This document summarizes information about 12 famous photographers including Ansel Adams, Yousuf Karsh, Lewis Hine, Peter Essick, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Philippe Halsman, Elliott Erwitt, and Jacques Henri Lartigue. For each photographer, it provides their name, what they are known for, an example title and date of one of their photographs, and the photographic element they are known for emphasizing. The photographers covered a wide range of styles and subjects from the early 20th century to modern times.

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2. Ansel AdamsKnown for his naturalistic approach to photography

3. Title: Farm workers and Mt. Williamson
Date: 1943- Internment of Japanese Americans at Manzanar, California.
Element: Texture & Space

4. Yousuf KarshKnown for his self profits of influential individuals of the time

5. Title:Ernest Hemingway
Date:1957
Karsh referred to Hemingway as “a man of peculiar gentleness, and he attempted to display this gift for capturing
the essence of his subjects”.
Element: Emphasis

6. Lewis HineKnown for his "Work Portraits” which demonstrate the working American class in an industrial setting.

7. Title: Power house mechanic working on steam pump
Date: 1920
Element: Unity

8. Peter EssickKnown for the “Ansel Adams” inspired photographs he contributed to several 2011 issues of
National Geographic.

9. Title: Late summer thunderheads build above Garnet Lake.
*Inspired by Ansel Adams
Date: 2011
Element: Shapes

10. Henri Cartier-BressonKnown as the father of photojournalism

11. Title: Man Jumping Over Puddle,
Date: 1932
Element: Balance

12. Dorothea Lange
Best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration

13. Title: Great Depression
Date: 1930’s
Element: Pattern

14. Philippe HalsmanMost famously known for his book Halsman on the Creation of Photographic Ideas, where he
contributed a lot to the art of photography

15. Title: Just jump
Date:1958
Element: Movement

16. Elliott ErwittKnown for his photography featuring many different breads of dogs

17. Title: Paris
Date:1989
Element: Space

18. Title:Rome
Date: 1996
Element: Lines

19. Jacques Henri Lartigue
Most famous for his stunning photos of automobile races, planes and fashionable Parisian women
from the turn of the century..

20. Title: Le Jour des Drags auz courses a Auteuil Paris
Date:1911
Element: Texture

21. Alfred Stieglitz

22. Title: Art of the Beautiful-Grotesque
Date: 2000
Element: Rhythm