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             Henri Cartier- Bresson is a famous photographer known to master candid photography which is pictures capture of someone without them being aware or in other words photographs that is unplanned. Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne France as the oldest of five children. His parents supported him with anything he chose to do with his life which allowed him to pursue photography more freely than others. Cartier-Bresson was also into painting and sketching. His photographs consist of being black and white and most consists of lines leading to the subject or the main scene being portrayed in his photographs. I would explain his images to someone that will never see it as random, unplanned, mysterious, black and white and contains various lines that leads you into his photographs following along to the main point.

              Annie Leibovitz Is an American female photographer whose work were inspired by Richard Avedon. Annie was born in Waterbury Connecticut in a family that traveled a lot because her father was in the Army. The Army kept them moving from one location to the next. Annie became moved by portrait photography in which she became the first woman to have held an exhibition at London’s Nation Portrait Gallery. When she attended the art institute in San Francisco she was influence to emulate photographs from Robert Frank, and Henry Cartier-Bresson she stated “their style of personal reportage-taken in a graphic way-was what we were taught to emulate.” She has successfully landed a job at Rolling Stone as a chief photographer. Annie’s photographs can be seen as iconic or provocative. Her trademark became hers with the use of primary colors and surprising poses. Annie's photographs can be described as powerful and beautiful many photos she has taken consists of women some with them in power delivering a beautiful message. I would explain this to someone that will never see this photo as very elegant, planned, mostly colorful, some provocative and includes nudity of the beautiful human body.

              A great photographer who inspired Annie is Richard Avedon. Avedon was born May 15, 1923 in New York City. His family owned a clothing business in which he enjoyed photographing the clothes there. Avedon started his photography career photographing people for identification in the Marines and then moved on to photographing fashion for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. The style of photography Avedon enjoyed was portraits, his photographs were seen to be surreal and provocative. The portraits taken by him mostly consisted of a white background focusing on the subject in a natural pose that made them feel like themselves. Explaining his photographs to someone that may never see it I would say consists of a portrait style picture, most pictures contained a white background making the subject to be the only thing your eyes are drawn to. His photographs are black and white consisting with high contract allowing the black look very deep. The subjects he uses in his photographs are to be seen in their natural environment even though you can’t tell without the background but they are photographed in their most natural pose that made them unique.