Gertrude Käsebier was considered to be one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th century. She was known for her images of motherhood, her portraits of Native Americans, and her promotion of photography as a career for women. Originally named Gertrude Stanton, born in 1852, the portrait photographer who was one of the founders…
Continue reading ➞ Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Gertrude Käsebier
Since March is women's month, I thought that I would share some of my favourite female inspiration throughout this month. I decided to do because my life has been greatly influenced by great women. Women ahead of their time, women whose faith and belief in people is beyond everything else I've known in my…
Continue reading ➞ Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Emma Justine Farnsworth
Born in Luxembourg, Steichen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 2 years old. During the 1890's, he independently studied both painting and photography applying himself to their commercial and fine art possibilities. He understood early on that the only way to persuade the public that photography was fine art was…
Continue reading ➞ Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Edward Steichen
Born in Budapest, Kertész taught himself how to use a camera and had his first photos published while a member of the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. Kertész emigrated to Paris in 1925, where he became acquainted with members of the Dada movement, he achieved critical and commercial success. In Paris he found critical and commercial…
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Minor White was an American photographer and is one of the masters of photographic modernism. his first creative efforts were in poetry and he took took 5 years to complete a sequence of a hundred sonnets while working as a waiter and bartender. It is after moving to Portland in 1938 that his photography career began. First,…
Continue reading ➞ Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Minor White
"Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, 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 maybe a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And, if so, you are a…
Continue reading ➞ Monday Photography Inspiration – Alfred Stieglitz
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein
