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Robert Abban (born 1989) Campbell Addy (born c. 1993) Daniel Attoumou Amicchia (1908–1994) Philip Kwame Apagya (born 1958) Gilbert Asante (born 1987) James Barnor (born 1929) Eric Gyamfi (born 1990) Josephine Kuuire.
Helmer-Petersen was born and grew up in the Østerbro quarter of Copenhagen. He started taking photographs in 1938, when he received a Leica camera as a graduation present. [1] At an early stage, he became aware of the trends in international photography; in the 1940s he subscribed to the US Camera Annual and in this period became familiar with ...
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1947) Dancing Refugees at Kurukshetra camp, Punjab. As France in particular, [15] but also Belgium and the Netherlands, emerged from the dark period of the Occupation (1940–4), the liberation of Paris in August 1944 released photographers to respond to reconstruction [16] and the Fourth Republic's (1947–59) drive to redefine a French identity after war, defeat ...
In 1884, his parents returned to America, but 20-year-old Stieglitz remained in Germany and collected books on photography and photographers in Europe and the U.S. [5] He bought his first camera, an 8 × 10 plate film camera, and traveled through the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. He took photographs of landscapes and workers in the countryside.
The emerging attention that Bing has enjoyed from the 1970s through the 1980s can be traced back to the growing fascination and interest in European photography of the 1920s and 1930s. [ 19 ] From 1984 onwards, Ilse Bing made a number of appearances in the USA and Germany as a speaker on the development of modern art, especially photography.
New York City, U.S. Other names. Arthur Fellig. Occupation. Photographer. Known for. Street photography of crime scenes or emergencies. Arthur (Usher) Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City. [1]
The European Society for the History of Photography ( ESHPh ), founded in 1978, is a society concerned with the historical events within photography from a European perspective. The ESHPh publicly hosts symposia, publishes journals, and distributes the "International Letter" to its members. The ESHPh is actively chronicling the historiography ...
The history of the single-lens reflex camera (SLR) begins with the use of a reflex mirror in a camera obscura described in 1676, but it took a long time for the design to succeed for photographic cameras. The first patent was granted in 1861, and the first cameras were produced in 1884, but while elegantly simple in concept, they were very ...