Important Photographers Flashcards

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Ansel Adams

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National Parks/Nature

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Dorothea Lange

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Severity of the dust bowl in the 1930’s

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Robert Jackson

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Pulitzer Prize

Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald

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Steve McCurry

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Photo of girl whose parents were killed in Soviet bombing of Afghanistan in 1985
National Geographic cover

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Kevin Carter

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Pulitzer Prize

Picture of starving Sudan girl with a vulture watching in the background

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Nick Ut

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Picture of young Vietnamese children running from napalm attack

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Henri Courtier Bressch

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First to switch to 35mm format

Mainly black and white

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Anne Leibovitz

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Portraits of famous people

Vanity Fair & Rolling Stones

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Oskar Barnack

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Pictures of interesting lights and shapes in cities

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Cornell Capa

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Most famous European portrait photographer

“Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer out is my task to reveal it if I can.”

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