Famous Photographers

Capturing the Swinging Sixties: David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Lewis Morely

The 1960s was a time when the young began to have a voice and music, films, politics and culture shifted to celebrate this new era. Photographers of the time became famous in their own right as fashion magazines and celebrities wanted to be captured in...

Jeff Wall: Realism and Artifice

Jeff Wall is a Canadian photographer who began to create constructed tableau images in the late 1970s. His images blur the boundaries between fact and fiction and ask the viewer to question the nature of photography itself.

Famous Photographers and Their Craft

Throughout time, photographers have caught people and events on camera to let us relive that moment in our history. With these photos, we can study, remember and visualize what the era was like, where we were and what we need to change. Biographies...

Through the Eyes of a First Lady

Which First Lady was a photographer and what caused her to give up on her dream? Through various trials and tribulations this First Lady accomplished a lot of things including a short stint as a photographer with the Washington Times-Herald.

A Closer Look at Atget, Avedon and Meyerowitz

Three famous photographers works show how the medium of photography has evolved and become an integral part of art in the twentieth century.

Capturing a Vanished City: The Photography of Eugene Atget

Eugène Atget saw himself not as an art photographer, but as a documenter of Old Paris and provider of references to artists. Yet it is because his work was so straightforward that he became lauded as an artist after his death, when his work had enormous...

Japanese Photographers after World War II

After the attack of Pearl Harbor and the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, Japanese photographers saw a troubled world.

New Ways of Seeing: Women Photographers of the 20th Century

Women photographers have been around since the birth of photography but have often been overlooked. In the late 1960s and 1970s, with the birth of feminism, women photographers came into their own using photographs as a cheap and accessible means of expressing...

How Man Ray Revolutionized Photography

Man Ray was a photographer who was an important part of the birth if surrealism in the 1920s. His photography pushed the boundaries of the medium and moved it away from the pictorialism prevalent at the time. Man Ray created new photographic techniques...

Prestigious Male Photojournalists of the 1900s

These famous 20th century photographers worked in environmental, wartime, celebrity and sports photography. Regardless of the arena of their work, these men created photographs transcending the genre, becoming works of art and withstanding the test of...