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A comprehensive list of notable photographers from various countries and regions, organized alphabetically by name. Each photographer's name is linked to their biography and works on Wikipedia.
Parallel efforts to produce coloured photographic images affected the popularity of hand-colouring. In 1842 Daniel Davis Jr. patented a method for colouring daguerreotypes through electroplating, [4] and his work was refined by Warren Thompson the following year. The results of the work of Davis and Thompson were only partially successful in ...
A comprehensive index of notable awards given for photography in different regions and countries. Find out the award name, venue, sponsor, categories and notes for each award.
February 22 – Billy Name, born William Linich Jr., American photographer, collaborator with Andy Warhol; March 7 – Hannah Wilke, American painter, sculptor and photographer (d. 1993) March 20 – Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer (d. 2015) April 11 – Marcia Tucker, American museum curator (d. 2006) April 16 – Joan Snyder, American ...
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was an American photographer known for her portraits, urban landscapes, and scientific images. She studied sculpture and photography in Paris, acquired the legacy of Eugène Atget, and documented the transformation of New York City in the 1930s.
Pictorialism is a movement that dominated photography from the 1850s to the 1940s, aiming to create artistic images rather than record reality. Learn about its origins, characteristics, influences, and prominent photographers from different countries and regions.
Erich Hartmann was born July 29, 1922, in Munich, Germany, the eldest child of Max and Irma (Blattner) Hartmann who lived in Passau, a small city on the Danube near the Austrian border in which they were one of five Jewish families.
Gertrude Fehr came from a prominent German Jewish family. [3] In 1918, after an apprenticeship in the Munich studio of Eduard Wasow, Fehr opened her own studio, employing six people. [2] In 1933, she was forced to flee Germany due to the political climate at the time. She fled with Jules Fehr, her future Swiss husband, to Paris. In 1934, the ...