Our Ancestors
Never Has So Much Been Owed By So Many To So Few…
Nothing much and yet so much.
A short name check of the photographers who made us; who made our vision what it is today. In no specific order.
László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946)
André Kertész (French, 2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985)
Brassaï (Hungarian, pseudonym of Gyula Halász; 9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984)
Robert Doisneau (French, 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994)
Eugène Atget (French, 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927)
Man Ray (American, born Emmanuel Radnitzky, August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976)
Bill Brandt (British, born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt, 2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983)
Dorothea Lange (American, May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965)
Walker Evans (American, November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975)
Weegee (American, pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968)
Édouard Boubat (French, 1923–1999)
Jacques Henri Lartigue (French, June 13, 1894 – September 12, 1986)
Edward Jean Steichen (American, March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973)
Elliott Erwitt (French, 26 July 1928)
August Sander (German, 17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964)
Robert Capa (Hungarian, born Endre Friedmann, October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954)
Diane Arbus (American, March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971)
Robert Frank (American, November 9, 1924)
Alfred Stieglitz (American, January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946)
Irving Penn (American, June 16, 1917 – October 7, 2009)
Richard Avedon (American, May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004)
Yousuf Karsh (Armenian, also Hovsep Karsh, December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002)
Alfred Eisenstaedt (German, December 6, 1898 – August 23, 1995)
Margaret Bourke-White (American, June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971)
Paul Strand (American, October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976)
Garry Winogrand (American, 14 January 1928 – 19 March 1984)
Philippe Halsman (Latvian, 2 May 1906 – 25 June 1979)
Mary Ellen Mark (American, March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015)
Imogen Cunningham (American, April 12, 1883 – June 23, 1976)
William Eugene Smith (American, December 30, 1918 – October 15, 1978)
Berenice Abbott (American, July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991)
Donald “Don” McCullin (British, 9 October 1935)
I could go on, and no doubt some of the people I haven’t mentioned would be picked out by the reader and held against me.
But you know I put in people I love, you can make your own list :D.