The Top 20 Camera Artists - ms. cydney debenedetto



|The Top 20 Camera Artists (from: ) Selecting the 20 greatest photographers is a highly subjective task. Here are our |

|chosen favourites. |

|Ansel Adams (1902-84) 
Noted for his heroic-style black-and-white photographs of the American West before the advent of tourism. His works include the masterpiece |

|Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1948), Storm in Yosemite Valley (1935), and The Tetons and the Snake River (1942). |

|Eugene Atget (1857-1927) 
French photographer noted for his landmark architectural and Parisian street-scene photography. His works include the masterpiece Joueur |

|d'Orgue (1898), which was auctioned at Christie's New York in April 2010, for $686,500. |

|Richard Avedon (1923-2004) 
American fashion and portrait photographer. With Irving Penn, the best known 20th century lens-based artist in the United States. His works |

|include the masterpiece Dovima with Elephants (1955), which was auctioned at Christie's Paris in November 2010 for $1,151,976. One of the great modern artists. |

|Alexey Brodovitch (1898-1971)
 Russian born photographer and the most significant graphic designer in America (1930-50). See also: Graphic Art. |

|Robert Capa (1913-54) (Endre Erno Friedmann) 
Hungarian camera artist, photojournalist and war photographer, who helped establish Magnum. |

|Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004)
 French lens-based artist, considered to be the greatest "street-photographer" of the 20th century. Often called "the greatest |

|photographer of modern art." |

|Walker Evans (1903–1975)
American FSA camera artist who chronicled everyday American life during the 1930s, and in so doing "aestheticized the banal". |

|Robert Frank (b.1924)
Outstanding Swiss born lens-based artist noted in particular for his street photography. |

|Andreas Gursky (b.1955)
German camera artist, noted for his large-scale colour photographs of postmodern culture. Typically prefers commercial and financial subjects. |

|His works include the masterpiece Rhein II (1999), which sold in November 2011 for $4,338,500 at Christie's New York. |

|Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
Pioneer American photographer, famous for her gritty realist photographs taken during the 1930s Depression in America. |

|Man Ray (1890-1976)
American-born Paris-based avant-garde lens-based artist, early exponent of Dada and Surrealism, who specialized in Pictorialism. Invented the |

|"rayograph", and also became a celebrated fashion and portrait photographer. |

|Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89)
Cult New York photographer of the 1980s, and one of the first postmodernist artists. Noted for his b/w celebrity portraits of Andy Warhol,|

|Deborah Harry, Richard Gere, and others, he remains best known for his notorious Portfolio X series of adult photographs. His works include a portrait of Andy Warhol |

|(1987), which was auctioned at Christie's New York in October 2006 for $643,200. Photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe have been exhibited in many of the best galleries of|

|contemporary art in America. |

|Irving Penn (1917-2009)
American photographer noted for his fashion photography, portraits, and plant studies, as well as a series of outstanding ethnographical |

|imagery. |

|Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)
American painter and photographer, a member of the Precisionism movement. Famous for his industrial photography, including his series on the|

|Ford Motor Company's River Rouge car plant. |

|Cindy Sherman (b.1954) 
New York photographer and film director, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, famous for her postmodernist art, notably her conceptual |

|portraits. |

|Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
 A founder member of Photo-Secession in 1902, he quickly became famous for his series of portraits of New York celebrities, like J.P. Morgan|

|(1903) - and for his highly innovative print The Pond - Moonlight (1904), which sold for $2,928,000 in February 2006, at Sotheby's New York. With Alfred Stieglitz, he |

|established the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, and in 1911 became the world's first fashion photographer when his photos of Paul Poiret's gowns were |

|published. After the Great War he switched to realist photography, becoming the world's highest paid commercial photographer. Later, he became Director of Photography |

|at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. |

|Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
 The father of lens-based American art, and one of the greatest camera artists in the United States. Helped to set up the breakaway |

|Photo-Secession in 1902, and with Edward Steichen founded the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (later called "291", after its address at 291 Fifth Avenue, NYC). |

|Was editor and publisher of the journal Camera Work (1902-17). His works include a portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919), which was auctioned at Sotheby's New |

|York in February 2006 for $1,470,000. |

|Paul Strand (1890-1976)
 American pioneer photographer and filmmaker who helped to establish photography as an art form in the 20th century, he was also one of the |

|founders of the Photo League, a group who used their art to support progressive social causes. Best known for his early abstract-style photographs (Wall Street, 1915). |

|Jeff Wall (b.1946) 
Canadian camera artist specializing in "staged photography". Regarded as one of the most advanced thinkers of contemporary art. His works include |

|the masterpiece Dead Troops Talk (1992), which was auctioned at Christie's New York in May 2012 for $3,666,500. |

|Edward Weston (1886-1958)
 American camera artist; one of the leading exponents of Pictorialism, and a major figure in "straight photography". Noted for his |

|portraiture, nudes, plant and sea-shell studies. His works include the masterpiece Nude (1925), which was auctioned at Sotheby's New York, in April 2008, for |

|$1,609,000. |

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|200 Greatest Art Photographers () Here is a selected A-Z list of the world's greatest lens-based artists. A handful of |

|key scientific contributors to the evolution of photography have also been included. |

|Ansel Adams (1902-84) - see above: |

|Max Alpert (1899-1980) 
Ukrainian. Photo essays on industrialization in post-revolutionary Russia. Pioneer of reportage during the 1930s. |

|Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002)
 Mexican. Portraits, landscapes, especially street scenes, still lives and nudes. Close to surrealism. |

|Nobuyoshi Araki (b.1940) 
Japanese. Photographs of erotic fantasies as well as urban scenes, plants and animals. |

|Diane Arbus (1923-71)
 American fashion and portrait photographer. Greatly influenced photography during the 1960s and 70s. |

|Eugene Atget (1857-1927) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Richard Avedon (1923-2004) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|David Bailey (b.1938) 
1960s British fashion photographer. Also known for his landscapes, nude studies, still lifes and portraiture.

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|Dmitri Baltermants (1912-90)
 Polish born war photographer and photojournalist. Regarded as a giant of Soviet photography. See also: Russian Artists. |

|Gabriele Basilico (b.1944) 
Italian photographer specializing in architectural photos in Italy during the 1980s and 90s. |

|Herbert Bayer (1900-85)
 Austrian designer, architect and photographer. Bauhaus graduate. |

|Cecil Beaton (1904-80)
 British fashion photographer and celebrity portraitist. |

|Bernhard/Hilla Becher (1931-2007) and (b.1934) 
German couple specializing in photographs of industrial architecture. |

|Hans Bellmer (1902-75) 
Polish born idiosyncratic (surrealist) photographer known for his intense images of large self-made dolls of girls. See also: Surrealist |

|artists. |

|Ferenc Berko (1916-2000)
 Hungarian cameraman famous for his photo reportage, portraits and nudes. |

|Mario de Biasi (b.1923) 
Italian post-war photojournalist, also known for street photography akin to Neo-realism. |

|Ilse Bing (1899-1998)
 German fashion and dance photographer, also noted for Paris street scenes and portraits. |

|Werner Bischof (1916-54)
 Member of Magnum, noted for his humanist photojournalism. With Rene Burri, he is the best known post-war Swiss photographer. |

|Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) 
German lens-based artist, one of the most important exponents of Neue Sachlichkeit, known in particular for his close-ups of plants. |

|Kurt Blum (1922-2005)
 Swiss photographer noted for his abstract work and photo experiments. Also known for his sensitive portraits of some of the greatest visual |

|artists - including Braque, Chagall, Giacometti and Picasso. |

|Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) 
German painter known for his Dada collages, nude studies, portraits and fashion photography. |

|Edouard Boubat (1923-99)
French photographer famous for his humanist photography. One of the top post-war cameramen in France. |

|Pierre Boucher (1908-2000) French photographer schooled in Constructivism, known his photograms, montage, nude studies and photojournalism. |

|Margaret Bourke-White (1904-71)
 American industrial photographer, war reporter. Chief photographer of Life magazine; celebrated in America during the 30s and 40s. |

|Bill Brandt (1904-83) 
German photographer who specialized in portraits and landscapes. Surrealisist imagery, with a dark pictorial language. |

|Brassai (Gyula Halasz) (1899-1984) 
Hungarian lens-based artist. Influenced by Surrealism, famous for his shots of Paris by night. |

|Marianne Breslauer (1909-2001)
 German photographer known for her travel photography, portraits and experimental street views during the 20s and 30s. |

|Alexey Brodovitch (1898-1971) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Anton Bruehl (1900-82)
 Australian born pioneer of colour photography (notably fashion shots for Conde Nast). One of the most important art photographers in America. |

|Max Burchartz (1887-1961) 
German photographer and a key exponent of modern design. Known for his industrial design and advertising shots. |

|Rene Burri (b.1933) 
Along with Werner Bischof one of the top post-war Swiss photographers. |

|Larry Burrows (1926-71) 
English photojournalist, photographer for Time magazine, died in Laos. |

|Edward Burtynsky (b.1955)
 Canadian landscape photographer, known for "manufactured landscapes", notably of industrial areas. |

|Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79)
 British photographer, noted for her photographic portraits and mythological images. |

|Robert Capa (1913-54) (Endre Erno Friedmann) - see above
"Top 20 Photographers" |

|Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Francisco Catala-Roca (1922-98)
 Important documentary film maker, the most important 20th century Catalan photographer. |

|Yevgeny Chaldei (1916-97)
 One of the most famous Soviet war photographers, often called the "Robert Capa" of Russia. |

|Martin Jimenez Chambi (1891-1973)
 The most important lens-based artist of Latin America. |

|Hermann Claasen (1899-1987) 
German architectural photographer also known for his studio portraits and shots of Cologne during wartime. |

|Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966)
 American exponent of Pictorialism, noted for his urban and industrial landscapes, his futurist and Cubist Vortographs and artist |

|portraits. |

|Clifforn Coffin (1913-72)
One of the most innovative fashion photographers in post-war America. Also known for celebrity portraits. |

|John Cowan (1929-79) 
One of the leading English fashion photographers of the "Swinging Sixties". Noted for his outdoor shots. |

|Gregory Crewdson (b.1962)
 American cameraman who specialized in staged photographs of small-town America. Operated on the border between fantasy and reality. |

|Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) 
American exponent of Pictorialism and later "straight photography". Member of the f/64 group. Noted for her plant studies, portraits and |

|nudes of her husband. |

|Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)
 American pioneer photographer of native American culture. |

|Louis Daguerre (1787-1851) 
Responsible for the first ever photograph of a person in 1839. |

|Dmitri Debabov (1899-1949) 
Russian photojournalist of the 1930s, specializing in industrial and expedition photography. |

|Patrick Demarchelier (b.1943)
 French born internationally famous fashion photographer noted for his portraits of Princess Diana. |

|Rineke Dijkstra (b.1959)
 Unconvential Dutch portrait photographer. |

|Robert Doisneau (1912-44) 
French humanist photographer known for his portraits, photojournalism and shots of Paris life. |

|Ken Domon (1909-90)
 One of the most important Japanese documentary photographers of the 1950s and 60s. |

|Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) 
Famous Czech photographer of the 1920s, influenced by Symbolism and Art Deco. |

|Remy Duval (1907-84)
 French photographer who operated in the area between Pictorialism and Neue Sachlichkeit. |

|George Eastman (1854-1932) 
American innovator who invented roll film as a replacement for photographic plates. |

|Harold E Edgerton (1903-90) 
American electrical engineer and photographer. Inventor of the high-speed or stroboscope flash. |

|William Eggleston (b.1939)
 American cameraman, one of the most significant pioneers of colour photography since the 1970s. |

|Alfred Ehrhardt (1901-84)
 German Bauhaus student and landscape photographer in the style of Neue Sachlichkeit. |

|Ed van der Elsken (1925-90)
 Celebrated Dutch lens-based artist, greatly influenced by 1950s existentialism. |

|Hugo Erfurth (1874-1948)
 German photographer noted for his theatre, expressive dance and portrait photography. Had close contacts with Otto Dix, Paul Klee and Oskar |

|Kokoschka. Took photographs of Archipenko, Beckmann, Shagall, Gropius and Max Liebermann. |

|Elliott Erwitt (b.1928) 
French born Magnum photographer famous for his photos of dogs. |

|Walker Evans (1903–1975) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Bernard Faucon (b.1950) 
French born exponent of "staged photography", also noted for his use of mannequins and children. |

|Louis Faurer (1916-2001) 
American fashion photographer also noted for his street scenes, influenced by Robert Frank and Alexey Brodovitch. |

|Andreas Feininger (1906-99) 
French born student of the Bauhaus design school who created a series of acclaimed images of New York. |

|Hans Finsler (1891-1972) 
Influential German teacher of photography and exponent of Neue Sachlichkeit. |

|Arno Fischer (b.1927) 
A leading exponent of lens-based art in the German Democratic Republic. Noted for his fashion, portrait and street photography. |

|Trude Fleishmann (1895-1990)
 Austrian photographer specializing in nudes, dance photography and portraits of Viennese artists during the 1920s. |

|Gunther Forg (b.1952) 
German born sculpture and photographer noted for his quiet architectural photography. |

|Robert Frank (b.1924) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Lee Friedlander (b.1934) 
Versatile American photographer noted for his portraits, nudes, nature, urban landscapes and street photography. |

|Masahisa Fukase (b.1934) 
Internationally acclaimed lens-based artist famous for his book entitled "Ravens" (1986) featuring his extraordinary bird photography. |

|Alberto Garcia-Alix (b.1956)
 Spanish photographer, member of the La Movida Madrilena countercultural movement, specializing in nude portraits. |

|Cristina Garcia Rodero (1949)
 Spanish photographer who focuses on encapturing the customs, traditions, religious rites and festivals of her native country. |

|Mario Garrubba (b.1923) 
Italian photojournalist of the 1950s and 50s. |

|Mario Giacomelli (1926-2000)
 One of the best known post-war Italian art photographers, noted for her shots of people and landscapes. |

|Rolf Gillhausen (1922-2004) 
German photojournalist, later art director at Stern magazine. |

|David Goldblatt (b.1930)
 One of the most famous South African art photographers who documented the racial and social conflicts of his native country. |

|Nan Goldin (b.1953)
 Taboo-breaking American photographer, who specializes in socially marginalized groups. |

|John Goto (1916-94)
 Professor of Fine Art at the University of Derby in England, who specializes in photomontage. Also known for the "High Summer" pictures in his |

|Ukadia series of photos. |

|Paul Graham (b.1956)
 One of the best known British lens-based artists since the 1980s, who introduced a new colour aesthetic. |

|Milton H. Greene (1922-85)
 One of the best paid fashion photographers in America, also noted for his stylish portraits of Marilyn Monroe. |

|Sid Grossman (1914-55)
 American cameraman, founder member of the Photo League, noted for his socially critical photography. |

|Franz Christian Gundlach (b.1926) 
One of the most significant exponents of fashion photography in Germany from the 1950s to the 1970s. |

|Andreas Gursky (b.1955) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898-1983)
 German experimental photographer who explored multiple exposures, light graphics, montages and portraiture. |

|Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971)
 Austrian founder of Dada and co-inventor of the photomontage. Also produced photograms, portraits, landscapes and nudes. Influenced by |

|expressionist painters such Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. |

|Robert Hausser (b.1924) 
German photographer noted for his "magic realism", black and white shots. Pioneer of photographic art in post-war Germany. |

|John Heartfield (Helmut Herzfeld) (1891-1968) 
Founder member of Berlin Dada, and a pioneer in political photomontage during the 1920s and 30s. |

|Florence Henri (1893-1982)
 American born Bauhaus student and portrait photographer in the style of New Vision (Neues Schen). |

|John Herschel (1792-1871)
 Experimental British scientist responsible for the cyanotype process and was the first to coin the terms "photography", "negative" and |

|"positive". |

|Lucien Herve (Laszlo Elkan) (1910-2007)
 Hungarian humanist photographer noted in particular for his interpretations of architectural design by Le Corbusier |

|(1887-1965). |

|Hiro (Yasuhiro Wakabayashi) (b.1930) 
Chinese born photo designer specializing in fashion and beauty. Influenced by Avedon and Brodovitch. |

|Hannah Hoch (1889-1978) 
With Raoul Hausmann, the inventor of Dada photomontage. |

|David Hockney (b.1937)
 English artist, one of the best known representatives of "art photography". Noted in particular for his Polaroid collages. |

|Candida Hofer (b.1944)
 Cologne based photographer who specializes in public interiors. |

|Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957) 
Court photographer of the German Nazi movement from 1920-45. |

|Horst P. Horst (1906-99)
 Foremost German fashion photographer of the 1930s and 40s. With a touch of surrealism and dramatic lighting. |

|Eikoh Hosoe (b.1933)
One of the most famous Japanese lens-based artists, noted for his "disturbing book", Killed By Roses. |

|George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-68)
 Russian born still life, portrait, travel and fashion photographer. |

|Franz Hubmann (1914-2007)
 The most famous Austrian post-war photojournalist. |

|Georges Hugnet (1906-74) 
Leading Parisian surrealist photographer. |

|Axel Hutte (b.1951) 
German architectural and landscape photographer, noted for his creation of uncertainty in his work. |

|Irina Ionesco (b.1935)
 Paris born controversial art photographer focusing on nudes and erotic photography. |

|Yasuhiro Ishimoto (b.1921)
 The most important Japanese lens-based artist after Ken Domon. Known for his objectivity and immersion in the aesthetics of Japanese art and|

|culture. |

|Graciela Iturbide (b.1942)
 The best known contemporary female photographer in Mexico, known for her exploration of Latin American culture. |

|Izis (Israelis Bidermanas) (1911-80)
 Lithuanian photographer noted for his everyday scenes in the manner of "Photographie Humaniste". |

|Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002)
 Turkish portrait photographer, noted for his shots of celebrities from the world of entertainment, politics and art. His portraits include |

|those of Bogart, Castro, Einstein, Hemingway, JFK, Picasso, Warhol and Churchill. |

|Benjamin Katz (b.1939) 
Leading photographer of the West German art scene since the 1970s. |

|Peter Keetman (1916-2005) 
Important post-war representative of "subjektive fotografie" in Germany. |

|Seydou Keita (1921-2001) 
Together with Malick Sidibe, one of the best known photographers of Black Africa, specializing in studio portraits. |

|Andre Kertesz (1894-1985)
 Hungarian born photographer of artists, still lifes, street scenes and Parisian interiors. Influenced by both surrealism and Neue |

|Sachliechkeit.
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|William Klein (b.1928)
 Highly influential American graphic artist and photographer. Active in Europe. |

|Nick Knight (b.1958)
 English fashion photographer and portraitist, one of the most influential young lens-based artists of the 1990s. |

|Alberto Korda (1928-2001) 
Cuban photojournalist noted for his shots of the Cuban revolution and creator of the famous portrait of Che Guevara. |

|Les Krims (b.1942) 
American photographer noted for her innovative staged photography with feminist overtones. |

|David LaChapelle (b.1963)
 American fashion photographer famous for his over-the-top garish, kitsch-style imagery. |

|Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Frans Lanting (b.1951)
 Acclaimed Dutch animal and landscape photographer. |

|Annie Leibovitz (b.1949)
 American photographer specializing in celebrity portraits. |

|Peter Lik (b.1976)
 Australian landscape photographer, winner of the Art in Nature category of the Windland Smith Rice International Awards for Nature's Best |

|Photography in 2010 and 2011. His picture entitled "One" (2010) (a nature photo taken on the snowy banks of the Androscoggin River in New Hampshire) was sold in |

|December 2010 to an anonymous collector for $1,000,000. |

|Peter Lindbergh (b.1944)
 Polish photographer, one of the most innovative exponents of fashion photography. |

|Gabriel Lippmann (1845-1921) 
French Nobel Prize-winning physicist responsible for major improvements in photographic colour reproduction.

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|El Lissitzky (1890-1941)
 Constructivist artist and so-called "Proun designer", known for his political propagandist photography. |

|Dora Maar (1907-97)
 French born Croatian camerawoman, mainly known for her role as the partner and muse of Pablo Picasso. |

|Man Ray (1890-1976) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Herbert Matter (1907-84)
 Swiss photographer and pioneer of a new style in poster art and advertising. |

|John Edwin Mayall (1813-1901) 
English Victorian photographer who took some of the earliest photographs of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. |

|Don McCullin (b.1935)
 Famous English war photographer, also noted for his landscapes and still lifes. |

|Steve McCurry (b.1950)
 American cameraman and Magnum member, noted for his shots of Afghanistan. |

|Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-72) 
Idiosyncratic American photographer famous for his symbolic black and white photographs. |

|Gjon Mili (1904-84)
 Albanian born Life magazine photographer, noted for her studies of movement. Influenced by Edgerton's stroboscope technology. |

|Lee Miller (1907-77)
 Talented American portrait and fashion photographer, influenced by surrealism. |

|Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) 
Hungarian multi-media artist, designer and photographer. Bauhaus instructor and exponent of Constructivism. Noted for his "photograms". |

|Sarah Moon (b.1941)
 French fashion and portrait photographer, marked by an new romantic femininity. |

|Ugo Mulas (1928-73) 
Italian Neo-Realist photographer noted for his b/w portraits of artists in New York during the 1960s. These include portraits of Roy Lichtenstein, |

|Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol. |

|Hans Namuth (1915-90)
 German born photographer of the Spanish Civil War. Also famous for his series of photographs showing the artist Jackson Pollock at work. |

|Arnold Newman (1918-2006)
 American portrait photographer, his sitters have included Picasso, Braque, Warhol, Richard Nixon, JFK, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and |

|Konrad Adenauer, as well as the photographers Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. |

|Helmut Newton (1920-2004) 
German fashion and portrait photographer noted for his artistic nudes. |

|Ken Ohara (b.1942)
 Japanese portrait photographer noted for his new style b/w shots. |

|Lennart Olson (1925-2010)
 Swedish film maker and photographer noted for his Neo-Pictorialism and subjective photography. |

|Paul Outerbridge, Jr. (1896-1958)
American lens-based artist noted for his surrealist object photography and nude studies processed with three-colour carbro technology.|

|Norman Parkinson (1913-1990)
English pioneer of new style "naturalism" in fashion and portrait photography. |

|Martin Parr (b.1952)
 Versatile English colour-photographer noted for his still lifes, portraits, advertising and fashion photography, often with a kitsch flavour. |

|Irving Penn (1917-2009) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Richard Prince (b.1949) 
American painter and photographer. His picture Untitled (Cowboy) (1989), a "rephotograph" of a photograph taken originally by Sam Abell was |

|auctioned at Christie's New York, in November 2005, for $1,248,000, November 2005, Christie's New York auction. |

|Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813-75)
 Swedish cameraman and photomontage expert who collaborated with Charles Darwin on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. |

|Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966) 
Pioneer German photographer of the New Objectivity movement. Known for his landscapes, cityscapes and industrial photography. |

|Marc Riboud (b.1923)
 French photojournalist and long-time Magnum member, noted for his photographs of China, Vietnam and Cambodia. |

|Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) 
Iconic German lens-based artist who achieved world-wide fame for her photographs and film of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. |

|Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956)
 One of the central figures in Russian Constructivism, noted for his sculptures, designs and photographic montages and portraits. |

|Sebastiao Salgado (b.1944)
Brazilian cameraman and one of the most controversional contemporary photojournalists. Famous for his b/w shots from the Third World. |

|August Sander (1876-1964) 
Pioneer German photographer and chronicler of German society during the early 20th century. |

|Hugo Schmolz (1879-1938)
 Early 20th century German architectural photographer in the spirit of the New Objectivity. |

|David Seidner (1957-99) 
Late 20th century star of fashion and portrait photography in America. His portraits included those of Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra, Cy |

|Twombly and Jenny Holzer. |

|David Seymour (1911-56) 
Polish photographer, founder member and President of Magnum. Noted for his humanistic photojournalism. |

|Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
 American painter and photographer, member of the social realism movement and the principle exponent of FSA photography. |

|Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Cindy Sherman (b.1954) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Julius Shulman (1910-2009) 
American photographer, the most important interpreter of architecture of the 1940s and 50s. Noted in particular for his shots of Californian|

|modernism. |

|Sandy Skoglund (b.1946)
 American photographer famous for her staged photographs featuring surrealist style compositions on the border between the rational and the |

|irrational. |

|Alexander Slyussarev (b.1944) 
Pioneer of Soviet art photography, regarded as a master of 'autonomous' camera art. |

|Lord Snowdon (b.1930) (Anthony Armstrong Jones) 
Versatile British camera artist, noted for his fashion photography and portraits of artists, celebrities and royalty. |

|Married Princess Margaret in 1960; divorced 1968. |

|Emmanuel Sougez (1889-1972)
 Pioneer, French lense-based artist. Known for his still-lifes, portraits and architectural photography, notably his shots of Notre Dame |

|cathedral in Paris. |

|Edward Steichen (1879-1973) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Otto Steinert (1915-78)
 German art photographer, curator and teacher and one of the most influential figures in post-war German photography. |

|Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Paul Strand (1890-1976) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Christer Stromholm (1918-2002) 
Leading Swedish cameraman after 1945, famous for his early existential Paris photos. |

|Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948-present) Japanese photographer |

|Josef Sudek (1896-1976) 
Czech lense-based artist, noted for his landscapes, cityscapes, portraits and still-lifes. His style varied between Pictoralism and New |

|Objectivity. |

|John Szarkowski (1925-2007) 
Photographer, curator, historian, critic and Director of Photography at MOMA (1962-91). Awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, as well as |

|numerous one-man shows, he was lectured at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and New York University, and published several landmark books, including Looking at Photographs - a |

|practical guide on how to critique photographs, which is still used in many of the best art schools. |

|William Fox Talbot (1800-77) 
Inventor of the calotype process; his research into photo-mechanical reproduction led to the discovery of the photoglyphic engraving |

|process, the forerunner of photogravure. |

|Karel Teige (1900-51) 
Foremost exponent of Czech photographic art between the wars. Noted especially for his collages. |

|Shoji Ueda (1913-2000)
 Mid-20th century Japanese photographer specialising in landscapes, still-lifes and architectural photography. |

|Umbo (Otto Maximilian Umbehr) (1902-80) 
German pioneer of portrait photography, photograms, photomontages and advertising shots. |

|Andre Vigneau (1892-1968)
 French photographer, known for his advertising, fashion and architectural photography around 1930. |

|Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) 
Jewish Russian photographer who chronicled the disappearing life of Central and Eastern European Jewry during the 1930s, thus bearing |

|witness to a disappearing culture. |

|Jeff Wall (b.1946) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Andy Warhol (1928-87) 
American Pop artist, film-maker and photographer. Leading figure in the New York avant-garde art scene during the 1970s and 80s. |

|Albert Watson (b.1942) 
Scottish fashion photographer also known for his portraits, nude studies, landscapes and still-lifes. |

|Edward Weston (1886-1958) - see above: "Top 20 Photographers" |

|Minor White (1908-76) 
Minneapolis born photographer, teacher and long-time editor of Aperture magazine, strongly influenced by Alfred Stieglitz. |

|Garry Winogrand (1928-84)
 American photographer of everyday life in America, noted for his radical, visual language. |

|Reinhart Wolf (1930-88) 
German photographer specialising in architecture and still-lifes. Also famous for his food photography. |

|Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913-51)
 Short-lived German avant-garde artist and photographer. Founder member of Art Informel and strongly influenced by |

|surrealism. |

|Alexander Zhitomirsky (1907-93)
 The leading agitprop artist and photographer in the Soviet Union. Pioneer of the political photomontage. |

|Piet Zwart (1885-1977) 
Dutch pioneer of "New Photography", known in particular for his photomontages, photograms and object photography. |

Additional Contemporary Photographers/Artists:

• Catherine Opie

• The Starn Twins

• Vic Muniz

• Joel-Peter Witkin

• Jerry Uelsman

• Francesco Scavullo

• Mary Ellen Mark

• Angus McBean

• Antonin Kratochvil

• Gertrude Käsebier

• Phillipe Halsman

• Edouard Boubat

• Eve Arnold

• Barbara Morgan

• Herb Ritts

Online resource for additional names and images:

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago

Collection >> Artists

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