Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Rudolf Bruner-Dvořák

Rudolf Bruner-Dvořák  (1845 - 1905) was a Czech photojournalist.


Jindřich Eckert

Jindřich Eckert was a famous Czech photographer. He took a lot of photos of Prague and portants.







Nadar

Félix Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1 April 1820, Paris – 23 March 1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist.


Roger Fenton

Roger Fenton (28 March 1819 – 8 August 1869) was a pioneering British photographer, one of the first war photographers.




Mathew Brady

Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1822 – January 15, 1896) was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism.




Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840 – January 14, 1882) was a photographer widely known for his work related to the American Civil War and the Western United States.



David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson

The Scottish painter and arts activist David Octavius Hill (1802 – 1870) collaborated with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of photography in Scotland.
Robert Adamson, (1821 – 1848) was a Scottish pioneer photographer.





Oscar Gustave Rejlander

Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813 – 1875) was a pioneering Victorian art photographer and an expert in photomontage. His collaboration with Charles Darwin on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals has assured him a position in the history of behavioral science and psychiatry.



Friday, January 27, 2012

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 – 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurianand other legendary themes.
Cameron's photographic career was short, spanning eleven years of her life (1864–1875). She took up photography at the relatively late age of 48, when she was given a camera as a present. Although her style was not widely appreciated in her own day, her work has had an impact on modern photographers, especially her closely cropped portraits.


Henry Fox Talbot & Calotype process

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 – 1877) was a British inventor and a pioneer of photography. He was the inventor of calotype process, the precursor to most photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an artistic medium. His work in the 1840s on photo-mechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Talbot is also remembered as the holder of a patent which, some say, affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. Additionally, he made some important early photographs of Oxford, Paris, and York.



Latticed window in Lacock Abbey in 1835 by Talbot is a print from the oldest photographic negative in existence

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Louis Daguerre & Daguerreotype

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787 – 1851) was a French artist and physicist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography.

Nicéphore Niépce & Heliography

Nicéphore Niépce  (1765 – 1833) was a French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field. He is most noted for producing the world's first known photograph in 1825.


Hi everyone

Welcome to my blog. I devote it to works of famous photographers. I'm preparing for the history of photography exam. So i decided to start this blog to unite useful and pleasant components of the preparation to help myself to remember everything better and to show to everyone the most interesting and the greatest photographers in the history of czech and world photography.

I don't know if i will have enough time to write descriptions in different languages, but i will try to do it. I think not everyone who reads my blog right now is able to understand Czech, the language i'm going to pass the exam in.