Steve Jobs to Be Inducted Into International Photography Hall of Fame

[MacRumors]

The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, in celebration of its 50th anniversary, has announced that Steve Jobs will be posthumously inducted into its Hall of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri, which recognizes the work of pioneers, artists, and innovators who have pushed photography forward.

Jobs will be one of eight new inductees on October 28, alongside Photoshop co-creators John Knoll and Thomas Knoll, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, photographers Ernst Haas and Annie Leibovitz, singer-songwriter and digital photographer Graham Nash, and documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado.

"As we look ahead to the next 50 years of the IPHF, we are honored to continue to recognize and celebrate photographers and industry professionals that have made significant contributions to the profession, helping to shape and define modern photography," said Patty Wente, executive director of the IPHF. "This year's inductees represent the perfect combination of innovation and artistry; bridging photography's pioneering past with its fantastic future."

Jobs' induction is closely linked to the iPhone, which Apple in the past has described as the world's most popular camera:

Steve Jobs was an American inventor and entrepreneur who cofounded Apple and led it to become the world's most innovative company. Steve helped create products that revolutionized the creative world and became essential tools for designers, filmmakers, music producers and photographers. Passionate about photography both in his work and personal life, his most profound contribution to the artistic community and the world is the iPhone which, in less than a decade, has changed both the art of photography and the industry around it.

Past inductees include Philippe Halsman, who famously photographed Albert Einstein in 1947, Ansel Adams, George Eastman, Edwin Land, Edward Steichen, and 64 other esteemed professionals. Inductees must have made a "notable contribution to the art or science of photography" and "have a significant impact on the photography industry and/or history of photography."

Jobs, who co-founded Apple alongside Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976, passed away on October 5, 2011.

Article Link: Steve Jobs to Be Inducted Into International Photography Hall of Fame

 

[smacrumon]

The efforts really have pushed photography into the hands of many worldwide.

Very much missing Steve Jobs. May the ideas and vision he put out into the world inspire others.

John Knoll - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knoll
Thomas Knoll - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Knoll
Ken Burns - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_effect
Ernst Haas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haas
Annie Leibovitz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz
Graham Nash - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Nash
Sebastião Salgado - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastião_Salgado

 

[mellomike]

I hate to sound all mushy.... but I miss Steve so much. He was my hero growing up. :-(

 

[mtcowdog]

Works for me. I don't see Steve so much as a tech genius as an artistic genius who saw the value and opportunity of tech.

 

[5105973]

Well deserved. I know the iPhone camera made a huge difference in recording the nuances of daily life for my family.

 

[Bryan Bowler]

Sweet! Steve deserves this!

 

[S.B.G]

I can certainly agree with this. Without the iPhone, and subsequently contemporary smartphones after it, many people either wouldn't take photos, or wouldn't be able to afford higher quality camera's to take decent photos.

I wish I had an iPhone when I was on active duty in the Marines; I'd have way more cool pictures than I have now. Instead I used those disposable Kodak wind up camera's most of the time.

 

[zahuh]

We miss you very much SJ. Sadly, undoubtedly, you would be so disappointed in Apple today. Especially from a hardware standpoint.
Thank you for your moment on this planet.

 

[Born Again]

what would steve jobs say of apple of today? (steve is thinking .. touching his chin)

"You'd doing it wrong Tim!"

 

[phillipduran]

what would steve jobs say of apple of today? (steve is thinking .. touching his chin)

"You'd doing it wrong Tim!"

I think he would say "Watch bands?? Are you ******* kidding me?"

 

[sw1tcher]

Jobs' induction is closely linked to the iPhone

And the selfie?

 

[SusanK]

I miss Steve and the magic.

 

[miknos]

I miss him on the keynotes.

 

[mtneer]

Good for Steve

 

[Chuck Kostalnick]

What an awesome addition.

 

[indychris]

And the selfie?

Definitely a point deduction for that! But his accomplishments far outweigh any blame for the exponential growth of narcissist photographers!

 

[Avieshek]

And the recent one, it's the Galaxy S7.

The story of Apple and Samsung actually is, the story of: "the Tortoise and the Hare".

 

[radiology]

I heard the pope is also considering making him Saint Jobs. I am looking forward to that. I will pray for a new MacBook Pro. Only a miracle to make that happen.

#macbookmatters

 

[iapplelove]

Damn I miss Steve Jobs

 

[Persicuta]

Hope you've been resting in peace, mate. I miss the way Steve use to introduce Apple products. Phil is decent but going back and watching the way Jobs introduced things like, the iPhone 4...there was so much passion and heart in it. I swear to good if Steve came back to life for 'one more thing..' he could probably sell me that iPhone 7, despite all the hate its getting!

 

[kodos]

Well deserved! Perhaps no other invention has made photos as ubiquitous as the iPhone.

 

[kingtj]

Wow.... This makes me feel a couple of different things. First, as someone born and raised in St. Louis, MO -- I'm thinking "Wow.... cool. I didn't even know we HAD a photography museum!!?" I haven't been back to St. Louis for a few years now, but I'm not sure how this one got past me without knowing it existed!

And second, that reminder that Jobs passed away in October, 2011? Man, time flies and life is short.... It really doesn't seem like it's already been close to 5 years since I saw all the magazine front covers with his face on them and all the Jobs/Apple stories everywhere, upon his death.

In the field of computers and I.T., things really tend to happen in "dog years" to begin with. Things are "ancient" after less than 10 years pass, and feel really "outdated" in 4 or 5. (As just one example of this? I decided to install the Fallout: New Vegas game on my Mac Pro, under Windows 10 in a Boot Camp partition, so I could finally play it. I already finished Fallout 4 a while ago but hadn't played the other games in the series. I didn't really want to go all the way back to the first or second one with its 2D design... so I went with "New Vegas" as the last one released in the series before 4 came out. It kind of shocked me how dated the game felt. Graphics were clearly inferior to what 4 offered, and interaction with the other computer-generated characters felt a lot less sophisticated. I had to fight just to make it run properly under Win 10, configuring the game to run in "Windows 7 compatibility mode" first. And this was a game released less than a year before Jobs passed away.)

So yeah, whatever else good or bad you can say about Steve Jobs, he was definitely one of the people who was able to keep up with the pace needed to keep a technology-related business at the front of the curve.

 

[MadGerman]

I miss aperture

 

[44267547]

I know many disliked Jobs for his demeanor to others, but if there was one person I could have met in this life, it would have been Jobs. Even though I never met him or knew who he was truly, except based off Interviews, books, movie depictions, ect.

Sometimes I see myself as someone like him. And I appreciated his tenacity and focus. He was indifferent to others feelings towards him, but I appreciated that. He never lost sight of his goals.

 

[smacrumon]

I think he would say "Watch bands?? Are you ******* kidding me?"

Steve Jobs introduced us to iMacs in many plastic colors, he introduced us to iPods on many colors and materials, Steve Jobs would have introduced us to a variety of watch bands and we would have said, "wow".