Archive for the ‘Influences’ Category

Taking photojournalism to a whole new level

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Margaret Bourke-White success was due to both her people skills and her technical skills. As she explains in Portrait of Myself, the Otis security people were reluctant to let her shoot for many reasons: First, steel making was a defense industry, so they wanted to be sure national security was not ...

Mathew Brady – father of photojournalism

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Mathew B. Brady, was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and the documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism. Brady was born in New York. By 1844, he had his own photography studio in ...

A photojournalist with balls

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist best known for her Depression era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.When the Great Depression began, Lange turned her camera lens ...

A fine photographer who hung around with the Dalai Lama

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Pierre Toutain-Dorbec grew up in Orbec, Normandy and in Paris. Since he was thirteen years old his education was focused in the arts. His Grandfather Gabriel and his Uncle Jean where both photographers and artists, his Father Jacques was an interior designer and is now a painter, and his Mother ...

John Thomson was a man of substance

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

John Thomson (14 June 1837 – 7 October 1921) was a pioneering Scottish photographer, geographer and traveller. One of the greats. He was one of the first photographers to travel to the Far East, documenting the people of eastern cultures. Upon returning home, his work among the street people of ...