Famous Photojournalists in History & Famous Photographers in History

Famous Photojournalists in History. Also Famous Photographers in History. Famous Photographer list in the History\

Photojournalism

Famous Photojournalists in History

1. Mathew Brady

• Civil War photographer
• Managed group of photographers
• He is given credit for many photos that he didn’t actually take
• Rumored that his team moved bodies to improve composition
• Shot glass plates, not film, had a wagon full of darkroom materials

2. Dorothea Lange

• Migrant Mother
• Depicts destitute pea pickers in California
• Mom and her seven children
• March 1936
• Depth of emotion uncommon in most photos
• Member of FSA.

3. Margaret Burke-White

• Documented World War II
• Only females allowed in the war zone in WWII by Army
• One of the first to do a photo story
• Had photo on the first cover of Life magazine

4. Alfred Eisenstaedt

• V-J Day
• Father of photojournalism
• One of the first to use 35mm
• One of four original Life photographers
• “Paitence, patience, patience.”

5. Henri Cartier-Bresson

• 1932
• The decisive moment — known for waiting hours for the right photo
• Founding member of photo agency the Magnum Group

6. Robert Capa

• “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.”
• Killed by a land mine in Vietnam
• Founding member of Magnum Group

7. W. Eugene Smith

• Born in Wichita, Kan.
• Studied people in detail before photographing
• Known for a photo essay on the country doctor and mercury poisoning of a fishing village in Japan.

8. Joe Rosenthal

• Raising the flag at Iwo Jima
• 23, 1945
• Five Marines and one Navy medic
• Second flag-raising that day
• The film from the first one (different photographer) got ruined
• Basically, he got lucky
• “Flags of our Fathers”
• Won the Pulitzer prize in 1945
• Within a month after the photoshoot, three of the six were killed in combat.

10. Ansel Adams

• 1942 The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
• Landscape photographer
• Large format cameras

11. Gordon Parks

• American Gothic 1942
• Grew up in poverty and inspired to make something of his life because of the racism he grew up with
• Black photographer setting a president for the time period
• Life magazine.

12. Eddie Adams

• Vietcong Execution, Saigon 1968
• Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots suspected Vietcong Bay Lop in the street.
• Photo received world attention because of its gruesomeness
• Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968

13. Sal Verder

• AP photographer
• USAF colonel welcomed home after 5 years as POW
• Won Pulitzer in 1974

Tutorial Question

• After studying international photojournalism’s history, how about Malaysia’s photojournalism?
• Within-group of 4-5 persons, explain Malaysia’s photojournalism history. The explanation must include these points;
• When it’s started?
• Important events
• Photojournalism now
• Submit on Padlet before 5 April 2021, 12 midnight.