Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh's dramatic glimpses of public figures like Winston Churchill and Ernest Hemingway made him one of the most famous portrait photographers of the 20th century. Karsh and his family fled Armenia when he was 15 years old. He ended up in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, where he learned photography and gained access to prominent national and international figures just as World War II was beginning. He worked mostly in black and white, with a large 8x10 view camera, often catching his subjects in surprisingly intimate or pensive moments. (His famous 1941 portrait of a glowering Churchill was snapped after Karsh snatched a cigar from between the prime minister's lips.) Many of his portraits were printed inLife magazine, giving Karsh even wider exposure. Among his subjects were Albert Einstein,Andy Warhol, John F. Kennedy, Pablo Picasso and George Bernard Shaw.
Karsh's younger brother Malak was a well-known photographer of Canadian landscapes... Karsh's portrait of Helen Keller was unusual: a close-up of her hands, pressed together as if in prayer

also Yousuf is one of the most renown portrait photographers from the 20th Century.Karsh was a master in the use of studio lights. One aspect of Karsh's portrait is the emphasis on the lighting the subject's hands separately. He photographed many of the great and celebrated personalities of his generationKarsh had a gift for capturing the essence of his subject in the instant of his portrait. As Karsh wrote of his own work in Karsh Portfolio in 1967, "Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize."

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was born, to a wealthy Jewish family, in 1923. At the age of 13, she met Allan Arbus, an employee in the advertising department of her parents' store, and they married, with her parents' grudging assent, after she turned 18. After the war, during which Allan studied photography in the New Jersey Signal Corps, the couple supported themselves, and daughters Doon and Yolanda, as fashion photographers (the family money, somehow, never materialized for Arbus as an adult).  Allan gave Diane her first camera, and they took equal credit on their published photos.

Disfarmer

Mike Disfarmer was an American photographer whose portraits of everyday people in rural Arkansas gave them a sense of dignity. Born Mike Meyers, he changed his surname to "Disfarmer" to break with his family's agrarian roots, the first move in a maverick career that embraced both obscurity and a rigorous aesthetic.

Edward Weston

Edward Weston was born in 1886 in Highland Park, Illinois.When he was sixteen years old his father gave him a Kodak Bulls-Eye #2 camera and he began to photograph at his aunt's farm and in Chicago parks. In 1903 Weston first had his photographs exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute. Weston had his own portrait studio in Tropico, California and also began to have articles published in magazines such as American Photography, Photo Era and Photo-Miniature where his article entitled "Weston's Methods" on unconventional portraiture appeared in September, 1917. In 1952 his Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio was published with his images printed by Brett. In 1955 Weston selected several of what he called "Project Prints" and began having Brett, Cole and Dody Warren print them under his supervision. Lou Stoumen released his film The Naked Eye in 1956 of which he used several of Weston's print as well as footage of Weston himself. Edward Weston died at home on January 1, 1958.

Mark Holthusen

Mark Holthusen is a San Francisco-based photographer most-recognized for his set-work on Roger Water's Opera, Ca ira, and his "As I See It" advertising series for Kohler

Holthusen received the 2008 Lucie Award for International Photographer of the Year in the Advertising category. He was named among Lurzer's Archives 200 Best Ad photographers of 2008/2009. Holthusen also received the 2009 Hasselblad Masters Awards for Product. Clients of his advertising work include Honda, Microsoft, Target and HBO.

Holthusen, born and raised in Reno, Nevada, directed and produced the Tiger Lillies' video "Living Hell". He provided album cover art for American Music Club's "The Golden Age".

secq

He was one of the founders of one of the first foundation of photographyHenri Le Secq was born in 1818 in Paris and was a son of a politician. He was trained in sculpture and worked in several studios. He was also a collector of wrought iron objects and the Musee le Secq des Tournelles in Rouen is devoted to him. He later started his photographic career under Paul Delaroche.