Famous Photographers

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By Sinitsa

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• A photographer is a person who takes photographs. A
professional photographer uses photography to earn money;
amateur photographers take photographs for pleasure and to
record an event, emotion, place, or person.

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• Photographers are also categorized based on the subjects they
photograph. Some photographers explore subjects typical of
paintings such as landscape, still life, and portraiture. Other
photographers specialize in subjects unique to photography,
including street photography, documentary photography, fashion
photography, wedding photography, war photography,
photojournalism, aviation photography and commercial
photography.

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• On a summer day in 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made
the first photographic image with a camera obscura. Prior to
Niepce people just used the camera obscura for viewing or
drawing purposes not for making photographs. Joseph
Nicephore Niepce's heliographs or sun prints as they were
called were the prototype for the modern photograph, by
letting light draw the picture.

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• #1: The first digital camera was created in December 1975, by
Steve Sasson, who was an Engineer at Eastman Kodak. The
camera weighed 8 pound and recorded 0.01 megapixel black
and white photos. It took 23 seconds to create the first
photograph.

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• The chemicals which used to be used for developing
photographs are called photographic fixatives. These used to
be very dangerous and poisonous chemicals which, if consumed,
could also lead to death.

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• The largest collection of cameras in the world is held by Dilish
Parekh of Mumbai. He has a collection of 4,425 antique
cameras

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• Popular nature photographer and television presenter whose
vividly-coloured images of wildlife, landscapes and indigenous
cultures celebrate the beauty and diversity of the natural world.

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• American photographer, widely revered for his studiobased portrait, still life and fashion work. His pictures,
executed with great attention to detail, are spare, powerful
and carefully composed.

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• Highly creative, surrealist-influenced photographer whose most
famous images resulted from experiments with photograms
(which he called ‘rayographs’) and colorization, in which an
image is completely or partially inverted.