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Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) was an American photographer from the Bronx, known for street photographs of New York City and American life from the 1950s through the early 1980s.
Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill is a Delhi-based Indian photographer, born in Chandigarh in 1970, known for collaborative series such as Notes from the Desert and for winning the 2023 Prix Pictet.
George Eastman
George Eastman (1854–1932) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York, popularizing photography through the Kodak camera and roll film.
Germaine Krull
Germaine Krull (1897–1985) was a German-born photographer and writer, a major figure of the interwar European avant-garde best known for her 1928 industrial portfolio Métal.
Gertrude Käsebier
Gertrude Käsebier, born Gertrude Stanton, was an American pictorial photographer, one of the foremost American portrait photographers around 1900 and a founding member of the Photo-Secession.
Gianni Berengo Gardin
Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930–2025) was an Italian photographer, born in Santa Margherita Ligure, who was a leading Italian photojournalist and published over 250 photographic books.
Gilles Peress
Gilles Peress, born 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, is a French photographer based in New York, known for long-term documentary projects on conflict in Northern Ireland, Iran, Bosnia, and Rwanda.
Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide is a Mexican photographer born in 1942 in Mexico City, known for black-and-white images of indigenous rituals and women, including Mujer ángel and Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas.
Gregor Krause
Gregor Krause (1883–1959) was a German-Dutch physician and self-taught amateur photographer who took about 4,000 pictures of Bali as an army doctor from 1912 to 1914, published as the influential 1920 book Insel Bali.
Grete Stern
Grete Stern, who signed her work Ringl, was a German-born photographer who trained at the Bauhaus, settled in Buenos Aires, and created the surrealist photomontage series Sueños for the magazine Idilio.
Guillermo Kahlo
Guillermo Kahlo (born Carl Wilhelm Kahlo, 1871–1941), German-Mexican architectural photographer in Pforzheim and Mexico City, father of Frida Kahlo, official photographer of Mexican colonial churches, Casa Boker documenter, builder of Casa Azul.
Gunter Sachs
Gunter Sachs (Fritz Gunter Sachs, 1932–2011), German photographer, filmmaker, and art collector; Bardot's husband; opened Hamburg gallery showing Warhol in 1972; Sotheby's sold his collection for 51 million euros in 2012.
Gustave Le Gray
Gustave Le Gray, born Jean-Baptiste-Gustave Le Gray, was a French painter-turned-photographer, the central figure in French photography of the 1850s, best known for his seascapes.
Guy Tillim
Guy Tillim (born 1962) is a South African photographer from Johannesburg who covered African conflicts for Reuters and AFP before turning to large-scale series on the architecture and street life of postcolonial cities.
Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was an American photographer known for spare, lyrical images of his wife Eleanor, nature, and the city, and for decades of influential teaching.
Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer)
Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957), German photographer and Reichsbildberichterstatter, was Adolf Hitler's personal photographer; his Munich studio, picture books such as Hitler wie ihn keiner kennt, and portrait monopoly created the Führer's public image, and he was convicted as a denazification Major Offender.
Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt (1913–2009) was an American photographer and cinematographer noted for street photography of New York City, especially children at play in working-class neighborhoods and her later color work.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004), French photographer and Magnum co-founder, master of the 35mm Leica and the 'decisive moment', author of The Decisive Moment (1952).
Henry Peach Robinson
Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901) was a British photographer, trained as a painter, who championed photography as a fine art and was best known for the combination print Fading Away (1858).
Herbert List
Herbert List (1903–1975) was a German photographer, the leading representative of metaphysical photography, who worked for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Life and joined Magnum Photos in 1951.
Hiroshi Hamaya
Hiroshi Hamaya (濱谷浩, 1915–1999) was a Japanese photographer known for documentary studies of rural life in snow-country Japan, the 1960 Security Treaty protests, and later landscapes.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto (杉本博司, born 1948) is a Japanese artist whose photographic series Dioramas, Theaters, and Seascapes examine time and perception; he has also worked in architecture and stage direction.
Homai Vyarawalla
Homai Vyarawalla, who published under the pseudonym Dalda 13, was India's first woman photojournalist; from 1938 to 1970 she photographed the independence era, including Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah.
Hugo van Lawick
Hugo van Lawick, Baron Hugo van Lawick (1937-2002), Dutch wildlife photographer and filmmaker; sent by National Geographic to Gombe in 1962, he filmed Jane Goodall's chimpanzee research, married her 1964-1974, and spent three decades filming the Serengeti.
Humphrey Spender
Humphrey Spender (John Humphrey Spender, 1910–2005) was a British documentary photographer, brother of poet Stephen Spender, best known for the Worktown photographs he took in Bolton for Mass Observation.
Ihei Kimura
Ihei Kimura (木村伊兵衛, 1901–1974) was a Japanese photographer celebrated for Leica snapshots and portraits of everyday life, a central figure of postwar realism photography alongside Domon Ken.
Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was an American photographer known for botanical close-ups such as Magnolia Blossom (1925), portraits for Vanity Fair, and a founding role in Group f/64 in 1932.
Inge Morath
Inge Morath (1923–2002), Austrian-born American photographer, Magnum Photos member from 1949 and its first female full member (1955); photographed Iran, Russia, and the Danube, and married Arthur Miller.
J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere
J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere (1930–2014) was a Nigerian photographer best known for the Hairstyles series, nearly a thousand black-and-white photographs of Nigerian women's hairstyles taken from behind.
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) was a French photographer and painter known for spontaneous black-and-white images of Belle Époque Paris, motor racing, aviation, and leisured high society.