Famous Photographers

Our assignment was to chose our favourite photographer and share his/her works with the rest of the class. The photographer I had chosen was Alvin Langdon Coburn, but here are some of the other photographers that were mentioned.

Cartier Bresson- was a French photographer who was considered to be the founder of modern photojournalism. He used a Leica 35mm camera and mainly took candid images, like the one you see to the left (http://www.lacasapark.com/la/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/cartier-bresson-hyeres1.jpg).

Bresson had wrapped his camera up in black tape to make it inconspicuous and preferred not to use the flash as he saw this as impolite.

He photographed in black and white.

Kyle Humphrey- is a 20 year old photographer from North Carolina coast. His works include portraits, landscapes and images of clay people. Although he is a fairly young photographer and has only been taking images for a couple of years Humphrey has won multiple awards for his works (such as the North Carolina Aquariums 2010 for his image 'striped bass' featured below

and the North Carolina Coastal Federation photography contest). Humphrey's style of photography is very modern, he is potentially a photographer to remember in the future .

(http://kylehumphrey.com/ : both images)

Anne Geddes- is an Australian born photographer who has made her mark on the world by photographing images of children. In 1988, Anne's image of her daughter standing in a tutu (Image unable to locate) appeared in a local magazine in Auckland. This image sparked an interest in what was at the time a very different style of portraiture. After a short time as a wedding photographer Anne decided to specialise in children's portraiture.

(image: http://cdn1.ioffer.com/img/item/106/870/487/X5W8.jpg)