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Photographs are legacies passed onto future generations. FInd out who the 21 most iconic and famous photographers are that paved the way for others. #famous #photographers #photography #history

February 6, 2022One of the strangest and most beguiling books to cross our desks recently is a brazen but loving act of appropriation: Zone Eleven (Damiani). It is by the conceptual artist Mike Mandel, but its contents are 83 photographs by the lens legend Ansel Adams (1902–84), he of the mighty Yosemite landscapes in crystalline […]

If you love street photography than you will want to study these famous street photographers who influenced the genre as we know it today.

This iconic surrealist image of the women with the spherical tears is by avant-garde photographer and artist Man Ray (1890-1976). It is marvellously theatrical, and surreal because it only partly …

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Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer who was known for "candid" photography. He was also an early user of 35 mm film. He was born in 1908 and died in 2004. Part of his book, The Decisive Moment, 1952 I personally like this photo because it shows how composed a candid photo can be. This photo clearly was taken quickly, as he had to capture the birds flying away, but it looks as if a lot of time and planning went into it. He talks about this candid, quick photography in his book The…

Vivian Maier is the Emily Dickinson of street photography. Maier worked as a nanny in New York and Chicago for more than a half-century, and took thousands of brilliant photographs, never sharing them with anyone except, occasionally, for the children in her charge. Some of her negatives were found by chance, when a local real estate agent purchased them at an auction house; now an exhibition of her photography is traveling the world (this summer it's in the U.K.)....

Simple is Beautiful on Instagram: “Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson #stairs #pigeon #fly #woman #italy #beautiful #henricartierbresqson #light #tiles #wings #magnumphotos…”

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Behind the Gare St. Lazare. 1932. Gelatin silver print, printed 1950s. 13 7/8 × 9 1/2" (35.2 × 24.1 cm). Gift of the artist, by exchange. 249.2005. © 2024 Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris. Photography

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