1920s-Today

1920 - 1939
1. Eugène Atget (1857-1927)
  1. French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography
  2. Came to artistic fame after his death
  3. Rue de l'Hôtel de Ville (1921)
2. André Kertész (1894–1985)
  1. Meudon (1928)
  2. Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay
  3. Migrated to the US in 1936, where he had to rebuild his reputation through commissioned work due to German persecution of the Jews and the threat of World War II
3. 1925 - The Leica introduces the 35 mm format to still photography
4. Alexander Rodchenko (1891– 1956)
  1. White Sea Canal, 1933
  2. Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design
  3. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography
5. August Sander (1876–1964)
  1. Pastry Cook (1928)
  2. German portrait and documentary photographer
  3. His work includes landscape, nature, architecture, and street photography, but he is best known for his portraits
6. Man Ray (1890–1976)
  1. Dust Breeding (1920)
  2. American visual artist who spent most of his career in France
  3. Best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer
7. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004)
  1. Behind the Gare Saint -Lazare (1932)
  2. French photographer considered the master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film
  3. He helped develop street photography and approvingly cited a notion of the inevitability of a decisive moment
8. WW2 1939-1945
9. The Great Depression
1940 - 1959
1. 1942 – Kodacolor, the first color film that yields negatives for making chromogenic color prints on paper. Roll films for snapshot cameras only, 35 mm not available until 1958
2. 1954 – Leica M Introduced
3. 1959 – Nikon F introduced
4. Tony Vaccaro (1922)
  1. Attack on Hemmerden (1945)
  2. American photographer who is best known for his photos taken in Europe during 1944 and 1945 and in Germany after World War II
5. Henryk Ross (1910 – 1991)
  1. Playing as a Ghetto Policeman (1943)
  2. Polish Jewish photographer who was employed by the Department of Statistics for the Jewish Council working as a staff photographer
7. 1957 – First digital computer acquisition of scanned photographs, by Russell Kirsch
1960 - 1979
1. Shōmei Tōmatsu (1930–2012)
  1. Melted Bottle (1961)
  2. Japanese photographer
    1. While still a student, he had his photographs published by the major Japanese photography magazines
2. Diane Arbus (1923–1971)
  1. Marcella Matthaei (1969)
  2. American photographer and writer noted for photographs of marginalised people - dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers
3. 1964 – First Pentax Spotmatic SLR introduced
1980 - 1999
1. 1986 – Kodak scientists invent the world's first megapixel sensor.
2. 1994 – Nikon introduces the first optical-stabilized lens
3. 1993–95 – The Jet Propulsion Laboratory develops devices using CMOS or active pixel sensors
4. Robert Frank (1924)
  1. Covered car - Long Beach, California, 1956
  2. American photographer and documentary filmmaker
  3. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society
5. William Klein (1928)
  1. Gun 1, New York 1995
  2. American-born French photographer and filmmaker noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography.
6. 1991 - Kodak released the first commercially available digital SLR - known as the Kodak DCS-100
2000 - 2015
1. Chuck Close (1940)
  1. Kate Moss (2003)
  2. American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits
  3. known for using creative and intricate patterns to portray a human portrait
2. Joel Meyerowritz (1938)
  1. Inside the pile, looking west (2001)
  2. Street photographer and portrait and landscape photographer
  3. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art
3. 11th September, 2001 - 9/11
4. 2009 – Kodak announces the discontinuance of Kodachrome film.
5. 2006 – Dalsa produces a 111 megapixel CCD sensor, the highest resolution at that time
6. Dan Mountford
  1. "Personal Project" 2010-2011
  2. Dan Mountford is a 24 year old multidisciplinary designer from the UK.
7. Jill Greenberg (1967)
  1. American photographer and artist known for her portraits and fine art work that often features anthropomorphized animals that have been digitally manipulated with painterly effects.

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