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“99 Cent II Diptychon”

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Andreas Gursky

German

Photography

(Sold for $3.34 million)

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Art Kane

American

Fashion/music photographer

(1958 photo of 57 musicians, including Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Rollins)

(Picture noted for its role in “The Terminal” with Tom Hanks)

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“Afghan Girl”

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Steve McCurry

American

Photography

(June 1985 National Geographic)

(Girl was Sharbat Gula)

(Soviet occupation of Afghanistan)

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“Abbey Road”

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Iain Macmillan

Scottish

Photography

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“Abraham Lincoln, 1860”

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Mathew Brady

American

Portrait photography

(Took many Civil War photographs)

(Picture taken on same day as Cooper Union Speech, Lincoln said that this photo made him president)

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“Bandit’s Roost”

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Jacob Riis

Danish-American

Photojournalism

(from How the Other Half Lives)

(59 1/2 Mulberry St.)

(most crime-ridden part of NYC)

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“Atomicus”

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Philippe Halsman

Latvian-American

Portrait Photography

(Depicts Salvador Dali, water, and a cat)

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“Bliss”

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Charles O’Rear

American

Photography

(Photograph taken in Sonoma County, California)

(Not edited in anyway)

(Background of XP computers)

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“Born Free and Equal”

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Ansel Adams

American

Landscape Photography

(Depicted scenes from Manzanar War Relocation Center)

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“Boat People”

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Eddie Adams

American

Photojournalism

(Part of a series called “The Boat of No Smiles”)

(depicted a desperate woman wrapped in a blanket cradling an ailing child on the deck of boat that had just been towed back out to sea by the Thai navy)

(Photos convinced Jimmy Carter to give Vietnamese boat people asylum)

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“Burning Oil Sludge North of Denver”

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Robert Adams

American

Landscape Photography

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“Boulevard du Temple”

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Louis Daguerre

French

Daguerreotype photography

(1838, earliest known candid photograph of a peson)

(10 minute exposure, captures man polishing shoes)

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“Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park”

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Diane Arbus

American

Photography

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“Clearing Winter Storm”

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Ansel Adams

American

Landscape Photography

(Yosemite)

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“Doe Eye”

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Erwin Blumenfeld

American

Photography

(Shown at an exhibit at the Met named “Faking It”)

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“Domestic Appliances”

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Grete Stern

German

Photographer

(shows a man’s hand turning on a lamp whose column is in the form of a woman and was one of 150 works in this genre titled Psychoanalysis Will Help You)

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“Earthrise”

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William Anders / Apollo 8

American

Astronomy

(A good point that was made on the Internet about this picture is that every person in existance, past or present, has existed in the frameshot of this picture, except for William Anders)

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“El Capitan”

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Ansel Adams

American

Landscape Photography

(Yosemite)

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“Equivalents”

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Alfred Stieglitz

American

Photography

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“Fiat Lux series of UC Berkeley”

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Ansel Adams

American

Photography

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“Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel”

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Margaret Bourke-White

American

Documentary Photography

(Picture taken hours before Gandhi’s assassination)

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The three main founders of f/64

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Ansel Adams

Edward Weston

Imogen Cunningham

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Edward Weston was the first photographer to win what art grant in 1937?

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Guggenheim Fellowship

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"Henry Miller: The Paris Years"
Brassai ## Footnote Hungarian-French Photography
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"Ice on Ellery Lake, Sierra Nevada"
Ansel Adams ## Footnote American Photography
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"Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967"
Diane Arbus ## Footnote American Photographer
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"Jackson Pollock at Work"
Hans Namuth American Portrait Photography
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"Le Violon d'Igres"
Man Ray ## Footnote American Surrealism (Kiki and f-holes)
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"Looking Down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, April 18, 1906"
Arnold Genthe American Photography (Right after the SF earthquake)
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"Lost Photos of D-Day"
Robert Capa ## Footnote Hungarian Photojournalism (Darkroom technician accidently destroyed all but 11 photos) (Served as an inspiration for 'Saving Private Ryan')
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International photography cooperative that included: ## Footnote - Robert Capa - David "Chim" Seymour - George Rodger - Eve Arnold, who took photos of Marilyn Monroe on "The Misfits"
Magnum Photos
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"Many Are Called"
Walker Evans with James Agee Americans Photography
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"Migrant Mother"
Dorothea Lange American Photogrpahy (person is Florence Owns Thompson)
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"Moon and Half-Dome at Yosemite"
Ansel Adams ## Footnote American Photography
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"Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico"
Ansel Adams American Photography (He became a self-sustained photograph by making prints of this) (Over a cemetery)
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"Nautilus"
Edward Weston American Still Life (Depicts a shell)
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"Nude (Charis, Santa Monica)"
Edward Weston American Portrait Photography (Depicts his future wife Charis Wilson)
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"New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" "Tract House, Westminster, CO"
Robert Adams American American landscape (Depicts post-industrial landscapes)
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"Old and New New York"
Alfred Stieglitz American Photography
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"Orville Cox and Georgia O'Keefe"
Ansel Adams American Landscape Photography (Rare portrait picture) (Guide Orville Cox standing next to Georgia O'Keefe with WEIRD face)
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"Pale Blue Dot"
Voyager 1 American-built Satellite (3.7 billion miles away) (Carl Sagan said "all of human history has happened on that tiny pixel, which is our only home")
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"Paris by Night"
Brassai ## Footnote Hungarian-French Photography (1932)
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"Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras"
Ansel Adams American Landscape Photography (Commissioned by Jean Chambers Moore, published by his friend Alfred Bender) (Adams had problem with title: "Parmelian" was a made-up word by Moore, and Sierras didn't need to be pluralized)
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"Patti Smith's 'Horses'"
Robert Mapplethorpe American
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"Pepper No. 30"
Edward Weston American Still Life (Depicts a green pepper)
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"Photograph of Rose Selavy"
Man Ray ## Footnote American Photography -and depicts as a cross dresser- Marcel Duchamp French Surrealism
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"Picture of Allie Mae Burroughs"
Walker Evans American Photography (She's against the wall of her family's cabin in Hale County)
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"Pictures of hurt London"
Bill Brandt ## Footnote German-British Photojournalism (He did not take this photo below. The picture below was taken anonymously)
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"Piss Christ"
Andres Serrano American Photography (That's a crucifix inside a glass of urine)
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"Proust in the Power of Photography"
Brassai ## Footnote Hungarian-French Photography
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"Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima"
Joe Rosenthal American Photography
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"Rhein II"
Andreas Gursky German Photography (Sold for $4.3 million, making it most expensive of all time)
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"Rose and Driftwood"
Ansel Adams American Landscape photography (after an inspirational meeting with Paul Strand)
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"Saigon Execution"
Eddie Adams American Photojournalism (Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968) (.38 revolver and a flannel shirt) (Won a Pulitzer for it)
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"Southern sharecropper photographs" "Southern Singing"
Walker Evans American Photography (His photos + James Agee's writing = "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men")
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"Subway Passengers"
Walker Evans American Photography (newspaper headline "PAL TELLS HOW GUNGIRL KILLED")
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"The Falling Man"
Richard Drew American Photographer (North Tower from 9/11)
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"The Falling Soldier"
Robert Capa ## Footnote Jewish-Hungarian Photography (taken on September 5, 1936 and long thought to depict the death of a Republican, specifically an Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth (FIJL) soldier during the Spanish Civil War, who was later identified as the anarchist Federico Borrell García.)
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"The Horse In Motion"
Eadweard Muybridge English Motion Photography (Hired by Leland Stanford to determine if a horse becomes airbourne while galloping) (They do)
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"The Perfect Moment exhibition"
Robert Mapplethorpe American (Shown in the National Endowment of the Arts exhibition) (Series of painting, including BDSM and urinating, and much weirder things)
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"The Pond-Moonlight"
Edward Steichen ## Footnote American Photography (Had a run in trying to get Brancusi's Bird In Space through U.S. Customs)
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"The Situation Room"
Pete Souza American White House Photography (Taken on May 1, 2011 as we take down Osama) (Hilary has hand on mouth)
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"The Steerage"
Alfred Stieglitz American Photo Seccessionism (wife Georgia O'Keeffe) (boat here is Kaiser Wilhelm II)
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"The Terminal"
Alfred Stieglitz ## Footnote American Photography
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"Three Americans Dead on Buna Beach"
George Strock ## Footnote American Photographer (President Roosevelt authorised release of this image, the first to depict American soldiers dead on the battlefield. He was concerned that the American public were growing complacent about the cost of the war on human life.)
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"Tianamen Square"
Jeff Widener American Photography
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"Torn Movie Poster"
Walker Evans American Photography
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"V-J Day in Times Square"
Alfred Eisenstaedt German-American Photojournalism
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"Wall Street"
Paul Strand American Modernist photography
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"View from the Window at Le Gras"
Nicéphore Niépce French Heliography (This is the world's oldest surviving photograph) (1826 or 1827)
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"White Angel Breadline"
Dorothea Lange American Photojournalism (depicts a crowd of men with their backs to the viewer, while a solitary man looking towards the viewer has his hands clasped. He wears a dirty hat and has an empty cup near him)
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"Winter - Fifth Avenue"
Alfred Stieglitz ## Footnote American Photography
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"You Have Seen Their Faces"
Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White Americans Southern Author and Documentary Photography (Depicts the South and its problems) (Predates 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men')
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Technique developed by Fred Archer and Ansel Adams ranking exposure values
Zone System (1 - 9 was called the "dynamic range" by Adams)
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"Cover art for the journal Camera Work"
Edward Steichen American Tonalist (Published by Alfred Stieglitz quarterly)

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