• 1889 35mm movie film Thomas Edition
• 1890 Halftone printing
• 1920 Illustrated magazines - Germany
• 1921 Wire-photo (bit like email today) invented by Western Union
• 1924 Leica camera - created by Oscar Barnak - Photo agencies - Magnum & Associated Press
Group union of photographers to sell works
• Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung
• Arbeiter Illustrirte Zeitung
• Ullstein Press
(magazines)
• André Kertész
• Martin Munkacsi
• Alexander Rodchenko
• Bill Brandt
• Brassai
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Erich Salomon
• Felix H Man
(photographers)
Felix H Man born Germany 1893
He was one of the first photojournalists, starting work as a professional photographer in the 1920s when photojournalism was in its infancy and within a few years he had helped to define the genre.
In the mid-1930s he migrated to Britain to flee the rise of fascism in Germany. Here, he became one of the foremost contributors to Picture Post magazine where almost all the photographs in the very first 1938 issue were his.
Felix H Man uses natural light and he's photographs, at least these two example, are candid photographs.
Candid = taken informally, without the subject's knowledge.
This was a weekly magazine that was founded in 1891, the first issue was published in 1892. The magazine focuses on photo essays this is done by telling a narrative through the use of a series of photographs.
• Stefan Lorant - founder of Lilliput
Kurt Hutton migrated to England in 1934, where he worked for the Weekly Illustrated and later Picture Post. Hutton is famous for taking candid photographs depicting the class system in England.
Lilliput
Lilliput was a monthly magazine showing photographs as well as short stories. The magazine was founded in 1937 by Stefan Lorant, who was a photojournalist.
Key words and names up to 1950s (USA)
• Life magazine
• Look magazine
(magazine)
• Alfred Eisenstaedt
• W. Eugene Smith
• Margaret Bourke-White
• Kurt Hutton
• Stanley Kubrick
• Robert Capa
(photographs)
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White was the first woman to work for the Life magazine, she was also the last person to photograph Mahatma Gandhi.
Robert Capa
Robert Capa worked for Picture Post, he was also friends with Pablo Picasso. He was originally name Andre Friedmann but reinvented himself as Robert Capa.
• Arbeiter Illustrirte Zeitung
• Ullstein Press
(magazines)
• André Kertész
• Martin Munkacsi
• Alexander Rodchenko
• Bill Brandt
• Brassai
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Erich Salomon
• Felix H Man
(photographers)
Felix H Man born Germany 1893
He was one of the first photojournalists, starting work as a professional photographer in the 1920s when photojournalism was in its infancy and within a few years he had helped to define the genre.
In the mid-1930s he migrated to Britain to flee the rise of fascism in Germany. Here, he became one of the foremost contributors to Picture Post magazine where almost all the photographs in the very first 1938 issue were his.
Felix H Man uses natural light and he's photographs, at least these two example, are candid photographs.
Candid = taken informally, without the subject's knowledge.
Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung
This was a weekly magazine that was founded in 1891, the first issue was published in 1892. The magazine focuses on photo essays this is done by telling a narrative through the use of a series of photographs.
Key words and names up to 1940s (UK)
• Illustrated London News
• Lilliput
• Picture Post
(magazine)
• Stefan Lorant - founder of Lilliput
• Bill Brandt - surrealism
• Brassai - Paris by Night
• Bert Hardy
• Kurt Hutton
(photographers)
Kurt Hutton born Germany 1893
Kurt Hutton migrated to England in 1934, where he worked for the Weekly Illustrated and later Picture Post. Hutton is famous for taking candid photographs depicting the class system in England.
Lilliput
Lilliput was a monthly magazine showing photographs as well as short stories. The magazine was founded in 1937 by Stefan Lorant, who was a photojournalist.
Key words and names up to 1950s (USA)
• Life magazine
• Look magazine
(magazine)
• Alfred Eisenstaedt
• W. Eugene Smith
• Margaret Bourke-White
• Kurt Hutton
• Stanley Kubrick
• Robert Capa
(photographs)
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White was the first woman to work for the Life magazine, she was also the last person to photograph Mahatma Gandhi.
Robert Capa
Robert Capa worked for Picture Post, he was also friends with Pablo Picasso. He was originally name Andre Friedmann but reinvented himself as Robert Capa.
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