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Lewis Baltz
Lewis Baltz (1945–2014) was an American photographer whose austere pictures of tract houses and industrial parks made him a central figure of the New Topographics movement.
Lisa Reihana
Lisa Reihana (born 1964) is a Māori multi-disciplinary artist of Ngāpuhi descent, based in Auckland, whose film, video, and installation work reinterprets Māori and Pacific histories.
Lisette Model
Lisette Model (1901–1983), born Elise Stern in Vienna, was an Austrian-born American photographer known for confrontational street portraits of ordinary people and for decades of influential teaching.
Lola Álvarez Bravo
Lola Álvarez Bravo, born Dolores Martínez de Anda, was a Mexican photographer considered Mexico's first woman photographer, known for documentary images of Mexico and pioneering photomontage.
Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson (born 1960) is an American artist known for large-scale photograph-and-text works with staged images of Black figures; in 1990 she became the first African American woman shown at the Venice Biennale.
Louis Daguerre
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), French painter and Diorama showman, invented the daguerreotype, the first widely adopted photographic process, announced in Paris in 1839 and bought by the French state for a 6,000-franc annuity.
Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler, born 1947, is an American artist and photographer who photographs other artists' artworks in museums, storage, and homes to examine how context shapes meaning.
Lucia Moholy
Lucia Moholy, born Lucia Schulz (1894–1989), was a Czech-born British photographer whose documentary images shaped the Bauhaus's international image; she spent decades recovering negatives taken after she fled Nazi Germany in 1933.
Lucien Clergue
Lucien Clergue (1934–2014) was a self-taught French photographer from Arles who founded the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival and became the first photographer elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Malick Sidibé
Malick Sidibé was a Malian photographer known as the "Eye of Bamako" for black-and-white images of youth culture, nightlife, and studio portraits from the late 1950s onward.
Man Ray
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890–1976), American Dada and Surrealist artist in New York and Paris, inventor of the rayograph photogram, solarization innovator, maker of The Gift and Le Violon d'Ingres.
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002) was a Mexican photographer, regarded as a founder of modern photography and the leading Latin American photographer of the twentieth century.
Marc Riboud
Marc Riboud (1923–2016) was a French photojournalist and Magnum Photos member best known for his 1953 photo of a painter on the Eiffel Tower and his 1967 photo of a flower girl.
Mario Giacomelli
Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000) was a self-taught Italian photographer from Senigallia, known for high-contrast black-and-white images of rural people and landscapes, combining documentary subjects with heavy manipulation.
Mark Fiennes
Mark Fiennes (Mark Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 1933-2004), English architectural photographer and illustrator, Country Life contributor, father of Ralph and Joseph Fiennes; died Clare, Suffolk, 30 December 2004.
Martin Munkácsi
Martin Munkácsi (Munkácsi Márton, born Mermelstein Márton) was a Hungarian photographer who pioneered action-filled sports reportage and revolutionized fashion photography by shooting models in motion.
Martin Parr
Martin Parr (1952–2025) was a British documentary photographer known for saturated, flash-lit color images of leisure, consumption, and British life, and for the 1986 series The Last Resort.
Martine Franck
Martine Franck (1938–2012) was a Belgian documentary and portrait photographer, a full member of Magnum Photos from 1983, and the second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Masahisa Fukase
Masahisa Fukase (深瀬昌久, 1934–2012) was a Japanese photographer known for intensely personal work on his wife, family, and cats, and for Ravens, a celebrated photobook of crows photographed in Hokkaido.
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto (山本昌男, born 1957) is a Japanese photographer from Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, who trained as a painter and is known for small, hand-toned gelatin silver prints often compared to haiku.
Max Dupain
Max Dupain, full name Maxwell Spencer Dupain (1911–1992), was an Australian modernist photographer known for sharply lit beach and architectural images; his 1937 photograph Sunbaker became an Australian icon.
Miguel Rio Branco
Miguel Rio Branco, born 1946 in Las Palmas, Spain, is a Brazilian photographer and filmmaker known for saturated color images of urban life, including the Maciel series.
Mikhael Subotzky
Mikhael Subotzky is a South African artist, born in Cape Town in 1981, known for photography on incarceration and post-apartheid society, including Ponte City, which won the 2015 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
Minnie Weisz
Minnie Weisz (Anna Alexandra "Minnie" Weisz), British photographic artist born 1972, sister of Rachel Weisz; known for turning derelict King's Cross buildings and European interiors into camera obscuras, documented with a medium format Hasselblad.
Minor White
Minor White, an American photographer and teacher, co-founded Aperture magazine in 1952, developed the photographic sequence, and taught at MIT, where he founded the Creative Photography Laboratory.
Miroslav Tichý
Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011) was a Czech photographer and painter from Kyjov, Moravia, known for photographs of the town's women made with homemade cameras built from shoeboxes, tin cans, and Plexiglas lenses.
Mohamed Amin
Mohamed Amin (محمد أمين), known as "Mo", was a Kenyan photojournalist and cameraman whose 1984 Ethiopian famine report prompted the global relief effort behind Band Aid and Live Aid.
Motaz Azaiza (معتز هلال عزايزة)
Motaz Azaiza (معتز هلال عزايزة), born 1999 in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, is a Palestinian photojournalist whose Instagram coverage of the Gaza war reached millions of followers, earning TIME100 (2024) and GQ Middle East Man of the Year honors.
Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin, born Nancy Goldin in 1953 in Washington, D.C., is an American photographer known for her diaristic slideshows, especially The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
Nicéphore Niépce
Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), French inventor also known as Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, creator of heliography and the earliest surviving photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, and partner of Daguerre from 1829.