American Photographers

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AmericanPhotographers Their Art

• A highlighted history of photography

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Alfred SteiglitzAmerican, 1864 - 1946

Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 July 13,
1946) was an American-born photographer who was
instrumental over his fifty-year career in making
photography an acceptable art form alongside
painting and sculpture. Many of his photographs
are known for appearing like those other art
forms, and he is also known for his marriage to
painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
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The Steerage, 1907
Venice, 1907
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Georgia OKeefe 1918
Georgia OKeefe, 1918
Georgia, 1920
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Edward WestonAmerican, 1886-1958

• Edward Weston (March 24, 1886 - January 1, 1958)
  was an American photographer, and co-founder of
  Group f/64. Most of his work was done using an 8
  by 10 inch view camera.
• According to the group's manifesto, "the members
  of Group f/64 believe that photography, as an art
  form, must develop along lines defined by the
  actualities and limitations of the photographic
  medium, and must always remain independent of
  ideological conventions of art and aesthetics
  that are reminiscent of a period and culture
  antedating the growth of the medium itself."

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Shells, 1927
Pepper No. 30, 1930
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White Dunes Oceano California, 1936
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Nude, 1936
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Ansel AdamsAmerican, 1902-1984

• Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 - April 22,
  1984) was an American photographer, known for his
  black and white photographs of the California's
  Yosemite Valley.
• Adams was also the author of numerous books about
  photography, including his trilogy of technical
  instruction manuals (The Camera, The Negative and
  The Print). He co-founded the photographic
  association Group f/64 along with other masters
  like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, Imogen
  Cunningham and others.

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The Tetons and The Snake River, 1942
Bridal Veil Falls, 1927
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Oak Tree Snow Storm, 1948
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Imogen CunninghamAmerican, 1883-1976

• From bold, evocative nudes to starkly beautiful
  still lifes, Imogen Cunningham's impressive body
  of work has garnered her worldwide acclaim. One
  of the first women to make her living as a
  photographer, Cunningham consistently
  experimented with a wide range of techniques
  during her amazing career, which spanned seven
  full decades.
• Starting in the 1920s, she began making sharply
  focused, close up studies of plant life and
  unconventional views of industrial structures and
  modern architecture. Concerned with light, form,
  and abstract pattern, these photographs
  established her as one of the pioneers of
  modernist photography on the West Coast. In the
  1930s, she joined the legendary San Francisco
  collective f/64 with Ansel Adams and others.

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The Dream, 1910
Alfred, 1934
Ansel, 1975
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Magnolia Blossom, 1925
Succulent, 1920
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The Unmade Bed, 1957
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Martha Graham, 1920
Martha Graham, 1931
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Irving PennAmerican 1917

• Irving Penn studied under Alexey Brodovitch at
  the Philadelphia Museum School from which he
  graduated in 1938. Penn's drawings were published
  by Harper's Bazaar and he also painted. As his
  career in photography blossomed, he became known
  for post World War II feminine chic and glamour
  photography.
• Penn worked for many years doing fashion
  photography for Vogue magazine. He was among the
  first photographers to pose subjects against a
  simple grey or white backdrop and used this
  simplicity more effectively than other
  photographers.
• Clarity, composition, careful arrangement of
  objects or people, form, and the use of light
  characterize Penn's work. Penn also photographs
  still life objects and found objects in unusual
  arrangements with great detail and clarity.

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Ballet Theater 1947
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Tennessee Williams 1951
3 Asaro Mud Men 1970
3 Rissani Women 1971
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Cigarette 17 1972
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Diane ArbusAmerican 1923-1971

• Arbus was born in New York City into a wealthy
  Jewish family, in which she was overshadowed by
  her older brother, the poet, Howard Nemerov.
• A photographer, noted for her portraits of people
  on the fringes of society.
• She and her husband Allan Arbus studied
  photography together.
• Most people go through life dreading they'll
  have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born
  with their trauma. They've already passed their
  test in life. They're aristocrats. Diane Arbus

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Jewish Giant at home with parents 1970
Identical Twins 1967
A young Brooklyn Family 1966
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Debutant 1965
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Man RayAmerican 1890-1976

• Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia Emmanuel,
  who was called "Manny" as a nickname, thereafter
  used the single name Man Ray.
• In 1915, Man Ray had his first one-man show of
  paintings and drawings. His first proto-Dada
  object, an assemblage titled "Self-Portrait", was
  exhibited the following year. He produced his
  first significant photographs in 1918.
• While living in New York City, with his friend
  Marcel Duchamp, he formed the American branch of
  the Dada movement, which began in Europe as a
  radical rejection of traditional art. He
  co-founded the group of modern artists called
  Others.
• He was a photographer, painter and director.

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Le Violen d Ingres 1924
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Les Larmes (Tears) 1926
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Noire et Blanche (white and black mask)
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Dorthea LangeAmerican, 1895-1965

• Dorothea Lange was an influential documentary
  photographer. Lange is best known for her
  Depression-era work for the Farm Security
  Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs
  humanized the tragic consequences of the Great
  Depression and profoundly influenced the
  development of documentary photography.
• Born in Hoboken New Jersey, Lange began her
  career in New York, later migrating to San
  Francisco where she opened a portrait studio in
  1918. With the onset of the Great Depression,
  Lange turned her camera lens from the studio to
  the street.
• Lange was also one of the founding members of
  Aperture, a leading photography publication.

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Stranded San Joaquin Valley, Ca. 1935
Street Demonstration San Francisco 1933
Country Road 1954
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Migrant Mother California 1936
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Introduction to Contemporary Photographers
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Richard AvedonAmerican, 1923-2004

• Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish
  family. After briefly attending Columbia
  University, he started as a photographer for the
  Merchant Marines in 1942, taking identification
  pictures of the crewmen.
• In 1944, he began working as an advertising
  photographer for a department store, but was
  quickly discovered by Alexey Brodovitch, the art
  director for the fashion magazine Harper's
  Bazaar. In 1946, Avedon had set up his own studio
  and began providing images for magazines
  including Vogue and Life.

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Dovima with Elephants 1955
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Image from Harpers Bazaar 1955
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Andy Warhol 1969
Truman Capote 1974
Ronald Fisher 1981
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Ruth Bernhard1905-2006

• She was an American photographer. Born in Berlin
  and raised in New York.
• Her Father was a successful photographer.
• She is most well known for her discreet female
  nudes and interesting still lifes.

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Perspective II 1967
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Lifesavers 1930
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Angel Wing 1943
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