- Man Ray
Man Ray (August 27, 1890-November 18, 1976) was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all.
- Robert Altman
Robert Mark Altman (born October 20,1944) is an American photographer. Altman attended Hunter College at the City University of New York. After graduation, Altman was taught photography by Ansel Adams. He was soon hired as a photojournalist by "Rolling Stone" magazine. Following his early success as chief staff photographer for "Rolling Stone" he expanded into the realm of fashion photography and fine art.
- Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, born in Bivange, Luxembourg. His family moved to the United States in 1881 and he became a naturalized citizen in 1900. Having established himself as a fine art painter in the beginning of the 20th century, Steichen assumed the pictorialist approach in photography and proved himself a master of it. In 1905, …
- Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. Avedon was able to take his early success in fashion photography and expand it into the realm of fine art.
- Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh, CC (December 23, 1908 - July 13, 2002) was a Canadian photographer of Armenian birth, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.
- Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus was an American photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society. (Her first name is pronounced "dee-ANN.")
- Edward Weston
Edward Weston (March 24 1886 - January 1 1958) was an American photographer, and co-founder of Group f/64. Most of his work was done using an 8 by 10 inch view camera.
- Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (May 25 1895 - October 11 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, her birth name was Dorothea Margarette Nutzhorn.
- Arnold Newman
Arnold Abner Newman was an American photographer of a jewish decent, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images.
- Walker Evans
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 - April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. He wrote that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent." Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums, …
- Irving Penn
Irving Penn (b. 16 June 1917) is an American photographer, born in New Jersey. Known primarily for his fashion photography, Penn's work shows a unique vision and a wide range of subjects.
- Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (January 14, 1904 - January 18, 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
- Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman (born January 19, 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American photographer and film director known for her conceptual self-portraits. Sherman currently works in New York.
- Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron (June 11 1815 - January 26 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for Arthurian and similar legendary themed pictures. Cameron's photographic career was short (about 12 years) and came late in her life. Her work had a huge impact on the development of modern photography, especially her closely cropped portraits which are still mimicked today.
- Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27 1832 - January 14 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass" as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.
- Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark (born, March 20, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American photographer, known for her images which fall between social photojournalism and portraiture.
- Edward S. Curtis
Edward Sheriff Curtis (February 16, 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native American peoples.
- Mathew Brady
Mathew B. Brady, was a celebrated American photographer whose rise to prominence occurred largely in the years preceding and during the American Civil War. Following the conflict, a war weary public lost interest in seeing photos of the war, and Brady’s popularity and practice declined drastically. Brady was born in Warren County, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, Andrew and Julia Brady. He moved to New York City at the age of 17. By 1844, …
- Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black & white portraits, photos of flowers and male nudes. The frank, erotic nature of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks.
- Sally Mann
Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer. Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She attended The Putney School, Bennington College and Friends World College, and earned a B.A., "summa cum laude", from Hollins College (now Hollins University) and an M.A. in writing.
- August Sander
August Sander (November 17, 1876 - April 20, 1964) was a German photographer. Sander was the son of a carpenter working in the mining industry. While working at a local mine, Sander first learned about photography by assisting a photographer who was working for the mining company. With financial support from his uncle he acquired photographic equipment and set up his own darkroom. He spent his military service (1897 - 1899) as a photographer's assistant, …
- Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry. Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon. In 1901, at the age of 18, Cunningham bought her first camera, a 4x5 inch view camera, from the American School of Art in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She soon lost interest and sold the camera to a friend. It wasn’t until 1906, while studying at the University of Washington in Seattle, …
- Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928 Paris, France) is a world-renowned advertising and journalistic photographer. He is best known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings -- the master of the "indecisive moment".
- Elsa Dorfman
Elsa Dorfman is a portrait photographer and writer from Cambridge, MA. Her portraits of poets, writers and other friends were published in Elsa's Housebook: A Woman's Photojournal (Godine, 1974). She collaborated with Robert Creeley on the books En Famille (Granary Press, 1999) and His Idea (Coach House Press, 1975).
- Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for "Life" magazine and as the director of the 1971 film "Shaft".
- Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 - August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and photojournalist.
- Philippe Halsman
Philippe Halsman (2 May, 1906 Riga, Latvia - 25 June, 1979 New York City) was a Latvian-born American portrait photographer. Born to a Jewish family of Max Halsman, a dentist, and Ita Grintuch, a grammar school principal, in Latvia. Halsman studied electrical engineering in Dresden, but moved into photography in Paris in 1931.
- Lewis Hine
Lewis Wickes Hine, was an American photographer. For Hine, the camera was both a research tool and an instrument of social reform.
- Herman Leonard
Herman Leonard (born 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American photographer known for his portraits of jazz musicians. Leonard earned a BFA in photography in 1947 from Ohio University, although his college career was interrupted by a tour of duty in the U. S. Army during World War II. In the military he served as a photographer in Burma, and after graduation Leonard apprenticed with Yousuf Karsh for a year.
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6 1898 - August 24 1995) was a German American photographer and photojournalist. He is renowned for his candid photographs, frequently made using a 35mm Leica M3 rangefinder camera. He is best remembered for his photograph capturing the celebration of V-J Day.
- Jock Sturges
Jock Sturges (born 1947) is an American photographer, best known for his images of adolescents, usually taken nude. His work, often taken on the nude beaches of California and France, has been the subject of controversy.
- Keith Carter
Keith Carter (June 3, 1948, Madison, Wisconsin) is an influential American photographer, educator, and artist noted for his dreamlike photos of people, animals and objects.
- Alvin Langdon Coburn
Alvin Langdon Coburn (11 January 1882 - 23 November 1966) was a pioneering photographer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he worked in Britain, becoming a a British subject in 1932 and building a house in Harlech in North Wales where he lived 1918-45, before moving to Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay, on the north coast of Wales. He became a leading figure in the struggle for photography's recognition as a fine art. From 1905-1910 he had a Symbolist period.
- Anna-Lou Leibovitz
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a noted American portrait photographer whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject.
- Bert Stern
Bertram Stern (born 3 October 1929) is an American fashion and celebrity portrait photographer. His best known work is arguably a collection of 2,500 photographs taken of Marilyn Monroe over a three day period, six weeks before her death, taken for "Vogue". Stern published "Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting" in 1992.
- Horst P. Horst
Horst P. Horst, born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann, and most often known as just Horst was a photographer best known for his photographs of women and fashion taken while working for Vogue.
- Duane Michals
Duane Michals (b.February 18, 1932) is an American photographer. Largely self-taught, his work is noted for its innovation and artistry. Michals' style often features photo-sequences and the incorporation of text to examine emotion and philosophy, resulting in a unique body of work. Michals grew up in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. In 1953 he received a B.A. from the University of Denver.
- Mark Seliger
Mark Seliger was born in Amarillo, Texas and moved to Houston when he was five years old. He attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts there and later graduated from East Texas State University. Mark worked as a photographers assistant in Houston for several years before moving to New York.
- Ernst Haas
Ernst Haas (March 2, 1921 - September 12, 1986) was an influential photographer noted for his innovations in color photography, experiments in abstract light and form, and as a member of the Magnum Photos agency.
- Linda McCartney
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (September 24, 1941 - April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, and animal rights activist. Although at first she was best known for her marriage to Sir Paul McCartney, of The Beatles, she was later the author of several vegetarian cookbooks, a business entrepreneur, and professional photographer whose book "Linda McCartney's Sixties", written in association with poet and author Steve Turner, …