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  More info about: Joseph Niépce, Inventor of Photography
  Joseph Niépce, Inventor of Photography
When the craze for the newly invented art of lithography swept France in 1813, it naturally attracted Joseph's attention. Unable to draw well, he placed engravings, made...
         
  More info about: Louis Daguerre, Daguerreotype - 1839
  Louis Daguerre, Daguerreotype - 1839
Louis Daguerre was a doctor, a painter and a theatrical set designer, but he is best remembered as one of the inventors of photography. Both he and Nicéphore Niepce began...
         
  More info about: Muybridge, Father of Motion Picture
  Muybridge, Father of Motion Picture
Eadweard Muybridge is often called the father of the motion picture because of his photographic studies of animal motion. He began his career as a landscape photographer...
         
  More info about: Lewis Carroll, Author Alice in Wonderland
  Lewis Carroll, Author Alice in Wonderland
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer. H...
         
  More info about: Frederick Hollyer, Photographer
  Frederick Hollyer, Photographer
Frederick Hollyer's portraits offers us an exclusive glimpse into late-Victorian and Edwardian celebrity culture. His sitters ranged from HG Wells to the Nobel prize-winn...
         
  More info about: Man Ray, Photographer/Painter
  Man Ray, Photographer/Painter
Man Ray's photography would come to play an important role in the Surrealist movement. Although he had first bought a camera in 1915 to document his paintings, he now wan...
         
  More info about: Leni Riefenstahl
  Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl was born in Berlin in 1902. She studied painting and started her artistic career as a dancer. She became already so famous after her first dance hat Max...
         
  More info about: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer
  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer
Regarded as one of the greatest photographers of his time, Henri Cartier-Bresson was a shy Frenchman who elevated "snap shooting" to the level of a refined and discipline...
         
  More info about: Robert Capa, Founder Magnum Photos
  Robert Capa, Founder Magnum Photos
On December 3, 1938, Picture Post introduced "The Greatest War Photographer in the World: Robert Capa" with a spread of 26 photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War...
         
  More info about: Zhang Yimou, Chinese Filmmaker
  Zhang Yimou, Chinese Filmmaker
Zhang Yimou is an internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker and cinematographer. He made his directorial debut in 1987 with the film Red Sorghum. One of Zhang's recurre...