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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. Nationality (legal) American. Occupation (s) Photographer. filmmaker. Laurence Salzmann (born January 4, 1944) is an American photographer and filmmaker based in Philadelphia. [1] His work, mostly documentary photography, focuses primarily on the lives of little known groups in America and abroad.
Robert Cornelius ( / kɔːrˈniːliəs /; March 1, 1809 [1] – August 10, 1893) was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography. His daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839 is generally accepted as the first known photographic portrait of a person taken in the United States, and a very important achievement for self-portraiture. He operated some of the earliest ...
Zoe Strauss (born 1970) is an American photographer [1] and a nominee member of Magnum Photos. [2] She uses Philadelphia as a primary setting and subject for her work. [1] [2] Curator Peter Barberie identifies her as a street photographer, like Walker Evans or Robert Frank, and has said "the woman and man on the street, yearning to be heard, are the basis of her art." [3]
Edward Livingston Wilson (1838–1903) was an American photographer, writer and publisher. In Philadelphia in the 1860s he worked for Frederick Gutekunst and in 1864 he began the Philadelphia Photographer magazine. [1] He served as an energetic officer of the National Photographic Association of the United States. [2] In 1869 he joined the "Eclipse Expedition" in Iowa overseen by Henry Morton ...
Articles and categories related to notable photographers presently or previously from Philadelphia . Pages in category "Photographers from Philadelphia"
Frederick Gutekunst (September 25, 1831 – April 27, 1917) was an American photographer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He opened his first photographic portrait studio with his brother in 1854 and successfully ran his business for sixty years. He grew to national prominence during the American Civil War and expanded his business to include ...
David Graham (born 1952, Abington, Pennsylvania) is an American artist photographer and professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He currently lives and works in De Pere, Wisconsin. Embracing popular forms of American photography (the snapshot, family portrait, and vacation photo), David Graham explores contemporary culture ...
Born in Tampa, Florida in 1953, Lynn was raised near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lynn studied painting and photography at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia from 1972 to 1976, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, cum laude. She then enrolled in the filmmaking program at the New York ...