Famous Photographer #12

Imogen Cunningham 

Born in 1883 and died 1976

In 1901 ( 18 years old) she bought her first camera via mail order a 4x5 from the American School Of Art in PA.

Her interest in science and learning the "magic" behind photography led her to photographing flowers and other plants.

She learned portraits from the famous indian tribe photographer Edward Curtis.

She helped fine a cheaper way to do platinum printing during WW1.

Later in her career she did some street photography and also joined the group called F/64 which is the famous photographer group. She was invited to be a member at California School of Fine Art by Ansel Adams.

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Famous Photographer #11

Cindy Sherman 

Born in 1954 making her 64 today.

She is known for her self portraits by becoming diffrent characters. Her more know work is her film stills which are in BW. 

She went to school for visual arts and learned and played with diffrent mediums from painting to photography. One of her teachers told her about conceptual art and other contemporary forms which helped her out a lot. 

She is the model and the photographer which makes her very diffrent then most photographers I have learned about. The other photographers have taken photos of them selfs but more of a for fun thing then what she is doing with her portraits. Transforming her self into diffrent people.

 

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Famous Photographer #10

Robert Frank

Born in 1924 making him 94 today.

His most famous series he did was called The Americans and thats what he is know for.  Which shows what America looked like in in the 50's+. 

His work is something that brought me into street photography and canid photography. 

As he was starting out he used photography as an escape and learned from other photographers as he was starting out.

Around the 40's is when he got a job as a fashion photographer and decided to become a photo journalist for big name brands and traveling the world. 

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