Dorothea Lange
In 1941, Lange recieved a Guggenheim fellowship for achievement
in photography. Her images of the war were so critical of the war that most of her pictures were impounded, and not seen in public for over 50 years. From 1935-1939, Dorothea Lange's work for the RA and FSA brought sharecroppers, displaced farm families and migrant workers to public attention. |
Lewis Hine
In 1907, Hine became the
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Matthew Brady
Matthew Brady photographed the Civil War and was one of the first photographers to ever photograph a war in general. In 1844, Brady opened his own photography studio in
New York and began to publish his portraits of famous Americans like Senator Daniel Webster and Poet Edgar Allan Poe. He photographed 18 of the 19 American Presidents from John Quincey Adams to William McKinley. |
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard emigrated to America when he was 20 years old. First to New York where he got a job as a book seller and then to San Francisco. He returned to England in 1861 and took up professional Photography. To win a bet, Eadweard used a bunch of cameras to get snapshots of a galloping horse. The bet was whether or not all four of the horses legs came off the ground while running or not. Muybridge created a device that by putting different images of a galloping horse on panels and looking at them through a light it will look like the horse in the picture is moving.
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