Louis Daguerre, 1830’s-1850

Partners with Niepce• Daguerreotype• – photographic plates• Processing

– 30 minutes– One photograph

Nadar -

Sarah

Bernhardt

1859

Matthew Brady

photographs

U. S. Civil War, 1860’s

photojournalism

• Julia Margaret Cameron• 1860’s

• Portraits + literary characters

Alfred StieglitzThe Steerage

1907

Elevates photography to

fine arts

Studio 291 in N. Y.

Edward Weston

Toward

Abstraction

1920’s

Ansel Adams

Moon and Half Dome1966

American

landscapes

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother1936

DocumentaryPhotography

Social Commentary

• Cindy Sherman• Untitled Film Stills Series• Currently working• Conceptual• Political• Social• Postmodern