Iconic Photographers
Name↕ | Nationality↕ | Born↕ | Died (or Active)↕ | Genre↕ | Famous For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Henri Cartier-Bresson | French | 1,908 | 2004 | Street, photojournalism | 'The decisive moment', co-founded Magnum Photos, Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (1932) |
Ansel Adams | American | 1,902 | 1984 | Landscape | Zone System, Yosemite photos, Moon and Half Dome, Tetons and Snake River |
Annie Leibovitz | American | 1,949 | Active | Portrait, celebrity | Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, John Lennon & Yoko Ono (Dec 1980), Demi Moore pregnant |
Steve McCurry | American | 1,950 | Active | Photojournalism | Afghan Girl (Sharbat Gula, 1985 National Geographic cover) |
Robert Capa | Hungarian-American | 1,913 | 1954 | War photography | D-Day Omaha Beach photos, Falling Soldier (Spanish Civil War), co-founded Magnum |
Dorothea Lange | American | 1,895 | 1965 | Documentary | Migrant Mother (1936), Great Depression FSA photos, Japanese internment |
Richard Avedon | American | 1,923 | 2004 | Fashion, portrait | Dovima with Elephants (1955), In the American West, white-background portraits |
Diane Arbus | American | 1,923 | 1971 | Portrait | Identical Twins (1967), photos of marginalized and outsider subjects |
Helmut Newton | German-Australian | 1,920 | 2004 | Fashion, nude | Big Nudes series, provocative Vogue Paris shoots, Sumo book |
Sebastiao Salgado | Brazilian | 1,944 | Active | Documentary, social | Workers (1993), Genesis (2013), Serra Pelada gold mine photos |
Vivian Maier | American | 1,926 | 2009 | Street | Chicago and NYC street photos, discovered posthumously in 2007 storage locker |
Nan Goldin | American | 1,953 | Active | Documentary, intimate | The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986), personal diary of NYC scene |
Irving Penn | American | 1,917 | 2009 | Fashion, still life | Vogue covers for 60+ years, corner portraits, small trades series |
Cindy Sherman | American | 1,954 | Active | Conceptual self-portrait | Untitled Film Stills (1977-80), staged self-portraits as cultural archetypes |
Gordon Parks | American | 1,912 | 2006 | Documentary, fashion | American Gothic (1942), first Black photographer at Life and Vogue |
Elliott Erwitt | French-American | 1,928 | 2023 | Street, humor | Magnum photographer, dog photos, Kitchen Debate (Nixon-Khrushchev) |
Daido Moriyama | Japanese | 1,938 | Active | Street | Gritty high-contrast Tokyo street photography, Stray Dog (1971) |
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