1. Photography
Module 1-Lesson 2-Assignment Evalution.
By Seamus Mahoney

2. OVERVIEW
Ansel Adams Edward S Curtis Yousuf Karsh
Diane Arbus Kevin Carter Michael Melford

3. Ansel Adams In 1927, Adams produced his first
portfolio, Parmelians Prints of the
High Sierras.
He joined the prestigious Roxburghe
Club, an association devoted to fine
printing and high standards in book
arts.
With the sponsorship and promotion
of Albert Bender, Adams's first
portfolio was a success (earning
nearly $3,900).
In 1930 Taos Pueblo, Adams's first
book, was published with text by
writer Mary Hunter Austin.
Adams was able to put on his first
solo museum exhibition at the
Smithsonian Institution in 1931,
featuring 60 prints taken in the
High Sierra.
Birth In 1933 Adams opened his own
Death art and photography gallery in
San Francisco, California Montery, California
Feb 20, 1902 April 22, 1984 San Francisco.

4. Adams was born in the Western
Addition of San Francisco, California, He taught himself piano at age
to distinctly upper-class parents twelve. Music became the main
focus of his later youth.
Around 1916 His father gave him
his first camera, a Kodak Brownie
box camera, during that stay and he
took his first photographs with his
"usual hyperactive enthusiasm".
He learned basic darkroom technique
working part-time for a San
Francisco photo finisher.
In 1928, Ansel Adams married Virginia
Best in Best's Studio in Yosemite Valley.
Virginia inherited the studio from her
artist father on his death in 1935, and
the Adams continued to operate the
studio until 1971. The studio, now
known as the Ansel Adams Gallery,
remains in the hands of the Adams
family.

5. Taos Pueblo
National Historic
Landmark, New
Mexico, 1942.

6. In 1885 at the age of seventeen
Edward S Curtis Edward became an apprentice
photographer in St. Paul,
Minnesota.
In 1887 the family moved to
Seattle, Washington, where
Edward purchased a new camera
and became a partner in an
existing photographic studio with
Rasmus Rothi.
Edward paid $150 for his 50
percent share in the studio. After
about six months, Curtis left
Rothi and formed a new
partnership with Thomas Guptill.
In 1898 while photographing
Mt.Rainier, Curtis came upon a
small group of scientists. One of
them was George Bird Grinnell, an
expert on Native Americans. Both
Birth Death Grinnell and Curtis were invited on
Whitewater, Wisconsin Los Angeles, California the famous Harriman Alaska
Feb 16, 1868 Oct 19, 1952 Expedition in 1899.

7. Edward Curtis was born near
Whitewater, Wisconsin.
Around 1874 the family moved
from Wisconsin to Minnesota.
Curtis dropped out of school in
the sixth grade. He soon built his
own camera. In 1880 the family
lived in Cordova Township,
Minnesota, where Johnson
Curtis worked as a retail grocer.
In 1892 Edward married Clara J.
Phillips, Together they had four
children.
In 1896 the entire family moved
to a new house to Seattle.
Around 1922 Curtis moved to Los
Angeles with his daughter Beth,
and opened a new photo studio.

8. 1910
Nez Perce warrior on horse,
photographed by Edward S Curtis.

9. Yousuf Karsh One of the mot famous and
accomplished portrait
photographers of all time.
Was the master of studio light,
and using it to make the
perfect portrait picture.
He published 15 books of his
photographs.
Some famous subject photographed
by Karsh were Muhammad Ali,
Pope Pius XII, the rock band Rush,
and Winston Churchill.
His work is in permanent
collections of the National Gallery
of Canada, New Yorks Museum of
Modern Art, National Portrait
Born Gallery of London, National
Mardin, Ottoman Turkey Died Portrait of Australia, and much
Dec 23, 1908 Boston Massachusetts
July 13, 2002 more.

10. Born in Mardin, a city in the
eastern Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
Karsh grew up during the Armenian
Genocide
At age 14, he fled with his family
to Syria, to escape persecution.
Two years later Yousuf ’s parents
sent him to live with his uncle
George Nakash in Quebec, Canada.
In 1928 Karsh’s uncle arranged for
Karsh to apprentice with portrait
photographer John Garo in Boston,
Massachusetts, USA.
Yousuf started a business with
another photographer John Powls
in 1931 in Ottawa, Ontario.
He moved his studio in 1973, and it
remained there until he retired in 1992.

11. Winston Churchill 1941 photo by Yousuf Karsh

12. She began photographing on
Diane Arbus assignment for magazines such as
Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, and The
Sunday Times Magazine in 1959
In 1963 Arbus was awarded a
Guggenhiem Fellowship for a
project on "American rites,
manners, and customs"; the
fellowship was renewed in 1966.
During the 1960s, she taught
photography at the Parsons School
of Design and the Cooper Union in
New York City, and the Rhode
Island School of Design in
Providence, Rhode Island.
The first major exhibition of her
photographs occurred at the Museum
of Modern Art in a 1967 show called
"New Documents".
Birth Death
New York She took a series of photographs in her
Greenwich Village
March 14, 1923 later years of people with intellectual
July 26, 1971
disability showing a range of emotions.

13. Arbus was born as Diane Nemerov
to David Nemerov and Gertrude
Russek Nemerov. The Nemerovs were a Jewish
couple who lived in New York City.
In 1941, at the age of 18, she
married her childhood sweetheart
Allan Arbus.
Their first daughter Doon was
born in 1945 and their second
daughter Amy was born in 1954.
Diane and Allan Arbus separated
in 1958, and they were divorced
in 1969.
Arbus experienced depressive
episodes during her life similar to
those experienced by her mother.
On July 26, 1971, while living at
Westbeth Artist Community in New
York City, Arbus took her own life.

14. 1967
Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey.

15. Carter had started to work as
weekend sports photographer in
Kevin Carter 1983. In 1984 he moved on to
work for the Johannesburg star,
bent on exposing the brutality of
apartheid.
Member of the Bang-Bang Club,
a group made of four
photographers in South Africa.
Carter was the first to photograph
a public execution by "necklacing"
in South Africa in the mid-1980s.
In March 1993, while on a trip to
Sudan, Carter was preparing to
photograph a starving toddler trying to
reach a feeding centre when a vulture
landed nearby. Carter reported to have
Birth taken the picture, because it was his
Johannesburg, South Africa September
13, 1960 "job title", and leaving. He came under
Death criticism for failing to help the girl. In
Johannesburg, South Africa July 27, 1994, the photograph won the Pulitzer
1994 Prize for Feature Photography.

16. Kevin Carter was born in apartheid
South Africa, and grew up in a
After high school, Carter dropped
middle-class, whites-only
out of his studies to become a
neighbourhood. As a child, he
pharmacist and was drafted into the
occasionally saw police raids to arrest
army, which he hated.
blacks who were illegally living in the
area.
In 1980, he witnessed a black mess-
hall waiter being insulted. Carter
defended the man, resulting in him
being badly beaten by the other
soldiers.
He then went AWOL, attempted to
start a new life as a radio disk-jockey
named "David". This, however,
proved more difficult than he had
anticipated. Suffering from
depression, he attempted suicide.
After witnessing the Church Street
Bombing in Pretoria in 1983, he
decided he wanted to become a news
photographer.

17. Picture of a vulture stalking starving child by Kevin Carter, 1993.

18. Michael Melford A middle-distance runner, he was
awarded Blues in 1936, 1937 and 1938
for appearing for Oxford in the annual
athletics fixture against Cambridge.
From 1946 to 1950 he had been the
athletics correspondent for The
Observer, a position he
subsequently held for a while at the
Telegraph, covering the Olympic
Games in Melbourne in 1956 and
in Rome four years later.
He was the Sunday Telegraph
Born cricket and rugby correspondent
St. Johns Wood , Died from the paper's launch in 1961 to
London Gerrards Cross, 1975.
November 9, 1916 Buckinghamshire
April 18, 1999

19. Michael went to Charterhouse and
then studied for a Law degree at
Christ Church, Oxford from 1935 to
He toured North America as part of an
1938.
Oxbridge athletics team in 1937.
Melford joined the Royal Artillery in
1939 at the start of World War II. He
subsequently served in Egypt, Tunisia,
Italy and the Balkans. By the end of the
war he had attained the rank of major.
He was Chairman of the Cricket Writers'
Club in 1962 and President in 1985.
After retiring from day-to-day cricket
reporting, Michael was the ghost writer
of Peter May's autobiography A Game
Enjoyed.
Michael also continued to write
obituaries and to contribute to The
Telegraph Cricket Yearbook. He wrote a
well-regarded history of post-war cricket
entitled After the Interval.

20. Chikuminuk Lake, photographed by Michael Melford.