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Roman Vishniac
Roman Vishniac (1897–1990) was a Russian-born American photographer and biologist, best known for photographs of Jewish communities in eastern Europe before the Holocaust and for pioneering photomicroscopy.
Rong Rong
Rong Rong (榮榮) is a Chinese contemporary photographer, born in 1968, best known for documenting the Beijing East Village artists and co-founding Three Shadows in Beijing.
Rosângela Rennó
Rosângela Rennó, born 1962 in Belo Horizonte, is a Brazilian intermedia artist who reworks discarded photographs and archives to explore memory and forgetting, living in Rio de Janeiro.
Roy DeCarava
Roy DeCarava (1919–2009) was an American photographer known for black-and-white pictures of Harlem life and New York jazz musicians, and the first African American photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, in 1952.
Ruth Orkin
Ruth Orkin (1921–1985) was an American photojournalist and filmmaker best known for her 1951 photograph American Girl in Italy and the Oscar-nominated film Little Fugitive.
Sabine Weiss
Sabine Weiss, born Sabine Weber (1924–2021), was a Swiss-born photographer based in Paris, a leading figure of postwar humanist photography and its last living member.
Sally Mann
Sally Mann (born 1951, Lexington, Virginia) is an American photographer of Immediate Family, Southern landscapes, and wet-plate collodion work; author of Hold Still, winner of the 2021 Prix Pictet.
Samuel Bourne
Samuel Bourne (1834–1912) was an English photographer who worked in India from 1863 to 1870, made three Himalayan expeditions, produced some 2,200 views, and co-founded the studio Bourne & Shepherd.
Samuel Fosso
Samuel Fosso (born 1962, Kumba, Cameroon) is a Franco-Cameroonian photographer known for theatrical self-portraits exploring Pan-African identity, power, and representation; he won the 2023 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
Santu Mofokeng
Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020) was a South African photographer known for photographic essays of everyday black life, spirituality, and landscape, and for the archival work The Black Photo Album.
Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was an American photographer and painter whose painterly color street photographs of New York City, made from the late 1940s, gained fame after 2006.
Sebastian Copeland
Sebastian Copeland (born 1964) is a British-French-American polar explorer, photographer, and author; son of conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus, he led the first East/West crossing of Antarctica (2011-12) and set a 595 km kite-ski record in Greenland.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский)
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский), 1863–1944, Russian pioneer of color photography who documented the Russian Empire in three-exposure color-separation negatives, held by the Library of Congress since 1948.
Sergio Larrain
Sergio Larrain was a Chilean photographer, the first Latin American full member of Magnum Photos, known for black-and-white street photography of Santiago, Valparaíso, and London before abandoning photography for mysticism.
Shōji Ueda
Shōji Ueda (植田正治, 1913–2000) was a Japanese photographer known for staged, surrealistic group portraits set against the sand dunes of Tottori Prefecture, a style called Ueda-chō.
Shōmei Tōmatsu
Shōmei Tōmatsu (東松照明, 1930–2012) was a Japanese photographer, born in Nagoya, whose raw, grainy style documented postwar Japan for more than fifty years, including Nagasaki bomb survivors.
Sibylle Bergemann
Sibylle Bergemann, born Sibylle Emma Luise Pohl, was a German photographer (1941–2010) known for East German fashion photography and her series Das Denkmal on the Marx-Engels Monument.
Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle (born 1953, Paris) is a French conceptual artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker known for rule-bound private games like The Sleepers, Suite Venitienne, The Hotel, and The Blind, and for representing France at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore, born 1947 in New York City, is an American photographer known for pioneering color photography as a fine art through his 1970s series American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, which documented everyday North American life.
Sue Williamson
Sue Williamson is a South African artist, born in England in 1941, whose prints, photographs, and installations document apartheid and its aftermath through individual participants' words and faces.
Sunil Janah
Sunil Janah (1918–2012) was an Indian photojournalist who documented the Bengal Famine of 1943 as photographer for the Communist Party of India, later covering industrialization under Nehru.
Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas (born 1948, Baltimore) is an American documentary photographer known for her coverage of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and her long-term collaborative projects.
Susan Mikula
Susan Mikula (born 1958) is an American analog photographer using vintage Polaroid and pinhole cameras with expired film; partner of Rachel Maddow since 1999; series include Kilo, American Device, Island.
Sylvia Plachy
Sylvia Plachy, Hungarian-born American photographer (born 1943, Budapest), Village Voice staff photographer and creator of the captionless weekly column Unguided Tour; Guggenheim fellow, author of Self Portrait with Cows Going Home, mother of Adrien Brody.
Tabitha Soren
Tabitha Soren (born 1967, San Antonio, Texas) is an American fine-art photographer and former MTV News journalist known for the series Fantasy Life, Running, Surface Tension, Relief, and Motherload, with work in 24 public collections including the National Gallery of Art and the Getty.
Takuma Nakahira
Takuma Nakahira (中平卓馬, 1938–2015) was a Japanese photographer and critic who co-founded the magazine Provoke in 1968 and shaped the are-bure-boke style of blurred, grainy images.
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon, born in New York in 1975, is an American multidisciplinary artist whose research-driven photography documents hidden systems, from wrongly convicted prisoners to seized customs goods.
The North American Indian
The North American Indian is a twenty-volume illustrated ethnographic survey of Native American peoples, written and published by photographer Edward S. Curtis between 1907 and 1930.
The photographic work of Raghubir Singh
The photographic work of Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) is color street and documentary photography of India, made over three decades with a handheld 35 mm camera and color slide film.
Thomas Annan
Thomas Annan (1829–1887) was a Scottish photographer and a pioneer of documentary photography, best known for The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, photographs of the city's slums made between 1868 and 1871 before their demolition.