Bert Stern took his Hasselblad,
Nikon 35mm with 105mm lens and a Graflex 4x5 with Polaroid back
cameras for his dream-shoot. His best known work his The Last
Sitting.
A collection of 2,500 photographs taken of
Marilyn Monroe
over a three day period, six weeks before her death, for
Vogue. When Stern published this collection in 1992 he
admitted being enchanted by her until a near-intimate encounter
during the second day of shooting when realized she was deeply
troubled
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Revolving Door 1974 - Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander.
American documentary has a
earnestness born of confidence in their own view of the world. His art used detached images of urban
life, store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, and
posters and signs all combining to capture the look of modern life. Over the years Friedlander
explored such subjects as cityscapes, nudes and gardens
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 Ansel Adams pursued
"straight photography," in which the clarity of the lens was
emphasized, and the final print gave no appearance of being manipulated
in the camera or the darkroom. He served as principal photographic
consultant to Polaroid and Hasselblad. Adams developed the famous and
highly complex "zone system" of controlling and relating
exposure and development, enabling photographers to creatively
visualize an image and produce a photograph that matched and expressed
that visualization. He produced ten volumes of technical manuals on
photography, which are the most influential books written on the
subject
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