TOP 5 MOST FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS OF ALL TIME

If you have a passion for photography or an amateur photographer, you can gain inspiration by looking at the pictures of the 5 best and famous photographers. Some of the most beloved artists are deceased, but some are still delighting us with their photographs. The list below includes some of the more famous photographers that still impact our lives today.



Ansel Adams is probably the most easily recognized name of any photographer. He was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and books. Ansel achieved an unparalleled level of contrast using creative darkroom work. And you can improve your own photos by reading Adams’ own thoughts as he grew older.

Yosemite National Park

Tetons and the Snake River

Evening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park

Robert Capa, certainly, the greatest war photoreporter of the Twentieth century, has often put his own life on the line to capture the emotional dramas and some of the most tragic moments of the last century on lens. He covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris.

Barcelona, Spain — bidding farewell before the departure of a military train directed to the aragon front, august 1936

Departure of Chiang Kai-shek's German military advisors. Hankow, 1938

Pablo Picasso, 1948

Steve McCurry is an American photojournalist best known for his photograph, "Afghan Girl" that originally appeared in National Geographic magazine. He originally planned to study cinematography and filmmaking, but ended up getting a degree in theater arts and graduating in 1974. He became interested in photography when he started taking pictures for the Penn State newspaper The Daily Collegian. After working at Today's Post in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania for two years, he left for India to freelance. It was here that McCurry learned to watch and wait on life. “If you wait,” he realized, “people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.”

Afghan Girl, National Geographic, 1985

Basilan, Philippines

Stolen Childhoods, Nepal, May 2013

Annie Liebovitz, arguably, is the most famous portrait photographer working today, she has photographed many of the world’s major celebrities, often in elaborate and imaginative set-ups.
Liebovitz most well known for her work with Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone magazine. Her photographs are intimate, and describe the subject. She’s unafraid of falling in love with the people she photographed.

Barbra Streisand. Annie Liebovitz - I love her profile, eyes, nose, lips, chin.

Cate Blanchett

Daughter and Mother. Gwyneth Paltrow and Blythe Danner

Helene Bonham Carter, Vanity Fair 1998

Anne Geddes is known for her stylized depictions of babies and motherhood. Typical images show babies or young children dressed as fairies and fairytale creatures, flowers, or small animals. She has described herself as "a baby freak". She chose babies as her subject because of her love of them. "I had seen the way children and babies were generally being photographed. It just didn't seem realistic to me that people took their children along to photographic studios all dressed in their Sunday best, photographs that didn't really show the personality of the child."Geddes believes that "emotional content is an image's most important element" and that people are drawn to her work because of its simplicity and personality. prefers the black-and-white scheme because she feels that colour distracts from the image and the natural beauty of life.

Baby Flower

Softness

Baby