Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Horst, Lillian Bassman and Helmut Newton, who altered the face of fashion and portrait photography visionary documentary photographers such as Gordon Parks, whose best-known work was guided by social justice and pioneers of street photography such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot for revolutionary travel magazines like Holiday with the likes of globetrotting society lensman Slim Aarons.įind photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study - where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Today, when we aren’t looking at the digital photos that inundate us on our phones, we look to the past to celebrate the photographers who have broken rules as well as records - provocative and prolific artists like Horst P. What might leading figures of visual art such as Andy Warhol have done with these tools at their disposal? Kodak introduced roll film in the 1880s, allowing photography to become more democratic, although cameras wouldn’t be universally accessible until several decades later.ĭigital photographic techniques, software, smartphone cameras and social-networking platforms such as Instagram have made it even easier in the modern era for budding photographers to capture the world around them as well as disseminate their images far and wide. The French inventor was on to something for sure. The first permanent image created by a camera - which materialized during the 1820s - is attributed to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Find a broad range of fine photography on 1stDibs today.

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