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Name The Photographer #7

Written by Deborah Conger Hughes

He carried into his personal life the same remarkable vitality that characterizes his pictures.  First recognized for photographing the Spanish Civil War, in 1938 he got himself to China recording the Japanese invasion of that country. 

 

During the honorable war he was in London, North Africa and Italy, and most famously, perhaps, in France covering D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and the Battle of the Bulge.  He was there when Israel was founded in 1948.  He was a Hungarian who constantly re-invented himself and who, perhaps more than any other photographer, found himself attracted always to where danger thrived and human beings were on the move.

 

Can you name him?

Name The Photographer #6

Written by Deborah Conger Hughes

Some of the best photographers in the old world came from Hungary. So did this chap. He was a painter, thinker, writer and teacher and was closely associated with the Weimar Bauhaus. He was a tireless innovator and technical experimentor and his pioneering photographic work (guess that and you've got his name!)carried over into the Chicago School of Design which he founded.

He believed that the camera, through its ability to manipulate light and its potential for extending and supplementing the natural visual capacity of the eye, could help us alter our traditional perceptual habits.  He was way ahead of todays' digital manipulators! 

Who is he?

Name The Photographer #5

Written by Deborah C. Hughes

My portraits of the famous are legendary (especially of British and US war leaders).  I had five minutes to photograph an embattled Prime Minister who came to Ottawa and that photograph made me immediately famous round the world.  In the US, I photographed for Life Magazine and had an unerring instinct for pictorial composition and intuitively fine placement of the strong highlight accents of my sitters who I often shot "on the run".

My photos of war leaders remain as an historic record and I go down in photographic history if only for these portraits.  I immigrated to Canada at age 16 from Armenia where I suffered through a difficult childhood.  Who am I?

Name The Photographer #4

Written by Deborah Conger Hughes

Known for his pioneering work in the field of photojournalism in Germany in the 1930s to his long career at LIFE magazine, he is legendary. He shot the first meetings between Mussolini and Hitler, photographed statesmen, writers, scientists, actors, artists, philosophers, and rather endearing photographs of ordinary Europeans and Americans in the mid-century. He began his photographic career in Berlin in the late twenties and emigrated to the US in 1935. He remained with the same publication until his death in 1995. Can you name him?