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Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
Dody Weston Thompson (April 11, 1923 – October 14, 2012 [1]) was a 20th-century American photographer and chronicler of the history and craft of photography.She learned the art in 1947 and developed her own expression of “straight” or realistic photography, the style that emerged in Northern California in the 1930s.
5, including Brett Weston (1911–1993) and Cole Weston (1919–2003) Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was an American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" [1] and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." [2] Over the course of his 40-year career ...
Fred R. Archer. Fred Robert Archer (December 3, 1889 – April 27, 1963), was an American photographer who collaborated with Ansel Adams to create the Zone System. He was a portrait photographer, specializing early in his career in portraits of Hollywood movie stars. He was associated with the artistic trend in photography known as pictorialism.
The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer. [1] Adams described the Zone System as "[...] not an invention of mine; it is a codification of the principles of sensitometry, worked out by Fred Archer and myself at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, around 1939–40."
Dean Chamberlain. Dean Chamberlain is a photographer who specializes in unique lighting effects and extended exposure times. Famous models for his pictures sit for up to five hours as he leaves the camera shutter open and "paints" the space around them with carried and projected lights of various colors and shapes, creating luminous and ...
Leigh Wiener. Leigh Austen Wiener (August 25, 1929 – May 11, 1993) was an American photographer and photojournalist. In a career that spanned five decades, he covered hundreds of people and events. His images captured the public and private moments of entertainers, musicians, artists, authors, poets, scientists, sports figures, politicians ...
"The "Dick" Whittington Studio was the largest and finest photography studio in the Los Angeles area from 1924 to 1987." [3] Among Whittington's innovations were the setting up of a mobile laboratory, that made it possible to transmit photographs from a Rose Bowl football game directly to newspapers and wire services.