- 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.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She is typically associated with the American southwest and particularly New Mexico where she settled late in life. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesizes abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes.
- 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.")
- Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin (born 1953) is a notable American fine-art and documentary photographer.
- 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.
- Richard Prince
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. His works have often been the subject of debates within the art world. Trained as a figure painter, Prince began creating collages containing photographs in 1975. His image, ‘Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotograph constructed from cigarette advertisements, was the first ‘photograph’ to raise more than $1 million at auction when it was sold at Christie's New York in 2005.
- Alec Soth
Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the recipient of several major fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and was awarded the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His work is represented in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
- James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey (born 1948) is an influential American photojournalist and war photographer. In 2003, he was injured by a grenade in an attack on his convoy along with Michael Weisskopf while serving as a TIME contributing correspondent in Baghdad.
- 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.
- Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1,1864 - July 13,1946) was an American-born photographer who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture. Many of his photographs are known for appearing like those other art forms, and he is also known for his marriage to painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Stieglitz was born the eldest of six children in Hoboken, …
- Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand was a noted street photographer known for his portrayal of America in the mid twentieth century. Winogrand studied painting at City College of New York and painting and photography at Columbia University in New York City in 1948. He also attended a photojournalism class taught by Alexey Brodovich at The New School for Social Research in New York City in 1951.
- Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams in "The Godfather" (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with "Play It Again, Sam" (1972).
- Lee Miller
Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller (23 April 1907 - 21 July 1977) was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York State in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris to become a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, she became an acclaimed war correspondent and photojournalist
- Paul Strand
Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 - March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa.
- Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick (born January 1 1967) is an American artist. Tunick was born in Middletown, New York, USA. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Emerson College in 1988. He is best known for his installations that feature large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations. In these images the nude form becomes abstract due to the sheer number so closely placed together. Known as installations, they are often situated in urban locations throughout the world.
- Lewis Hine
Lewis Wickes Hine, was an American photographer. For Hine, the camera was both a research tool and an instrument of social reform.
- William Klein
William Klein (born April 19, 1928) is a photographer and filmmaker. Though born in New York City and educated at City College of New York, Klein is predominantly active in France. He has directed a number of feature films, including the 1966 film "Who Are You, Polly Magoo?" and the anti-American satire "Mr. Freedom". Klein's photography won the Prix Nadar in 1956.
- Gregory Crewdson
Mr. Crewdson received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1985 and an M.F.A. in photography from Yale University in 1988. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and is represented by Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York City.
- Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He was born in New York in 1938. He began photographing in 1962. He is a Otreet photographerO in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank , although he works exclusively in color. You can find out more about Joel and his work by visiting his website.
- Weegee
Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig (June 12 1899 - December 26 1968), an American photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography.
- 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, …
- John Szarkowski
John Szarkowski (December 18, 1925 - July 7, 2007) was an influential photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
- 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, …
- Noah Kalina
Noah Kalina (b. 1980) is a New York City photographer who gained Internet fame for his viral video entitled "everyday". Kalina began taking a photo of himself everyday beginning on January 11, 2000, at age 19. The video, "everyday", shows the photos chronologically, in rapid succession, with an original piano score by musician Carly Comando. Throughout the compilation, Kalina's face, which is always in the center of the video, remains emotionless.
- Philip-Lorca Dicorcia
Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. Hartford, Connecticut 1953) is an American artist photographer. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he earned a Diploma in 1975 and a 5th year certificate in 1976. He received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in Photography in 1979. Much of diCorcia's work has the appearance of documentary photography but is actually choreographed and often elaborately lit.
- 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.
- Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer who has become most notorious through his photos of corpses, as well as his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of the artist's own urine.
- William Henry Jackson
William Henry Jackson (April 41843 - June 301942) was an American painter, photographer and explorer famous for his images of the American West. He was a great-great nephew of Samuel Wilson, the progenitor of America's national symbol Uncle Sam.
- Brian Smith
Brian Smith is an American photographer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games in the "Orange County Register". In 1988, he was again a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of Haiti in Turmoil for the "Miami Herald". His photograph of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games won top awards from World Press Photo, …
- Bill Owens
Bill Owens (b. September 25, 1938 in San Jose, California) is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer and editor living in Hayward, California. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976 and two NEA Grants, he is best known for his photographs of suburban domestic scenes taken in the East Bay and published in the book "Suburbia" in 1973.
- Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz (Brazil, 1961) is an avant-garde artist who experiments with novel media. For example, he made two detailed replicas of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa: one out of jelly and the other out of peanut butter. He has also worked in sugar, wire, thread, and Bosco Chocolate Syrup, out of which he produced a recreation of Leonardo's Last Supper. Many of Muniz's works are new approaches to older pieces; he has reinterpreted a number of Monet's paintings, …
- Inez van Lamsweerde
Inez van Lamsweerde is a Dutch fashion photographer known for her subversive approach to fashion and art photography. She recently won second prize in the portraits singles category of the World Press Photo contest for a photograph of Charlize Theron taken in collaboration with Vinoodh Matadin for the New York Times Magazine.
- Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947 in Endicott, New York) is an American social critic, intellectual, author and teacher. She is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paglia completed her undergraduate studies at Binghamton University and later, her graduate studies at Yale.
- Martine Franck
Martine Franck (born 1938) is a Belgian photographer, and a member of the prestigious Magnum Photos agency. She was the second wife of famous photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and is president and co-founder of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, which administrates his estate. From 1963 she worked at "Time-Life" in Paris. Martine Franck first met Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1966 when she was photographing Paris fashion shows for the New York Times.
- Ami Vitale
Ami Vitale (Born in 1971) is an American photojournalist. She has a degree in International Studies from the University of North Carolina. Her photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report and The New York Times, among others and two stories which she completed in 2001 in Guinea Bissau and Mauritania placed first in the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism. She has won many awards for her pictures, …
- Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter (September 13,1960 - July 27,1994) was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. Carter began his career as a weekend sports photographer in 1983 for Johannesburg's "Sunday Express". A year later he moved on to work for the Johannesburg "Star" bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid. That same year Carter's first "Time" cover appeared.
- Angelo Rizzuto
Angelo A. Rizzuto (b Deadwood, South Dakota 1906; d New York City 1967) was an American photographer who worked in Manhattan from 1952 until his death. His street photography opus of 60,000 images lay in file cabinets unviewed until 2001. Little is known of Rizzuto's life. He grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. He attended Harvard Law School in the 1930s. His father had a successful construction business, but when the father died Rizzuto and his brothers fought over the estate, …
- Larry Towell
Larry Towell (born 1953) is a Canadian photographer, poet, and oral historian. Towell grew up in a large family in rural Ontario and studied visual arts at York University in Toronto where his interest in photography first began. Towell volunteered to work in Calcutta, India in 1976 where he became interested in questions about the distribution of wealth and issues of land and landlessness.
- Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons, born George Allen Aarons (October 29, 1916, Manhattan � May 30, 2006, Montrose, New York), was an American photographer noted for photographing socialites, jet-setters and celebrities.
- Jay Manuel
Jay Manuel (born August 14, 1972) is a Canadian make-up artist and fashion photographer, most recognizable as the creative director of photo shoots on the popular reality television show "America's Next Top Model" and the host of the last cycle of "Canada's Next Top Model". Manuel was born in Scarborough, Ontario, to an Italian mother and Somalian father. He and friend J. Alexander, also an "America's Next Top Model" personality, …