Colleges

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Duane Michals, born in 1932, is a mainly self-taught American photographer. For many years he worked in commercial photography for magazines like Esquire. Later, unlike other photographers of the time including Irving Penn, Michals took portraits of people in their own environment. His feature style is photo-sequences, series of pictures that usually capture a short story.

Eadweard Muybridge, a British photographer born in 1830, was primarily known for using multiple cameras to capture motion. In the beginning, Muybridge became famous for his landscape photos, especially of Yosemite and San Francisco. Then, he was hired to settle the question of whether there was “a point in a horse’s full gallop when all four hooves were off the ground.” He answered this question positively by taking a series of photographs called The Horse in Motion. Later, Muybridge invented the “Zoopraxiscope,” a machine that projected multiple images over time to produce “motion”. He used this technique and his photographs to study the movement of people and animals.

Irving Penn, born in 1917, is an American photographer who is chiefly known for his fashion photography. He worked for Vogue magazine as one of the first photographers to put his models against simple backgrounds. Some of his models included Martha Graham and Georgia O’Keeffe. Although his images were always pristine and clear, Penn used a variety of subjects.