- Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of the American West. Adams also authored numerous books about photography, including his trilogy of technical instruction manuals ("The Camera", "The Negative" and "The Print"); co-founded Group f/64 along with other masters like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham; and created, with Fred Archer, the "zone system". - David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop Art of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. - Edward Weston
Edward Weston (March 24 1886 - January 1 1958) was an American photographer, and co-founder of Group f/64. Most of his work was done using an 8 by 10 inch view camera. - Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (May 25 1895 - October 11 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, her birth name was Dorothea Margarette Nutzhorn. - Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams in "The Godfather" (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with "Play It Again, Sam" (1972). - Brett Weston
Brett Weston was an American photographer and the second son of photographer Edward Weston. Brett’s photographs often approach abstraction, with subjects that are difficult to decipher. He is best known for his work in the dunes around Oceano, California, a subject that he shared with his father Edward Weston. The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, … - Galen Rowell
Galen Avery Rowell (August 23, 1940 - August 11, 2002) was a noted wilderness photographer and climber. Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972. - Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits in the style of classical Greek sculpture. Consequently some of his more famous pieces are of male and female nudes in what can be called glamour photography. He was born in Los Angeles, California to a prosperous family who owned a furniture business. - Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach (born in Los Angeles, California in 1949) is an American photographer known for his photographs of human intervention in landscapes. - Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry. Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon. In 1901, at the age of 18, Cunningham bought her first camera, a 4x5 inch view camera, from the American School of Art in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She soon lost interest and sold the camera to a friend. It wasn’t until 1906, while studying at the University of Washington in Seattle, … - William Wegman
William Wegman (b. 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses. - Bruce Conner
I'm in the milatary part time, I love outdoors actives, campin, fishin, photography,& I enjoy country music. I'm easy goin & layed back.I'm looking for that some one for an no strings relationship.who'd love to get together an have - Carleton Watkins
Carleton E. Watkins (November 11, 1829-June 23, 1916) was a noted 19th century Californian photographer. Carleton Emmons Watkins was born in Oneonta, upstate New York. He went to San Francisco during the gold rush, arriving in 1851. He traveled to California with Oneontan Collis Huntington, who later became one of the owners of the Central Pacific Railroad, which helped Watkins later in his career. - Dave Naz
Dave Naz was born in 1969 in Los Angeles, Ca. He worked as a musician touring and putting out records in the 80's and early 90's. In '95 he picked up the camera and started photographing people. DaveIs erotic images of women in various states of dress have been brought to the publicIs attention by two monograph books, Panties and Lust Circus. His work has also been featured in numerous magazines including and art exhibits around the world. He has no formal training. - Bill Atkinson
Bill Atkinson (born 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where Apple Macintosh developer Jef Raskin was one of his professors. Atkinson continued his studies as a graduate student at the University of Washington. He designed and implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system. - Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng is a professional photographer specializing in underwater photography. He owns and maintains Wetpixel, an underwater photography site. He has authored many web journals documenting his trips around the world, and has been published in numerous publications, both in print and on the web. Eric recently won the animal antics category of the "2005 Nature's Best Photography Competition," which placed his winning image in the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum. - Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler is an artist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She graduated from Brooklyn College (1965) and the University of California, San Diego (1974). Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Her work and writing have been widely influential. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and teaches art at Rutgers University and the Städelschule in Frankfurt. - Clyde Butcher
Clyde Butcher (b. 1942) is an American photographer, best known for wilderness photography of the Florida landscape. - Ruth Bernhard
Ruth Bernhard (October 14 1905 - December 18 2006) was an American photographer. - Peter Menzel
Peter Menzel is an author and photographer. He has contributed to following books: *"Robo Sapiens" *"Material World" *"Hungry Planet" - Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie (born 1961) is an American artist specializing in the photography of transgendered people. Most recently, she has turned to photographing architectural spaces (skyways and urban spaces) as well as landscapes (icehouses and surfers in the ocean). She is currently a professor of Photography at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Her works are displayed in museums in Los Angeles, Chicago, and London. - Baron Wolman
Baron Wolman was the first chief photographer of "Rolling Stone". Wolman grew up in Columbus, Ohio, studied philosophy at Northwestern University in Chicago, learned German at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and then did a tour with military intelligence in West Berlin. In Berlin, Wolman sold his first photo essay for publication, a story about life behind the then-new Berlin Wall. - Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat is a contemporary visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Shirin Neshat (b. 1957) was born in Qazvin, Iran. Her parents were upper middle-class. Her father was a well-respected physician and her mother, a homemaker. She grew up in a westernized household that adored the Shah of Iran and his ideologies. Neshat has stated about her father, “He fantasized about the west, romanticized the west, … - Christopher Makos
Christopher Makos (b. 1948, in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an American photographer and artist. He apprenticed with legendary photographer Man Ray in Paris and collaborated with Andy Warhol, whom he showed how to use his first camera. He introduced Warhol to the work of both Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Makos' work has been in the permanent collections of more than 100 museums and major private collections, including those of Malcolm Forbes, Pedro Almodovar, … - Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson (Born 1960-) is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as "Guarded Conditions" and "Square Deal". Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex. In 2007, Simpson had a 20-year retrospective of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art. - Cheryl Tiegs
Cheryl Cox Tiegs (born September 25, 1947, in Breckenridge, Minnesota) is an American model. Her popularity signaled the rise of tall models[citation needed], as she stands 1,79 m (5'10" to 5'11") in height. Tiegs was born in Minnesota, but raised in C... more - Bob Walker
Robert John Walker (6 January 1952 - 19 September 1992) was a San Francisco, California-based photographer and environmental activist. In an intense period of activism from 1982 to 1992 he was associated with more than a dozen Bay Area conservation organizations and as a photographer for the East Bay Regional Park District. Walker was born in Syracuse, New York and grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. He died in San Francisco of AIDS-related complications, at the age of 40. - Kim Weston
Kim Weston (b. 1953) is an American photographer known for his fine art nude studies. Kim Weston is the grandson of photographer Edward Weston, son of photographer Cole Weston and nephew of photographer Brett Weston. He worked for a number of years helping his father make new prints of Edward Weston's negatives and as an assistant to his uncle Brett. - Christopher Williams
Christopher Williams (born 1956) is an American conceptual artist and photographer. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and studied at the California Institute of the Arts. - Eric Draper
Eric Draper is the White House Photo Director and personal photographer for President George W. Bush. Draper worked for the Associated Press as a news photographer prior to joining the White House. His many assignments included the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns, the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, the Kosovo conflict in 1999 and the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. Over the years, Draper has also worked as a staff photographer for The Seattle Times, … - Laura Wilson
Laura Wilson, known as Laura Cunningham (August 28, 1945 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American photographer best known for her work documenting the creation of Richard Avedon's "In the American West" portfolio and as the mother of actors Luke, Andrew and Owen Wilson. Laura Wilson (nee Cunningham) was born in Forth Worth, Texas to parents Jimmy (an engineer, who later became Fort Worth's most prominent engineer) and Laurie Ann Cunningham. - Haskell Wexler
Born in Chicago, Wexler attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year before joining the Merchant Marines. He stayed at sea for five years, became a second officer, then returned to Chicago where he spent ten years making documentary and educational films before moving to California in 1955. - Edward Ruscha
Edward Ruscha (born December 16, 1937 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American painter, printmaker, photographer, and filmmaker. His last name is pronounced "rew-SHAY". - Joseph Holmes
Joseph E. Holmes is a color, natural light, landscape photographer from California. His publications include many posters, the series of Last Wildlands calendars, produced with David Brower at Friends of the Earth for nine years, and three books, including two of the most respected books of landscape photography: "Joseph Holmes • Natural Light", The Nature Company 1989, and "Canyons of the Colorado", Chronicle Books 1996. - Matthew Rolston
Matthew Rolston is an acclaimed American photographer and music video director, known for videos in Pop and R&B genres. Matthew Rolston was born and raised in Los Angeles. He developed his talents as a photographer at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena. Over the years, Rolston’s still photography work for Harper's Bazaar, … - Cole Weston
Cole Weston (January 30, 1919 - April 20, 2003) was the youngest son of photographer Edward Weston and brother of photographer Brett Weston. He dedicated his life to photography and the theater. Cole Weston was associated with the Forest Theater Guild for over 50 years, serving as president a number of times. He directed over 30 plays in Carmel's outdoor Forest Theater. Cole had six children including photographer Kim Weston. - Holly Randall
Holly Randall (born September 5, 1978) is an American erotic photographer. She is the daughter of erotic photographer Suze Randall and author Humphry Knipe. Holly Randall was named for Hollywood, where she was born. Randall rode horses competitively for 13 years, and then quit after she won the 3 day eventer's preliminary championships. She was 20 years old and a student at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, … - Aaron Ruell
Aaron Ruell (born June 23, 1976) is an American actor who grew up in Clovis, California, and is most noted for his performance as Kipland Ronald Dynamite (or Kip) in the indie movie "Napoleon Dynamite". He also shot all of the promotional photography for the film as well as designing the opening title sequence to the film. Ruell stars in, "On the Road With Judas," premiering in the Dramatic Competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, … - Harry Gamboa Jr.
Harry Gamboa Jr. (born 1951) is a Chicano essayist, photographer, director and performance artist. Founding member of influential chicano performance art collective, ASCO. He was the first of five children born to Harry T. Gamboa and Carmen Gamboa, a working class Mexican American couple. He grew up in East Los Angeles California, an urban area tormented by poverty, violence and racial conflict. - Eric Garcetti
Eric Garcetti is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the Thirteenth District, comprising the communities of Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Atwater Village, Elysian Valley, Glassell Park, Temple-Beverly, Thai Town, Little Armenia, and Filipino Town.
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