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Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff (born 1958) is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for series examining photography's genres, from passport-style portraits to enlarged star images and reworked internet photographs.
Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, born 1954 in Geldern, Germany, is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for large-format series on city streets, museum visitors, and technology.
Tim Hetherington
Tim Hetherington (Timothy Alistair Hetherington, 1970–2011) was a British photojournalist and filmmaker who co-directed the Oscar-nominated war documentary Restrepo and was killed in Misrata, Libya, in 2011.
Tina Modotti
Tina Modotti (Assunta Saltarini Modotti Mondini, 1896–1942), Italian-born photographer, actress, and communist activist; Edward Weston's student, model, and partner; key figure of modernist photography in 1920s Mexico City; deported 1930, died in Mexico City 1942.
Tony Ray-Jones
Tony Ray-Jones (1941–1972) was a British photographer known for quirky black-and-white images of the English at leisure, whose work shaped Martin Parr and other 1970s photographers.
Toyo Miyatake
Toyo Miyatake (宮武東洋; born Toyoo Miyatake, 1895–1979) was a Japanese American photographer whose Little Tokyo studio opened in 1923, best known for secretly photographing life inside Manzanar camp.
Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt (born 1960) is an Australian photographer and filmmaker whose staged series explore race, gender, and childhood trauma; she represented Australia at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
Tseng Kwong Chi
Tseng Kwong Chi (曾廣智; 1950–1990), also known as Joseph Tseng, was a Hong Kong-born photographer whose East Meets West series shows him in a Mao suit at famous landmarks worldwide.
Ulay
Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen, 1943–2020), German performance artist and photographer in Amsterdam, pioneer of performative Polaroid photography, collaborator of Marina Abramović 1976–1988, creator of the Spitzweg theft action and The Lovers.
Umbo
Umbo, born Otto Maximilian Umbehr (1902–1980), was a German photographer, a leading figure of Bauhaus photography known for close-up portraits and high-angle Berlin street scenes such as Mystery of the Street.
Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (ਉਮਰਾਓ ਸਿੰਘ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿੱਲ)
Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (ਉਮਰਾਓ ਸਿੰਘ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿੱਲ, 1870–1954), Punjabi aristocrat, Sanskrit and Persian scholar, and pioneering Indian photographer, father of painter Amrita Sher-Gil; known for self-portraits, autochromes, and the family archive used by Vivan Sundaram.
Vanley Burke
Vanley Burke, born in Jamaica in 1951, is a British Jamaican photographer often called the godfather of Black British photography for his five decades documenting Black life in Birmingham.
Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin, born 1941 in Sheffield, is a British artist and writer known as an originator of Conceptual art and for his writings on the image.
Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier, born in 1926, was an American street photographer who worked as a nanny. Her vast archive of over 100,000 negatives remained unknown until its discovery in 2007.
Walker Evans
Walker Evans (1903–1975) was an American photographer known for his Farm Security Administration Depression-era work and for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with James Agee.
Walter Naegle
Walter Naegle (born 1949) is an American artist and photographer, partner of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin; he secured Rustin's 2013 posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom and leads the Bayard Rustin Fund.
Werner Bischof
Werner Bischof (1916–1954) was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist known for humanist black-and-white reportage of postwar Europe and Asia, and the first photographer to join Magnum Photos after its founders.
Willard Van Dyke
Willard Van Dyke (1906–1986) was an American photographer and documentary filmmaker who co-founded Group f/64 in 1932 and directed film at the Museum of Modern Art.
William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington
William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington, also known as Bill Burlington, is a British photographer who founded Lismore Castle Arts in Ireland and is Chancellor of the University of Derby.
William Eggleston
William Eggleston (born 1939), American photographer called the father of color photography; his 1976 MoMA show and William Eggleston's Guide legitimized color fine-art photography through saturated dye-transfer prints of the everyday South.
William Henry Jackson
William Henry Jackson (1843–1942) was an American painter and photographer who took the first photographs of Yellowstone, helping persuade Congress to create the world's first national park in 1872.
Willy Ronis
Willy Ronis (1910–2009) was a French photographer and a leading figure of humanist photography, known for black-and-white images of working-class Paris, including Le petit Parisien.
Windland Smith Rice
Windland Smith Rice (Sandra Windland "Wendy" Smith Rice, 1970-2005) was an American nature photographer for National Geographic and Nature's Best Photography; the Windland Smith Rice International Awards are named for her and her family endowed the Smithsonian program.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer, born in Remscheid in 1968, who in 2000 became the first photographer and first non-British artist to win the Turner Prize.
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Yasuhiro Ishimoto (石元泰博, 1921–2012) was a Japanese-American photographer trained at Chicago's Institute of Design, the New Bauhaus, whose images of Chicago, Tokyo, and Katsura Imperial Villa shaped postwar Japanese photography.
Yasuzō Nojima
Yasuzō Nojima (野島康三, 1889–1964) was a Japanese photographer, also read Hiromasa, known for portraits and nudes who moved from pictorialism to straight photography and co-founded the magazine Kōga in 1932.
Yevgeny Khaldei
Yevgeny Khaldei (1917–1997) was a Soviet war photographer for TASS, best known for his 1945 photograph of soldiers raising a Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin.
Yōsuke Yamahata
Yōsuke Yamahata (山端 庸介, 1917–1966) was a Japanese photographer who recorded Nagasaki on 10 August 1945, the day after the atomic bombing, in more than 100 photographs.
Yto Barrada
Yto Barrada, born in Paris in 1971, is a French-Moroccan artist whose photography, film, sculpture, and textiles examine borders, migration, and postcolonial history, centered on Tangier.