The department of Photography focuses on establishing an autonomous creative practice. Outstanding alumni who have studied photography at Pratt Institute include Gertrude Kasebier (Regular Art, 1893), William Gedney (B.F.A. 1958), George Kalinsky (B.I.D. ‘fifty eight), Jan Groover (B.F.A. 1965), Sylvia Plachy (B.F.A. 1965), Joseph Szabo (M.F.A. 1968), Robert Mapplethorpe (B.F.A. 1969), Lynn Zelavansky (B.F.A. 1971), Philip Gefter (B.F.A. 1973), Lynn Saville (B.F.A. 1976), Deborah Willis (M.F.A. 1979), Rotimi Fani-Kayode (M.F.A. 1983), Félix González-Torres (B.F.A. 1986), Jason Fulford (B.F.A. 1995), and Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao (B.F.A. 2003).

Since then, its various forms and styles have elevated almost exponentially—longstanding approaches to the medium range from documentary photography and photojournalism to picture-abstraction At the same time, all ages seems to come with its own photographic actions, and the past century has seen the influential rise of Fashionable Photography , New American Coloration Photography , Diaristic Photography , and the Dusseldorf College , among numerous different types and groups.

Well known photographers of the early 20th century embrace Alfred Stieglitz (photographer and founder of one of the world’s most distinguished photography artwork galleries, Little Galleries of the Photograph-Secession), Edward Weston (landscapes, nonetheless lifes, nudes, portraits), and Man Ray, an avant garde photographer who was a …