Important Photographers Flashcards
Ansel Adams
National Parks/Nature
Dorothea Lange
Severity of the dust bowl in the 1930’s
Robert Jackson
Pulitzer Prize
Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald
Steve McCurry
Photo of girl whose parents were killed in Soviet bombing of Afghanistan in 1985
National Geographic cover
Kevin Carter
Pulitzer Prize
Picture of starving Sudan girl with a vulture watching in the background
Nick Ut
Picture of young Vietnamese children running from napalm attack
Henri Courtier Bressch
First to switch to 35mm format
Mainly black and white
Anne Leibovitz
Portraits of famous people
Vanity Fair & Rolling Stones
Oskar Barnack
Pictures of interesting lights and shapes in cities
Cornell Capa
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.”