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2. Portrait photography - Wikipedia

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   Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. [1] A portrait photograph may be artistic or clinical. [1] Frequently, portraits are commissioned for special occasions, such as weddings, school events, or ...

3. Aimé Dupont - Wikipedia

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   16 February 1900. (1900-02-16) (aged 58) New York City, New York, U.S. Occupation (s) Photographer, sculptor. Aimé Dupont (6 December 1841 – 16 February 1900) was a Belgian-born American sculptor and photographer who was best known for his pictures of opera singers when he was the official photographer for the Metropolitan Opera in New York ...

4. Hazel Larsen Archer - Wikipedia

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   Hazel Frieda Archer ( née Larsen; April 23, 1921, Milwaukee, Wisconsin – May 18, 2001, Tucson, Arizona) was a twentieth-century American female photographer who attended and then taught at Black Mountain College. Her images and prints captured life at Black Mountain, and her art theory and teaching influenced major 20th-century artists and ...

5. Bachrach Studios - Wikipedia

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   It was founded in Baltimore in 1868 by David Bachrach, Jr. [1] The studio's founder, David Bachrach, took the only photo of Abraham Lincoln 's Gettysburg Address. The studio has photographed every US Head of State since then, its founder having made it a goal to photograph all the important people he could. He sought and received permission to ...

6. Photographer - Wikipedia

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   A professional photographer may be an employee, for example of a newspaper, or may contract to cover a particular planned event such as a wedding or graduation, or to illustrate an advertisement. Others, like fine art photographers, are freelancers, first making an image and then licensing or making printed copies of it for sale or display.

7. Photographic studio - Wikipedia

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   The history of photographic studios and photography dates back to the 1840s with the invention of processes for recording camera pictures, by Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre. The earliest photographic studios made use of natural daylight to create photographic portraits. As already used by artists, a northern light with no direct sunlight ...