Growing up near London, Parr was inspired to pick up a camera by his grandfather, an amateur photographer.
Julia Margaret Cameron was 48 when she was given a camera by her daughter and son-in-law in 1863.
One important exponent of photographic experimentalism was the American expatriate Dada artist Man Ray, whose "rayographs," photographs that appeared as series of swirling abstract shapes, were created without a camera by exposing objects placed on sensitized paper to light.
The self-portrait above was taken by a boy in Calcutta named Manik, who was given a camera by a documentary filmmaker during the shooting of "Born Into Brothels".
$23. IN December 1863, Julia Margaret Cameron, then 48 and depressed by the worries of caring for her enormous family, was given a camera by one of her daughters in the hope that a new hobby might prove cheering.
In one frame after another, the photos show the faces of frightened young men paraded before a camera by plainclothes gunmen wearing one white glove, the signature of the special force.
