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Sweet graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School. After completing a master's degree from the University of Colorado in Fine Arts (with a focus on photography) in 1977, Sweet along with his friend and fellow university graduate Gary Monroe decided to devote the next ten years of their lives to the "Miami Beach Photographic Project". Sweet ...
This category is for articles about specific photographs (whether free-use or fair-use), or specific series or lists of notable photographs. It should not contain the images themselves, nor should it contain fair- or free-use images which do not have articles written about them. The main articles for this topic are at photography, or photograph ...
Winogrand's parents, Abraham and Bertha, [1] emigrated to the U.S. from Budapest and Warsaw. Garry grew up with his sister Stella in a predominantly Jewish working-class area of the Bronx, New York, where his father was a leather worker in the garment industry, and his mother made neckties for piecemeal work.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. Art and practice of creating images by recording light For other uses, see Photography (disambiguation). Photography of Sierra Nevada Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically ...
New Documents was an influential [1] documentary photography exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1967, curated by John Szarkowski. [2] It presented photographs by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand and is said to have "represented a shift in emphasis" [3] and "identified a new direction in photography: pictures that seemed to have a casual, snapshot-like look and ...
The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce.The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, France, in 1826, but Niépce's process was not sensitive enough to be practical for that application: a camera ...
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]
Smith launched his career in Autumn 1978 and made street photography, blurring the line between journalism and art. [14] [15] [9] His projects included: Cold War. Waiting for Improvement. 3:30 AM New York City, 1987 Eruption of the Sufriere Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, 1997 Only known photograph of a Taliban confederate escaping U.S. bombers adjacent to Tora Bora, 2001 ...