3 FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS YOU SHOULD KNOW (PART 1)

If you aspire to be an amazing professional photographer, you must study photographers with amazing work.  Your job isn’t to copy, but to learn what’s great about them, what’s not-so-great and figure out your own approach.  These 3 photographers in particular have a lot to offer. 

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ANSEL ADAMS

Lived 1902 – 1984
Niche: Landscape
Famous Works

• Monolith, The Face Of Half Dome

• Clearing Winter Storm
• Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
  

Famous Quote:  “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”

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Monolith, The Face Of Half Dome

Clearing Winter Storm

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico

GORDON PARKS

Lived 1912 – 2006
Niche:  Portrait
Famous Works

• American Gothic
• Ali’s First Loss
• Black Boy Reading
  

Famous Quote:  “The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer”

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American Gothic

Ali's First Loss

Black Boy Reading

ZOE STRAUSS

Born 1970 (In Philadelphia)
Niche:    Street
Famous Works

• Mattress Flip
• Daddy Tattoo
  
• We Will Win
  

Famous Quote:  “Every moment is a moment worth photographing.”

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Mattress Flip

We Will Win