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Master of Photography: Ansel Adams
Born: February 20, 1902 Died: April 22, 1084
Famous For: Developed the Zone System
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Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, California. In 1919 he contracted the
Spanish Flu and became very sick but recovered after several months to
resume his outdoor life. His first photographs were published in 1921. In
September 1983, Adams was confined to his bed for four weeks after leg
surgery to remove a tumor. Adams died on April 22, 1984.
In 1927 Adams produced his first portfolio named Parmelian Prints of the High
Sierras. In 1930 Taos Pueblo, Adams's first book, was published with text by
writer Mary Hunter Austin. In 1952 Adams was one of the founders of the
magazine Aperture, which was photography showcasing its best practitioners
and newest innovations.

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Master of Photography: Mathew Brady
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1822 January 15, 1896
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Brady was born in Warren County, New York. The youngest of three children
of Irish immigrant parents. At age 16 he moved to Saratoga, New York, where
he met, portrait painter William Page. Brady became Page's student. In 1844
Brady opened his own photography studio in New York.
Brady photographed 18 of the 19 American Presidents from John Quincy
Adams to William McKinley but the exception was the 9th President, William
Henry Harrison. Brady photographed many senior Union officers in the war,
including Ulysses S. Grant. Brady can be considered a pioneer in the
orchestration of a "corporate credit line."

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Master of Photography: Julia Margaret Cameron
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June 11, 1815 January 26, 1879
fancy portraits
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Julia Margaret Cameron was born in Calcutta, India, to Adeline de l'Etang and
James Pattle, a British official of the East India Company. Julia was from a
family of celebrated. She was considered an ugly duckling among her sisters.
Julia Cameron married Charles Hay Cameron in 1838.
In 1863, Cameron daughter gave her a camera as a present for her 48
birthday. Cameron became a member of the Photographic Societies of London
and Scotland within the same year. During her career, Cameron registered
each of her photographs with the copyright office. Her shrewd business sense
is one reason that so many of her works survive today.

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Master of Photography: Alfred Stieglitz
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January 1, 1864 July 13, 1946
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Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, New Jersey the first son of German-Jewish
immigrants Edward Stieglitz and Hedwig Ann Werner. Stieglitz was sent to the
Charlier Institute in 1871, at that time was the best private school in New York.
When he bought his first camera he traveled through the European
countryside, taking many photographs of landscapes and peasants in
Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
In 1890s Stieglitz already considered himself an artist with a camera, and he
refused to sell his photographs or seek employment doing anything else.
However During that time, Stieglitz had befriended the editor of The American
Amateur Photographer magazine, and soon he was writing regularly for that
journal. In the late spring of 1907 Stieglitz took the unusual step of
collaborating on a series of photographic experiments with his friend Clarence
H. White. In 1925 Stieglitz was invited by the Anderson Galleries to put
together one of the largest exhibitions of American art that had ever been
organized, and he responded with great happiness.

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Master of Photography: W. Eugene Smith
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December 30, 1918 October 15, 1978
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William Eugene Smith was born December 30, 1918 in Wichita, Kansas. Smith
graduated from Wichita North High School in1936 and began his career. On
October 15, 1978 William Eugene Smith died for long-term use of drugs.
He began his career by taking pictures for two local newspapers, The Wichita
Eagle and the Beacon. In 1945 he was wounded while photographing battle
conditions in the Pacific theater of World War II. In 1950, he was sent to the
United Kingdom to cover the General Election. In January 1972, Smith was
attacked by Chisso employees near Tokyo. Today, Smith's legacy lives on
through the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund.

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Master of Photography: Dorothea Lange
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May 26, 1895 October 11, 1965
Documentary Photography
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Dorothea Margaretta Lange was born a second generation German
immigrants on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. She dropped her middle
name and assumed her mother's name after her father abandoned the family
when she was 12 years old. At age 7 Dorothea had polio that weaken her right
leg and gave her a permanent limp. Lange died of esophageal cancer on
October 11, 1965, age 70.
Lange was educated in photography at Columbia University. From 1935 to
1939, Dorothea Lange's work for the RA and FSA that brought the plight of the
poor and forgotten. In 1941, Lange was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for
excellence in photography. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, she gave up the
prestigious award to record the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans to
relocation camps. In 2006, a school was named in Nipomo, California, near the
site where she photographed "Migrant Mother".

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Master of Photography: Alexander Rodchenko
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December 5, 1891 December 3,1956
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Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was born December 4 1891 in
St.Petersburg to a working-class family. His family moved to Kazan after the
death of his father, in 1909. In 1910, he began to study under Nicolai Fechin
and Georgii Medvedev at the Kazan Art School, where he met his wife Varvara
Stepanova. Alexander Rodchenko dies December 3, 1956 in Moscow.
In his early years of his career, he began creating his first abstract drawings,
influenced by the Suprematism of Kazimir Malevich, in 1915. Rodchenko was
appointed Director of the Museum Bureau and Purchasing Fund by the
Bolshevik Government in 1920 and taught from 1920 to 1930 at the Higher
Technical-Artistic Studios. Rodchenko joined the October circle of artists in
1928 but was expelled three years. He returned to painting in the late 1930s,
stopped photographing in 1942.

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Master of Photography: Robert Frank
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November 9, 1924 N/A
Photography collection The Americans
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Frank was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Switzerland on November 9,
1924. Though Frank and his family remained safe in Switzerland during World
War II, the threat of Nazism affected his understanding of oppression. He
turned to photography, in part as a means to escape the confines of his
business-oriented family and home. Frank moved to the United States in 1947,
and secured a job in New York City as a fashion photographer for Harper's
Bazaar. Over the years Robert got into films and even written a the book “The
Americans.
With the help of his artistic influence, the photographer Walker Evans, Frank
secured a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in
1955 to travel across the United States and photograph all strata of its society.
He took his family along with him for part of his series of road trips over the
next two years, during which time he took 28,000 shots. Only 83 of those were
finally selected by him for publication in the book The Americans. By the time
The Americans was published in the United States, Frank had moved away
from photography to concentrate on filmmaking.

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Master of Photography: Lennart Nilsson
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August 24, 1922 N/A
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Lennart Nilsson was born August 24, 1922 in Strängnäs, Sweden. His father
gave him his first camera at age twelve. In his late teens and twenties, he
began taking a series of environmental portraits with his Icoflex Zeiss camera.
He started his professional career in the mid-1940s as a freelance
photographer, working frequently for the publisher Åhlen & Åkerlund of
Stockholm.
After starting his professional career in mid-1940s is first assignments was
covering the liberation of Norway in 1945 during World War II. In the mid-
1950s he began experimenting with new photographic techniques to make
extreme close-up photographs. In the 1960s he made groundbreaking
photographs of living human blood vessels and body cavities. In 1969 he
began using a scanning electron microscope on a life assignment to depict the
body’s functions. Then in 2003, he took the first image of the SARS virus.

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Master of Photography: Annie Leibovitz
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October 2, 1949 N/A
New way to take pictures of celebrities
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Annie Leibovitz was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 2, 1949. She
the third of six children and is a third-generation American whose great-
grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Europe. At Roosevelt high school,
she became interested in various artistic endeavors, and began to write and
play music then later attended San Francisco Art Institute. In 1970, she started
her career as staff photographer.
Annie Leibovitz she started her career as staff photographer for the Rolling
Stone magazine. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief
photographer of Rolling Stone, she had the job for 10 years. She was awarded
The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship in
2009.

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Master of Photography: Richard Avedon
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May 15, 1923 October 1, 2004
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Avedon was born in New York City, to a Jewish family on May 15, 1923. At the
age of 12, Richard Avedon’s interests started in the photography world when
he joined the Young Men’s Hebrew Association Camera Club. Richard Avedon
attended DeWitt Clinton High School, where he worked on the school paper
The Magpie with James Baldwin from 1937 until 1940. From 1944 to 1950, he
studied photography with Alexey Brodovitch at his Design Laboratory at the
New School for Social Research.
In 1944, Avedon began working as an photographer for a department store.
His work was quickly endorsed by Alexey Brodovitch, the art director for the
fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar. In 1946, Avedon had set up his own studio
and began providing images for magazines. In 1952 Avedon became Staff
Editor and photographer for Theatre Arts Magazine. In his later years, he
continued to contribute to Egoïste, where his photographs appeared from
1984 through 2000.

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Master of Photography: Jerry Ueslmann
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June 11, 1934 N/A
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Uelsmann was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 11, 1934. At the age fourteen
he became an interest in photography. He believed that through photography
he could exist outside of himself. Decides poor grades, he managed to get a
few jobs, primarily photographs of models.
Uelsmann went on to earn a BA from the Rochester Institute of Technology
and M.S. and M.F.A. degrees from Indiana University ,later gets a job teaching
photography at the University of Florida in 1960. Today Uelsmann considered
to have almost "magical skill" with his completely analog tools. His photos
were still widely regarded as unfalsifiable documentary evidence of events.
However, Uelsmann, along with Lucas Samaras, was considered an avant
garde shatterer of this popular mindset and help to expand the artistic
boundaries of photography.