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Aaron Siskind
Aaron Siskind (1903–1991) was an American photographer who moved from 1930s social documentary work with the New York Photo League to abstract photographs of walls and torn posters.
Agustín Víctor Casasola
Agustín Víctor Casasola (1874–1938) was a Mexican photographer and reporter, unofficial photographer of the Porfirio Díaz government, who chronicled the Mexican Revolution and founded one of Mexico's first photographic news agencies.
Aida Muluneh
Aida Muluneh, born 1974 in Addis Ababa, is an Ethiopian photographer and curator known for staged, symbolically charged images and for founding the Addis Foto Fest.
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966) was a German photographer and leading exponent of Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity, whose 1928 photobook Die Welt ist schön became one of the most influential photography books ever published.
Alberto Korda
Alberto Korda (Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, 1928-2001), Cuban photographer famous for the 1960 Guerrillero Heroico portrait of Che Guevara; Castro's personal photographer for about ten years and Cuba's first fashion photographer.
Alec Soth
Alec Soth, born 1969, is an American photographer based in Minneapolis, known for lyrical large-format portraits and landscapes and for his 2004 book Sleeping by the Mississippi.
Alexander Gardner
Alexander Gardner (1821–1882) was a Scottish-born American photographer known for portraits of Abraham Lincoln and his Civil War photographs, including the first images of dead soldiers at Antietam in 1862.
Alexandra Hedison
Alexandra Hedison (born 1969) is an American fine art photographer and filmmaker in Los Angeles, daughter of actor David Hedison, former The L Word actor, known for The In Between, A Brief Infinity, and works in the Getty and LACMA collections.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995) was a German-born American photojournalist, one of four original LIFE magazine staff photographers, best known for his 1945 photograph V-J Day in Times Square.
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), American photographer and art dealer; founder of the Photo-Secession, editor of Camera Work, and operator of gallery 291; maker of The Steerage and the Equivalents cloud series.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966) was an American-born photographer who later became a British citizen, known for Pictorialist portraits and for the Vortographs, the first intentionally abstract photographs.
An-My Lê
An-My Lê is a Vietnamese American photographer, born in Saigon in 1960, whose large-format work examines war through reenactments, military training grounds, and the Museum of Modern Art's 2023 survey Between Two Rivers.
André Kertész
André Kertész (1894–1985) was a Hungarian-born photographer who worked in Budapest, Paris, and New York for over seventy years, blending photojournalism with formalist abstraction and influencing photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Andreas Feininger
Andreas Feininger (1906–1999) was an American photographer and writer, son of painter Lyonel Feininger, known for telephoto views of New York City for Life magazine.
Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky, born in Leipzig in 1955, is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for large-format, digitally constructed images of commerce, architecture, crowds, and landscape examining capitalism.
Anne Brigman
Anne Brigman was an American Pictorialist photographer best known for her early 1900s Sierra Nevada photographs of female nudes, and the only West Coast Fellow of Stieglitz's Photo-Secession.
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984), American landscape photographer and environmentalist of Yosemite and the American West; cofounder of Group f/64, developer of the Zone System, Sierra Club conservationist, and 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Anton Giulio Bragaglia
Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890–1960) was an Italian photographer, filmmaker, and theater director who invented photodynamism with his brother Arturo between 1911 and 1913, becoming the intellectual leader of Italian Futurist photography.
Antony Penrose
Antony William Roland Penrose (born 1947), British photographer and son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose; founder-director of the Lee Miller Archives at Farleys House, author of The Lives of Lee Miller, basis of the film LEE.
Arlene Alda
Arlene Alda (née Weiss, born 1933, Bronx) is an American photographer, writer, and former Houston Symphony clarinetist, wife of actor Alan Alda, author of children's books and Just Kids from the Bronx.
August Sander
August Sander (1876–1964), German portrait photographer, creator of Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (People of the Twentieth Century), a seven-category typological portrait atlas of German society; Antlitz der Zeit (1929); suppressed by the Nazis.
Bahman Jalali
Bahman Jalali (بهمن جلالی, 1944–2010) was an Iranian photographer who documented the 1979 Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War and later made photomontages from Qajar-era photographs.
Bas Jan Ader
Bas Jan Ader (Bastiaan Johan Christiaan Ader, 1942–disappeared 1975), Dutch conceptual and performance artist in Los Angeles, known for the Fall films, I'm Too Sad to Tell You, and the unfinished In Search of the Miraculous, lost at sea crossing the Atlantic in 1975.
Becher industrial typologies
Becher industrial typologies are grids of precisely composed black-and-white photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher, made from 1959 for five decades, comparing water towers, blast furnaces, and other industrial structures.
Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) was an American photographer whose Changing New York series documented the city's architecture, and who preserved and promoted Eugène Atget's archive, later also photographing scientific phenomena.
Bernard Plossu
Bernard Plossu is a French photographer, born in 1945 in Dalat, Vietnam, known for travel reportage made with a 50 mm lens in black and white and Fresson-process color.
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Bernd (1931-2007) and Hilla Becher (1934-2015), German photographer couple known for typologies, systematic black-and-white grids of disappearing industrial structures; founders of the Düsseldorf photography school.
Bert Hardy
Bert Hardy (Albert William Thomas Hardy, 1913–1995) was a self-taught British photojournalist and chief photographer of Picture Post, known for the Gorbals series, D-Day, and Korea.
Bill Brandt
Bill Brandt, born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt in Hamburg (1904–1983), was a British photographer whose work moved from 1930s social documentary to high-contrast, wide-angle distorted nudes and landscapes.
Bill Henson
Bill Henson, born in Melbourne in 1955, is an Australian photographer known for darkly toned images of figures and landscapes, first exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria at age 19.