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Photography Pioneers

YGK These Photography Pioneers

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The creator of the oldest surviving photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, using the heliography process Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
The photography process involving an iodized silver plate treated with mercury fumes and sodium thiosulfate Daguerreotypy (or Daguerreotype)
The photographer who used tripwire-triggered cameras to prove a racehorse lifts all four feet off the ground Eadweard Muybridge
The early motion-picture device invented by Muybridge to exhibit his stop-motion photographs Zoopraxiscope
The Philip Glass opera that dramatizes the trial of Eadweard Muybridge for the murder of his wife's lover The Photographer
The Lumière brothers' process that became the first widely used technique for color photography Autochrome
The founder of Kodak who developed roll film and a gelatin emulsion process George Eastman
The founder of the Polaroid Corporation who developed instant, self-developing film Edwin Land
The MIT professor nicknamed "Papa Flash" who used stroboscopes to capture fast-moving events Harold “Doc” Edgerton
The Civil War photographer who created the practice of photojournalism using mobile darkrooms Matthew Brady
The first female photographer for Life magazine who documented the Buchenwald concentration camp Margaret Bourke-White
The FSA photographer of Migrant Mother, depicting Florence Owens Thompson during the Great Depression Dorothea Lange
The collaboration between Walker Evans and James Agee studying Alabama sharecroppers Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
The photographer of Moon and Half Dome who co-founded Group f/64 and developed the Zone System Ansel Adams
The husband of Georgia O’Keeffe who founded the journal Camera Work and the gallery "291" Alfred Stieglitz
The MoMA photography director who organized the landmark exhibition The Family of Man Edward Steichen
The Surrealist who created "rayographs" and the violin-themed Violon d’Ingres Man Ray
The co-founder of Magnum Photos who pioneered candid photography and the concept of the “decisive moment” Henri Cartier-Bresson
The photographer whose 1990 posthumous exhibition "The Perfect Moment" led to an obscenity trial in Cincinnati Robert Mapplethorpe
The artist known for Untitled Film Stills, a series of self-portraits exploring female stereotypes Cindy Sherman
The photographer of Rhein II and 99 Cent II Diptychon, known for some of the most expensive photos ever sold Andreas Gursky
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