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Ansel Adams 14x 14.3% stumper $1,957 avg J:3 DJ:11

J $200 1993 in 1980, Jimmy Carter awarded this landscape photographer the Presidential Medal of Freedom

DJ $600 2000 Known for his landscapes of the American west, he founded the Dept. of Photography at NYC's Museum of Modern Art

DJ $1,000 1991 Aptly, this Sierra Club's director's 1st portfolio was 1927's "Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras"

Mathew Brady 9x $612 avg J:1 DJ:7 FJ:1

DJ $400 1992 In 1875 the U.S. government gave him $25,000 for a collection of his Civil War photographs

DJ $1,600 2022 Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. looked a little different in May 1865 in aphotocredited to this man

FJ 1996 In 1851 this American won a medal for daguerreotypes at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London

Louis Daguerre 8x $1,775 avg J:1 DJ:7

DJ $800 2000 This Frenchman who developed a photo process using metal plates also created the diorama in 1822

DJ $1,000 1988 Samuel F.B. Morse was among those who 1st informed America of this Frenchman's photographic "types"

DJ $2,000 2025 In the late 1830s, this Frenchman refined a photographic process to require less than an hour of exposure

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Margaret Bourke-White 6x 16.7% stumper $1,133 avg DJ:6

DJ $800 1996 This photojournalist worked with future husband Erskine Caldwell on "You Have Seen Their Faces"

DJ $1,000 1997 This photographer & her husband Erskine Caldwell published the 1937 work "You Have Seen Their Faces"

DJ $1,000 1994 In 1930 the first issue of Fortune magazine featured her photographs

Richard Avedon 5x 40.0% stumper $760 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1996 In 1974 he exhibited portraits of his dying father, Jacob Israel Avedon

J $600 2003 Dick Avery, Fred Astaire's character in "Funny Face", is based on this real-life photographer

J $1,000 2008 Truman Capote wrote the text for this fashion photographer's 1959 collection "Observations"

the shutter 5x $720 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 1998 An up-&-down type of this light-regulating device in a camera is called the guillotine

J $600 2018 The button you press on most cameras to take the picture is called this "release"

DJ $1,600 2024 To get a stick motionblur, you can allow more light to pass through your cam by setting a slow speed of this device

Kodak 5x $320 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1997 When selling its box camera, this company used the slogan, "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest"

J $600 2008 In 1888 George Eastman introduced this camera that came with a preloaded roll of film for 100 exposures

DJ $200 1991 This company introduced the Brownie camera in 1900, pricing it at $1

Life 5x $760 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 2003 Working for this Luce magazine in the '50s, Gordon Parks mastered dramatic black & white shots like the one seen here

DJ $600 1988 Alfred Eisenstaedt is especially renowned for the photos he's taken since 1936 for this magainze

DJ $2,000 2014 This photojournalism magazine debuted on Nov. 23, 1936 with a cover photo of Fort Peck Dam, then being built

(George) Eastman 4x $375 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1994 In 1880 this photography pioneer founded a dry plate company in Rochester

J $500 1993 In 1888 he developed the first camera to use roll film

DJ $200 1992 He hired Henry Reichenbach to develop a transparent base to be used in his Kodaks

Diane Arbus 4x 25.0% stumper $1,475 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1993 This photographer known for her bizarre portraits was born Diane Nemerov in 1923

DJ $1,600 2003 Last name of photographer-actor Allan (Dr. Sidney Freedman on "M*A*S*H") & his photographer wife Diane

DJ $2,000 2008 Her first photo-essay appeared in Esquire in 1960; much of her work thereafter depicted human oddities

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