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    desert? Chances are Ansel Adams took that photograph. Listen closely as I tell you about a talented pianist who grew up to be a famous landscape photographer. Ansel Adams was born on February 20‚ 1902 in San Francisco‚ California. When he was young he taught himself how to play the piano on his family’s piano‚ and for a long time he thought he was going to be a famous pianist. . After reading a picture book on Yosemite National Park in California Adams wanted to see the place with his

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    In my research I have learned that the photographer‚ Margaret Bourke-White was one of the first female photojournalists. “She completed college at Cornell and opened her own photographic studio in Cleveland” (Cox Ph.D ‚ 2003). It is clear that White had an eye for the progress and downfall throughout America. Also‚ she was hired as “became one of the first group of photographers hired by Life”(Cox Ph.D ‚ 2003). White’s importance grew rapidly in the photo-journalistic and visual world. Her images

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    DiCaprio’s Awful Secret” or “The Heartbreak Behind Winona Ryder’s Smile.” Even a celebrity’s family is hauled into the spotlight. A teenage son’s arrest for pot possessions or a wife’s drinking problem becomes the subject of glaring headlines. Photographers hound celebrities at their homes‚ in restaurants‚ and on the street‚ hoping to get a picture of Halle Berry in curlers or Jim Carrey guzzling a beer. When celebrities try to do the things that normal people do‚ like eat out or attend a football

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    Photography. He excelled and finished the twelve-month course he was taking in six months. Weston returned to California‚ where he was hired to re-touch photographs at the George Steckel Portrait Studio in Los Angeles. In 1909 he was hired as a photographer at the Louis A. Mojoiner Portrait Studio. He found and married his wife Flora Chandler‚ who he later had four children with. After three years Edward Weston opened his own photography studio in Tropico‚ California where he would spend the next

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    information chemically or electronically. Photographers control the camera and lens to expose the light recording material to the required amount of light to form a latent image (on film) or raw file (in digital camera) which‚ after due processing‚ is converted to a usable image. In digital cameras‚ instead of film‚ an electronic image sensor based on light-sensitive devices is used. Photography can also be called an art and good photographers often exhibit their oeuvre like artists exhibit

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    Damien Peter Parer (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1944) was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War‚ and was killed by Japanese machinegun fire at Peleliu‚ Palau. He married Elizabeth Marie Cotter on 23 March 1944‚ and his son‚ producer Damien Parer‚ was born posthumously. He was also the uncle of Australian politician Warwick Parer and film-maker David Parer. He was cinematographer for Australia’s first Oscar winning film‚ Kokoda Front Line

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    Walker Evans Analysis

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    In fact‚ due to his documentary approach in photography‚ Evans belonged to the first generation growing up on photojournalism. The photographer also developed a series of sign collages: Outdoor Advertisements (1929) and Broadway (1930) (Epstein 2000). Such works were bringing over $100 per photo at those times; however‚ the Great Depression was on its way (Epstein 2000). Walker Evans’ career took off very quickly due to the photographer’s talent and charisma. In the early stages of his professional

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    Mariano Vivanco. Mario Testino. Nick Knight. These three photographers have not only inspired my work‚ and myself‚ but they have also inspired the fashion industry immensely. Without these three photographers‚ I wouldn’t be writing this essay or want to be pursuing a career as a fashion photographer. I essentially wouldn’t be the person I am today without them. Mariano Vivanco got his start by shooting portraits of models in London. From his portraits of models‚ he quickly gained notice within the

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    Henri Cartier-Bresson is a famous French photographer. Henri Cartier-Bresson was famous for his humanist photography‚ but he was also considered the master of candid photography. He was born August 22‚ 1908 in Chanteloup-en-Brie‚ he died August 3rd‚ 2004 in Vaucluse‚ France his death was because of natural causes. His mother and father were Andre Cartier-Bresson (his father) and his mother was Martha Lavender (his mother). Henri Cartier-Bresson Fix this in all places applicable was 95 years old before

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    Roosevelt initiated the Farm Security Administration (FSA) project. Photographers were hired and sent across the United States to document Americans living in poverty‚ and Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans were two of those photographers that were sent out. Along with their partners Paul S. Taylor and James Agee they started their projects which were approached through two different methods. Agee and Evans project Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Lange and Taylor’s project An American exodus: A Record

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