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Boris Mikhailov
Boris Mikhailov, born 25 August 1938 in Kharkiv, is a Ukrainian photographer and Hasselblad and Deutsche Börse prize winner whose series Case History documented homelessness in post-Soviet Kharkiv.
Brassaï
Brassaï, the pseudonym of Gyula Halász, was a Hungarian-born French photographer famous for his dramatic photographs of Paris at night, collected in his 1932 book Paris de Nuit.
Camille Summers-Valli
Camille Summers-Valli (born 1991, Bangkok) is a French-Australian photographer and director known for Black Mesa at Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014, the documentary Big Mountain, fashion films for Burberry and Vogue, the UK MVA-winning 2023 music videos, and the 2026 short Untitled Woman.
Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer, born 1944 in Eberswalde, Germany, is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for large-format color photographs of empty institutional interiors such as libraries, museums, and theaters.
Carl McCunn
Carl McCunn (1947–1981), American wildlife photographer stranded at a remote Brooks Range lake in Alaska in 1981 after never confirming his pickup flight; signaled 'all OK' to a passing plane, ran out of food, and died by suicide, found February 1982.
Carleton Watkins
Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) was an American landscape photographer of the American West, best known for his 18-by-22-inch mammoth-plate photographs of Yosemite Valley, which helped persuade Congress and Lincoln to preserve the valley in 1864.
Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems is an American conceptual artist, born in 1953 in Portland, Oregon, best known for the Kitchen Table Series of 1990 and its staged photographs.
Chang Chao-Tang
Chang Chao-Tang (張照堂, 1943–2024) was a Taiwanese photographer, documentary filmmaker, and educator, regarded as a pioneer of modern photography in Taiwan and a leader of its documentary tradition.
Changing New York
Changing New York is a photographic survey of New York City by Berenice Abbott, made under the WPA from 1935 to 1938 and published as a book in 1939.
Charles Nègre
Charles Nègre (1820–1880) was a French painter and photographer, an innovative early practitioner known for street scenes of Parisian tradespeople, surveys of Chartres Cathedral, and pioneering photogravure.
Chris Killip
Chris Killip (Christopher David Killip, 1946–2020) was a Manx-born British documentary photographer whose landmark book In Flagrante (1988) recorded working-class life during deindustrialization in north-east England; he taught at Harvard from 1991 to 2017.
Christer Strömholm
Christer Strömholm (1918–2002) was a Swedish photographer best known for his night portraits of the transgender community around Paris's Place Blanche, published as Les amies de Place Blanche.
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman (born 1954, Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American photographer of the Pictures Generation, known for Untitled Film Stills (1977–80), staged self-transformations that are not self-portraits, and the new Fabric Matrons series.
Clarence H. White
Clarence H. White (1871–1925) was an American Pictorialist photographer born in Ohio, a founding member of the Photo-Secession who founded the first American school of artistic photography.
Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob, 1894–1954), French surrealist photographer and writer known for gender-questioning staged self-portraits and, with partner Marcel Moore, an anti-Nazi resistance campaign on occupied Jersey that ended in a death sentence.
Claude Picasso
Claude Picasso (Claude Ruiz-Picasso, 1947–2023), French photographer and son of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot; won legitimacy suit, administered the Succession Picasso from 1989, founded Picasso Administration in 1995, and documented MoMA's SPACES exhibition.
Claudia Andujar
Claudia Andujar, born in 1931 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, is a Swiss-born Brazilian photographer and activist known for five decades documenting the Yanomami people of the Amazon.
Daidō Moriyama
Daidō Moriyama (森山大道, born 1938) is a Japanese photographer known for grainy, blurred street images of postwar urban Japan and photobooks such as Farewell Photography.
Dan Estabrook
Dan Estabrook (born 1969) is an American photographer in Brooklyn known for contemporary images made with 19th-century processes such as calotypes, salt prints, gum bichromate, ambrotypes, and tintypes, finished with watercolor, gouache, pencil, or cuts; series include Night & Day, Nine Symptoms, and At Sea.
Daniel Torok
Daniel Torok, American photographer and U.S. Army veteran, appointed Chief Official White House Photographer in 2025; took Donald Trump's and JD Vance's 2025 official portraits with a Nikon Z9, after film work on Macklemore's Same Love.
Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon, born in 1942, is a self-taught American photographer and filmmaker who became the first staff photographer of SNCC and documented civil rights, bikers, and Texas prisons.
Dash Snow
Dash Snow (Dashiell A. Snow) was an American photographer and collage artist who documented New York's downtown scene; he died of a drug overdose in 2009, aged 27.
David Douglas Duncan
David Douglas Duncan (1916–2018) was an American photojournalist best known as the signature photographer of the Korean War and a close friend of Pablo Picasso.
David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt (1930–2018) was a South African documentary photographer who chronicled South African life from 1948 through apartheid, publishing books such as On the Mines and In Boksburg.
David Hamilton (photographer)
David Hamilton (1933–2016) was a British photographer based in France, famous for soft-focus portraits of young women, best-selling books like Rêves de Jeune Filles, and L'Air du Temps advertising; his reputation collapsed after rape allegations and his 2016 death in Paris.
Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh (born 1961, New Delhi) is an Indian artist whose practice centers on photography, book-making, and mobile museums of stackable wooden structures, winning the 2022 Hasselblad Award.
Deborah Willis (photographer)
Deborah Willis, born 1948 in Philadelphia, is an American photographer, historian of photography, and curator; her book Reflections in Black (2000) was the first single-volume history of Black photographers.
Destiny Deacon
Destiny Deacon (1957–2024) was a Kuku/Erub/Mer Australian artist and political activist whose photographs and installations used black dolls and Aboriginal kitsch to satirize racist stereotypes.
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus (1923–1971), born Diane Nemerov, American photographer of New York portraits of couples, children, nudists, and performers; Guggenheim fellow, MoMA New Documents 1967, first photographer shown at the Venice Biennale, subject of the 2007 Met archive acquisition.
Dinh Q. Lê
Dinh Q. Lê (1968–April 2024) was a Vietnamese American multimedia artist known for photo weavings, photographic prints cut into strips and interlaced by hand, addressing the Vietnam War, memory, and trauma.