PHOTO CLASS; "The Photoreporters"

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Photographer notes; Alfred Stieglitz

"Photography is not an art. Neither is painting not sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings… You do not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. You may be a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And if so you are a greater artist than the majority of the painters whose work is shown in the art galleries of today."

Alfred Stieglitz, 1864-1946
American

• Important because he made photography an accepted art form
• Best known for strong compositions, skies citiscapes or subjects nearly abstracted, capturing moments to tell a story with a photograph (photojournalism)
• Editor/Publisher of Camera Work magazine (1903-1917)
  
• 'Gallery 291' in New York
• "star maker" for photographers, writers, and painters
• Had an affair with, and in 1924 married painter Georgia O'Keefe, whom he photographed extensively (see above),
  

Photographer notes; Ansel Adams

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

Ansel Adams, 1902-1984
American

• Best known for black and white landscapes, especially in Yosemite (see above example of El Capitan)
• Concert pianist and mountain climber who survived the 1906 San Fransisco and eventually became not only one of the world's most famous photographers, but a leading conservationist.
  

• Books:

1. Sierra Nevada: the John Muir Trail
2. The Camera
3. The Negative
4. The Print

• Devised the "Zone System" and coined the term "previsualization"- A photographer can use a 10 zone value scale to help chose the right camera and darkroom settings to allow them to produce an image the way they plan it (pre-visualize how it should turn out)
• Helped found Group f/64, the Sierra Club, and Aperture Magazine