Photography and the Still Life

1826 Oldest surviving photograph Taken by French inventor Nicephore Niepce

Ansel Adams American Photographer Environmentalist American West Moon and Half Dome Yosemite National Park

1932 Still Life - A painting or other two-dimensional work of art representing inanimate objects such as bottles, fruit, and flowers.

Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother 1936 Mother of seven children On the brink of starvation

Family 1957

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind," said Dorothea Lange. "To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking. I have only touched it, just touched it."

Jacques Henri Lartigue Started taking photographs at age 6 French Automobile races, planes, fashionable Paris women Grand Prix de Circuit de la Seine June 26th

In my Room: Collection of my Racing Cars 1905 (age 11)

Paul Strand Photographer and documentary film maker Wall Street Used Formal Abstractions Interested in using the media for social reform and politics

Abstraction, Twin Lakes Connecticut 1916

Edward S. Curtis Known for photographing and documenting the life of the Native American 40,000 images of 80 tribes 10,000 wax cylinders recordings of music and language. Raised controversy by altering and staging photographs.

Apache still life 1907

Josef Sudek Czech Photographer Lost his Arm in World War 1 Photographed Cathedral Interiors City Nightscapes Wooded Landscapes Window to his garden