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Rebel in the Making: Schoolboys Exercising, with One Eating an Apple (Japan, 1936), Fritz Henle,
I saw a wonderful show of the photography of Fritz Henle at that Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin in 2009. Henle was a master of many different types of photography. There is an excellent catalog of the exhibition published by the University of Texas Press called Fritz Henle In Search of Beauty.
Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent, 1999.
The photograph has been manipulated to enhance the consumer experience, removing shadows, adding a mirror to the ceiling, repeating the images, and removing the shoppers.
Blue Period, 1981 by William Wegman.
This work references Picasso's Blue period. Wegman has used his dogs as his models and muses.
William Wegman, Twisted Hope, 2001.
Bullet Through Apple, 1964 by Harold "Doc" Edgerton.
Invented the Stroboscope which is what allowed him to create photographs like this one. He was a professor at MIT.
The Flatiron, 1920 by Alfred Stieglitz.
Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe were married in 1924. By this time his career as an innovative photographer had been established and hers as a painter, was beginning.
Oak Tree Sunset City by Ansel Adams,© The Ansel Adams Gallery.
Ansel Adams is best known for his black and white photographs of sweeping landscapes, however he also did portraits and smaller still lifes.
Lucy Ferry, 1986 by Robert Mapplethorpe© The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
Mapplethorpe's work created a huge controversy when some of his work was deemed obscene in Cincinnati in 1990.
Devil Dog, 1990 by William Wegman, various collections.
Wegman has been collaborating with his dogs for over thirty years to create videos, photographs, movies for adults and children. His children's books cast his dogs as the main characters and re-tell such famous stories as Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, and he creates original characters for them, as well.
Candy Cigarette, 1989 by Sally Mann from Immediate Family.
Sally Mann creates beautiful photographs using a large-scale camera and old processes. Her work is a studied glimpse at her life, nature, and the lives of others; a look at the way she processes her world. She has dealt with controversy for showing us her children as they freely live their lives, but looking intimately into her world is a privilege.