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Nicholas Nixon
Nicholas Nixon (born 1947, Detroit) is an American photographer known for black-and-white large-format portraiture, above all The Brown Sisters, annual portraits of his wife and her three sisters from 1975 to 2022.
Nick Ut
Nick Ut (Huynh Cong Ut) is a Vietnamese-American photojournalist who spent 40 years at the Associated Press and won the Pulitzer Prize for the 1972 "Napalm Girl" photograph.
Nikki S. Lee (이승희)
Nikki S. Lee (이승희, Lee Seung-Hee, born 1970, Kye-Chang, South Korea) is a Korean artist known for Projects (1997–2001), snapshot photographs of herself embedded in American subcultures, plus Parts and A.K.A. Nikki S. Lee.
Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki, born in Tokyo in 1940, is a Japanese photographer known for "I-photography," erotic imagery, and street pictures, with more than 500 published books.
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813–1875) was a Swedish-born painter and photographer active in Britain who pioneered combination printing, best known for The Two Ways of Life (1857).
Otto Steinert
Otto Steinert (1915, Saarbrücken – 1978, Essen) was a German photographer, physician, and theorist who founded Subjective Photography and became one of postwar Germany's most influential photography teachers.
Paul Strand
Paul Strand, born Nathaniel Paul Stransky, was an American photographer and filmmaker, 1890 to 1976, whose straight, unmanipulated images made him one of the 20th century's most influential photographers.
Pentti Sammallahti
Pentti Sammallahti (born 1950, Helsinki) is a Finnish photographer known for meticulously hand-printed black-and-white images of people, animals, and landscapes; a benchmark figure in Finnish photography, his work is held by MoMA and the Stedelijk Museum.
Peter Beard
Peter Beard (1938-2020) was an American photographer, diarist, and collagist of East African wildlife; author of The End of the Game, founder of Hog Ranch, known for blood-and-ink diary collages.
Philip Jones Griffiths
Philip Jones Griffiths (1936–2008) was a Welsh photojournalist best known for Vietnam Inc. (1971), a critical photographic account of the Vietnam War. He served as president of Magnum Photos from 1980 to 1985.
Pierre Verger
Pierre Verger (1902–1996) was a French photographer and ethnologist who settled in Salvador, Brazil, documenting daily life across six continents and becoming a leading scholar of Afro-Brazilian candomblé and Yoruba religion.
Pieter Hugo
Pieter Hugo (born 1976) is a South African photographic artist in Cape Town, best known for The Hyena & Other Men, portraits of Nigeria's hyena handlers.
Princess Sofia of Romania
Princess Sofia of Romania (Sofia/Sophie), born 1957 in Athens, fourth daughter of King Michael I and Queen Anne, is a photographer and author whose Romania, a Celebration project yielded exhibitions from Brittany to Cluj and the urbex series Of Stone and Steel.
Pushpamala N.
Pushpamala N., born in Bangalore in 1956, is an Indian artist and pioneer of conceptual art who stages photo-romances casting herself in roles from ethnographic subjects to Bollywood heroines.
Rachel Owen
Rachel Owen: American wedding and fine-art portrait photographer, co-owner of J.R. Owen & Co. in Lemont, Illinois, WPPI Triple Master and Adobe Photoshop expert; distinct from Welsh printmaker Rachel Mary Owen (1968-2016) and sculptor Rachel Owens.
Raghu Rai
Raghu Rai (रघु राय) was an Indian photographer and photo editor, the first Indian member of Magnum Photos, best known for documenting India and his Bhopal disaster photographs.
Raghubir Singh
Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) was an Indian photographer from Jaipur, regarded as a pioneer of color street photography, who published fourteen photobooks on India and received the Padma Shri in 1983.
Ray K. Metzker
Ray K. Metzker (Ray Krueger Metzker, 1931–2014) was an American photographer known for stark, experimental black-and-white cityscapes and Composites, large assemblages of printed film strips, who taught in Philadelphia from 1962.
Raymond Depardon
Raymond Depardon, born in 1942 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France, is a French photographer and documentary filmmaker who co-founded the Gamma agency and won César Awards for his documentaries.
René Burri
René Burri (1933–2014) was a Swiss photographer and Magnum Photos member, best known for his 1963 portrait of Che Guevara smoking a cigar and for portraits of Picasso, Giacometti, and Le Corbusier.
Reza Deghati
Reza Deghati (رضا دقتی), known professionally as Reza, is an Iranian-French photojournalist based in Paris who photographed the 1979 Iranian Revolution and founded the Aina media-training organization in Afghanistan.
Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach (born 1949) is an American photographer based in Berkeley, California, known for large-format color photographs of the American West and his ongoing Desert Cantos series.
Richard Prince
Richard Prince (born 1949, Panama Canal Zone) is an American appropriation artist of the Pictures Generation known for rephotographed Marlboro Cowboys, Spiritual America, Jokes, and Instagram New Portraits, and for copyright cases including Cariou, Graham, and McNatt.
Rineke Dijkstra
Rineke Dijkstra is a Dutch photographer and video artist, born 1959 in Sittard, Netherlands, known for large-format frontal portraits of people in transitional states, especially adolescents.
Rinko Kawauchi
Rinko Kawauchi (川内倫子, born 1972) is a Japanese photographer known for small, luminous square-format images of everyday life, who broke through with three photobooks in 2001.
Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau (1912–1994) was a French humanist photographer known for black-and-white pictures of everyday Parisian life and his 1950 image of a couple kissing outside the city hall.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank (1924–2019), Swiss-born American photographer and filmmaker, author of The Americans (Les Américains), the 83-image 1958/1959 Guggenheim-funded photobook that reshaped documentary photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), American photographer of stylized nudes, flowers, portraits, and S&M imagery; The Perfect Moment censorship controversy, 1988 Whitney retrospective, Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
Roger Fenton
Roger Fenton (1819–1869), English photographer, first Honorary Secretary of the Photographic Society (1853) and creator of 360 Crimean War photographs in 1855, including The Valley of the Shadow of Death; retired from photography in 1862.
Roger Mayne
Roger Mayne (1929–2014) was a British photographer and master of documentary photography, best known for about 1,400 pictures of Southam Street in North Kensington between 1956 and 1961.