Helmut
Newton famous photographer who primarily specialized
in fashion photography early on but later became well
known for his portraits of nude women. His start in life
was relatively difficult in comparison to many other
well-known photographers |
Manuel Bravo
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Julia Margaret
Cameron was a British photographer.
Cameron known for her portraits of celebrities of the time and for
photo with Arthurian legendary themes |
Dorothea Lange taken one
of the most recognizable and influential photographs of
all time, called the Migrant Mother. She is well known for
this photograph single-handily and is almost always used
to depict the Great Depression era in history books
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Edward Steichen is credited with having the photograph that has brought the most money ever. He is an award winning photographer who was also a brave soldier and used his photography skills virtually everywhere he had ever went.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson like many of the early photography
pioneers, was one that started as a painter. He had an
appreciation for capturing life. He loved the artistic
side and had a candid eye. As a native to
Paris, he inspired by another photographers
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Alfred Eisenstaedt has quite an amazing story
because his talent was good enough to make him popular not
only once, but twice. Alfred Eisenstaedt was a citizen of
Germany as his Jewish family moved there in 1906.
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Kevin
Carter Born in Johannesburg, Carter was an
award-winning South African photojournalist. Kevin
Carter had started to work as sports photographer in
1983. In 1984 he moved to the Johannesburg
Star, bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid
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Ernst Haas
(1921-1986) was an Austrian artist and
influential photographer noted for his innovations
color photography, experiments in abstract light and
form, and as a member of the Magnum agency |
Robert Doisneau
Paris
renowned photographer. Known for his playful
sense of style |
Bert Stern
had three sessions with Marilyn Monroe for Vogue magazine
in late June 1962, six weeks before her death. These
sessions produced extraordinarily beautiful and unique
images
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Annie Leibovitz Anna-Lou Leibovitz (1949) is a Jewish-American photographer. The family
moved frequently with her father's duty assignments, and
she took her first pictures while stationed in the
Philippines during the Vietnam War |