Von Bruenchenhein's images belong to the complex history of set-up photography that gained critical mass in the early 1980s.
As his photography career gained momentum in the 1980s, he continued to dabble in music, occasionally breaking out his guitar at a party to sing a Cat Stevens song or do a passable cover of a Willie Nelson hit.
Though he's careful to separate his work as a firefighter from his photography, Angemi gained notoriety by capturing the reality of Camden New Jersey via iPhone, broadcasting the quiet tension, danger, and destitution that few Americans equate with the Garden State.
Through the work of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé, Malian photography has gained an international reputation.
The sociably close camerawork and vivid HD photography, which gains a kind of humid vibrance by night, foster the sense of being in the moment.
But in research labs, the new discipline of computational photography is gaining ground, taking over jobs that were once the province of lenses.
Commercial satellite photography began gaining momentum in 1994, when the federal government started allowing companies to make and sell images precise enough to show features just a few feet in diameter on the ground.
After graduating in 1940, he enrolled at Ohio University to study photography, eventually gaining a bachelor's degree, although his college course was interrupted by his wartime call-up.
