Edward Weston was a famous 20th-century photographer who was known for his pioneering work in high detail photography. His personal life was...
Category - The Great Artists
Margaret Bourke-White: The Great Artists, Part 10
Margaret Bourke-White was one of America’s first documentary photographers and the very first American female war correspondent. In this position, she...
Colin Fletcher: The Great Artists, Part 9
Colin Fletcher was the founding father of the modern backpacking movement. He was the first known person to go solo into the wilderness for long...
Galen Rowell: The Great Artists, Part 8
Galen Rowell was a famous nature and outdoor adventure photographer, as well as an accomplished mountaineer. An avid mountain climber from a young age...
Ansel Adams: The Great Artists, Part 7
Ansel Adams is a well-known name in photography, but how much is known about the man himself? He is America's best known black-and-white nature...
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rookery | The Great Artists, Part 6
The Rookery is one of the most recognizable office buildings in Chicago, and for good reason. It was built in the late 1800s by a famous architectural...
Diane Nemerov Arbus: The Great Artists, Part 4
Diane Nemerov was a famous American photographer whose work with those with physical deformities and intellectual disabilities was pioneering in the...
Dorothea Lange: The Great Artists, Part 1
Dorothea Lange was one of the best known photographers of the Great Depression. Many of her images have become iconic of the Depression era. She also...
Harry Benson: The Great Artists, Part 2
Harry Benson is the most famous pop culture photographer of modern times, and possibly the most famous cultural photographer, as well. He has captured...
Mathew Brady: Photographing the Civil War
Have you ever heard of Mathew Brady? Because of him & his photographs, we know what the Civil War looked like.
William Henry Jackson and the Wonders of Yellowstone
William Henry Jackson was a famous American artist and photographer. Most known for his work photographing Yellowstone before anyone else, William...
Carleton Watkins and Mammoth Plate Photography
Carleton Watkins was a well-known American photographer of the mid to late 1800s. Carleton is most famous for his use of mammoth plate photography in...
Wallace Nutting: The Great Artists
Wallace Nutting was once a household name—and he’s still an example of deep creativity and entrepreneurship. Read his photographic history here.
Wynn Bullock: The Great Artists
Wynn Bullock was a man of many philosophies, someone who combined learning with art to produce inspired imagery. Learn more about his life and work...
Robert Doisneau: The Great Artists
Robert Doisneau is an artist who sought to portray life as he wanted it to be. Learn more about his history and philosophies that went into his art...
Ralph Morse
Ralph Morse was Life Magazine’s most well-known photographer. Not only that, he was an adventure photographer, just by the nature of his job. His...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: More Than the Decisive Moment
Move past the decisive moment to learn a little bit more about Henri Cartier-Bresson and the lessons he can teach us. Here are a few examples!
W. Eugene Smith: Life and Contributions to Photography
What does it take to tell a meaningful story? Study the life and work of W. Eugene Smith and you'll chance upon some important answers to that question.
Paul Caponigro
Paul Caponigro is one of the top masters of landscape photography in the world. Starting out as a hobbyist as a teenager, he moved to professional...
Josef Sudek
Josef Sudek was a famous Czech photographer who is best known for his haunting photographs of Nazi occupied and post-war Prague. Wounded as a soldier...
Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier’s photography is a brilliant body of work that showcases street photography at it’s best. Learn about her life and artwork here.
Richard Avedon
What can be learned from the life and times of Richard Avedon? Dozens of things though the most important lessons deal with the way he approached...
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was the 3rd of 11 children, a writer, teacher, photographer, mathematician, logician, and...
Julian Francis Abele
Julian Francis Abele is one of America's very first prominent African American architects and is responsible for the design of the modern campus of...