Jacques Henri Lartigue # 8

 Jacques Henri Lartigue 

Lartigue started taking pictures when he was 7 years old captureing his family, friends and he world going on around him. 

 

By Lartigue 

He is known as the "father" of modern photography and the first "amateur" photographer. 

 

By Lartigue 

He continued to take pictures throughout his whole life and it wasn't until someone discovered his childhood work and put it in art show when he was 69 years old. 

 

Cite 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3rBp-5cXBc 

 

Jerry Uelsmann # 7

Jerry Uelsmann 

The world Uelsmann lives in might not be the one you are thinking of as he created composite photographs depicting surrealist images.

 

By Jerry Uelsmann 

He was the man before photo shop was invented. You can try to create his work with relative ease now that we special programs made for this. 

 

By Jerry Uelsmann 

Using multiple negatives, enlargers, and extensive darkroom work to create his work, bucking the idea that a final image could be composed from many negatives. 

 

Cite 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsVDXjthsaU 

 

David LaChapelle # 6

David LaChapelle 

David LaChapelle is most famous for his photography which often featured art history and sometimes convey social messages.


by David LaChapelle

His pictures of famous celebrities is how he got his start in the business he was offered a job and was told just to make everyone look good.
 
by David LaChapelle

His photographic style has been described as "hyper-real and slyly subversive" and as "kitsch pop surrealism"



cited
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ1Ghzg1Q5c 

Phillipe Halsman #5

Phillipe Halsman 

Is best know for his portrait jumping shots. His famous shot Victory Red  made him became famous in the US when it was used for an ad.

 

by Phillipe Halsman

  

He left Europe and through the help of the family friend Albert Einstein received an US visa.

 

by Phillipe Halsman

He started collaborating with  Salvador Dali in 1940 where they started to create action images.

By Phillipe Halsman and Salvador Dali

Cited 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Phillipe+Halsman

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre #4

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre 

Daguerre was a french photographer and artist who was helped evolved the process which would subsequently be known as the daguerreotype.

 

By Daguerre 

 Using light and chemistry, Daguerre created photographic images on silver-plated sheets of copper that are the ancestors of today’s photographs.

 

He became known as one of the father of photography

  

Cite 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXecMcbpHQk 

Alfred Stieglitz #3

Alfred Stieglitz 

Was one of America's photographers of his time who worked hard to make photography an art form. He's also famous for running art galleries in New York where he introduced a lot of European artist. 

 

photo by Alfred Stieglitz

Photo by Alfred Stieglitz 

His dad saw that he was a great photographer and bought our a small photography company so that Alfred can indulge in his interest and hope to make money from it.  

Cite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9g02-0PO4c