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Position:Home>Visual Arts> Spec. photographers from 1900 - 1945?Question: Spec!. photographers from 1900 - 1945!? i need to do an essay about 3 photographers who defined the content and style of documentary and photo journalistic photography used to this day!? i just need some names of good photographers to go and research!.!.!.
if you have any good links, brownie points :D thanks!Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Pick on from this lot :) 1900: Kodak Brownie box roll-film camera introduced!. 1902: Alfred Stieglitz organizes "Photo Secessionist" show in New York City 1906: Availability of panchromatic black and white film and therefore high quality color separation color photography!. J!.P!. Morgan finances Edward Curtis to document the traditional culture of the North American Indian!. 1907: First commercial color film, the Autochrome plates, manufactured by Lumiere brothers in France 1909: Lewis Hine hired by US National Child Labor Committee to photograph children working mills!. 1914: Oscar Barnack, employed by German microscope manufacturer Leitz, develops camera using the modern 24x36mm frame and sprocketed 35mm movie film!. 1917: Nippon Kogaku K!.K!., which will eventually become Nikon, established in Tokyo!. 1921: Man Ray begins making photograms ("rayographs") by placing objects on photographic paper and exposing the shadow cast by a distant light bulb; Eugegrave;ne Atget, aged 64, assigned to photograph the brothels of Paris 1924: Leitz markets a derivative of Barnack's camera commercially as the "Leica", the first high quality 35mm camera!. 1925: André Kertész moves from his native Hungary to Paris, where he begins an 11-year project photographing street life 1928: Albert Renger-Patzsch publishes The World is Beautiful, close-ups emphasizing the form of natural and man-made objects; Rollei introduces the Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex producing a 6x6 cm image on rollfilm!.; Karl Blossfeldt publishes Art Forms in Nature 1931: Development of strobe photography by Harold ("Doc") Edgerton at MIT 1932: Inception of Technicolor for movies, where three black and white negatives were made in the same camera under different filters; Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Edward Weston, et al, form Group f/64 dedicated to "straight photographic thought and production"!.; Henri Cartier-Bresson buys a Leica and begins a 60-year career photographing people; On March 14, George Eastman, aged 77, writes suicide note--"My work is done!. Why wait!?"--and shoots himself!. 1933: Brassa? publishes Paris de nuit 1934: Fuji Photo Film founded!. By 1938, Fuji is making cameras and lenses in addition to film!. 1935: Farm Security Administration hires Roy Stryker to run a historical section!. Stryker would hire Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, et al!. to photograph rural hardships over the next six years!. Roman Vishniac begins his project of the soon-to-be-killed-by-their-neighbors Jews of Central and Eastern Europe!. 1936: Development of Kodachrome, the first color multi-layered color film; development of Exakta, pioneering 35mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera World War II: Development of multi-layer color negative films Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Carl Mydans, and W!. Eugene Smith cover the war for LIFE magazine 1947: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour start the photographer-owned Magnum picture agency Hope this helps MikeWww@QuestionHome@Com |