 |
 Ansel Easton Adams
built his reputation photographing the American
wilderness, often in black and white. He was also
the author of numerous works on photographic
technique, and the co-founder of the department
of photography at the Museum of Modern Art. |
 Mathew B. Brady
opened a daguerreotype gallery in New York City
in 1844. By 1850 he had gained a reputation as
one of America's greatest portrait photographers,
and by the time of his death had photographed
every President from John Quincy Adams to William
McKinley. He also gained considerable fame for
his photographic record of the Civil War. |
 Louis-Jacques Mandé
Daguerre developed the photographic
process known as Dageurreotype in 1837. His
process made it possible to reduce the exposure
time necessary to produce an image from several
hours to thirty minutes or so. |
 Edwin Herbert Land
was the inventor of Polaroid film, and of the
Polaroid Land Camera. Altogether he held 535
patents, second only to Thomas Edison's 1,097,
and at one time was listed in the Guiness Book of
World Records as the world's richest scientist. |
 Joseph-Nicéphore
Niépce produced the world's first
photograph in 1826, but the process he used
proved impracticable and he ultimately abandoned
the field. |
 Gordon Roger Alexander
Buchanan Parks began his career as a
fashion photographer. In 1942 he became the first
black to work for the Farm Security
Administration, for which he took documentary
photographs of everyday life. In 1948 he became
the first black to become a photojournalist for Life
magazine. |
