Important Photographers

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce Born March 7, 1765 Died Nationality July 5, 1833 (aged 68) French Occupation Inventor Known for Photography The world's first 'internal combustion engine'

Louis Daguerre Born 18 November 1787 Died Nationality 10 July 1851 (aged 63) French Known for Invention of the daguerreotype process

Mathew Brady Born May 18, 1822 Died January 15, 1896 (aged 73) Occupation Photographer, photojournalist Nationality American

Eadweard Muybridge Born 9 April 1830 Died 8 May 1904 (aged 74) Nationality British Known for Photography, Capturing motion

Alfred Stieglitz Born January 1, 1864 Died July 13, 1946 (aged 82) Nationality American Known for Photography as Art.

László Moholy-Nagy Born: June 20, 1895, Bácsborsód, Hungary Died: November 24, 1946, Chicago, IL Movements: Good Design, Bauhaus style, Modern art Collage photography

Dorothea Lange Born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn May 26, 1895 Died October 11, 1965 (aged 70) Nationality American Known for Photography Depression Era WPA project

Margaret Bourke-White Born Margaret White June 14, 1904 Died Nationality Occupation August 27, 1971 (aged 67) American Photojournalist

Henri Cartier-Bresson Born August 22, 1908 Died August 3, 2004 (aged 95) Nationality French Occupation Photographer and Painter (father of using 35mm film)

Robert Capa Born Endre Friedmann[1] October 22, 1913 Budapest, Austria-Hungary Died Known for War Photography May 25, 1954 (aged 40) Thai Binh, State of Vietnam

Philippe Halsman Born: May 2, 1906 Died: June 25, 1979 Riga, Latvia New York City, NY Philippe Halsman's Jump Book Salvador Dali, 1948

Man Ray Born Emmanuel Radnitzky August 27, 1890 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States Died November 18, 1976 (aged 86) Paris, France Nationality American Known for Painting, Photography,Assemblage, Collage, Film Movement Surrealism, Dadaism

W. Eugene Smith Born December 30, 1918 Died Nationality October 15, 1978 (aged 59) American Occupation Photographer, photojournalist

Edward Weston Born March 24, 1886 Died January 1, 1958 (aged 71) Nationality American Known for Photography

Ansel Adams Born Ansel Easton Adams February 20, 1902 Died Nationality Occupation April 22, 1984 (aged 82) American Photographer, Pianist

George Hurrell Born: June 1, 1904 Died: May 17, 1992 Celeberty and fashion photography

Yousuf Karsh Born December 23, 1908 Died July 13, 2002 (aged 93) Nationality Canadian Known for Photography Notable work(s) Portrait of Winston Churchill, Portrait of Albert Einstein, Portrait of The Queen, Portrait of John F Kennedy

Garry Winogrand Born January 14, 1928 Died March 19, 1984 (aged 56) Nationality American Occupation Photographer Known for “Street” photography

Arnold Newman Born Arnold Abner Newman March 3, 1918 Died June 6, 2006 (aged 88) Nationality American Known for Portrait Photography News Photography, Photography Teacher

Robert Frank Born November 9, 1924 Nationality American Occupation Photographer, film director

Irving Penn Born June 16, 1917 Died Nationality October 7, 2009 American Occupation Photographer

Edwin Smith Born: May 15, 1912 Died: December 29, 1971 Education: Architectural Association School of Architecture

Richard Avedon Born May 15, 1923 Died October 1, 2004 (aged 81) Nationality American Known for Fashion and portrait Photography

Herb Ritts Born August 13, 1952 Died December 26, 2002 (aged 50) Nationality American Occupation Photographer Known for Black-and-white Fashion photography

Elliot Erwitt Born July 26, 1928 Paris, France. Nationality American Occupation Photographer, movie director

Gordon Parks Born Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks November 30, 1912 Died March 7, 2006  Nationality American Known for Photographer writer musician film director composer

James Nachtwey Born Nationality March 14, 1948 American Occupation Photojournalist War Photography

Steve McCurry Born April 23, 1950 (age 64) Darby, Pennsylvania, U.S. Occupation Photojournalist Famous for his National Geographic cover.

Annie Leibovitz Born Anna-Lou Leibovitz October 2, 1949 . Nationality American Known for Fashion and celebrity Photography

Sandy Skoglund Born September 5, 1946 Nationality American Known for Photography, Sculpture,Installation Movement Photo Surrealism

David LaChapelle Born: March 11, 1963 American Known for: commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, film director, and artist. He is best known for his photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages.

Michael Muller Michael Muller (born 1970) American Photographer known for his celebrity and advertising photos.

Joe McNally (born 27 July 1952) is an American photographer who has been shooting for the National Geographic Society since 1987

Joel Sartore (born June 16, 1962, Ponca City, Oklahoma) is an American photographer, speaker, author, teacher, and a National Geographic photographer.

Marc Aspland -Marc Aspland -British -Works for The Times newspaper in London where he shoots sports photography.

Tom Till "I love my job, I love Utah, and my fervent hope is that my images will lead to a deeper appreciation for the natural world and Utah’s singular portion of it."