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Famous Photographers

September 19, 2008 – 1:21 pm

Photography is accepted as a form of art. This does not mean only professionals can take photo. Both professional and amateur photographers can work for this branch of art. There are some famous names associated with photography. Some of them are listed below. You can also find information about their biographies and photography works.

 

 

Sally Man: Sally Man is an American photographer. She is expert of art photography. Although her education is on writing, she became a photographer. She is known with her collection named “Immediate Family”. It is the collection of nude photographs of Man’s own children.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: Dodgson is an English photographer. He is also a writer and mathematician. He is known as “Lewis Carroll”, writer of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. His photography works are art pieces.

Jacques Henri Lartigue: He was a French photographer. His photos mostly depict automobile races and fashion. Lartigue was also a painter. He is a well known name in documentary photography branch.

Andrew Stark: Andrew Stark is an Australian photographer. In addition to his photographs, he has books on photography. Stark is known with documentary photograph works. He is also called as street photographer.

Mathew Brady: Brady is an American photographer. His specialization is war photography. He is famous with especially the photos he took during American Civil War. Mathew Brady is so effective in this field that he is accepted as the leading figure of photojournalism. Brady not only took the war scenes photos, he also took portrait photos of many famous names.

Alexander Gardner: Gardner is a famous American photographer. He is good at war photography. Like Mathew Brady, he took photos during American Civil War. In addition to that, Gardner also took many portrait photographs of Abraham Lincoln.

Cecil Beaton: English fashion photographer Cecil Beaton took the photos of clothes he personally designed. He also worked with other names. Along with photography, Beaton made stage and film designs.

Marino Testino: Peruvian photographer Marino Testino is a popular name in fashion photography branch. Testino worked with famous brands such as Gucci and Vogue. Nowadays, he works with many companies and continues to take fashion photographs.

Patrick Demarchelier: Patrick Demarchelier is a French photographer. He takes photos of fashion. Many photos of him were used as the cover of famous magazines. Demarchelier works with brands and he also works for movie shots.

Helmut Newton: German Australian photographer Helmut Newton is known with nude women photographs of him. Indeed, he is a fashion photographer. His works were used in many magazines.

Ara Güler: Ara Güler is a Turkish photographer. He is not only a photographer, but also a photo reporter. He has lots of book published on photography. In his works, he focuses on portraits and buildings. Ara Güler generally uses black and white tones in his photography works.

Art Wolfe: He is an American photographer. Art Wolfe takes nature and wildlife photographs. He has more than ten books about photography. Wolfe received many rewards for his talent and success.

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