Nick Nichols on Assignment

See how fun it is to photograph a wildlife assignment for National Geographic. Okay, it's not always that fun...bugs, chimp urine and charging elephants.

Edward Steichan

"I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.–Edward Steichan"

– after serving as an army photographer in World War I

Alfred Steiglitz: Pictorialism

Alfred Steiglitz was a groundbreaking defender of photography. Pictorialism was a movement in photography where photographers imitated painting. Steiglitz and others later used photography's strengths to their advantage.




Other contemporaries of Steiglitz like Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams helped move photography into its own.

Joel Sartore: Endangered Animal Portraits

RARE from Joel Sartore on Vimeo.

Exposures: Landscape Photography History

Part One

Part Two

Part Three (Edward Weston)

Part Four (Ansel Adams)

Part Five (New Topographics/70s Landscapes)

Part Six (Urbanization)

Part Seven

Part Eight

Part Nine (end)

History of Photography

Historic Photographs

Photo Course: 8 April–13 May

No Photos Allowed in the United Kindom

Photograph at your own risk in the UK.
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Cheap Photographers

Antoin Sevruguin

Execute:Man being buried alive, 1870s - 1930s, by Antoin Sevruguin.

Antoin Sevruguin was originally a painter but became a photographer after the death of his father who was a diplomat. Most of his work was done in Persia. He has a powerful body of portraits and street scenes: click here for photos.