- Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of the American West. Adams also authored numerous books about photography, including his trilogy of technical instruction manuals ("The Camera", "The Negative" and "The Print"); co-founded Group f/64 along with other masters like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham; and created, with Fred Archer, the "zone system". - 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. - Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 - August 3 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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.") - 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. - David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop Art of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. - Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin (born 1953) is a notable American fine-art and documentary photographer. - Mario Testino
Mario Testino (born 1954) is a London-based fashion photographer. Mario Testino was born in Lima, Peru. He was a pupil at the American School of Lima. He subsequently studied economics at the Universidad del Pacifico, law at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and international relations at the University of San Diego, California (USA). In 1976, Testino moved to London, England, (taking a flat within an abandoned hospital near Trafalgar sqaure), … - 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, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter born at Innsbrucker Straße 24 in Berlin- Schöneberg, Germany, was a German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women. The son of a German-Jewish button-factory owner and an American mother, Newton attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin. Interested in photography from a young age, he worked for the German photographer Yva (Else Neulander Simon). - 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. - Robert Capa
Robert Capa (Budapest, October 22 1913 - May 25, 1954) was a famous war photographer during the 20th century. He covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. Capa documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris. - Robert Frank
Robert Frank, born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photographic book titled simply "The Americans", was heavily influential in the post-war period, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American society. Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with compositing and manipulating photographs. - Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall (born Vancouver September 29 1946) is a Canadian photographer best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. - Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams OC, OBC, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer, guitarist, songwriter and photographer. Some of his best-known albums are "Reckless", "18 til I Die", and "Waking Up the Neighbours". Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for his contribution to popular music and his philanthropic work. He was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, … - David Lachapelle
David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963 Fairfield, Connecticut, United States) is a photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique and often humorous style. - Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an influential American photographer and artist, born in Aberdeen, Washington. - Chuck Close
Chuck Close (born Charles Thomas Close July 5, 1940, Monroe, Wisconsin) is an American photorealistic painter and photographer. - Nick Knight
Nick Knight, Director of the SHOWstudio website, is an influential British photographer. He has won numerous awards for his editorial work for Vogue, Dazed & Confused, i-D, The Face and Visionaire, as well as for fashion and advertising projects such as the 2004 edition of the Pirelli Calendar. Knight has also shot record and c.d. covers for Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Björk, David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, The Style Council, Paul Weller, ABC and Massive Attack. - Martin Parr
Martin Parr (born 1952) is a British documentary photographer and photojournalist. His photographic projects take a critical look at modern society, specifically consumerism, foreign travel and tourism, motoring, family and relationships, and food. Parr is probably best known for his photography at New brighton in the 1980's. His use of high saturation colour in photography produces some, at first glance boring and subdued images, … - 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. - Frans Lanting
Frans Lanting, (born 1951) was born in Rotterdam and is a Dutch nature photographer specializing in wildlife photography. Lanting emigrated to the United States after being educated in the Netherlands. He now lives in Santa Cruz, California and operates a studio and gallery, as well as a stock photography services. Lanting's wife Chris Eckstrom is a writer, editor, producer, and works on joint books of nature photography. - 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. - Steve McCurry
Photographer Steve McCurry is renowned for his evocative and moving photographs of Asia and its people. His career reached a turning point in the 1980s when, disguised in native garb, he crossed into Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion. And in 1984, while visiting an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan, he took his famous "Afghan girl" photograph, which became a National Geographic icon after it was published on the cover of the June 1985 issue. - 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, … - Joe McNally
Joe McNally is an award-winning American photographer who has been taking pictures for the National Geographic Society since 1987. McNally was born in Montclair, New Jersey. He received his bachelor's and graduate degrees from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He currently lives and works in Westport, Connecticut. - Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an Academy Award-nominated American composer. His music is frequently described as "minimalist", though he prefers the term "theater music". He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (apart from precursors such as Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein), … - 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). - Bruce Weber
Bruce Weber (born March 29, 1946) is a gay American photographer and occasional filmmaker. He is most widely known for his ad campaigns for Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch and Ralph Lauren. Weber's fashion photography first appeared in the late 1970s in GQ magazine, where he had frequent cover photos. Soon known as a pioneer of of modern male fashion and art photography, … - Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer (1902 Kattowitz, Silesia - 23 February 1975 Paris, France) was an artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. He is also commonly thought of, in the art world, as a Surrealist photographer. Since 1926 he had been working as a draftsman for his own advertising company. He initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the German state. - Terry Richardson
Terry Richardson (born 1965) is an American photographer. Richardson was born in New York City, raised in Hollywood, California, and is the son of fashion photographer Bob Richardson. Richardson began photographing his environment while attending Hollywood High School and playing in a punk rock band. He has shot advertisements for fashion designers, including Gucci, Levi's, Hugo Boss, Anna Molinari, Baby Phat, Matsuda, and Sisley.
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