Photography

Content
History
Artist
 Artists
William Eugene Smith
Alfred Stieglitz
Wynn Bullock
Harry Morey Callahan
Bruce Davidson
 Photography history is connected to the invention of film and
camera. With the invention of film, we earn to reproduce picture,
and process illumination of the film happened in camera. According
to history, the principal of camera have been found since the age of
Aristoteles. Then invention of obscura camera found by Leonardo da
Vinci, an artist and man of science. After finding of lens in the year
1550, hence light which step into camera can be multiplied, and
picture can be centered, so that the picture become more perfect.
In the year 1575, first portable camera just made, and invention
of this camera to draw better. Newly year 1680 delivering birth first
reflex camera, but its use still to make a better drawing. Become,
[at] the epoch, camera still weared to water down in drawing.
Because the negative film isn’t found yet, the drawing can’t be
captured. After the founding of negative, then th picture could be
captured.
William Eugene Smith
William Eugene Smith was born in 1918,
Wichita, Kansas and he was dead in 1978. He
was an American photojournalist. He was
known because he refuses to compromise
professional standards and the brutality of
World War 2. He was graduated from Wichita
North High School in 1936.
Career
 He began his career in 1936 by taking pictures for two local
newspapers, the Eagle and the Beacon. He went to New York
City and he began to work for Newsweek and he was known
for his perfectionism and for his complicated personality. He
was fired because he refuses to use medium format camera
and soon he join Life magazine. He resigned from Life
because he was wounded in 1942 because he was trying to
simulate battle conditions for Parade magazine. Smith joins
World War 2 and takes photo of U.S. Marines and Japanese
prisoners of war at Saipan, Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. On
Okinawa, he was it by mortar fire. After recovering he joins
life again and perfected his photo essay from 1947 to 1954.
Smith joined the Magnum photo agency in 1955. He started
his document on Pittsburgh there. This project consists of a
series of book-length photo essays in which he strove for
complete control of his subject matter. Because he likes to
consume alcohol and drugs, he gets a massive stroke and he
died in 1978, Tucson, Arizona.
Styles and characteristics
Almost all of his photography art consist of war and
what people who didn’t join the war do when a
there is a war. The prove is the he’s quite often hit
in a war and he was hit in World War 2 because he
was taking pictures of U.S marines and Japanese
prisoners. He was one from many people who risk
his life just to get the picture of the hugest war that
has ever happen in this world. He also take a
beautiful pictures when two kids with opposing
genders walk together and they had reach the end
of the forest and go out from the dark to the light.
The definition above is Smith’s best photograph
with title A Walk to Paradise Garden. This
memorable image was serve as the final picture in
Tools/ Camera
Smith likes to use miniature cameras which
make him fired from Newsweek. He felt that
smaller cameras gave him more freedom in
seeing. Smith worked with any camera, from a
Minox to a 4 X 5 press camera. However, he
often used 35mm camera. He often has six or
seven cameras around his neck. For once in his
life, he had his six or seven cameras hung on
his shoulders.
Quotes
William Eugene Smith has his one quote that I
like the most about photography which is
"Photo is a small voice, at best, but sometimes
- just sometimes - one photograph or a group
of them can lure our senses into awareness.
Much depends upon the viewer; in some,
photographs can summon enough emotion to
be a catalyst to thought."
Picture
Alfred Stieglitz
The son of wealthy Jewish parents, Stieglitz
was born in New Jersey in 1864, the last year of
the Civil War, and died in New York in 1946. His
full name is Alfred Stieglitz. Almost his entire
life is do photography and make a gallery
Life Journey
 First in 1881 his father takes his family to Europe and Alfred Stieglitz
studies mechanical engineering in Berlin. 1883 is the year when he
develops his first photograph. He changes course of study from
engineering to photochemistry. In 1886 he spends summer in Europe
taking many photos. In that year to he takes the first club and
magazine competitions and in 1887 he wins first prize for “A Good
Joke” from the magazine amateur photographer. British and German
periodicals begin publishing his images in 1887. In 1911 with a
Stieglitz’s perseverance he is open the Picasso’s first solo exhibition
anywhere in the world was shown in April. He meets Georgia
O’Keeffe, who later became his wife. He completes his first
breakthrough photographic study of clouds in 1922. He open many
galleries such as in 1924 he exhibits 61 printing with 51 painting by
O’Keeffe at the Anderson Galleries. In 1925 he opens the intimate
galleries; In 1932 his first solo exhibition since 1925 is held at An
American Place. In 1933 he presents a gift to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art of over 1000 works of art by more than 100 artist. In
1941 The museum of Modern art acquires a group of Stieglitz’s
photograph.
Style and tools
Almost all of his photographic art was about
nude and dirty picture. One of his models is
Georgia O’Keefe. His other models is Dorothy
Norman. Stieglitz took a series of photographs,
some nude, of heiress Dorothy Norman, who
became in O'Keeffe's mind a serious rival for
Stieglitz's affections. Both these photographs
and those of O'Keeffe are often considered the
first photographs to recognize the artistic
potential of isolated parts of the human body.
He use his camera to prove his artistic skills.
He is the one who like to photo the nude dirty
picture. He can make our photograph in the
world better. All of his photo is black and white,
but there are still many people like to see
photo that made by Alfred Stieglitz. He can
prove that the nude object is a good object to
photo. So we can see that don not just photo
the clear and the clean one, but we can photo
the nude and dirty object to. Alfred Stieglitz has
a good sense of art photography aspect.
Bruce Davidson
(photographer)
Bruce Davidson is an American photographer.
He has been a member of Magnum since 1958.
His photographs, notably those taken in
Harlem, have been widely exhibited and
published in a number of books. He was born in
September 5 ,1933 in Oak park, Illinois
Biography
Bruce Davidson was born in Oak Park to a single
mother who worked in a factory to support her two
sons. At ten, Bruce Davidson began taking pictures,
as he was given the freedom to wander the streets
of Oak Park alone. Soon after, he approached a
local photographer who taught him technical
nuances of photography, in addition to lighting and
printing skills. In his mid-teens, Davidson began to
ride Chicago’s elevated train system into the city,
exploring neighborhoods and the Chicago Loop,
observing wide varieties of people, and most
importantly developing skills and interests that
would be seen in his later photographic works.
Pictures that has been taken by Bruce
Davidson
Harry Morey Callahan
 Harry Morey Callahan (October 22, 1912– March 15, 1999)
was an American photographer who is considered one of the
great innovators of modern American photography. He was
born in Detroit, Michigan and started photographing in 1938
as an autodidact. By 1946, he was appointed by
László Moholy-Nagy to teach photography at the Institute of
Design in Chicago. Callahan retired in 1977, at which time he
was teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design.
 He photographed his wife, Eleanor, and daughter, Barbara,
and the streets, scenes and buildings of cities where he lived,
showing a strong sense of line and form, and light and
darkness. He also worked with multiple exposures. Callahan's
work was a deeply personal response to his own life.
Harry Morey Callahan
photo
Wynn Bullock
 Wynn Bullock (April 18, 1902, Chicago - November 16,
1975, Monterey, California) was an American photographer
that is notable for his photographs of nudes and of
landscapes on the West Coast.
 Wynn Bullock’s photographs are studies in the juxtaposition
of textures as well as explorations of the nature of space,
time, and light. Constantly experimenting with classical
techniques, Bullock is often compared to Edward Weston (a
lifelong friend), though Bullock concerned himself more with
the mysterious and mystical aspects of existence. His
photographs challenge the viewer to relate directly to nature,
and to explore the significance of light and shadow.
Juxtaposing the translucent smoothness of human skin and
the rougher, natural grain of the wall in the background,
Bullock’s Navigation Without Numbers (1957), delves deeper
than the surface textures.
Wynn Bullock photo
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