Sentences with phrase «early photographers helped»

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Examples include Julia Margaret Cameron's soft - focused and reverential Herbert Wilson (1868), which helped to move photographic portraiture from pure documentation to artistic intention; and Edward Curtis's field - printed cyanotype of an American Indian (c.1900 - 1930), which also shows how early photographers checked the quality of their images before digital photography.

An important influence on the development of American art during the early 20th century was the American photographer, editor, and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946), later the husband of artist Georgia O'Keeffe, who - with the help of his close colleague Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973)- devoted much of his energy to promoting fine art photography as well as modernist painting and sculpture in the New York area.

A native of Brooklyn, George Joseph Thek (his art - name, Paul, came from the photographer Peter Hujar, who was Thek's lover from 1956 until Hujar's death from AIDS in 1987, and whose obsessive documentation helped rescue Thek from anonymity) studied at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute in the early 1950s, and at Cooper Union during a period of revival in American art, absorbing the influential work of Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and Lucas Samaras, among others.