Ford Robbins
Ford Robbins is a American photographer and printmaker who specialises in creating abstract visual imagery that show light, texture and mood of contempary New Mexico and American landscape. He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers. His images speaks of his journeys over many decades. His work are black and white prints. He is inspired by the environment in which he lives, surronded by the natural forms, light, texture and movement of water.
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| John Herschel |
John Herschel was an English mathematician, astromoner, chemist and experimental photographer. He made contributions to photography by exploring colour blindness and ultraviolet rays. He also made improvements in photographic processes and inventing cyanotype. In 1819 he also made the discovery of how soduim thiosulfate could be used as a photographic fixer to fix the images.
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| George Rockwood |
George Rockwood was a 19th century New York photographer. Around 1855 he developed a proffessional interest in photography and in 1857 he opened his own studio with his brother and began work as a photographer. He has been credited to of introduced the carte-de-visit format of photography to the United States from France. He competed with well known photographers such as Mathew Brady.
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and art promotor who was instrumental in making photography an accepting art form. He was born in New Jersey in 1864. He went to New York in 1890 to prove that photography was cabable of being an expressive art form. He was part of the movement photo-secession which emphasized the craftsmenship of photography. He created platinum prints a process used by yielding images with a rich tonal scale.
Eva Watson-Schütze
She was an 19th century American photographer and painter who was a founding member of the art movement Photo-secession. In 1883 she enrolled in Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied under the painter and photographer Thomas Eakins. She had wanted to become a watercolour and oil painter, but by her twenties she developed an interest in photography. By 1894 she opened a photography studio with Amelia Van Buren. In 1987 she opened up her own portrait studio in Philladelphia.. Her work is powerful and romantic and figurative.
Gertrude Käsebier
She was born on 15th May 1852. Gertrude Käsebier was regarded as the most influential photographer of the 20th century. She married Eduard Käsebier in 1874, this marriage wasnt a very happy one as she says this inspired her work. Her photographs show motherhood and they emphasize the bond between the mother and the child. In 1896 she became an asisstant to portrait photographer Samuel H Lifshey where she learned how to run a studio and the techniques of printing. She became an inspiration to other young women who were starting out in photography, these include Clara Sipprell, Consuelo Kanaga and Laura Gilpin who went on to have successful photography careers. Throughout the 1910s she continued to expand her portrait business by taking photographs of important people at that time, Robert Henri, John Sloans, William Glackens. By 1924 her daughter joined her in the business.
Clarence Hudson White
Clarence Hudson White was an American photographer and one of the founding members of the art movement Photo-secession. His influences were his family and the social lifeand culture of rural America. He photographed just before dawn and dusk. He took up photography in 1893. He self taught himself in the subject and was known for his photographs that empasized the spirit of America. In 1906 he and his family moved to New York to promote his work and to be closer to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz who he had helped to make photography a true art form. In 1914 he began teaching photography by opening his own school of photography. His photographs were not posed for , he controlled the scene and even had costumes made for his models. He knew what kind of images he wanted to create in his mind and made them happen. His compositions were very much a simple form.
Clarence Hudson White was an American photographer and one of the founding members of the art movement Photo-secession. His influences were his family and the social lifeand culture of rural America. He photographed just before dawn and dusk. He took up photography in 1893. He self taught himself in the subject and was known for his photographs that empasized the spirit of America. In 1906 he and his family moved to New York to promote his work and to be closer to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz who he had helped to make photography a true art form. In 1914 he began teaching photography by opening his own school of photography. His photographs were not posed for , he controlled the scene and even had costumes made for his models. He knew what kind of images he wanted to create in his mind and made them happen. His compositions were very much a simple form.
