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Wikipedia: List of photographers

This is a list of notable photographers who already have articles.


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abs
Abstract photographer
adv
Advertising photographer
aer
Aerial photographer
arch
Architectural photographer
art
Art photographer
celeb
Celebrity photographer
dig
Digital photography
doc
Documentary photographer
ethno
Ethnographic photographer
fash
Fashion photographer
food
Food photographer
inds
Industrial photographer
int
Interiors photographer
land
Landscape photographer
pict
Pictorialist
port
Portrait photographer
sci
Scientific/technical photographer
spt
Sports photographer
und
Underwater photographer
war
War photographer
rph
rephotography

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Name

Dates

Nationality

Major Works

Abbott, Berenice

1898–1991

American

Portraiture, documentary photography

Adams, Ansel

1902–1984

American

Landscape photography

Arbus, Diane

1923–1971

American

Portraiture, fashion photography

Atget, Eugène

1857–1927

French

Social documentary

Atkins, Anna

1799–1871

English

Scientific illustration

Avedon, Richard

1923–

American

Portraiture, fashion photography

Beaton, Sir Cecil

1904–1980

English

Portraiture, fashion photography

Bellocq, E. J.

1873–1949

American

Portraiture, social documentary

Bing, Ilse

1899–1998

German-born American

Abstract and surrealist photography

Bourke-White, Margaret

1904–1971

American

Photojournalism

Brady, Matthew

1823–1896

American

Daguerreotype portraiture, documentary photography

Brandt, Bill

1904–1983

German-born English

Photojournalism, social documentary

Brassaï (Gyula Halász)

1899–1984

French

Documentary photography

Cameron, Julia Margaret

1815–1879

English

Portraiture, costume photography

Capa, Robert

1913–1954

Hungarian-born American

Photojournalism

Cartier-Bresson, Henri

1908–

French

Photojournalism

Coburn, Alvin Langdon

1882–1966

American-born English

Portraiture, abstract photography

Cunningham, Imogen

1883–1976

American

Portraiture, botanical photography

Curtis, Edward Sheriff

1868–1952

American

Portraiture, documentary photography

Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé

1787–1851

French

Invention of the daguerreotype process

Doisneau, Robert

1912–1994

French

Photojournalism, fashion photography

Eisenstaedt, Alfred

1898–1995

German-born American

Photojournalism

Emerson, Peter Henry

1856–1936

English

Documentary photography, naturalist photography

Evans, Walker

1903–1975

American

Documentary photography

Feininger, Andreas

1906–1999

French-born American

Architectural and industrial photography, photojournalism, technique innovation

Fenton, Roger

1819–1869

English

Documentary photography, landscape and still-life photography

Frank, Robert

1924–

Swiss-born American

Industrial photography, fashion photography, cinematography

Friedlander, Lee

1934–

American

Portraiture, social documentary

Gilpin, Laura

1891–1979

American

Landscape photography, documentary photography

Hausmann, Raoul

1886–1971

Austrian

Photomontage, abstract photography

Hawes, Josiah Johnson

1808–1901

American

Daguerreotype portraiture and documentary photography

Henri, Florence

1893–1982

Swiss

Abstract photography

Hine, Lewis Wickes

1874–1940

American

Social documentary

Jackson, William Henry

1843–1942

American

Landscape photography

Käsebier, Gertrude

1852–1934

American

Portraiture

Kertész, André

1894–1985

Hungarian-born American

Photojournalism

Lange, Dorothea

1895–1965

American

Social documentary

Lartigue, Jacques-Henri

1894–1986

French

Documentary photography

Leibovitz, Annie

1949–

American

Celebrity portraiture, advertising photography

Levitt, Helen

1913–

American

Social documentary

Man Ray (Emmanuel Rudnitsky)

1890–1976

American

Surrealist photography

Mapplethorpe, Robert

1946–1989

American

Photomontage, still-life photography, erotic photography

Miller, Lee

1907–1977

American

Surrealist photography, portraiture, documentary photography

Model, Lisette

1901/06–1983

Austrian-born American

Documentary photography

Modotti, Tina

1896–1942

Italian-born American

Social documentary, still-life photography

Moholy-Nagy, László

1895–1946

Hungarian-born American

Abstract photography, art instruction

Morgan, Barbara

1900–1992

American

Dance photography, portraiture, still-life photography

Muybridge, Eadweard

1830–1904

English

Documentary photography, motion studies

Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)

1820–1910

French

Portraiture, aerial photography

Newton, Helmut

1920–

German-born American

Fashion photography, celebrity photography

O’Sullivan, Timothy H.

1840–1882

American

Documentary photography

Orkin, Ruth

1921–1985

American

Photojournalism, cinematography

Parks, Gordon

1912–

American

Photojournalism, social documentary

Ritts, Herb

1952–

American

Fashion photography, celebrity photography

Salomon, Erich

1886–1944

German

Photojournalism

Sander, August

1876–1964

German

Documentary photography

Seymour, David

1911–1956

Polish-born American

Photojournalism

Sherman, Cindy

1954–

American

Art photography

Siskind, Aaron

1903–1991

American

Social documentary, abstract photography

Smith, W. Eugene

1918–1978

American

Photojournalism

Southworth, Albert Sands

1811–1894

American

Daguerreotype portraiture and documentary photography

Steichen, Edward

1879–1973

American

Art photography, portraiture

Stieglitz, Alfred

1864–1946

American

Art photography

Strand, Paul

1890–1976

American

Art photography, documentary photography

Sudek, Josef

1896–1976

Czech

Still-life photography, impressionist photography

Talbot, William Henry Fox

1800–1877

English

Calotype innovation, photographic illustration

Ulmann, Doris

1884 –1934

American

Social documentary

Van Der Zee, James

1886–1983

American

Documentary photography, portraiture

Vishniac, Roman

1897–1990

Russian-born American

Microphotography, documentary photography

Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

1899–1968

Austrian-born American

Crime photography, documentary photography

Wegman, William

1942/44–

American

Art photography

Weston, Edward

1886–1958

American

Abstract photography

White, Clarence H.

1871–1925

American

Art photography, landscape photography

White, Minor

1908–1976

American

Art photography, abstract photography

Winogrand, Garry

1928–1984

American

Photojournalism


Image Capa, Cornell, ed. The International Center of Photography Encyclopedia of Photography. New York: Crown, 1986.
Masters of Photography. www.masters-of-photography.com
Artnet.com. “Research Library: Artist Biographies,” www.artnet.com/library/bios



 
 

 

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