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Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company Historians date the oldest photograph to 1826 France. At least that's the oldest one that we know of today. That's when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce started ...
James Balog (pronounced BAY-log; born July 15, 1952) is an American photographer whose work explores the relationship between humans and nature. He is the founder and director of Earth Vision Institute in Boulder, Colorado .
[13] Because he found the effect of the colors too dominant in these, Ruff chose a light and neutral background for the portraits he made between 1986 and 1991. [ 8 ] In a discussion with Philip Pocock , [ 14 ] Ruff mentions a connection between his portraits and the police observation methods in Germany in the 1970s during the German Autumn .
Michael Kenna (born 1953) [1] is an English photographer best known for his unusual black and white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours.
Astrid Kirchherr ([ˈastʁɪt ˈkɪʁçhɛʁ]; 20 May 1938 – 12 May 2020) was a German photographer and artist known for her association with the Beatles (along with her friends Klaus Voormann and Jürgen Vollmer) and her photographs of the band's original members – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best – during their early days in Hamburg.
An amateur photographer since childhood, Eliot Porter found early inspiration photographing the birds on Maine's Great Spruce Head Island owned by his family. [2] Porter earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemical engineering from Harvard College and a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School , and remained at Harvard after graduation as ...
Cameron showed an interest in photography in the late 1850s and there are indications that she experimented with making photographs in the early 1860s. [1] [13] Around 1863, her daughter and son-in-law gave her a sliding-box camera for Christmas. [4] The gift was meant to provide a diversion while her husband was in Ceylon. [13]
In 1875, Griffith claimed that his mentor had “entered the arena of European art, associating his name with photography in its best form, and justly stands first of his countrymen in Hong Kong.” [1] John Thomson, a Scottish photographer working in China at the time, praised Lai Afong’s images as “extremely well-executed, [and ...