William Eggleston , an American photographer who was born in 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee . Eggleston is extremely intelligent in his field especially in color photography. He was the first artist to take dye transfer printing out of advertising and use it to create art. He is also credited with taking the so called "snapshot aesthetic" usually associated with family photos and amateur photographers and turning it into a crafted picture imitating life. Although he began his career making black-and-white images, he soon abandoned them to experiment with color technology to record experiences in more sensual and accurate terms. H is encounter with Andy Warhol exposed him to forms of color photography and advertisement, He was the pioneer of color photography. William Eggleston used color photographs to describe the cultural transformations in Tennessee and the rural South. He depicts these changes in scenes of everyday life, for instance, portraits of family and ...
First Photographer: Ansel Adams Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 and was a landscape photographer. Adams is most known for his photographs of Yosemite National Park. In 1939 and 1940, along with the help of Fred Archer, Adams created the Zone System. The Zone System was a way to get the correct exposer in the camera as well as a way to develop of the sheet film. This took the generic exposer metering to the next level by taking the tones of pure blacks to pure whites and separating them into ten zones. Adams defined the most useful zones as zones one through nine when processing negatives. Adams stated that you can capture detail in zones as high as zone twelve and above however it was difficult to process for a print. The Zone System was also a way to get the framing and look of the image to what the photographer wanted before they took the photograph. This included the ...
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