Photographers 1-24
24 entries in the Photographers compendium.
Photographers 1-24 — Era Chart
Clarence Hudson WhiteSelf-taught photographer who elevated photography as a fine art.Edward S. CurtisPhotographer and ethnologist who documented Native American cultures.Edward SteichenLuxembourgish American photographer who pioneered modern fashion photography.Eugène AtgetFrench flâneur and pioneer of documentary photography.Gustave Le GrayFrench photographer known for technical innovations and seascapes.Irving PennAmerican photographer known for fashion, portraits, and still lifes.Ansel AdamsAmerican landscape photographer and environmentalist of the American West.Diane ArbusAmerican photographer who expanded acceptable subject matter in portraiture.Richard AvedonAmerican fashion and portrait photographer who captured movement in still pictures.Robert MapplethorpeAmerican photographer known for black-and-white photographs and controversial images of thEadweard MuybridgeEnglish photographer who pioneered motion studies and early film projection.NadarFrench photographer, caricaturist, and balloonist who pioneered aerial photography.Helmut NewtonGerman-Australian photographer known for provocative, erotically charged black-and-white fRichard PrinceAmerican artist known for rephotographing advertisements to critique pop culture.Sergey Prokudin-GorskyRussian chemist and photographer who pioneered color photography.Edward WestonAmerican photographer known for sharp-focus images of the American West.Julia Margaret CameronEnglish photographer known for soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorians and illustrative Lewis HineSociologist and muckraker photographer who documented child labor.Malick SidibéMalian photographer of 1960s Bamako youth culture.Manuel Álvarez BravoMexican artistic photographer who captured ordinary life in ironic or Surrealistic ways.Nan GoldinAmerican photographer and activist documenting intimacy and subcultures.Paul StrandAmerican photographer and filmmaker who helped establish photography as art.Robert FrankSwiss American photographer whose 'The Americans' reshaped documentary photography.Sally MannAmerican photographer of intimate family and landscape imagery.
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