesburg Prison, John Szarkowski

He was the one who taught us how to look at photographs.

School house

Ansel Adams
(February 20, 1902 April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park.

Modern Photographers
O Who are these photo geniuses whose masterpieces

have helped transform images taken by a single camera into a progressive art form? They are men and women from around the world who think outside of the box. Their bold photo experiments eclipse written communication and promote photography as modern art. Their treasures grace the walls of famous venues from The Art Institute of Chicago to The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Additionally, in the last half of the 20th century and the first half of the 21st century, many famous modern photographers strove to make their images more accessible to the public by publishing them in popular magazines, books and calendars.

John Shaw
O John Shaw is an icon in the field of professional nature

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photography. He has photographed on every continent, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Provence to Patagonia. When he first began his career in the early 1970s, Shaw used a variety of film cameras, primarily 35mm and 6x17cm. In the late 1990s, he went high-tech, and now he shoots exclusively with digital SLR cameras. Shaw's stellar work has been published in books and popular nature magazines, including: National Geographic Nature's Best National Wildlife Audubon Outdoor Photographer

Dave Black
O In the world of sports photography, Dave Black's

name is legendary. His award-winning images of the planet's greatest athletes, including Michael Phelps, Mary Lou Retton, Apolo Anton Ohno, and Michelle Kwan, have graced the covers of popular magazines, such as Sports Illustrated, Time, and Newsweek. Black is known for capturing specific moments of sports history and turning them into iconic images, especially photos he has taken at the last 12 Olympic Games. Black's ability to capture a viewer's attention and hold it by using unique lighting, shadows, background and color is beyond impressive.

Joe McNally
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Joe McNally is considered one of the most influential photographers of the 21st century. The internationally acclaimed American photographer is known worldwide for his ability to produce technically and logistically complex assignments with expert use of color and light. Some of McNally's most recognizable work includes: Faces of Ground Zero - Portraits of the Heroes of September 11th: McNally's collection of 246 Giant Polaroid portraits shot near Ground Zero in a three-week period shortly after 9/11 is considered by many museum curators to be the most significant artistic endeavor to evolve to date from the September 11th tragedy. The Future of Flying: McNally's 2003 cover shot and 32-page spread in National Geographic, chronicling the future of aviation was the first all digital shoot for the magazine. The photo collection commemorated the centennial observance of the Wright Brothers' flight and was the magazine's best-selling issue ever. Olympic Nude Series: McNally's award-winning series of black-and-white and color photos depicting the United States 1996 Olympic team as a series of nude figure studies was published in LIFE magazine. It was the only time in the history of LIFE that the publication ran four separate covers in one month.

The future of flying

Olympic nude series

O "I wanted to do something

different. I really wanted to photograph these people's bodies. Not for erotic content, but to show how the idea of an Olympian connotes not only athletic ability but incorporates a lot of our ideas of what ideal beauty is."

Annie Leibovitz
O Annie Leibovitz has captured some of the most enduring

images of modern time. The American portrait photographer is known as one of the world's leading entertainment photographers. In 1973, Leibovitz made history by becoming the first female chief photographer of Rolling Stone. Her awardwinning work has also been featured in other publications, including Vanity Fair and Time. O One of Leibovitz's most important contributions to photography came during a photo shoot with the legendary singer John Lennon, in which she convinced the Beatle to remove his clothes and wrap himself around his wife Yoko Ono. Leibovitz would be the last person to professionally photograph Lennon, who was shot and killed five hours later. In addition, her iconic black-and-white portraits of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, shirtless and gritty, elevated her to the top of her profession.

Nicole Kidman

Anne Geddes
O Anne Geddes is an Australian photographer best known for her O O O O O O O

unique work with infants. Her phenomenally popular pictures of newborns placed in various settings, such as gardens, flowerpots, and cabbages have appeared on: Greeting cards Calendars Books Stationery Photo albums An array of other products Geddes' gift of turning pictures into profit has made her one of the most successful commercial photographers in the history of the profession.

The most expensive photograph in the world by Andreas Gursky- $3,89 mln

O 1st February 1968 - The famous Pullitzer Prize-winning

Vietnam war picture by American photographer Eddie Adams. It shows Saigon police chief General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive.
O O Eddie Adams (who died in 2004) wrote in Time

Magazine: "The general killed the Vietcong. I killed the general with my camera". Adams later apologised in person to General Nguyen and his family for the irreparable damage the photograph did to the General's honour while he was alive.

O The 1994 Pullitzer Prize was awarded to South African

photographer Kevin Carter for this horrific photograph of an emaciated Sudanese toddler, apparently being stalked by a vulture. It created enormous controversy, with many believing Carter should have helped the child, rather than just photograph her. In his defence, he said the child had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding centre, whereupon the vulture had landed nearby. He waited about 20 minutes, hoping the vulture would spread its wings. It didn't, so Carter took the photograph and chased the vulture away. The eventual fate of the little girl is not known, although it's believed she was taken to hospital (possibly by Carter).

O Kissing the War

goodbye

Omayra Sanchez was a young Colombian girl who died during the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, which destroyed the town of Armero in November 1985. O Omayra was stuck for nearly three days in the mud and water, surrounded by corpses and debris. She was 13 years old. Rescuers were unable to release her with the equipment they had available and she eventually died from gangrene and hypothermia. During her struggle to survive, her courage was astounding, and according to aid workers and journalists who were with her throughout her ordeal, she was thinking about returning to school and passing exams.
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Falling Man
The Falling Man jumped from the top of the North Tower of the World Trade Centre at 9.41am on September 11th 2001, during the terrorist attacks on America that will now always be known as '9/11'. He was photographed by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew, and the image became a tragic symbol of the horror of that day as the victim in this photograph, and around 200 others, jumped from the building rather than be burned alive.

O The Kim Phuc Story

O VIETNAM - 8th June 1972 - The iconic picture by

Associated Press photographer Nick Ut of a 9year-old Vietnamese girl named Phan Thi Kim Phuc (known as Kim Phuc) running away from an air strike, with her clothes burnt off and her skin hanging in shreds as a result of napalm. The photograph won Nick Ut the Pullitzer Prize, and it was also named World Press Photo of the Year in 1972.

O Kim Phuc after

years. A happy mother of two children with a brilliant future but with a scarred past.