Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer who was from Portland, Oregon. Family and friends remember Imogen as an “independent sprit.” She photographed industrial landscapes, nudes and botany. Her earliest prints were made in the tradition of Pictorialism. Pictorialism is a style of photography that imitated academic paintings. However, Imogen Cunningham is best known for her sharp-focus photographs of plants.
Imogen Cunningham was born in Portland Oregon on April 12th 1883. Her father, Isaac Cunningham, named Imogen after the heroine of Shakespeare’s play, “Cymbeline.” When she was a child and even before she formally started school, Cunningham’s father taught her how to read and gave her art lessons. He thought it was important for her to learn things before school even started. Cunningham did well in school and went on to attend the University of Washington where she majored in Chemistry. While at the University of Washington, Cunningham developed an interest in photography. Her university chemistry teacher told her if she wanted to be a photographer she needed a scientific background. This scientific background explains Cunningham’s interest in nature and botanical close-ups.
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These things included: nudes, celebrities, street photography and industrial landscapes. Yet, Imogen Cunningham was most famous for her botany photographs followed by her nudes. She is known as one of the greatest American women photographers not only because of her talent but also because she helped develop modern photography in America. In history, Imogen Cunningham has the longest interest in photography because she started photography at such a young age of 18. Over the course of her lifetime, she was able to photograph many things and build a well-known, thoughtful career with her best-known work being her sharp focus in the photography of
For Emerson, the reticent beauty of nature was the motivator. To him, photography should be recognized because its still-life beauty was able to persuade the public’s appreciation of the life and nourishment
Born of Irish immigrants in 1823 in a little place called Warren County, New York; Mathew Brady is known as “The Father of Photojournalism.” While a student of Samuel Morse and a friend of Louis Daguerre (inventor of the “Daguerreotype,” a method of photography that the image is developed straight onto a metal coated surface), in which he had met while under the study of Morse, Brady took up his interest in photography in the year of 1839, while only seventeen years of age. Brady took what he had learned from these two talented and intellectual men to America where he furthered his interest in the then-growing art of photography.
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
Johnson, Brooks. Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers on their Art.” New York: Aperture Foundation Inc., 2004. Print.
Helene Melanie Lebel, one of two daughters born to a Jewish family, was raised as a Catholic in Vienna. Her father died during World War I when Helene was only 5 years old, and when Helene was 15, her mother remarried. Helene entered law school, but at age 19, she started showing signs of an illness. By 1935, her illness became so bad severe that she had to give up her law studies. Helene was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and was placed in Vienna’s Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital. Although her condition improved in 1940, Helene was forced to stay in Steinhof. Her parents believed she would soon be released, but in August, her mother was informed that Helene was transferred to Niedernhart. She was actually transported to Brandenburg, Germany where she was led into a gas chamber or room? disguised as a shower room, and was gassed to death. Helene was listed as dying in her room of “acute schizophrenic excitement”.
At any point in time, someone’s world can be turned upside down by an unthinkable horror in a matter of seconds. On June 20th, 2001 in a small, suburban household in Houston, TX, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub after her husband left for work. The crime is unimaginable, yes, but the history leading up to the crime is just as important to the story. Andrea Yates childhood, adulthood, and medical history are all potent pieces of knowledge necessary to understanding the crime she committed.
Eugenia Cooney is a youtube star with one million plus subscribers. She does beauty and makeup videos, often dressing up for holidays and making several videos out of them. Eugenia is extremely skinny, with only 88 pounds to her body. She denies she has an eating disorder or other health problem along with her parents. Even after photos of her before she lost severe amounts of weight were leaked to the public she denied, still, that she had a health problem. All of this causes heads to be turned and people worried. Several other youtube stars had made videos about her trying to help her, as most of them say although some of them were being rude to her about her weight. Many of her fans got extremely upset over them saying anything about her and began to attack the people who actually tried to help her. She lost attention because of this and
Probably one of the most influential photographers of the 21st century, Sally Mann has been a great success in the world of photography of the last decade and a half. Mann is considered one of the best black and white female photographers in the field and was even named “America’s Best Photographer” by Time Magazine in 2001. Mann’s photographs are alluring and intriguing for viewers, offering a new interpretation on how others normally perceive the different aspects of life. It is important however, to first take a look at how Mann got started.
Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. New York, NY : Abbeville Publishing Group, 2007.
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by” -Jeannette Walls. Jeannette Walls is a great American writer. Jeannette Walls(1960-present) is closely associated to postmodernism. Postmodernism is late 20th century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism. Jeannette Walls grew up with her parents in southwest United States’ deserts with her nomad parents. Jeannette Walls parents, Rex and Rosemary walls, greatly influenced her life as a writer. Jeannette Walls love of reading and her love of her desert surroundings, along with the time period she grew up in is what influenced her to become such a great writer.
Julia Margaret made it her duty to show her subjects in the light of their potential immorality and it shows beautifully in her work.Julia Margaret Cameron was an English woman with a remarkable talent for photography and who created brilliant photographs that captured moments of emotional intensity. She rejected the meticulously observed and highly defined detail of the artisan photographers, yet there was nothing eccentric or amateur in her approach.
Are violent crimes towards women becoming a social norm for America? The answer is yes, violent crimes such as rape and murder are all becoming “just another story” for many Americans. From Isobel Parker, a twenty-three year old woman who was murdered by her boyfriend in Tennessee, to Dru Sjodin, a twenty-two year old college student, who was murdered by a man in North Dakota, all the way to these stories are no longer shocking to many Americans simply because they hear about stories similar to this on a daily basis.
Born to Nettie Lee Smith and Bill Smith on December 18, 1918 in Wichita, Kansas was William Eugene Smith, who would later revolutionize photography. His mother Nettie was into photography, taking photos of her family, especially her two sons as they grew up, photographing events of their lives (Hughes 2). Photography had been a part of Smith’s life since he was young. At first it started out always being photographed by his mother, and then turned into taking photographs along with his friend Pete, as he got older. They often practiced developing photos in Nettie’s kitchen, and he later began to create albums with his photographs. His photographs diff...
Marrs, Suzanne. Eudora Welty(tm)s Photography: Images into Fiction. Critical Essays on Eudora Welty. W. Craig Turner and Lee Emling Harding. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1989. 288-289.
To begin with, photography appeared to me as something entertaining a simple step in which one took a camera and simply shot a photograph of oneself or a friend. When I was handed my schedule for Mrs. Jones’s class, I felt as if this class had in store a special reward for me. As the days went by, Instead of being anxious of getting out of class I had a craving for additional time in the class. The class kept my eyes glued to the screen ...