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Biographies the first photographers

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Learn more about the the photographers included in the exhibition. Immerse yourself and read about their lives, the contexts they appeared in, and how they worked with photography.

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851)

Photography had its breakthrough in France, where the theatre and panoramic painter and diorama owner Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre is the man behind the first successful photographic medium, the so-called daguerreotype. A few years earlier, he had begun working with the scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), who had been experimenting for a long time on how to stabilise images on paper with silver salt. They formed a partnership and tried to develop the process together. When Niépce died, Daguerre continued on his own. He found influential friends who promoted his in-vention.

When the technique was announced on 7 January, 1839 in the French Academy of Sciences, by the physicist and politician Jean Dominique Arago (1786–1853), newspapers wrote about this experiment and

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Who is the most influential photographer of all time? Which photographers have had the biggest impact on the world around them? There’s probably no absolute answer to these questions seeing as everyone will have their own views and opinions.

Well after hours of debating this subject long and hard, the team here at Picture Frames Express have produced this list of photographers we consider to be the most influential of all time. Of course, our list is by no means definitive, nor exhaustive. There’s sure to be a few incredible photographers we’ve missed out, and perhaps a few you think shouldn’t have made the top 49. But that’s the beauty of photography, everyone interprets and appreciates it in their own way, so enjoy!

1 – Ansel Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984)

Ansel Adams was an American photographer who specialised in the black and white photography of rural landscapes. He was an environmental activist and one of the pioneers of modern nature photography.

2 – Richard Avedon (15 May, 1923 – 1 October, 2004)

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Best Memoirs of Famous Photographers

Not that many autobiographies, for obvious reasons. While other arts are turned inwards, photography is, with a few exceptions, entirely turned outwards. This means that for the photographers the work is the autobiography—what they saw, who they saw, what they felt. What's left, when turned into words, often becomes mostly anecdotal, which is the case, for example, with the Ansel Adams autobiography (sarcastic minds will state that most of his photography is also anecdotal, but that's for another thread ).

That said, there are some worth reading. Top on my list is Gordon Parks' A Choice of Weapons, one of the most powerful autobiography you'll ever read. Ends early in his life—he followed that with To Smile in Autumn—but it's entirely worth it. I have Don McCullin's Unreasonable Behaviour on my bookshelf. People have told me good things about it, but, again, I haven't had time to read it yet.

Danny Lyon is an immensely interesting photographer that isn't mentioned enough. His essays are somewhat in between being about biography and abou