Overalll of the best photogrophys of the world in the last 100 years. there were more important and big photographers like richard avedon who didnt get in to this video... i might to a nother one.. the video ends with todays young artist who reflects the change of the art in photography from its early days till present.

In this Video: Ansel Adams,  Robert Doisneau, Harry Callahan, Andrè Kerte'sz, Bill Brandt, Diane Arbus, Arnold Newman, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Yousuf Karsh, Gordon Parks, William Klein, Cindy Sherman, Helen Levitt.

In Ansel's last years, he became very productive in a new sense - as a tireless educator and environmentalist.

André Kertész (2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.(Source Wikipedia)

Was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "real life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed (Source Wikipedia).

A portrait of legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh through which a breathtaking illustrated commentary on photography is woven from the perspective of today. The film illuminates the multiple meanings ordinary people as well as critics, curators and philosophers attach to portrait photographs and - through the prism of these meanings - portrays the singular career of Yousuf Karsh the mythmaker.

Karsh rose from immigrant commercial photographer to world renown as ''Karsh of Ottawa''. From an early age, his status began to acquire such universal currency that his portraits could elevate the sitters to the Pantheon of Secular Sainthood.

To be Karshed was a synonym for having attained the summit of worldly achievement. During his 60 year career, the 15,312 sittings he had, resulted in arguably a portrait gallery of the most famous figures of the 20th century.

This film is the celebration of his centennial year of birth.

A brief rambling explaining the three fundamentals of photography: APERTURE, SHUTTER SPEED and ISO or FILM SPEED. This is the first of a planned series of video tutorials about photography.

Since a long time I was wondering how to replace the Mona Lisa's face with my own one. The main problem was how to to make my skin the same as that of the Mona Lisa, and finally I did it thanks to the help of my friend Emanuela. This is a professional photomontage technique, and my personal image (the Mona Crupi) is just an example. The same method can be applied to other images.

Before beginning I want to apologize to Leonardo da Vinci, who at this moment will be turning in his grave.
In order to achieve the target of this tutorial, you can follow these steps:

1) Open the your image file and the one with the Mona Lisa. In the latter one, duplicate the layer with the Mona Lisa (which will be used at the end for some last-minute retouching with the stamp tool).

2) On your image, select the brush tool and set its hardness to zero. Now select the quick mask tool (the rectangle with a circle inside), double click on the quick mask and a dialog window will open, here set "Selected areas", and now use the brush to color over your face.

3) Remove the quick masck by clicking on the rectangle near to quick mask one, the brush color will disappear and we will see a selection on our face. Copy and paste this selection over the Mona Lisa's face.

4) After that you have to change the dimensions of the pasted selection with your face, by choosing Edit - Free transform. And then you can adjust the color (go to Color balance), the brightness and the contrast in order to mimic the original brightness and color of the Mona Lisa's face.

5) Now comes the most annoying and difficult part to explain. Select the Clone stamp tool and go to the duplicted layer with the Mona Lisa's image.

Take a well defined point on this layer by pressing ALT and clicking over this point with the clone stamp tool. As a reference, I used the line visible on the Mona Lisa's forehead. Now go to the layer containing your face and click on the same point you choosen on the duplicated layer. In few words, you have to color the parts of your face by using parts of the Mona Lisa's face and the clone stamp tool. Adjust the opacity to 40-50% where you don't want to copy parts of the Mona Lisa's face over your own one, this will give the impression that our eye, our eyes, our nose and mouth are part of the painting.