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Sally Mann. Sally Mann (born Sally Turner Munger; May 1, 1951) [ 1] is an American photographer known for making large format black and white photographs of people and places in her immediate surroundings: her children, husband, and rural landscapes, as well as self-portraits.
Francesca Stern Woodman (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show women, naked or clothed, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured.
Died. April 21, 2009. (2009-04-21) (aged 83) Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. Known for. Photography. Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and ...
Each of the five women – Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz and Naomi Campbell – was a noted muse, friend, and frequent subject of the photographer's fashion and fine art work. [2] The photograph is one of the original images that ushered in the 1990s pop-cultural phenomenon of the supermodel.
Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006), nude photography of women and commercial photography in Hollywood. Edyth Carter Beveridge ( c. 1862 – 1927), photojournalist. Ania Bien (born 1946), Polish-American photographer now in Amsterdam, focus on discrimination and refugees. Joan E. Biren (born 1944), focus on lesbians and feminism.
Robert Mapplethorpe. Robert Michael Mapplethorpe ( / ˈmeɪpəlˌθɔːrp / MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images.
Sanaz Mazinani (born 1978), Iranian-Canadian photographer and curator, installation based photography; Shirin Neshat (born 1957), photos of women confronted by Islamic fundamentalism, later working with multimedia and film; Ashraf os-Saltaneh (1863–1914), first woman photographer of Iran; Shirana Shahbazi (born 1974), conceptual photography ...
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [ 1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right). The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances ...