Anne Geddes

Anne Geddes is known for her portraits of children. She caught my attention because my grandma had so many of these images around the house. I remember seeing them every time I would visit. I never knew the photographer growing up though. I admire how well she can photograph children, they are a really hard subject to capture in a decent photograph.

Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt is a documentary photographer. His images caught my eye because they make you look longer than normal. Some of his images, like this one, have the image with another image in something reflective. Others make you second guess what you are seeing so you have to look at it longer to figure it out.

Irving Penn

Irving Penn is known for portraits, fashion photography, and still life photography. This one in particular caught my eye because I'm curious as to why he decided to put a raw steak with two raw eggs, butter, and a potato chip together. It is such an odd combination.

Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark did a lot of portraits, photojournalism, and advirtisment photography. Her images caught my eye with how uniwue they are.

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus made it her goal to capture the crazy, beautiful lives of those in New York. She would spend her days people-watching and get some pretty interesting images.

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry did a lot of free lance work and after several years he started to travel to India. He would travel with very little clothes and a lot of film and he would just document to country.

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange made a name for herself by traveling during the Great Depression and capturing the lives of the poor, unemployed citizens. Her pictures capture the real feelings of the people and they show just how bad some people's lives were.

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon was well known for his minimalist portraits as well as his work in the fashion industry. His work really caught my attention because his portraits look so real and candid and those are my favorite portraits. photographs really capture the person's true self when they don't know they are being photographed and they are just in the middle of their lives.

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz's career took off when she got her job with Rolling Stones Magazine. She was with them for years and she would sometimes jump into the lives of the stars she was shooting while she was with them doing assignments. She also worked with Vanity Fair for a while.

Edward Weston

Edward Weston liked to photograph everyday images in a way that makes them look distorted or like something completely different.

Carrie Mae Weems

This image is from Carrie Mae Weems' Kitchen Table collection. It caught my eye because it is a scene that most people see everyday and do not think to photograph.

Sally Mann

Sally Mann is known for her controversial images. This one in particular is her daughter with a candy cigarette.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Yann Arthus-Bertrand was famous for his landscape images. He caught my attention because I really enjoy photographs of landscape and architecture.

Jerry Uelsmann

Jerry Uelsmann is known for his very unique images. He takes different pieces of many negatives to form his photos. He basically uses Photoshop but in the darkroom.

Ansel Adams

This picture caught my eye. I like how the simplest things can make for some really cool/interesting photos.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

I don't know much about photographers, but Cartier-Bresson stood out to me. A majority of his photographs are black and white (I am assuming film but I am not positive). I enjoy his work, it is very helpful for visual examples when shooting in black and white. I really appreciate the work because I am currently taking a black and white darkroom photography class.


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