For each photographer, describe his/her contribution, how you would characterize the appearance of his/her work, and its significance to the defining of the medium (including the principal differences and similarities of his/her photographs to the photographs made by earlier and later photographers).

5. There have been numerous photographers in the evolution of the medium that can be characterized as “inventors” in terms of process, style, and/or content. Name three photographers that you feel introduced something particularly new to the medium. For each photographer, describe his/her contribution, how you would characterize the appearance of his/her work, and its significance to the defining of the medium (including the principal differences and similarities of his/her photographs to the photographs made by earlier and later photographers).