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Famous Photographers
Questions pertaining to the life, times, influences, bodies of work and contributions to photography of specific photographers. Please note images of specific photographs and critiques of the various works are not part of this category.
192 Questions
What kind of cameras did Ansel Adams use?
Adams also was known to pack 100's of pounds of camera and darkroom gear into the wilderness. Adams' photographic gear included: # 8 x 10 view camera, 20 holders, 4 lenses -- 1 Cooke Convertible, 1 ten-inch Wide Field Ektar, 1 9-inch Dagor, one 6-3/4-inch Wollensak wide angle.
# 7 x 17 special panorama camera with a Protar 13-1/2-inch lens and five holders. # 4 x 5 view camera, 6 lenses -- 12-inch Collinear, 8-1/2 Apo[chromatic] Lentar, 9-1/4 Apo[chromatic] Tessar, 4-inch Wide Field Ektar, Dallmeyer telephoto. # Hasselblad camera outfit with 38, 60, 80, 135, & 200 millimeter lenses. # Koniflex 35 millimeter camera. # 2 Polaroid cameras. # 3 exposure meters. One SEI, and two Westons -- in case he dropped one. # Filters for each camera. K1, K2, minus blue, G, X1, A, C5 &B, F, 85B, 85C, light balancing, series 81 and 82. # Two tripods: one light, one heavy. # Lens brush, stopwatch, level, thermometer, focusing magnifier, focusing cloth, hyperlight strobe portrait outfit, 200 feet of cable, special storage box for film. # One ancient, eight-passenger limousine with 5 x 9-foot camera platform on top." # Brownie Box #1 (his 1st camera from 1915-16). # Pocket Kodak # Zeiss Milliflex.
# Zeiss compact 35 millimeter # 6-1/2 x 8-1/2 glass plate camera # Contax II (as mentioned originally by user Chrissyvintage)
What type of personality is needed to become a photographer?
You need to be persuasive, determined, energetic, kind, and outgoing. These are the MAIN types to becoming a good AND professional photographer.
She is a famous travel photographer... She has a special type of work called over-under water.
Yes he did. He married his childhood sweetheart in 1876, and they raised a family. But, she died in 1905. However, 2 years later he remarried to his young secretary.
Eugene Smith
Did ansel Adams ever take photos using colored film?
Actually he did use the color system earlier on in his life. Mary Alinder found some of his old color negatives and she asked Ansel if she could produce them and he agreed, but after producing a couple pictures with her husband, Ansel ordered them to stop.
Adams did a lot of color work. He was a consultant for Kodak and Polaroid and tested color materials for both. He also did a lot of commercial work to support himself. He was very old before his black and white fine art work began making him much money. Check out the book, Ansel Adams in Color.
How much a print by gene gray is worth?
I have seen some Gene Gray prints recently at a local antique store in Lexington and they ranged from $15-$30. Most were signed but not numbered. These were unframed in mint or near mint condition. Selections included the red fox, otter, bald eagle, chipmunks, etc. Horse prints and those that are numbered may be worth more.
Photodynamism is a photographic technique, pioneered by the Italian, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, and uses a long exposure time to show movement in one frame of photography. The subject's movements would appear as a blur with particular focus on certain areas created by pausing at certain times for a few seconds. Photodynamism was seen as one of the first ways of showing the expression and feeling of movement in a time that contrastingly showed the anatomical and analytical features of movement with techniques such as Chronophotography.
When was photographer Keegan Gibbs born?
Keegan Gibbs is a 26-year-old photographer in Malibu, California. He was probably born in 1984, but it's difficult to find personal information about him on the internet because he hasn't quite reached the ranks of "famous" photographers yet.
What famous photographer murdered his wife's lover and that the murder was found to be justifiable?
Eadweard Muybridge. He is famous for among other things using 50 cameras and tripwires to photograph the horse in motion, showing all hooves were off the ground at the same time.
Jason Fraser is one of Britain's most favoured and respected photojournalists
His work I have found out can be bought at Peter Harrington
www.peterharrington.com
http://www.peterharrington.co.UK/store/category/Jason-fraser/
and
ARTnet
http://www.artnet.com/galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=118130&cid=213971
From Peter Harrington website...
Born in 1966, Jason Fraser's love of photography began at the age of three, when he received his first camera, a Box Brownie, which sits above his fireplace in his London home. This early start served him well, as he went on to have his first front cover image printed at the age of fourteen (Private Eye, an image of Maggie and Dennis Thatcher) and then another, for The Sun newspaper, at the age of fifteen.
This was the start of arguably Britain's most stellar career in photojournalism. Fraser's talent and charm gained him unprecedented access to an almost endless list of the world's rich, powerful and elite. He has had official private access to three of Britain's prime ministers, photographed Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Muammar al-Gaddafi. He was present at the Greenham Common protests, and got the photographs of the first missile arriving at the base. His unique access extended to members of the royal family, resulting in iconic images such as Princess Diana tenderly cradling a young Prince Harry in a moment of captured serenity. Fraser was named one of the "20 most powerful celebrity makers" in 2008 by the Observer Magazine.
Not all of Fraser's access to high-profile figures has been official and authorised. He has risked his life on many occasions to gain shots of historic and political importance. He has been at the journalistic forefront of world catastrophes such as IRA atrocities, the Air India bombing and the capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise. Fraser was also responsible for the first photograph of Carlos the Jackal to appear shortly before his arrest after twenty years in hiding.
Fraser has also been an avid archivist and supporter of popular culture. He was the official and only aerial photographer for Live Aid in 1985 and has photographed celebrities such as David Bowie on the QE2 (one of the very last sessions Bowie gave), fresh faced Paul and Linda McCartney both beaming with joy in matching overcoats, Beyoncé and Mariah Carey on numerous occasions at home in the States, in London hotel suites, etc, a suited and booted Shane McGowan, Kirsty McColl looking like a china doll, George Michael for the opening of the new Wembley Stadium and Britney Spears in her earlier and happier years as a pop star; all were private sessions, except for Paul and Linda leaving the Dorchester. John Lennon's piano on which Lennon composed Imagine is one of Fraser's favourite object images: the piano was well worn with John Lennon's cigarette burns visible on the side of the keyboard. Fraser himself is a classical pianist.
Fraser has long-standing ties with France and attended the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London. In 2006 he re-launched and redesigned the iconic French newspaper France Soir to great acclaim. He has one daughter Helena, aged fifteen, who lives in London.
At the end of August 2007, Fraser was diagnosed with the life-threatening disease Wegener's granulomatosis. This is a very rare disease, which occurs in 10 people per million per year. He is extremely fortunate to be under the care of Professor Graham R V Hughes MD FRCP in London. He and his team, which includes Dr Christopher Edwards, senior lecturer, are still looking after Fraser today. Fraser has undergone chemotherapy and continues treatment for this rare and life-changing disease today.
Fraser and Peter Harrington are giving a proportion of the net sales to Lupus UK.
When did Moneta Sleet Jr win the Pulitzer Prize?
Moneta Sleet, Jr., the first African-American photographer and second African-American to receive a Pulitzer Prize, won the 1969 award in Feature Photography for "Deep Sorrow." Sleet captured a powerful image of Dr. Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King, and one of their children at King's funeral. The photograph was originally published in Ebony.
Is there a famous American Photographer whose name begins with an A?
Ansel Adams was an American photographer. He is famous for his landscape photographs of Yosemite National Park.
Is Ansel Adams portrait of Lincoln his most famous work?
Ansel Adams, born 1902. Abraham Lincoln, assassinated in 1865.
I'd say not a chance.
What instruments make up the string family in the classical orchestra?
In a symphony orchestra, the following stringed instruments are used in varying numbers:
Violin, viola, cello, double bass, and sometimes the harp.
(Woodwind, string, brass, percussion )(apex)
instruments traditionally included in the string family include but are not limited to: Violin, Viola, Cello, Upright Bass, Guitar, Harpsichord, electric bass, autoharp, harp, lute, mandolin, banjo, dobro, ukulele, sitar, balalaika, zither, cimbalom, baglama, bouzouki, and many more. piano and dulcimer NOT string instruments because even tough they do have strings, they are struck with mallets, not plucked or drawn with a bow.
Two photographers. One named Herni Cartier-Bresson and the other Robert Franks.
A rock climber and photographer.
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How many famous Italians can you name?
Artists -Michaelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo di Vinci, Botticelli,Sculpters - Bartolomeo Ammannati, Bernini,
Opera singers - Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, Caruso,
Did Ansel Adams do his work on glass plates or film?
Both. Ansel Adams used 8 x 10 glass plates in his field camera, but he also shot pictures with film cameras, such as a medium format Hasselblad, a Zeiss Milliflex 35 mm rangefinder, and even Polaroids.
Can you make a drawing from a famous photograph and sell it?
You cant then it will be a rip-off & you wouldn't like being ripped-off would ya?
