Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition,life."

William Klein

William Klein was born in New York city in 1928, he studied sociology while enrolled at the city college of New York. His family was poor Jewish immigrants. 1999 Klein was awarded the 'medal of the century' by the royal photographic society in London.

Gordon Parks

This shows a picture of a an African American women and a little girl who seem to be standing outside of a store and has a specific entrance. That says "colored entrance" this was the way it was for the blacks in the deep south. Gordon Parks would be pleased if this photograph still has utility because its an evidence of a history for African Americans.

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, this photograph is called the migrant mother. She was 32 and she had been living on frozen vegetables of surrounding fields and birds that children had killed.The lady's face stands out between the bowed heads of her sons.

Diane Arbus

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane says that her favorite place to go is somewhere she has never been. She always thought that photography is a naughty thing to do and it was one of her favorite things about it, and when she first did it she says it felt very perverse.

Cambridge in color

Cambridge in color is basically just giving us information about camera exposure, understanding exposure,the exposure triangle which is aperture ISO and shutter speed. The rest of this is just shutter speed and it gives you a chart of typical examples. 

Irving Penn

This is a photograph by Irving Penn. He is known for his iconic fashion, portrait and still life images which appeared in Vogue, ranks as one of the most foremost photographers of the 20th century.