Perhaps her best known photograph is a portrait of John Lennon with Yoko Ono, which was taken the same day that John Lennon was murdered. Annie LiebovitzĪnnie Liebovitz is a contemporary (born in 1949) portrait photographer who is well known for her work over the years with Rolling Stone Magazine and Vanity Fair. This portrait, taken by a different photographer, is similar to the style of Annie Liebovits's dramatic portraits. Bottom line–DO NOT let this happen to you! If your goal in photography is to do anything other than enjoy it, then you will likely burn out after time. He locked his camera in a safe in his home and rarely even took it out. In 1975, twenty-nine years before he died, he became bored with photography and turned his attention to painting. What you can learn from Henri Cartier-Bresson: The great tragedy of Cartier-Bresson's photography is that he gave up the craft entirely long before he died. You can see Henri Cartier-Bresson's work here. Like Ansel Adams, he shot almost exclusively in black and white. He was one of the first photographers to switch over to the 35mm format and used exclusively Leica cameras with 50mm lenses.
His photojournalistic style has done more to influence photography than any other photographer's contribution.
Where Uelsman relished in creating composites, Cartier-Bresson did not even like developing his own photos. In many ways, Cartier-Bresson's style is precisely the opposite of Jerry Uelsman. This list of famous photographers would be absolutely meaningless without Cartier-Bresson. An example of street photography, which was the genre of choice for Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson If there are other famous photographers that you believe should be on this list, leave a comment below telling us the name of the photographer and what you have learned from him or her. The list is composed of a few famous photographers that I respect as well as a few photographers that were nominated by the Improve Photography community on our Facebook fan page. Obviously, this is not an exclusive list. I have included in this post pictures of a similar genre to the photographers listed just so this isn't an all-text article, but none of these photos were taken by the famous photographers listed. I wish I could include a few of the pictures from each of the photographers, but I don't want to ruffle any copyright feathers. Most of these photographers are now deceased, but a few of them are still taking beautiful photos today. Photographers today can learn much from the famous photographers that have paved the way before us.