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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement . [ s 3] Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal. 7 July 1865. Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C., United States. [ s 1] Portrait of Sir John Herschel.
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger [1] —a dental assistant—on Victory over Japan Day ("V-J Day") [2] in New York City 's Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine, among many photographs of ...
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
The following American film actresses are listed alphabetically. It contains both actresses born American and those who acquired American nationality later. Some actors who are well known for both film and TV work are also included in the list of American television actresses. Meryl Streep Michelle Pfeiffer Jodie Foster Julia Roberts
Year. 1940. The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by American artist Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]
California Hall of Fame. Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression -era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized ...
Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006), nude photography of women and commercial photography in Hollywood. Edyth Carter Beveridge ( c. 1862 – 1927), photojournalist. Ania Bien (born 1946), Polish-American photographer now in Amsterdam, focus on discrimination and refugees. Joan E. Biren (born 1944), focus on lesbians and feminism.
Sept. 20, 1940: Following a parade on 7th Street in downtown Fort Worth, movie studio mogul Samuel Goldwyn shakes hands with Amon Carter, owner of the Star-Telegram. In car is Mrs. Goldwyn and ...