List of photographers
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This is a list of notable photographers who already have articles.
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- abs...AbstractAbstract artAbstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
photographer - adv...AdvertisingAdvertisingAdvertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
photographer - aer...Aerial photographerAerial photographyAerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated position. The term usually refers to images in which the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. Cameras may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may be taken by a photographer, triggered remotely or...
- arch...ArchitecturalArchitectureArchitecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
photographer - art...Art photographerFine art photographyFine art photography refers to photographs that are created in accordance with the creative vision of the photographer as artist. Fine art photography stands in contrast to photojournalism, which provides a visual account for news events, and commercial photography, the primary focus of which is to...
- astro...AstrophotographerAstrophotographyAstrophotography is a specialized type of photography that entails recording images of astronomical objects and large areas of the night sky. The first photographs of an astronomical object were taken in the 1840s, but it was not until the late 19th century that advances in technology allowed for...
- celeb...Celebrity photographer
- dig...Digital photographyDigital photographyDigital photography is a form of photography that uses an array of light sensitive sensors to capture the image focused by the lens, as opposed to an exposure on light sensitive film...
- doc...Documentary photographerDocumentary photographyDocumentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events. It is typically covered in professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit...
- ethno...EthnographicEthnographyEthnography is a qualitative method aimed to learn and understand cultural phenomena which reflect the knowledge and system of meanings guiding the life of a cultural group...
photographer - exp...Experimental photographerExperimental photographyExperimental photography is a phrase that includes alternative process techniques, and broadly refers to any photographic process or product falling outside the realm of straight film or digital photography.-Historical background:...
- fash...Fashion photographerFashion photographyFashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Elle...
- food...Food photographerFood photographyFood photography is a still life specialization of commercial photography, aimed at producing attractive photographs of food for use in advertisements, packaging, menus or cookbooks...
- glam...Glamour photographyGlamour photographyGlamour photography is a genre of photography whereby the subjects, usually female, are portrayed in a romantic or sexually alluring way. The subjects may be fully clothed or seminude, but glamour photography stops short of deliberately arousing the viewer and being pornographic photography.Glamour...
- inds...IndustrialIndustryIndustry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
photographer - int...Interiors photographer
- land...Landscape photographerNature photographyNature photography refers to a wide range of photography taken outdoors and devoted to displaying natural elements such as landscapes, wildlife, plants, and close-ups of natural scenes and textures...
- pict...PictorialistPictorialismPictorialism is the name given to a photographic movement in vogue from around 1885 following the widespread introduction of the dry-plate process. It reached its height in the early years of the 20th century, and declined rapidly after 1914 after the widespread emergence of Modernism...
- port...Portrait photographerPortrait photographyPortrait photography or portraiture is the capture by means of photography of the likeness of a person or a small group of people , in which the face and expression is predominant. The objective is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the subject...
- rph...rephotographyRephotographyRephotography is the act of repeat photography of the same site, with a time lag between the two images; a "then and now" view of a particular area. Some are casual, usually taken from the same view point but without regard to season, lens coverage or framing. Some are very precise and involve a...
- sci...Scientific/technical photographer
- spt...Sports photographerSports photographySports photography refers to the genre of photography that covers all types of sports.In the majority of cases, professional sports photography is a branch of photojournalism, while amateur sports photography, such as photos of children playing association football, is a branch of vernacular...
- und...Underwater photographerUnderwater photographyUnderwater photography is the process of taking photographs while under water. It is usually done while scuba diving, but can be done while snorkeling or swimming.-Overview:...
- war...War photographerWar photographyWar photography captures photographs of armed conflict and life in war-torn areas.Although photographs can provide a more direct representation than paintings or drawings, they are sometimes manipulated, creating an image that is not objectively journalistic.-History:Photography, presented to the...
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- Rolf AamotRolf AamotRolf Aamot is a Norwegian painter, film director, photographer and tonal-imagePublished by The Bergen Museum of Art 1998: Electromagnetic energy shapes the colour/photone and curvilineartone span of tonal image art. The laserpower radiance of atoms...
(art) - Slim AaronsSlim AaronsSlim Aarons, born George Allen Aarons , was an American photographer noted for photographing socialites, jet-setters and celebrities.-Photography career:...
(doc) - Hans AarsmanHans AarsmanHans Aarsman is a Dutch photographer, author, and lecturer at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam; known as a significant figure in the New Topography movement. Many of his works are in the Netherlands Photo Museum...
- AbbasAbbas (photographer)Abbas Attar is an Iranian photographer known for his photojournalism in Biafra, Vietnam and South Africa in the 1970s, and for his extensive essays on religions in later years...
- Berenice AbbottBerenice AbbottBerenice Abbott , born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.-Youth:...
(doc, pict, port) - Karimeh AbbudKarimeh AbbudKarimeh Abbud , also known as the "Lady Photographer", was a professional photographer and artist who lived and worked in Lebanon and Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. -Early life:...
- Sam AbellSam AbellSam Abell is an American photographer known for his frequent publication of photographs in National Geographic. He first worked for National Geographic in 1967, and is one of the more overtly artistic photographers among his magazine peers...
- Laurence AberhartLaurence AberhartLaurence Aberhart is a New Zealand photographer. He was born in Nelson in 1949, along with four siblings, but moved to Lyttelton in the late 1960s, before finally moving to Russell where he still lives and works today. Aberhart travels often and has produced many collections of photographs taken...
- William de Wiveleslie AbneyWilliam de Wiveleslie AbneyWilliam de Wiveleslie Abney FRS was an English astronomer, chemist, and photographer.-Biography:Abney was born in Derby, England, the son of Edward Abney vicar of St Alkmund's Derby, and owner of the Firs Estate...
- Kevin AboschKevin AboschKevin Abosch is an Irish visual artist and portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities including Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise. His work has been seen in international magazine features and covers, including Vogue. An article in the March 2008 issue of Vogue Italia reads "Abosch knows the true...
- George W. AckermanGeorge W. AckermanGeorge W. Ackerman was an American government photographer. During a nearly 40-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture, it is estimated that he took over 50,000 photographs.-Biography:...
(doc) - Ansel AdamsAnsel AdamsAnsel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....
(art, doc, land, pict) - Bryan AdamsBryan AdamsBryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...
(port) - David AdamsDavid Adams (photojournalist)David Alexander Ian Adams is an Australian photojournalist and documentary film maker. In 1999 Discovery Channel commissioned the travel adventure series Journeys to the Ends of the Earth which he co-produced and presented...
(doc) - Eddie AdamsEddie Adams (photographer)Eddie Adams was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and his coverage of 13 wars.-Combat photographer:...
(doc, land, war) - Robert AdamsRobert Adams (photographer)Robert Adams is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through the book The New West and the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape...
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- Alfred Shea AddisAlfred Shea AddisAlfred Shea Addis , also known as A. S. Addis, was an American Western itinerant photographer, mostly known for photographs of Kansas, Mexico and the American Southwest.- Early life:...
- Gustavo AguerreGustavo AguerreGustavo Aguerre, born 1953 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, artist, photographer, curator, writer, theatre designer. After leaving Argentina he moved to Germany studying at the Munich Art Academy between 1974 and 1976....
(art) - Sofia AhlbomSofia AhlbomSofia Carolina Ahlbom , was a Swedish drawing artist, engraver, lithographer, photographer, map maker, writer, poet and feminist....
- Ali AkbarAli Akbar (designer)Ali Akbar is an Indonesian art director and photographer.-Biography:Akbar’s passion in photography and design was kindled as a boy in his elementary school years...
(art, fash, port) - Tadasuke AkiyamaTadasuke Akiyamais a renowned Japanese photographer.Born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, in 1941, Akiyama studied in the Faculty of Political Science of Waseda University and then went to Tokyo College of Photography, graduating in 1964. He became an assistant to Yasuhiro Ishimoto but very quickly turned freelance...
(doc) - Cris AlexanderCris AlexanderCris Alexander is an American actor, singer, dancer, designer, and photographer.-Acting career:As an actor he co-starred as Chip in the original Broadway cast of On the Town. Subsequent Broadway appearances included Present Laughter opposite Clifton Webb, Wonderful Town, and Auntie Mame. Mr...
- Fratelli AlinariFratelli AlinariFratelli Alinari is the world's oldest photographic firm founded in Florence, Italy in 1852. Its archives contains 5.5 million photographs, ranging from daguerreotypes to modern digital photos from around the world.- Founding :...
- Jules T. AllenJules T. AllenJules Allen is a photographer and a tenured professor inthe Art & Photography Department of Queensboro Community College, City University of New York, where he has taught for two decades...
(art, doc, ethno) - Timothy AllenTimothy AllenTimothy Allen is an English photographer best known for his work with indigenous peoples and isolated communities around the world.- Early life :...
(doc, ethno, port) - Darogha Ubbas AlliDarogha Ubbas AlliDarogha Ubbas Alli was a 19th century Indian engineer and photographer. In the 1870s, following his retirement as a municipal engineer in Lucknow, Alli began photographing the city and its surroundings. He published fifty of these photographs in an album called The Lucknow Album in 1874...
- Jane Fulton AltJane Fulton AltJane Fulton Alt is an American photographer who explores issues of love, loss, and spirituality in her work. Alt was the recipient of the 2007 Illinois Art Council Fellowship Award and the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Ragdale Fellowship Award....
(art) - Mads AlstrupMads AlstrupMads Alstrup was the first Danish portrait photographer with his own studio. For 16 years, he produced an enormous number of daguerreotypes, in Copenhagen and the provinces, before his business suffered from the financial crisis of 1857. He moved to Sweden in 1858 and continued to take portraits...
- Lola Álvarez BravoLola Alvarez BravoLola Álvarez Bravo was a Mexican photographer. She was a key figure in Mexico's post-revolution renaissance....
- Manuel Álvarez BravoManuel Álvarez BravoManuel Álvarez Bravo was a Mexican photographer.Álvarez Bravo was born in Mexico City on February 4, 1902. He came from a family of artists and writers, and met several other prominent artists who encouraged his work when he was young, including Tina Modotti and Diego Rivera...
(abs, art, doc) - Stephen AlvarezStephen AlvarezStephen Alvarez is a photojournalist who produces global stories about exploration, culture, religion, and the aftermath of conflict. He has been a National Geographic photographer since 1995...
- Christian von AlvenslebenChristian von Alvensleben-Family background:Christian von Alvensleben is the son of Anna Caroline von Alvensleben, cousin of Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort who was executed because of his involvement in the attempted assassination of Hitler on 20 July 1944. His daughter, Vera Gottliebe Anna Gräfin von Lehndorff, is...
- Takashi AmanoTakashi Amanois a photographer, designer and Aquarist.His interest in aquaria led him to create the Japanese company Aqua Design Amano.Takashi Amano is one of the most influential people in the freshwater aquascaping community. He can largely be credited with introducing Japanese gardening concepts such as...
(land, und) - Mohamed AminMohamed AminMohamed "Mo" Amin was a Kenyan photojournalist noted for his pictures and videotapes of the Ethiopian famine....
- Ester Anderson
- Emmy AndriesseEmmy AndriesseEmmy Eugenie Andriesse was a Dutch photographer best known for her work with the Underground Camera group during World War II. As a member, she illegally documented the devastation to land and life that occurred during the "winter of hunger" that took place between 1944-1945 in Amsterdam...
- George Edward AndersonGeorge Edward AndersonGeorge Edward Anderson was an early American photographer known for his portraiture and documentary photographs of early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temples.- Early life :...
- Tom AngTom AngTom Ang is a photographer, author, traveller and academic. A specialist in travel and digital photography, he has photographed extensively in Central Asia...
- Dieter AppeltDieter AppeltDieter Appelt is a photographer whose work ranges from photography, film and video to performance art that typically involves sculpture of his own construction.-External links:...
(port) - Nobuyoshi ArakiNobuyoshi Arakiis a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. He is also known by the nickname .-Life and career:Araki was born in Tokyo, studied photography during his college years and then went to work at the advertising agency Dentsu, where he met his future wife, the essayist Yōko Araki...
(art) - Taku AramasaTaku AramasaBorn in Tokyo on 15 August 1936, Aramasa moved with his family to Manchukuo in 1940. In 1948 he moved to Sakata, Yamagata. He graduated from in 1960, and set up a design company in which he was an art director, but became a freelance in 1970. He worked as a fashion photographer in Paris from 1973...
(fash, doc) - Allan ArbusAllan ArbusAllan Arbus is an American actor notable for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the television series M*A*S*H.-Early life:...
- Amy ArbusAmy ArbusAmy Arbus is a New York City based photographer and is the daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus, and the sister of writer and journalist Doon Arbus....
- Diane ArbusDiane ArbusDiane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid.....
(art, doc, fash, int, port) - Malcolm ArbuthnotMalcolm ArbuthnotMalcolm Arbuthnot was a pictorialist photographer and artist....
(pict, port) - Fred Archer
- Roy ArdenRoy ArdenRoy Arden is a Vancouver artist.Arden has had solo exhibitions at the Ikon Gallery, Galerie Tanit and Vancouver Art Gallery. Other exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp . His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art - was featured in...
- Taiji AritaTaiji Aritawas a Japanese commercial photographer. He exhibited non-commercial nudes and other work.-Life and career:Taiji Arita was born on January 31, 1941 in Kokura , Japan...
- Antony Armstrong-Jones known as "Snowdon"
- Eve ArnoldEve ArnoldEve Arnold, FRPS is an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957....
(art, fash, port) - Hippolyte ArnouxHippolyte ArnouxHippolyte Arnoux was a French photographer and publisher. During the 1860s, he documented the excavation of the Suez Canal and published the resulting photographs as Album du Canal de Suez. At the same time, he occasionally worked with the Port Said photographic studio, Adelphoi Zangaki...
- Bill AronBill AronBill Aron is an American photographer known for his photographs of Jewish communities around the world.- Background :Aron's first book, From the Corners of the Earth, features photographs of Jews living in the Soviet Union, Cuba, Jerusalem, New York, and Los Angeles. The book's introduction was...
- Yann Arthus-BertrandYann Arthus-BertrandYann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.- Early life :Yann Arthus-Bertrand was born in Paris on March 13, 1946 in a renowned jewellers' family founded in 1803 by Claude Arthus-Bertrand and Michel-Ange Marion. His sister Catherine is one of his...
- Anthony AsaelAnthony AsaelAnthony Asael is a well recognized international photographer and one of the very few person who visited each one of the 192 countries of the world. He is of Turkish and Italian origin...
- Eugène AtgetEugène AtgetEugène Atget was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris....
- Anna AtkinsAnna AtkinsAnna Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources claim that she was the first woman to create a photograph.-Early life:Anna Children was born in Tonbridge, Kent, England in 1799...
- Bill AtkinsonBill AtkinsonBill Atkinson is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where Apple Macintosh developer Jef Raskin was one of his professors...
(dig, land) - Alan AubryAlan AubryAlan Aubry is a French photographer. He graduated from the Art College of Rouen, France, in 1998.His artistic process is to work by series, by accumulation of objects and places of the every day life...
(arch, art, doc, int, land) - Melissa Auf der MaurMelissa Auf der MaurMelissa Auf der Maur is a Canadian rock musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as bassist with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour. Her second solo album, Out of Our Minds, was released on March 30, 2010. She is also a...
(port) - Richard AvedonRichard AvedonRichard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...
(art, fash, port) - Jerry AvenaimJerry AvenaimJerry Avenaim is an American photographer best known for his fashion and celebrity images.-Early life:...
(art, fash, port) - Shahidul AlamShahidul Alam' was born in 1955 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He studied and taught chemistry in London where he obtained a PhD from the University of London.He started photography in 1980 and was awarded the by the London Arts Council in 1983...
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- Alioune BâAlioune BâAlioune Bâ is a Malian photographer.Bâ was born in Bamako. He started working for the Musée National du Mali in 1983. In particular, his art focuses on the hands and feet of his subjects.-External links:*...
- Gerry BadgerGerry BadgerGerald David "Gerry" Badger is a writer about, and curator of photography, and a photographer.The two volumes of The Photobook: A History, which Badger co-wrote with Martin Parr, won the 2006 book award for photography from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation...
- Chapman BaehlerChapman BaehlerChapman Baehler is a photographer and director primarily working with musicians.His photographs have been featured on more than 160 albums since the mid-1990s, covering artists including Brooks & Dunn , Iggy Pop , Nine Inch Nails, Kelly Clarkson, Stone Temple Pilots, John Mayer, Fishbone,...
(doc, adv, fash, port) - David Bailey (fash, port)
- Per Bak JensenPer Bak JensenPer Bak Jensen , one of Denmark's leading artistic photographers, is a pioneer of modern landscape photography. His desolate images of nature or industrial sites often convey an almost metaphysical impression. His unusual subjects include corn stubble, twigs in the snow or a few isolated rocks...
(art, land) - Reg BalchReg BalchDr. Reginald Ernest Balch was a Canadian photographer and scientist.-Biography:He was born in Sevenoaks, England, the son of the Rev. Alfred Earnest Balch and Sarah Hawkes. He was educated at Bedford Grammar School and Kingswood School...
- John BaldessariJohn BaldessariJohn Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...
(abs, art) - Edouard BaldusEdouard BaldusÉdouard-Denis Baldus was a French landscape, architectural and railway photographer.Baldus was originally trained as a painter and had also worked as a draughtsman and lithographer before switching to photography in 1849...
- Walter BallhauseWalter BallhauseWalter Ballhause was a German photographer. He was active politically and made social documentary photography.-Biography:...
(doc) - Lewis BaltzLewis BaltzLewis Baltz is a visual artist and well known photographer who became an important figure in the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s....
(art) - Subhankar BanerjeeSubhankar BanerjeeSubhankar Banerjee is an artist, educator and activist whose images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other Alaskan wild lands have captured international attention....
- Micha Bar-AmMicha Bar-AmMicha Bar-Am is a renowned Israeli journalistic photographer. His most prominent pictures are from when he covered the Six Day War. His pictures are not so much of direct combat, but more of wartime life....
(doc) - Olivo BarbieriOlivo BarbieriOlivo Barbieri is an Italian artist and photographer of urban environments.He is recognized for his innovative technique creating miniature still photography from actual landscapes by simulating shallow depth of field via the use of tilt-shift lens photography...
- Bruno BarbeyBruno BarbeyBruno Barbey is a Moroccan-born French photographer . Throughout his four-decade career he has traveled across five continents, photographing many wars.-Photography career:...
- Nigel Barker (fash)
- Tina BarneyTina BarneyTina Barney is an American artist photographer best known for her large-scale portraits of her family and close friends, many of whom are well-to-do denizens of New York and New England....
(art, port) - William A. BarnhillWilliam A. BarnhillWilliam A. Barnhill was an American photographer best known for his work in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina in the early 1900s. His love of hiking and photography took him to the mountains of western North Carolina between 1914 and 1917...
(land, port) - George BarrisGeorge Barris (photographer)-Biography:Barris had a lifelong interest in photography, and as a young man he worked for the U.S. Army's Office of Public Relations. Many of his photographs of General Eisenhower were published....
- Uta BarthUta BarthUta Barth is a contemporary photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles. Barth was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004-05....
(abs, art) - Pablo BartholomewPablo BartholomewPablo Bartholomew is an award-winning Indian photojournalist.Pablo Bartholomew is an independent photographer based in New Delhi, India...
(doc, art, ethno) - Emma BartonEmma Barton (photographer)Emma Barton was an English portrait photographer.Born Emma Boaz Rayson into a working-class family in Birmingham, she became the common-law wife of a solicitor, George Barton. She was introduced to photography by the brother-in-law of her stepfather, and first became known by publishing portraits...
(art) - Pinky BassPinky BassPinky M. M. Bass is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Ashville Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta,...
(abs, art, doc, land, port) - Alexander BassanoAlexander BassanoAlexander Bassano was the leading high society portrait photographer in Victorian London.He was the second youngest child of Clemente Bassano, originally a fishmonger of Cranbourne Street, later an oilman and Italian warehouseman of Jermyn Street, London. He opened his first studio in 1850 in...
(port) - Manfred BaumannManfred BaumannManfred Baumann is an Austrian photographer. He works in different directions which are Fine Nude Art photography, celebrity portraits and not at least landscape pictures.- Biography :...
- Jean BaudrillardJean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.-Life:...
- Hippolyte BayardHippolyte Bayard-Late career:Despite his initial hardships in photography, Bayard continued to be a productive member of the photographic society. He was a founding member of the French Society of Photography...
- Peter Hill BeardPeter Hill BeardPeter Hill Beard is a photographer, artist, diarist and writer.-Personal life:Peter Beard's photographs of Africa, African animals, and the journals that often integrate his photographs have been widely shown and published since the 1970s...
- Richard Beard
- Antonio BeatoAntonio BeatoAntonio Beato , also known as Antoine Beato, was a British and Italian photographer. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, views of the architecture and landscapes of Egypt and the other locations in the Mediterranean region...
- Felice BeatoFelice BeatoFelice Beato , also known as Felix Beato, was an Italian–British photographer. He was one of the first people to take photographs in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, and views and panoramas of the architecture and landscapes of Asia and...
- Cecil BeatonCecil BeatonSir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre...
(art, doc, fash, port) - Ingeborg de BeausacqIngeborg de BeausacqIngeborg de Beausacq was an American photographer and explorer of German origin- Childhood and adolescence :...
- Bernd and Hilla BecherBernd and Hilla BecherBernard "Bernd" Becher , and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser , were German artists working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures.- Biography :Bernd Becher was born in Siegen...
(art, doc, int, land) - Lukas BeckLukas BeckLukas Beck is an Austrian photographer who specialises in music and theatre. He has contributed to virtually all Austrian newspapers and magazines, as well as international papers, such as Die Zeit or The New York Times....
(art, doc, port) - Francis BedfordFrancis BedfordFrancis Bedford was an English photographer.-Life:Francis Bedford was the son of the successful church architect Francis Octavius Bedford. He began his career as an architectural draughtsman and lithographer, before taking up photography in the early 1850s...
- Manzur Alam Beg (art)
- Lawrence BeitlerLawrence BeitlerLawrence Beitler was a studio photographer who on August 7, 1930, took a photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. The photograph later sold thousands of copies and inspired the political poem "Strange Fruit" by the Jewish poet Abel Meeropol. The poem was later transformed into...
- George BeldamGeorge BeldamGeorge William Beldam was an English cricketer and a pioneer of action photography in sport.George Beldam came from a cricketing family of Huguenot refugees...
(spt) - Charles BeldenCharles BeldenCharles Josiah Belden was a photographer and rancher who was famous for his visceral photographs of the area around Meetseetse, Wyoming....
- Hans BellmerHans BellmerHans Bellmer was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.-Biography:...
(art, doc, port) - E. J. BellocqE. J. BellocqJohn Ernest Joseph Bellocq was an American professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century. Bellocq is remembered for his haunting photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans' legalized red light district...
(doc, port) - Rafael Ben-AriRafael Ben-AriRafael Ben-Ari is an Israeli-born photojournalist and photographer. He is known for his war and combat zone photography. His work has appeared in magazines, books, newspapers and online around the world...
(doc, war) - Fernando BengoecheaFernando BengoecheaFernando Bengoechea was a New York City-based Argentine photographer who specialized in interiors.He was born in August 1965 in Buenos Aires and grew up mostly in Brazil. Fluent in five languages, he arrived in New York to study cinematography and photography.Bengoechea and his partner, interior...
(int) - Harry BensonHarry BensonHarry James Benson, CBE, born in Glasgow, Scotland, is a photographer whose pictures have appeared in publications including Life, Vanity Fair, People and The New Yorker....
- Roloff BenyRoloff BenyRoloff Beny, OC was a Canadian photographer who spent the better part of his life in Rome and on his photographic travels throughout the world...
- Daniel BerehulakDaniel BerehulakDaniel Berehulak is an award winning Australian photographer and photojournalist. Now based in New Delhi, he has recently specialized in reportages from India and Pakistan.-Career:...
(photojournalist) - Berry BerensonBerry BerensonBerinthia "Berry" Berenson Perkins was an American photographer, actress, and model. Perkins was also known as the wife of actor Anthony Perkins and died in the September 11 attacks as a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11.-Early life and family:Berinthia Berenson was the younger daughter of...
- Henning von BergHenning von BergHenning von Berg is a former German civil engineer who became a people photographer. His specialty is character portraits and fine art nudes.- Biography :...
(art, port) - Sibylle BergemannSibylle BergemannSibylle Bergemann was a German photographer. In 1990, she cofounded the Ostkreuz photographers agency. She is remembered for documenting developments in East Berlin during the Communist era and for her international assignments for Stern and later for Geo.-Early life:Born in 1941 in Berlin where...
(doc, fash) - Herbert Bowyer BerkeleyHerbert Bowyer BerkeleyHerbert Bowyer Berkeley was an English photographer as well as a chemical engineer. He was the fourth son of The Reverend William Comyns Berkeley and Harriet Elizabeth Bowyer Nichols Berkeley...
(land) - Ruth BernhardRuth BernhardRuth Bernhard was an American photographer.-Early life:Bernhard was born in Berlin and studied at the Berlin Academy of Art from 1925–27. Bernhard's father, Lucian Bernhard, was known for his poster and typeface design.-Photography career:In 1927 Bernhard moved to New York City, where her...
(art, int, port) - Andrew D. BernsteinAndrew D. BernsteinAndrew D. Bernstein is the Senior Director of NBA Photos, NBA Entertainment.-Photography career:Currently the Senior Director of NBA Photos, Bernstein has served as the official photographer for the NBA since 1986....
(spt) - Maeve BerryMaeve BerryMaeve Berry is an award-winning Irish freelance photographer. Berry works as both a commercial and fine art photographer and is represented in London by Diemar/Noble Photography....
- Peter BialobrzeskiPeter BialobrzeskiPeter Bialobrzeski is a photographer and a professor of photography at the University of the Arts Bremen in Germany....
- James Bidgood
- Izis BidermanasIzis BidermanasIsraëlis Bidermanas , who worked under the name of Izis, was a Jewish-Lithuanian photographer who worked in France and is best known for his photographs of French circuses and of Paris....
- Edward BierstadtEdward BierstadtEdward Bierstadt was an American portrait and landscape photographer, and engraver. He was a brother of the painter Albert Bierstadt, and made a number of engravings of his brother's work...
(port, land) - Richard BillinghamRichard BillinghamRichard Billingham is an English photographer and artist who is best known for his photobook Ray's A Laugh which documents the life of his alcoholic father Ray, and obese, heavily-tattooed mother, Liz.-Career:...
(art, doc)
- Jack BirnsJack BirnsJack Birns was an American photographer, known for his portraits of wives of American presidents in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Birns also documented China's civil war as a staff photographer for Life magazine in the 1940s...
- Werner BischofWerner BischofWerner Bischof was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist.-Early life:Bischof was born in Zürich, Switzerland. When he was six years old, the family moved to Waldshut, Germany, where he subsequently went to school...
- Auguste-Rosalie BissonAuguste-Rosalie BissonAuguste-Rosalie Bisson was a French photographer, active from 1841 to the year of his death, 1900. He was born and died in Paris and was the son of the heraldic painter, Louis-François Bisson and the brother of Louis-Auguste Bisson....
- Andreas BitesnichAndreas BitesnichAndreas H. Bitesnich is an Austrian photographer and musician. He has specialized in nude and portrait photography. His work appears regularly in international magazines.-Career:...
(fash) - J. R. BlackJ. R. BlackJohn Reddie Black was a Scottish publisher, journalist, writer, photographer, and singer. Much of his career was spent in China and Japan where he published several newspapers including The Far East, a fortnightly newsmagazine illustrated with original photographs.-Early life:John Reddie Black was...
- John BlakemoreJohn BlakemoreJohn Blakemore , is an English photographer working in landscape photography and still life.-Life:John Blakemore was born in Coventry. He discovered photography during National Service with the Royal Air Force in Tripoli in the 1950s and is self-taught...
(land) - Louis Désiré Blanquart-EvrardLouis Désiré Blanquart-EvrardLouis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard was a French cloth merchant by trade, but in the 1840s became a student of photography. He studied the Calotype process, and in 1847 became the first person to publish the process in France...
- Daniel BlaufuksDaniel BlaufuksDaniel Blaufuks is a Portuguese photographer, the grandson of Polish and German Ashkenazi Jews who moved to Portugal in the late 1920s and 1930s. He moved to Germany in 1976 and returned to Portugal in 1983. He spent several years in the import business, which provide his first-and last-regular job...
- Steve BloomSteve BloomSteve Bloom is a photographer and writer. He is best known for his photography books and essays, many of which feature wildlife; as well as his large scale outdoor exhibitions called Spirit of the Wild.-Career:...
- Karl BlossfeldtKarl BlossfeldtKarl Blossfeldt was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher and artist who worked in Berlin, Germany. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things. He was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the way in which plants grow...
(art, sci) - Anna and Bernhard BlumeAnna and Bernhard BlumeAnna and Bernhard Blume refers to the German art photographers Anna Blume and Bernhard Johannes Blume . They created sequences of large black-and-white photos of staged scenes in which they appeared themselves, with objects taking on a "life" of their own...
(art) - Erwin BlumenfeldErwin BlumenfeldErwin Blumenfeld was a famous American photographer of German origin.In the 1930s, he published collages mocking Adolf Hitler. In 1936, he emigrated to Paris. With the German occupation, he was interned in a concentration camp in 1940 because he was Jewish...
- A. Aubrey BodineA. Aubrey BodineA. Aubrey Bodine was a photographer for the Baltimore Suns Sunday Sun Magazine, also known as the brown section, for fifty years. Bodine is known for iconic images of Maryland landmarks and traditions. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art...
- Henze BoekhoutHenze BoekhoutHenze Boekhout is a Dutch artist/photographer who lives and works in Haarlem, the Netherlands.- Exhibitions :* 'Stedelijke Fotografie Utrecht', Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2008* 'Kleine zaal gaat GROOT deel II', De Vishal, Haarlem, 2007...
- Morten BoMorten BoMorten Bo , is a Danish photographer who has specialized in documentary work with a social impact. His 15 travelling exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s proved quite controversial. In the 1980s, he turned to more abstract photography with lines, contours and contrasts of light and shade...
(doc) - Francisco BoixFrancisco BoixFrancisco Boix Campo was an Spanish republican exiled in France in 1939. He was recruited by the French Foreign Legion and French Army and captured in 1940 by the Germans...
- Skip BolenSkip BolenSkip Bolen is a Southern photographer of musicians, architecture, lifestyle and the culture of New Orleans. Born in Lafayette, Louisiana, he moved to New Orleans where he began his publishing career as a designer and art director...
(jazz, music, celeb, doc, stills) - Henry BondHenry BondHenry Bond is an English writer, photographer curator, and visual artist. In his Lacan at the Scene , Bond made a contribution to theoretical psychoanalysis....
- Félix BonfilsFélix BonfilsFélix Bonfils was a French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle East.He was born on 8 March 1831 in Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort and died in Alès in 1885. Félix worked as a bookbinder but in 1860 he joined General d'Hautpoul's expedition to the Levant. Soon after returning from Lebanon...
- Phil BorgesPhil BorgesPhil Borges is a social documentary photographer and filmmaker.For over twenty five years Phil Borges has documented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. Through his exhibits, books and multimedia projects, he strives to create a heightened understanding of issues faced by people in...
- Jean-Marie BottequinJean-Marie BottequinJean-Marie Albert Bottequin is a Belgian photographer, photojournalist, photo artist and mime.- Early life and early career :Jean-Marie Bottequin is the son of Wallonian Prof. Dr...
(art, port, celeb, doc, inds) - Edouard BoubatEdouard BoubatEdouard Boubat was a French art photographer.-Life and work:Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He studied typography and graphic arts at the Ecole Estienne, and then worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer after WWII. He took his first photograph in 1946 and was awarded the...
(art) - Jack E. BoucherJack E. BoucherJack E. Boucher is an American photographer. He began working for the National Park Service in 1958 and continued working there until at least 2006, 48 years later, serving as the Chief Photographer for the Historic American Buildings Survey...
(doc) - Alice BoughtonAlice BoughtonAlice Boughton was an early 20th century American photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time...
- Alexandra BoulatAlexandra BoulatAlexandra Boulat was a leading French photographer born in Paris, France. She was trained in graphic art and art history at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2001, she co-founded the VII Photo Agency. Before then she had been represented by Sipa Press and by her mother's agency, Cosmos...
- Jacques BourboulonJacques BourboulonJacques Bourboulon is a French photographer, specializing in nude photography. In 1967 he started as a fashion photographer, publishing in Vogue and working for the fashion designers Dior, Féraud, and Carven. In the mid-1970s he switched to nude photography.Bourboulon's pictures were shot with a...
- Jean-Christian BourcartJean-Christian BourcartJean-Christian Bourcart first gained attention in France, his native country, for "Infertile Madonnas" , a series of photographs taken in Frankfurt brothels, which was widely exhibited and also published with an introduction by Nan Goldin...
- Margaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet Industry, the first female war correspondent and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her...
(doc, int, land, port) - Guy BourdinGuy BourdinGuy Louis Bourdin , born Guy Louis Banarès, was a French fashion photographer.-Life and career:Guy Louis Banarès was born December 2, 1928, at 7 Rue Popincourt, Paris...
(fash) - Samuel BourneSamuel BourneSamuel Bourne was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years' work in India, from 1863 to 1870...
- Jane BownJane BownJane Bown is a British photographer who has worked for The Observer newspaper in the United Kingdom since 1949. Her portraits of the famous of the 20th and 21st centuries have received critical acclaim, earning her an exhibition of her work in the National Portrait Gallery in London in 1980.-...
- Tony BoxallTony BoxallAnthony Gordon Boxall was a British amateur photographer, known for his portrayal of Gypsy life in Britain in the early 1960s.-Life and career:Boxhall was born on 15 December 1929 in Redhill, Surrey...
(doc)
- Alex Boyd (land, art)
- Mathew BradyMathew BradyMathew B. Brady was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War...
(land, port, war) - Brian BrakeBrian BrakeBrian Brake was one of New Zealand's most internationally successful photographers.Born in Wellington, New Zealand, John Brian Brake was the adopted son of John Samuel Brake and his wife Jennie Brake...
- Jim BrandenburgJim BrandenburgJim Brandenburg is an environmentalist and nature photographer and filmmaker based near Ely, Minnesota. His career includes over 10 years as a newspaper photojournalist, over 30 years as a contract photographer for the National Geographic Society, and commissions from such groups as the United...
(land) - Bill BrandtBill BrandtBill Brandt was an influential British photographer and photojournalist known for his high-contrast images of British society and his distorted nudes and landscapes.-Career and life:...
(art, doc) - BrassaïBrassaïBrassaï was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the World Wars...
- Manuel Álvarez BravoManuel Álvarez BravoManuel Álvarez Bravo was a Mexican photographer.Álvarez Bravo was born in Mexico City on February 4, 1902. He came from a family of artists and writers, and met several other prominent artists who encouraged his work when he was young, including Tina Modotti and Diego Rivera...
- Marilyn BridgesMarilyn BridgesMarilyn Bridges is an American photographer noted for her aerial photographs of ancient and modern landscapes of extraordinary and often religious sites....
- Anne BrigmanAnne BrigmanAnne Wardrope Brigman was an American photographer and one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement in America. Her most famous images were taken between 1900 and 1920, and depict nude women in primordial, naturalistic contexts.-Life:Brigman was born in the Nuuanu Valley above...
- Zana BriskiZana BriskiZana Briski is a photographer and filmmaker best known as the director of Born into Brothels, the 2004 winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Feature...
(doc) - Mike BrodieMike BrodieMike Brodie , best known by his pseudonym ""Polaroid Kidd"" is a self-trained American photographer from Pensacola, Florida.In 2003 Brodie left home at 18 to travel the rails across America. A friend gave him a camera and he found himself spending three years photographing the friends and...
- Alexey Brodovich
- Giacomo BrogiGiacomo BrogiGiacomo Brogi was an Italian photographer.Giacomo Brogi created his first studio in Corso Tintori, in Rome in 1864. He began traveling around Italy and later traveled to the Middle East in 1868 including Palestine, Egypt and Syria.Brogi was associated with the Photographic Society of Italy.He held...
- Hamish BrownHamish BrownHamish Brown M.B.E. is a professional writer, lecturer and photographer specialising in mountain and outdoor topics. He is best known for his walking exploits in the Scottish Highlands, having completed multiple rounds of the Munros and being the first person to walk all the Munros in a single trip...
(port) - Serge BrunierSerge BrunierSerge Brunier is a French photographer, reporter, and writer who has specialized in popular depictions of astronomical subjects.- Work and Target :...
(astro) - Marc Bryan-BrownMarc Bryan-BrownMarc Bryan-Brown is a photographer based in Manhattan, New York, USA.Bryan-Brown was educated in England at the Dragon School in Oxford and Marlborough College in Wiltshire. He then attended the Rochester Institute of Technology in the USA....
- Dan BudnikDan BudnikDan Budnik is an American photographer noted for his portraits of artists and photographs of the Civil Rights Movement and Native American life.Born in 1933 in Long Island, New York, Budnik studied at the Art Students League of New York in the early 1950s...
(doc, port) - Jan Bułhak
- Wynn BullockWynn BullockWynn Bullock is a recognized American master photographer of the 20th Century whose work is included in over 90 major museum collections around the world...
(art) - Max BurchartzMax BurchartzMax Hubert Innocenz Maria Burchartz was a German photographer.-Life:Max Burchartz was the son of a fabric manufacturer, Otto Burchartz and his wife Maria. After his basic schooling he received training in his father's weaving mill and studied at a textile technical school as well as an art school...
- Wilhelm J. BurgerWilhelm J. BurgerWilhelm J. Burger was an Austrian photographer and painter.Burger learned photography from his uncle Andreas von Ettingshausen in the 1860s. In 1874, Burger operated a photographic studio in Vienna. When working in French, Burger used the first initial "G.", probably for "Guillaume"...
- Victor BurginVictor BurginVictor Burgin is an artist and a writer. Burgin first came to attention as a conceptual artist in the late 1960s and at that time was most noted for being a political photographer of the left, who would fuse photographs and words in the same picture. He has worked with photography and film,...
- Christopher BurkettChristopher BurkettChristopher Burkett is an American landscape photographer, known not only for his large format photography of woodlands but also as a former brother in an Orthodox Christian religious order who, Vincent Rossi writes, has "transformed photographic technique into a spiritual endeavor."Burkett's...
- René BurriRené BurriRené Burri is a Swiss photographer known for his photos of major political, historical and cultural events and key figures of the second half of the 20th century. Burri worked for Magnum Photos and has been photographing political, military and artistic figures and scenes since 1946...
- Larry BurrowsLarry BurrowsLarry Burrows was an English photojournalist best known for his pictures of the American involvement in the Vietnam War.-Life:...
(war) - Harry Burton (doc)
- Edward BurtynskyEdward BurtynskyEdward Burtynsky OC is a Canadian photographer and artist who has achieved international recognition for his large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. His work is housed in more than fifteen major museums including the Guggenheim Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Bibliothèque...
(land) - Michael BusselleMichael BusselleMichael Busselle was an English photographer and writer whose photographs and writing were featured in more than 50 books. His first book, Master Photography, has sold over a million copies worldwide.-Career:...
- Jean-Marc BustamanteJean-Marc BustamanteJean-Marc Bustamante is a French artist, sculptor and photographer. He was born in Toulouse. He is noted as a conceptual and installation artist and has incorporated ornamental design and architectural space in his works. He has also worked with film . From 1983 to 1987 he and Bernard Bazile...
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- Geneviève CadieuxGeneviève Cadieux-Teaching:* Concordia University, 1991 – present;* Guest professor, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, 1994;* École nationale des beaux-arts in Grenoble, 1996;...
- Pogus CaesarPogus CaesarPogus Caesar is a British artist, television producer and director. He was born in St Kitts, West Indies, and grew up in Birmingham, England.-History:...
(doc, art) - Romano CagnoniRomano CagnoniRomano Cagnoni is an Italian photographer who spent most of his professional life based in London.-Biography:...
(art, war, doc) - Bernard CahierBernard CahierBernard Cahier was a French Formula One photo-journalist.Cahier began photographing F1 in 1952 and in 1968 he was one of the founders of the International Racing Press Association which began the process of organising the media in F1...
(spt) - Claude CahunClaude CahunClaude Cahun was a French artist, photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality.-Early life:...
- Harry Callahan (art, doc, int, land, port)
- Sophie CalleSophie CalleSophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines...
- Julia Margaret CameronJulia Margaret CameronJulia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary themes....
(art, doc, int, land, port) - Catherine CameronCatherine CameronCatherine Cameron is an artist from from Norway using photography as her prime medium.-Career:Cameron has been working with photography as artistic expression since 1999. Her works have been exhibited in the U.S., Argentina, China, Russia, Poland, France, Italy, Japan and Norway...
- Loren CameronLoren CameronLoren Rex Cameron is an American photographer, author and transsexual activist. His work includes portraiture and self-portraiture which consist of lesbian and transsexual bodies in both clothed and nude form...
(art, doc, port) - Cornell CapaCornell CapaCornell Capa was a Hungarian American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, and photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa. Graduating from Imre Madách Gymnasium in Budapest, he initially intended to study medicine, but instead joined his brother...
(doc) - Robert CapaRobert CapaRobert Capa was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War...
(doc, war) - Paul CaponigroPaul Caponigro- Photography career :Caponigro was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied with Minor White and has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and three grants from the NEA. His best known photograph is Running White Deer....
(art, land) - Ilario CarposioIlario CarposioIlario Carposio was an artistic photographer who owned an important studio in Fiume, now Rijeka in present-day Croatia. He was an Italian-speaking citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The studio opened in 1878 and rapidly became renamed and appreciated...
- Ricardo CarrascoRicardo CarrascoRicardo Carrasco Stuparich is a Chilean photographer, best known for nature and travel photography of South America.-Early life:...
- William CarrickWilliam CarrickWilliam Carrick was a Scottish-Russian artist and photographer. The son of a timber merchant, Andrew Carrick , and Jessie née Lauder, he was born in Edinburgh on 23 December 1827. Only a few weeks old, the Carrick family took William with them to the port of Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland...
- Lewis CarrollLewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
(art, port) - Keith Carter (art, doc, land, port)
- Kevin CarterKevin CarterKevin Carter was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.-Early life:...
- Henri Cartier-BressonHenri Cartier-BressonHenri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography...
(art, doc, port) - Kyle CassidyKyle CassidyKyle Cassidy, born in Woodbury, New Jersey, is an American photographer and videographer who lives in West Philadelphia. He holds a BA in English from Rowan University, and also holds an MCSE. His latest book is "Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes"...
- Andrew CatlinAndrew CatlinAndrew Catlin is an English photographer, artist, director, and cinematographer. Psychology graduate, portrait and documentary photographer and film maker. His work has been widely published, and is held in collections, books, exhibitions and archives....
- Harold CazneauxHarold CazneauxHarold Cazneaux was and Australian pictorialist photographer; a pioneer whose style had an indelible impact on the development of Australian photographic history. In 1916 he was a founder of the Pictorialist Sydney Camera Circle...
(pict. port) - Hugh CecilHugh CecilHugh Cecil Saunders was a celebrated English photographer of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, who practised under the professional name of Hugh Cecil....
- Kassian CephasKassian CephasKassian Cephas was a Javanese photographer of the court of the Yogyakarta Sultanate. He was the first indigenous person from Indonesia to become a professional photographer and was trained at the request of Sultan Hamengkubuwana VI...
(arch, port) - ChaiyaChaiya (photographer)Khun Chaiya was a Royal Court photographer in Siam .Between 1860 and 1879, Chaiya photographed the ruins of the `Utthayan Prawattisat Phimai temple in what is now Phimai Historical Park, Phimai, Thailand.-References:* , cited 6 February 2006.* , cited 6 February 2006.* Döhring, Karl...
- Dean ChamberlainDean ChamberlainDean Chamberlain is a photographer who specializes in unique lighting effects and extended exposure times. Famous models for his pictures sit for up to five hours as he leaves the camera shutter open and "paints" the space around them with carried and projected lights of various colors and shapes,...
- Martín ChambiMartín ChambiMartín Chambi Jiménez or Martín Chambi de Coaza, was a photographer, originally from southern Peru...
- Jean ChamouxJean ChamouxJean Chamoux was a French photographer who started his career during World War II in the Savoyard bush. He first covered the landings by parachute during the Battle of Glières ....
(doc, port, fash, war) - Polly ChandlerPolly ChandlerPolly Chandler is an American photographer noted for her unique portrait style illuminating the personality of her subjects through selective backgrounds and the use of large format cameras.- Photography career :...
(art, port) - Dickey ChapelleDickey ChapelleDickey Chapelle, born Georgette Louise Meyer , was an American photojournalist known for her work as a war correspondent from World War II through the Vietnam War.-Early life:...
(doc, war) - Chien-Chi ChangChien-Chi ChangChien-Chi Chang is a Taiwanese photographer and member of the Magnum Photos agency.-Life:Born to working-class parents in central Taiwan in 1961, he earned his BA from Soochow University in 1984 and an MS from Indiana University in 1990. He has worked for The Seattle Times and The Baltimore Sun...
- Allan ChappelowAllan ChappelowAllan Gordon Chappelow FRSA was an award winning writer and photographer living in Hampstead. He was the author of books on George Bernard Shaw, and specialised in portraits of writers and musicians.-Life:...
- Jean-Philippe CharbonnierJean-Philippe CharbonnierJean-Philippe Charbonnier was a French photographer.His father was a painter, his mother a writer. Jean-philippe was born in an elegant and well educated family. In 1939, when he was studying German, he received a camera. Because of this he will soon stop his studies...
(port, doc) - Sarah CharlesworthSarah CharlesworthSarah Charlesworth is a well-known American conceptual artist and photographer. She was born in East Orange, New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1969 and now lives in New York City...
(abs, art) - Désiré CharnayDésiré CharnayClaude-Joseph Désiré Charnay was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to document his discoveries....
- Hong CheongHong CheongHong Cheong was a Chinese photographer who operated a photographic studio in Yokohama, Japan between 1875 and 1885. In addition to his photographic work he was an artist, chart copier, portrait painter, and dealer in picture frames. Cheong left Japan in 1885 and opened a studio in Hong Kong...
- Tong CheongTong CheongTong Cheong was a Chinese photographer who operated in Yokohama, Japan in the 19th century. Cheong advertised his services as a printer and photographer in the 1884 Japan Directory, offering souvenir albums of the "views and costumes" of Japan...
- Teisuke ChibaTeisuke Chiba__notoc__ was a renowned Japanese amateur photographer of rural life around the area where he lived in Akita, Japan.Chiba was born in Kakunodate, Akita on 19 October 1917, and two years later moved to Yokote, Akita, an area where he would remain. After finishing high school in 1932, he started work...
(doc) - William ChristenberryWilliam ChristenberryWilliam Christenberry is a photographer, painter, and sculptor who works with personal and somewhat mythical themes growing out of his childhood experiences in Hale County, Alabama....
- Hugo CifuentesHugo CifuentesHugo Gilberto Cifuentes Navarro was a pioneering Latin American photographer.Cifuentes began studying drawing and painting in the 1940s, before turning to photography. Cifuentes received his first prize for photographic composition in 1949...
- Elio CiolElio CiolElio Ciol is an Italian photographer and publisher who was born in Casarsa della Delizia in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the region where he has principally lived and worked. His father was a photographer who kept a studio in their hometown and Elio was fascinated by the technical aspects and worked in...
(doc) - John ClangJohn ClangJohn Clang is a photographer/visual artist. He was born in Singapore in 1973, and lives and works in New York and Singapore. Clang’s work is exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide...
- Larry ClarkLarry ClarkLawrence Donald "Larry" Clark is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa...
(art, doc, fash, port) - Alan Clarke (photographer)Alan Clarke (photographer)Alan Clarke is a Durham based photographer who works closely with people in different aspects of photographic practice. Born in 1979 in Durham city, he has developed a career in the local area....
(port, art) - Bob Carlos ClarkeBob Carlos ClarkeRobert Carlos Clarke was an Irish photographer, known for his highly stylised erotic imagery....
(art) - William ClarridgeWilliam ClarridgeWilliam Clarridge trained as a painter before taking up documentary photography in the early 1850s. Two albums of his photographs survive documenting the town of Berkhamsted. These form one of the earliest documentary records of English village life...
- Antoine Claudet
- William ClaxtonWilliam Claxton (photographer)William Claxton was an American photographer and author.-Biography:Born in Pasadena, California, Claxton's works included a book of photographs of Steve McQueen, and Jazz Life, a book of photographs depicting jazz artists in the 1960s. He was most noted for his photography of jazz musicians...
(adv, fash, port) - Charles CleggCharles CleggCharles Myron Clegg, Jr. , was an American author, photographer, and railroad historian. Clegg is primarily remembered as the lifelong companion of famed railroad author Lucius Beebe, and was a co-author of many of Beebe's best-known books.Born into an old New England family, Clegg grew up in Rhode...
- Krass ClementKrass ClementKrass Clement Kay Christensen is a Danish photographer who has specialized in documentary work. He graduated as a film director in Copenhagen but soon turned to still photography, publishing his first book Skygger af øjeblikke in 1978. He has since become an active documentary photographer,...
(doc) - Alvin Langdon CoburnAlvin Langdon CoburnAlvin Langdon Coburn was an early 20th century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism...
(pict) - Ioan Mihai CochinescuIoan Mihai CochinescuIoan Mihai Cochinescu is a Romanian novelist and essayist. He is also a film script author and director, an art photographer, teacher, musicologist and composer.-Study:...
(art, doc) - Neville ColemanNeville ColemanNeville Coleman is an Australian naturalist, underwater nature photographer, writer, publisher and educator. In 2007 Coleman was inducted to the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame.Coleman started scuba diving in 1963, exploring Sydney Harbour...
(und, land) - Henry CollenHenry CollenHenry Collen was a miniature portrait painter to Queen Victoria and the Duchess of Kent. Later in life he turned to photography and was on the cutting edge in photography in mid-19th century in London...
- Joan ColomJoan ColomJoan Colom i Altemir is a Catalan photographer renowned for his portraits of Barcelona's underworld and working class, especially in the infamous neighbourhood of Raval. Colom was a self-taught photographer, and produced his best-known pictures while working during the week as an accountant...
- Lois ConnerLois ConnerLois Conner is an American photographer. She is noted particularly for her platinum print landscapes that she produces with a 7" x 17" format banquet camera. She has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grant and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Recently, she was...
- Linda ConnorLinda ConnorLinda Connor is an American photographer who photographs spiritual and exotic locations including India, Mexico, Thailand, Ireland, Peru, Nepal, Egypt, Hawaii and the American Southwest....
- Florin ConstantinescuFlorin Constantinescu- Artistic activity :Florin Constantinescu works particularly photo black and white or monochromatic, addressing a wide variety of subjects - landscapes, abstract, architecture, portraits. "Most work using techniques appear clearly subject-obscurului. Scenes - landscapes, architecture or abstract -...
(art, doc, int, land, port) - Martha CooperMartha CooperMartha Cooper is an American photojournalist born in the 1940s in Baltimore, Maryland where she picked up photography at the age of three. She graduated from high school at the age of 16, earned an art degree at age 19 from Grinnell College...
(doc, ethno) - Anton CorbijnAnton CorbijnAnton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for more than a decade...
- Paul de CordonPaul de CordonPaul de Cordon was a French photographer known for his circus photographs.-Early years:Paul de Cordon was born in Toulouse in to a Savoyan noble family. He was the son of a cavalry officer. During his childhood, he spent several years in Mainz, Germany, where his father was garrisoned...
(art, fash) - Peter CorneliusPeter Cornelius (photographer)Peter Cornelius was a German photographer and photojournalist.After World War II, he began his career with reportage, landscape and sailing photography in his hometown Kiel. From the mid fifties, he specialized in color photography as one of the first color photographers in Germany...
(art) - Joe CornishJoe Cornish (photographer)Joe Cornish is a British photographer noted for his large format landscapes.Born in Exeter, Devon, England, Cornish has produced a significant body of work for the National Trust...
- Jules Gervais-CourtellemontJules Gervais-CourtellemontJules Gervais-Courtellemont was a French photographer who was famous for taking color autochromes during World War I. He was born in the province of Seine-et-Marne, near Paris, but grew up in Algeria, where he developed a passion for the pre-colonial Orient and devoted most of his professional...
(doc, art) - Paul CouvrettePaul CouvrettePaul Couvrette is a Canadian commercial photographer based in Ottawa, Ontario.-Early life and career:Couvrette earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Carleton University in 1974. He was the...
(art, doc, int, land, port) - Jeff CowenJeff CowenJeff Cowen is an American art photographer known for painterly photo mural collages and street photography.-Art and career:...
- Gregory CrewdsonGregory CrewdsonGregory Crewdson is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.-Life and career:Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY...
(abs, art, doc, land) - Ted CronerTed CronerTed Croner Ted Croner was an American photographer and an influential member of the New York School during the 1940s and 1950s. His images are said to represent the best example of this movement.-Biography:...
- Karel CudlínKarel Cudlín- Career :Cudlín was born in Prague and started taking photographs in his teens. Borrowing his father's Exakta and supported by his uncle, a photography enthusiast, Cudlín soon started photographing the Roma people of Žižkov, the suburb where he lived...
(doc) - Imogen CunninghamImogen CunninghamImogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry.-Life and career:...
(doc, int, land, port) - Asahel CurtisAsahel CurtisAsahel Curtis was a Pacific Northwest photographer.-Birth:Asahel Curtis was born in 1874 in Minnesota to Johnson Asahel Curtis , a reverend; and Ellen Sheriff .-Parents and siblings:...
(doc) - Edward S. CurtisEdward S. CurtisEdward Sheriff Curtis was a photographer of the American West and of Native American peoples.-Early life:...
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- Louise Dahl-WolfeLouise Dahl-WolfeLouise Emma Augusta Dahl was a noted American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for Harper's Bazaar, in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland.-Background:...
(art, doc, port) - Joseph DankowskiJoseph DankowskiJoseph Dankowski was an American fine art photographer, best known for his 50 print portfolio of "Manholes and Gutters" .A resident of Shirley, Maine, he was born in Camden, New Jersey on September 2, 1932...
(art) - Bruce DavidsonBruce Davidson (photographer)Bruce Davidson is an American photographer. He has been a member of Magnum agency since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, New York City, have been widely exhibited and published in a number of books.-Youth:Bruce Davidson was born to a single mother, who worked in a factory...
(land, port) - Ron DaviesRon Davies (photographer)Ron Davies, OBE, is a Welsh photographer.-Early life:Ron developed an interest in photography at the age of 8, while working as an errand boy for a chemist shop in Aberaeron, his home town....
(art,dig,land,port) - Daniel Davis Jr.Daniel Davis Jr. (photographer)Daniel Davis Jr. was an American photographer, daguerreotypist and ambrotypist.In 1842 Daniel Davis Jr. patented a method for colouring daguerreotypes through electroplating, and his work was refined by Warren Thompson the following year....
- George DavisonGeorge Davison (photographer)George Davison was a noted English photographer, a proponent of impressionistic photography, a co-founder of the Linked Ring Brotherhood of British artists and a managing director of Kodak UK...
- Corinne DayCorinne DayCorinne Day , was a British fashion photographer, documentary photographer, and former fashion model....
- F. Holland DayF. Holland DayFred Holland Day was an American photographer and publisher. He was the first in the U.S.A. to advocate that photography should be considered a fine art.-Life:...
(pict) - Lala Deen DayalLala Deen DayalLala Deen Dayal was an Indian photographer. His photography career began in the mid-1870s as a commissioned photographer, eventually he set up studios in Indore, Mumbai and Hyderbad; he became the court photographer to the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, Mahbub Ali Khan, Asif Jah VI, who awarded him...
- Peter DazeleyPeter DazeleyPeter Dazeley, known as Dazeley, is a photographer living and working in London, renowned for fine art, advertising, anamorphic and nude photography and he also does flower photography.- Biography :...
(adv,art,dig,fash,port) - John DeakinJohn DeakinJohn Deakin was an English photographer, best known for his work centered around members of Francis Bacon's Soho inner circle. Deakin had wanted to be a painter, and doubting the validity and status of photography as an art form, he did not hold his photographic work in high esteem; many of his...
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- Loomis DeanLoomis DeanLoomis Dean was a veteran Life Magazine photographer who shot pictures of circus clowns, crown princes, Hollywood stars, Madagascar lemurs and SS Andrea Doria survivors in a five-decade long career...
- Roy DeCaravaRoy DeCaravaRoy Rudolph DeCarava was an American photographer. DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes collaborated on a notable 1955 book on life in Harlem, The Sweet Flypaper of Life...
- Edgar de EviaEdgar de EviaEdgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, known professionally as Edgar de Evia , was a Mexican-born American photographer....
(art, adv, doc, fash, food, int) - Yvonne De RosaYvonne De Rosa' is an Italian photographer.Yvonne De Rosa originally graduated in Political Science, before her passion for photography led her to relocate to London, where she studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design...
- Joe DealJoe DealJoseph Maurice "Joe" Deal was an American photographer who specialized in depicting how the landscape was transformed by people....
- Reza DeghatiReza DeghatiReza Deghati, born 1952 in Tabriz, Iran is an Iranian-French photojournalist, who works under the name Reza .-Biography:Reza has covered much of the globe for National Geographic Magazine. Several films about Reza's work have been produced by National Geographic Television, most notably Frontline...
(doc, war) - Manoocher DeghatiManoocher DeghatiManoocher Deghati is an Iranian-French photojournalist.-Documenting the Iranian Revolution:In the summer of 1978, Manoocher Deghati, educated as a filmmaker, returned to Iran after three years of studies at the Rome school of cinema just as the first major demonstrations against the regime of the...
(doc,war) - Terry DeglauTerry DeglauTerry Deglau is the portrait photographer chosen by the United Nations to take the group photo of the world's leaders at the 2000 United Nations Millennium Project in New York. He had done a similar photograph for the UN's 50th anniversary celebration in 1995, and has done portraits of five U.S...
(doc, port) - Luc DelahayeLuc DelahayeLuc Delahaye is a French photographer known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His pictures are characterized by detachment, directness and rich details, a documentary approach which is however countered by dramatic intensity and a narrative...
(doc) - Jack DelanoJack DelanoJack Delano was an American photographer for the Farm Security Administration and a composer noted for his use of Puerto Rican folk material.- Biography :...
(doc) - Patrick DemarchelierPatrick DemarchelierPatrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer.-Life:Born near Paris in 1943 to a modest family, he spent his childhood in Le Havre with his mother and four brothers. For his seventeenth birthday, his stepfather bought him his first Eastman Kodak camera...
} - Autumn de WildeAutumn de WildeAutumn de Wilde is an American photographer best known for her portraiture and commercial work photography of musicians.-Early life:...
(port) - Hugh Welch DiamondHugh Welch DiamondHugh Welch Diamond was an early British psychiatrist and photographer who made a major contribution to the progress of the craft....
- Philip-Lorca diCorciaPhilip-Lorca diCorciaPhilip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York, and teaches at Yale University in New...
(art, doc, int, land, port) - Rineke DijkstraRineke DijkstraRineke Dijkstra is a female Dutch photographer.-Life and work:Dijkstra concentrates on single portraits, and usually works in series, looking at groups such as adolescents, clubbers, and soldiers. Her subjects are often shown standing, facing the camera, against a minimal background...
- André-Adolphe-Eugène DisdériAndré-Adolphe-Eugène DisdériAndré-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri was a French photographer who started his photographic career as a daguerreotypist but gained greater fame for patenting his version of the carte de visite, a small photographic image which was mounted on a card...
- Mark DivoMark DivoMark Divo is a Luxembourgeois conceptual artist and curator who organises large scale interactive art projects incorporating the work of a number of well-known underground artists. His own work involves performance, photography, installation, often using found material.-Career:Between 1988 and...
art - Zbigniew Dłubak
- Julie DoironJulie DoironJulie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...
- Robert DoisneauRobert DoisneauRobert Doisneau was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris; together with Henri Cartier-Bresson he was a pioneer of photojournalism...
(doc, land, port) - Peter DombrovskisPeter DombrovskisPeter Dombrovskis was an Australian photographer, most notably of Tasmanian scenes. In 2003 he was the only Australian photographer inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame....
- Ken DomonKen Domonis one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the twentieth century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary....
(arch, art, doc) - Don DonaghyDon DonaghyDon Donaghy was a member of the New York School of Photography, which includes Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, and Bruce Davidson,...
- Terence DonovanTerence Donovan (photographer)Terence Daniel Donovan was a British photographer and film director, best remembered for his fashion photography of the 1960s. He oversaw the music video to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" and "Simply Irresistible".Donovan was born in Stepney in the East End of London to Lilian Constance V...
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- Sergio DorantesSergio DorantesSergio Dorantes Zurita is a Mexican photojournalist, currently jailed in Mexico City for the murder of his wife, Alejandra Dehessa in 2003. The case has been highly controversial, not least because of the lack of forensic evidence and the only witness who places Dorantes at the scene of the crime...
- David DoubiletDavid DoubiletDavid Doubilet is a well known underwater photographer known primarily for his work published in National Geographic Magazine. He was born in New York and started taking photos underwater at the young age of 12. He started with a Brownie Hawkeye in a rubber anesthesiologist's bag to keep the water...
(und) - W. & D. DowneyW. & D. DowneyW. & D. Downey were Victorian studio photographers operating in London from the 1860s to the 1910s.William Downey , who came to be known as the Queen's Photographer, was born in King Street in South Shields, a decade before commercial photography had become a reality...
(port) - Richard DrewRichard Drew (photographer)Richard Drew is an Associated Press photo-journalist, perhaps most notable for his photo The Falling Man which depicts a man falling from the World Trade Center towers following the September 11, 2001 attacks...
- Gerald DruckerGerald DruckerGerald Drucker was a British classical double bass player, photographer and double bass teacher. Principal Double Bass at the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, and finally the Philharmonia Orchestra of London...
(port) - František DrtikolFrantišek DrtikolFrantišek Drtikol was a Czech photographer of international renown. He is especially known for his characteristically epic photographs, often nudes and portraits.- Life and work :...
- Pierre DubreuilPierre DubreuilPierre Dubreuil, born in Lille in 1872 and died in Grenoble in 1944, was a French photographer.- Biography :Pierre Dubreuil was born in a wealthy family, well-established in the wallpaper trade. In 1888 he joined the Jesuit College of Saint-Joseph in Lille and started to take pictures with a...
(pict) - Maxime Du CampMaxime Du CampMaxime Du Camp was a French writer and photographer.-Life:Born in Paris, Du Camp was the son of a successful surgeon. After finishing college, he indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets...
- David Douglas DuncanDavid Douglas DuncanDavid Douglas Duncan is an American photojournalist and among the most influential photographers of the 20th century. He is best known for his dramatic combat photographs.-Childhood and Education:...
- Ken DuncanKen DuncanKenneth McLeod Duncan OAM is a photographer from Wamberal, Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia. He is regarded as one of Australia's most acclaimed landscape photographers, and gained prominence for his pioneering work with panoramic landscapes and limited edition photographic prints.-...
- Jeff DunasJeff DunasJeff Dunas is an American photographer known for his portraits of musicians and entertainers, and a publisher of photography magazines. He is the father of actress Alexa Davalos.- Photo books :...
- Max DupainMax DupainMaxwell Spencer Dupain AC was a renowned Australian modernist photographer.-Early life:Dupain received his first camera as a gift in 1924, spurring his interest in photography He later joined the Photographic Society of NSW, and when he left school, he worked for Cecil Bostock in Sydney.-Early...
- Jean Louis Marie Eugène DurieuJean Louis Marie Eugène DurieuJean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu was an early French photographer of nudes, known for making studies for Eugène Delacroix. Some of Durieu's nudes were used by Delacroix to creating his own paintings and drawings....
- Dutton & MichaelsDutton & MichaelsThe Dutton & Michaels photographic studio was a photography partnership between Sylvester Dutton and someone named Michaels which was based in Canton , China and. The firm is known to have operated in 1863....
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- Charles C. EbbetsCharles C. EbbetsCharles Clyde Ebbets was an American photographer, most famous for his photograph Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper -Biography:...
- Nikos EconomopoulosNikos EconomopoulosNikos Economopoulos is a Greek photographer known for his photography of the Balkans and of Greece in particular.-Life and career:...
(doc) - Harold Eugene EdgertonHarold Eugene EdgertonHarold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
(sci) - Hugh Edwards
- John Paul EdwardsJohn Paul EdwardsJohn Paul Edwards was an American photographer and a member of the famous Group f/64.He was born in Minnesota on June 5, 1884, and moved to California in 1902. It is not known how he became interested in photography, but by the early 1920s he was a member of the Oakland Camera Club, the San...
(pict) - Isidore Jacques EggermontIsidore Jacques EggermontIsidore Jacques Eggermont was a Belgian diplomat, who was also active as a photographer and writer in North Africa and Asia....
- William EgglestonWilliam EgglestonWilliam Eggleston , is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries—which, until the 1970s, often tended to privilege work by photographers making black-and-white prints.- Early years...
(art, doc, land) - Ei-QEi-Qwas a renowned Japanese artist who worked in a variety of media, including photography and engraving.Ei-Q, whose early work was done under his real name of Hideo Sugita , was born in Miyazaki-machi , Miyazaki Prefecture on 28 April 1911...
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- Alfred EisenstaedtAlfred EisenstaedtAlfred Eisenstaedt was a German-American photographer and photojournalist. He is renowned for his candid photographs, frequently made using various models of a 35mm Leica rangefinder camera...
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- Arthur ElliottArthur ElliottArthur Elliott , was a South African photographer who recorded the passing scene at the Cape...
(arch) - Ed van der ElskenEd van der ElskenEduard "Ed" van der Elsken was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker.His imagery provides quotidian, intimate and autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist spanning the period of the Second World War into the nineteen-seventies in the realms of love, sex, art, music , and alternative...
- Peter Henry EmersonPeter Henry EmersonPeter Henry Emerson was a British writer and photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting photography as an art form...
- T. EnamiT. Enamiwas the trade name of a Meiji period Japanese photographer. The T. of his trade name is thought to have stood for Toshi, though he never spelled it out on any personal or business document....
- Clay EnosClay EnosClay Enos is a photographer.Enos was the set still photographer on the film adaption of Watchmen. Part of that work resulted in "Watchmen Portraits" published in February 2009 by Titan Books....
- Mitch EpsteinMitch EpsteinMitchell "Mitch" Epstein is an American photographer whose photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including New York's Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Modern in...
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- Elliott ErwittElliott ErwittElliott Erwitt is an advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings— a master of Henri Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment"....
(art, doc, int, port) - Joakim EskildsenJoakim EskildsenJoakim Eskildsen is a Danish art photographer.- Career as a photographer :Eskildsen was a pupil of Rigmor Mydtskov in Copenhagen and went to Finland in 1994 to study photographic book making with Pentti Sammallahti at the University of Art and Design Helsinki...
(art) - Dulah Marie EvansDulah Marie EvansDulah Marie Evans, later Dulah Marie Evans Krehbiel was an American painter, photographer, printmaker, illustrator, and etcher.-Education:...
(drawing, land) - Frederick H. EvansFrederick H. EvansFrederick H. Evans was a noted British photographer, primarily of architectural subjects. He is best known for his images of English and French cathedrals. Evans began his career as a bookseller, but retired from that to become a full-time photographer in 1898, when he adopted the platinotype...
(arch) - Jason EvansJason EvansJason Evans is a Welsh photographer. His best known work is a series of portraits of young black men dressed as "country gents" made in collaboration with stylist Simon Foxton, and which were acquired for the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery, in 2004...
- Walker EvansWalker EvansWalker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera...
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- Ron GalellaRon GalellaRon Galella is an American photographer, known as a pioneer paparazzo. Dubbed "Paparazzo Extraordinaire" by Newsweek and "the Godfather of the U.S...
- Peter FaberPeter FaberBlessed Peter Faver was a French Jesuit theologian and a cofounder of the Society of Jesus. He was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church on September 5, 1872.-Biography:Peter Faver , grew up in far east central France...
- Bruno FabienBruno FabienBruno Fabien is a contemporary photographer who works with immediate light.-Chronology:Exhibitions :*1984, "Prete-moi tes yeux"*2003, "Numerichromes"*2004, "La lumiere oubliee"*2004, "La lumiere immediate"...
(art) - Ingrid FalkIngrid FalkIngrid Falk is a painter, installation artist and curator. In 1992 formed the art collective FA+ in collaboration with her husband, Gustavo Aguerre...
(art) - Adolfo FarsariAdolfo FarsariAdolfo Farsari was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan. Following a brief military career, including service in the American Civil War, he became a successful entrepreneur and commercial photographer...
- Antoine FaucheryAntoine FaucheryAntoine Fauchery was a French adventurer, writer and photographer with republican sympathies. He participated in the national uprising in Poland in 1848, opened a photographic studio in Melbourne, Australia in 1858, and was commissioned to accompany the French forces as they progressed to Beijing...
- Bernard FauconBernard FauconBernard Faucon is a French photographer and writer.Faucon was born in Apt, in Provence, southern France. He was taught at the lycée in Apt, then graduated in Philosophy from the Sorbonne in 1973. Until 1977 he worked as a fine art painter, and thereafter discovered photography...
(art) - Chris FaustChris FaustChristopher C. Faust is a prolific landscape photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota. He holds a degree in biology from Saint Cloud State University and an MS in Educational Media from Saint Cloud State University....
- Frederikke FederspielFrederikke FederspielFrederikke Jakobine Federspiel was the first female photographer to practice in Denmark. For many years, she ran her own photographic studio in Aalborg, always keeping abreast of the latest developments...
(port) - James FeeJames FeeJames Fee was an American photographer known for his images of abandoned factories and lonesome highways....
(art, war) - Kristen FeilbergKristen FeilbergKristen Feilberg or Christen Schjellerup Feilberg was an early Danish photographer who is known mainly for his images captured far beyond the borders of Denmark. From the 1860s until the 1890s, Feilberg participated in expeditions to Sumatra, Singapore, and Penang...
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- Andreas FeiningerAndreas FeiningerAndreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger was a German American photographer, and writer on photographic technique, noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and studies of the structure of natural objects....
- Mark FeldsteinMark FeldsteinMark Feldstein , was an American artist and photographer best known for his large format photography of the streetlife and architecture of New York City....
- Roger FentonRoger FentonRoger Fenton was a pioneering British photographer, one of the first war photographers.-Early life:Roger Fenton was born in Crimble Hall, Heap, Bury, Lancashire, 28 March 1819. His grandfather was a wealthy cotton manufacturer and banker, his father a banker and Member of Parliament...
(war) - Adam FergusonAdam Ferguson (photographer)Adam Ferguson is an Australian freelance photojournalist currently working out of New Delhi, India. His photographs have appeared in Newsweek, Time, International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and Chicago Tribune...
(doc, war) - Marc FerrezMarc FerrezMarc Ferrez was a Brazilian photographer born in Rio de Janeiro.Ferrez's life was dedicated to the art of photography and he is considered one of the greatest photographers of his time. His production was massive, and his photographs document the consolidation of Brazil as a nation and Rio de...
- Franz FiedlerFranz FiedlerFranz Fiedler was a photographer.Fiedler was born in Prostějov, near Olomouc in Moravia. Fiedler was a pupil of Hugo Erfurth...
- Jens Fink-JensenJens Fink-JensenJens Fink-Jensen is a Danish poet, author, photographer, composer and architect.-Biography:Jens Fink-Jensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. From 1968 to 1972 Fink-Jensen attended school in Store Heddinge where he was a classmate with the Danish poet Søren Ulrik Thomsen...
(art) - George FiskeGeorge FiskeGeorge Fiske was an American landscape photographer.Fiske was born in Amherst, New Hampshire and moved west with his brother to San Francisco. He apprenticed with Charles L. Weed and worked with Carleton E. Watkins, both early Yosemite photographers. Fiske and his wife moved to Yosemite in 1879...
- Frode FjerdingstadFrode FjerdingstadFrode Fjerdingstad is a photographer, born in Oslo, Norway. He studied photography at the London College of Printing. Frode has exhibited his work at the National Artcenter Tokyo and at several other occasions in London, Oslo, Zürich, Berlin, Stockholm, New York and Paris...
(art) - Hércules FlorenceHércules FlorenceAntoine Hercule Romuald Florence was a French-Brazilian painter and inventor, known as the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, three years before Daguerre , using the matrix negative/positive, still in use...
- Sean FlynnSean FlynnSean Leslie Flynn was an American actor and freelance photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. He started a news service in Saigon with John Steinbeck IV, son of the American author.Flynn was the only child of the marriage of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita...
(war) - Fernand FonssagrivesFernand FonssagrivesFernand Fonssagrives born near Paris, France he was a photographer known for his 'beauty photography' in the early 1940s, and as the first husband of the model Lisa Fonssagrives. He died in 2003 at Little Rock, Arkansas....
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- Franco FontanaFranco FontanaFranco Fontana is an Italian photographer born in Modena, on December, 9th, 1933. He is best known for his abstract colour landscapes. Fontana's photos have been used as album cover art for records produced by the ECM jazz label...
(art) - Joan FontcubertaJoan FontcubertaJoan Fontcuberta is a conceptual artist whose best-known works, such as Fauna and Sputnik, examine the truthfulness of photography. In addition, he is a writer, editor, teacher, and curator....
(art) - Anna FoxAnna FoxAnna Fox is a British photographer. She studied at Farnham, Surrey, and first came to attention with her 1988 documentary study of London office life on the mid-1980s, Work Stations: Office Life in London, published by the left-wing Camerawork...
- Martine FranckMartine FranckMartine Franck is a Belgian photographer, and a member of the Magnum Photos agency. She was the second wife of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson after his divorce from Ratna Mohini, and is president and co-founder of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, which administrates his estate.- Biography...
- Auguste FrançoisAuguste FrançoisAuguste François, was a French consul first in Paraguay between 1893 and 1895 then in southern China between 1896 and 1904, first in Longzhou in Guangxi province and Kunming in Yunnan....
(ethno, doc, land) - Robert FrankRobert FrankRobert Frank , born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photobook titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American...
(doc, land, port) - Felice FrankelFelice FrankelFelice Frankel is a photographer of scientific images renowned for the aesthetic quality of her science photographs.-Biography:Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, science photographer Felice Frankel's images have been published in over 300 journal articles and/or covers and...
(sci) - Stuart FranklinStuart FranklinStuart Franklin is a photographer, a member of Magnum Photos, and a former President of Magnum Photos . He was born at Guys Hospital, London.-Education:...
(doc) - Thomas E. FranklinThomas E. FranklinThomas Ewan Franklin is an American photographer for The Bergen Record, best known for his photograph Raising the Flag at Ground Zero, which depicts firefighters raising the American flag at the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001 attacks.-Biography:Franklin is a 1988 graduate of the...
(doc) - Peter FraserPeter Fraser (photographer)Peter Fraser is a British fine art photographer. He was shortlisted for the Citigroup Photography Prize in 2004.-Early life:Fraser bought his first camera at the age of 7...
(art) - Leonard FreedLeonard FreedLeonard Freed was a documentary photojournalist and longtime Magnum member. He was born to Jewish, working-class parents of Eastern European descent.-Career:...
- John FrenchJohn French (photographer)John French was an English fashion and portrait photographer.Born in Edmonton, London, French originally trained and worked as a commercial artist, becoming a photographic director in an advertising studio just before World War II, during which he served as an officer in the Grenadier Guards.In...
(fash) - Arny FreytagArny FreytagArny Freytag is an American photographer. Among his works are several photo shoots for Playboy magazine, and as of 1994 held the record for photographing the most Playmate centerfolds. As of September 2008, Freytag has photographed every WWE Diva that has appeared on the cover of Playboy.-External...
(Glam) - Lee FriedlanderLee FriedlanderLee Friedlander is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 70s, working primarily with 35mm cameras and black and white film, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of the photographs including fragments of...
(abs, art, land, port) - Francis FrithFrancis FrithFrancis Frith was an English photographer of the Middle East and many towns in the United Kingdom....
- Hakuyō FuchikamiHakuyo Fuchikami-Biography:Fuchikami was born in Kumamoto Prefecture and studied in Saga and Nagasaki.In 1922 Fuchikami organized Nihon Kōga Geijutsu Kyōkai and published the first issue of the photography magazine Hakuyō and continued the publication of this magazine until 1926.In 1928 he moved to Manchuria and...
- Eva FukaEva FukaEva Fuka-Engle is an American photographer. She was born in 1927 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.In 1942, she attended the State School of Graphic Arts in Prague under Professor Rudolf Skopec, and later studied at the Academy of Visual Arts, from 1945 to 1950. She married fellow-artist Vladimir Fuka in...
- Mitsutarō FukuMitsutaro Fukuwas a Japanese photographer.In 1922 Fuku went to the United States where he worked in the dry goods business in Seattle. In the mid-1930s he was very active both in the submission of his photographs to various salons and in photographic circles in Seattle where he also had a solo exhibition in 1935...
- Katsuji FukudaKatsuji FukudaFukuda was born on 11 January 1899 in Nakanoseki , Yamaguchi . He moved to Tokyo in 1920, and worked at Takachiho Seisakujo , where he worked making thermometers and developed an interest in photography, buying a Vest Pocket Kodak...
(adv, art) - Rosō FukuharaRoso Fukuharawas a Japanese photographer noted for a strikingly modern approach to pictorialism.He was born in Ginza on 16 January 1892, as , son of , the head of Apothecary Shiseidō and...
(art) - Shinzō FukuharaShinzo Fukuharawas a renowned Japanese photographer.He was born in Kyōbashi-ku, Tokyo, on 25 July 1883, as the fourth son of Arinobu Fukuhara , the head of Apothecary Shiseidō and Toku Fukuhara . The third brother predeceased his birth, so he was named and treated as the third son...
(art) - Jill FurmanovskyJill FurmanovskyJill Furmanovsky is a rock photographer born in Zimbabwe.Furmanovsky emigrated with her parents and brother Michael to London in 1965. She studied textile and graphic design at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design from 1972 to 1974...
- Adam FussAdam FussAdam Fuss is a British photographer.-Early life:Adam Fuss was born in England in 1961. His father manufactured woman’s coats and his mother was an Australian fashion model. Fuss’s father suffered a stroke in 1963 and required constant care until his death in 1968. Fuss lived in Australia with...
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- Ron GalellaRon GalellaRon Galella is an American photographer, known as a pioneer paparazzo. Dubbed "Paparazzo Extraordinaire" by Newsweek and "the Godfather of the U.S...
- Isidoro GalloIsidoro GalloIsidoro Gallo is a Spain-based photographer. His work features photographs of travels and nature.*He has some books: , catalogs and calendars Isidoro Gallo is a Spain-based photographer. His work features photographs of travels and nature.*He has some books: ("Sueños de Viajero" - 1997; "Tras la...
- Harry Gamboa, Jr.Harry Gamboa, Jr.Harry Gamboa Jr. is a Chicano essayist, photographer, director and performance artist. He was a founding member of the influential Chicano performance art collective ASCO.-Biography:...
- Alexander GardnerAlexander Gardner (photographer)Alexander Gardner was a Scottish photographer who moved to the United States in 1856 where he developed his profession. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War, American President Abraham Lincoln, and the execution of the conspirators to Lincoln's...
- William Garnett
- Anne GeddesAnne GeddesAnne Geddes, MNZM, is an Australian-born photographer, clothing designer and businesswoman who now lives and works in New Zealand. She is known for her stylized depictions of babies and motherhood. Typical images show babies or young children dressed as fairies and fairytale creatures, flowers, or...
(art, doc, port) - Arnold GentheArnold GentheArnold Genthe was a photographer, best known for his photos of San Francisco's Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and his portraits of noted persons, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities.-Biography:Genthe was born in Berlin, Prussia, to Louise...
- George GeorgiouGeorge GeorgiouGeorge Georgiou is a freelance British photographer and photojournalist best known for his work in eastern Europe, particularly Turkey.-Career in photography:...
- Helmut GernsheimHelmut GernsheimHelmut Erich Robert Kuno Gernsheim was a renowned historian of photography, collector, and photographer.-Biography:Born in Munich, Germany, Gernsheim studied art history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich...
- Luigi GhirriLuigi GhirriLuigi Ghirri was an Italian photographer. Born in Scandiano, Ghirri began taking photographs in 1970, mostly working in a milieu of conceptual artists. From 1983 he focussed primarily on photographing architecture and the Italian landscape...
- Mario GiacomelliMario GiacomelliMario Giacomelli was an Italian photographer born on 1 August 1925 in Senigallia, Italy. He died on 25 November 2000 in the town of his birth.Known for:Photographs of Italian seminaries and a poetic transcription of everyday life in Southern Italy...
- Paula Rae GibsonPaula Rae GibsonPaula Rae Gibson is a photographer, singer-songwriter and filmmaker. She is the widow of film director Brian Gibson and has one daughter.-Work:...
(art) - Ralph GibsonRalph GibsonRalph Gibson is an American art photographer best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization and surreal juxtaposition.Ralph Gibson studied photography while in the US Navy and...
- Bruce GildenBruce GildenBruce Gilden is a noted street photographer, known for his work in New York City.-Career:While studying sociology at Penn State, he saw Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blowup in 1968. Influenced by the film, he purchased his first camera and began taking night classes in photography at the School of...
- Léon GimpelLéon GimpelLéon Gimpel was a French photographer.Born in Paris in 1878 , Gimpel worked for his family's fabric company, managed by his older brother Eugene. In 1897 his interest in photography was kindled when he acquired a Kodak detective camera, he soon swapped this for a Spido Gaumont which allowed him...
(art, doc) - Steve GiovincoSteve GiovincoSteve Giovinco is a fine art photographer who has worked with a digital camera since 1999 to capture lyrical and psychologically charged private moments.-Life and career:...
(art) - Joseph-Philibert Girault de PrangeyJoseph-Philibert Girault de PrangeyJoseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was a French photographer and draughtsman who was active in the Middle East. His daguerreotypes are the earliest surviving photographs of Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Syria and Turkey...
- André GirouxAndré Giroux (painter)André Giroux was a renowned French photographer and painter. His paintings were mostly Landscape art and Genre painting, one of which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In particular, he restored several Genre paintings of medieval ruins and troubadours...
- Wilhelm von GloedenWilhelm von GloedenBaron Wilhelm von Gloeden was a German photographer who worked mainly in Italy. He is mostly known for his pastoral nude studies of Sicilian boys, which usually featured props such as wreaths or amphoras suggesting a setting in the Greece or Italy of antiquity...
(art, fash, port) - Barbara GluckBarbara GluckBarbara Gluck is an American photojournalist, art photographer, speaker, writer, and healing facilitator.After an early career in advertising she spent almost four years in Vietnam, during the war, and produced award-winning photojournalism during the Vietnam War...
(art,war) - Fay GodwinFay GodwinFay Godwin was a noted British photographer, most widely known for her black-and-white landscapes of the British countryside and coast.-Career:Through her husband, Godwin was introduced to the London literary scene...
(art, land, port) - Frank GohlkeFrank GohlkeFrank Gohlke is a leading figure in American landscape photography. He has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts...
- Anthony GoicoleaAnthony GoicoleaAnthony Goicolea is a New York-based fine art photographer, born in Atlanta, Georgia.Goicolea's photographs frequently deal with issues of androgyny, homosexuality, and child sexuality. Goicolea, Cuban-American and gay, was educated at the University of Georgia and studied painting, photography,...
- Jim GoldbergJim GoldbergJim Goldberg is an American photographer and writer whose work reflects long-term, in-depth collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations.-Artistic career:...
- David GoldblattDavid GoldblattDavid Goldblatt is a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid and more recently that country's landscapes.-Life and work:...
- Nan GoldinNan GoldinNancy "Nan" Goldin is an American photographer.-Life and work:Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington, to middle class Jewish parents whose ideas, moderately liberal and progressive, were put to the test when on April 12, 1965 their eldest...
(art, int, port) - Andy GoldsworthyAndy GoldsworthyAndy Goldsworthy, OBE is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.-Life and career:The son of F...
(abs, art, land) - Kaveh GolestanKaveh GolestanKāveh Golestān Taghavi Shirazi , was an Iranian photojournalist and artist. Golestan was educated at Millfield School in Somerset, England....
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- Miguel GómezMiguel Gómez (photographer)Miguel Gómez is a Colombian Fine Art Photographer and Visual Artist whose style is marked by/best known for his work in Fine art photography, Portrait, Editorial and Landscape photography....
(art, land, port, stills) - Ricardo Gómez PérezRicardo Gómez PérezRicardo Gómez Pérez is a renowned Venezuelan photographer. His work have been presented in galleries through many countries such as France, Sweden, Japan, Netherlands, Belgium, United States, among others...
(art) - Rolando GomezRolando GomezRolando Gomez is an American freelance photographer and author of photographic how-to books.His work has appeared in Parade Magazine, Rangefinder Magazine, D-Pixx Magazine, Peterson's 4-Wheel Drive, Stars and Stripes, Army Times, Airman, Soldiers, Playboy.com, Netscape.com, Studio Photography &...
(art, doc, port) - Greg GormanGreg GormanGreg Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers, including Esquire, GQ, Interview, Life, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times...
(art, port) - John GossageJohn GossageJohn Gossage is an American photographer, noted for his artist's books and other publications using his photographs to explore under-recognised elements of the urban environment such as abandoned tracts of land, debris and garbage, and graffiti, and themes of surveillance, memory and the...
- William P. GottliebWilliam P. GottliebWilliam Paul Gottlieb was an American photographer and newspaper columnist who is best known for his classic photographs of the leading performers of the "Golden Age" of American jazz in the 1930s and 1940s...
- Hal GouldHal GouldHal Gould is an American photographer and gallery curator.-Early life:Gould was born in in Clark, Wyoming. He grew up on a farm in New Mexico and left home at the age of 15. After holding a number of different jobs, he entered dentistry school, but was drafted into the army in 1940...
(art) - Emmet GowinEmmet GowinEmmet Gowin is an American photographer.After graduating from Richmond Professional Institute in 1965, Gowin attended the Rhode Island School of Design...
(art, doc) - Masao GozuMasao GozuBorn in Nagano Prefecture in 1946, Gozu graduated from Toyo Art School in 1970. The next year he moved to New York, where he studied at and in 1973 graduated from Brooklyn Museum Art School. There he photographed people looking out of windows. These photographs are carefully made, with perspective...
- Karen GraffeoKaren GraffeoKaren Graffeo is an American artist based in Birmingham, Alabama. While specializing in photography, Graffeo is also a choreographer and installation artist. Early in her photography career, she worked as Jerry Uelsmann's assistant and model...
(art, port, doc) - Paul GrahamPaul Graham (photographer)Paul Graham is an English fine-art photographer whose work has been exhibited, published and collected internationally. In 2009, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize...
- Jan GrarupJan GrarupJan Grarup is a Danish photojournalist who has worked both as a staff photographer and as a freelance, specializing in war and conflict photography. He has won many prizes including the World Press Photo award for his coverage of the war in Kosovo....
(war) - Herb GreeneHerb GreeneHerb Greene is an American photographer known for his photographs of 1960s San Francisco musicians.-Career:Herb Greene was part of the 1960s San Francisco art scene and a friend of many of psychedelic rock musicians of the era...
(port) - Timothy Greenfield-SandersTimothy Greenfield-SandersTimothy Greenfield-Sanders is an American portrait photographer known for his strikingly intimate portraits of world leaders and major cultural figures. The majority of his work is shot in large format, 11x14 inch black-and-white film and 8x10 color film...
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- Jill GreenbergJill GreenbergJill Greenberg is an American photographer and artist. She is known for her portraits and fine art work.-Biography:Greenberg was born in Montreal, Quebec, and grew up in a suburb of Detroit. She graduated with honors in 1989 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Photography and...
- Lauren GreenfieldLauren GreenfieldLauren Greenfield is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker. She has published three monographs of her photographic work, directed four documentary films, exhibited her photographic prints in museums throughout the world, and had her work published in a variety of...
- Lois GreenfieldLois Greenfield__notoc__Lois Greenfield is a photographer made famous by her ability to capture the human form in motion and her use of it as a compositional element in her art...
- Philip Jones GriffithsPhilip Jones GriffithsPhilip Jones Griffiths was a Welsh photojournalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam war.- Biography :...
(doc, war) - Stan Grossfeld
- Bob GruenBob GruenBob Gruen is an American photographer known for his rock 'n' roll photographs.Gruen was born in New York City. He began photographing rock stars with Bob Dylan and served as John Lennon's personal photographer during his time in New York City. Gruen is best known for his photograph of Lennon...
(port) - Ludvig GrundtvigLudvig GrundtvigLudvig Grundtvig was a Danish photographer and portrait painter. He based many of his later paintings on his own photographs.-Early life:Born in Nykøbing Falster, Grundtvig studied at the Danish Academy from 1851 to 1857, winning two awards....
(port) - Olivier GrunewaldOlivier GrunewaldOlivier Grunewald is a French photographer and author, with the main focus on nature, landscapes and wildlife.Olivier Grunewald was born in Paris in 1959...
(land) - Emile GsellEmile GsellEmile Gsell was a French photographer who worked in Southeast Asia, becoming the first commercial photographer based in Saigon . He participated in at least three scientific expeditions, and the images he produced from the first, to Angkor, are amongst the earliest photographs of that site...
- Ara GülerAra GülerAra Güler is a Turkish photojournalist of Armenian descent, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul".- Early life :...
- Andreas GurskyAndreas GurskyAndreas Gursky is a German visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs, often employing a high point of view...
(art) - John GutmannJohn GutmannJohn Gutmann was a German-born American photographer and painter.After fleeing Nazi Germany for being a Jew, Gutmann acquired a job in the United States as a photographer for various German magazines. Gutmann quickly took an interest in the American way of life and sought to capture it through the...
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- Ernst HaasErnst HaasErnst Haas was an Austrian artist and influential photographer noted for his innovations in color photography, experiments in abstract light and form, and as a member of the Magnum Photos agency....
(Doc, port) - Tzeli HadjidimitriouTzeli HadjidimitriouTzeli Hadjidimitriou is a Greek photographer and writer. She is specialized in landscape, interiors, archaeological and art works photography...
(art, land, arch) - Ross HalfinRoss HalfinRoss Halfin is a British rock and roll photographer. He began his career working for Sounds magazine in the 1970s, shooting various artists on the punk scene including The Clash, The Jam, The Sex Pistols, 999 and The Adverts...
(port, music, art) - E.R. HallE.R. HallEdward "Eddie" Ramsden Hall was an English racing driver. He was born in Milnsbridge into a wealthy Yorkshire family in 1900, the heir to a successful textiles business which funded his motor racing and other sporting exploits...
(spt, port) - Mark Robert HalperMark Robert HalperMark Robert Halper is a Los Angeles photographer noted for the striking human images in his commercial and fine art photography...
(adv, arch, art, inds, port) - Philippe HalsmanPhilippe HalsmanPhilippe Halsman was an American portrait photographer.-Life and work:Born to a Jewish family of Morduch Halsman, a dentist, and Ita Grintuch, a grammar school principal, in Riga, Halsman studied electrical engineering in Dresden....
(art, fash, port) - Dirck HalsteadDirck HalsteadDirck Halstead, is a photojournalist, and editor and publisher of The Digital Journalist an online photojournalism magazine....
- David HamiltonDavid Hamilton (photographer)David Hamilton is a British photographer and occasional film director most known for his images of young women.-Early life and career:...
(abs, art) - Adelaide HanscomAdelaide HanscomAdelaide Hanscom Leeson was an early 20th century artist and photographer who published some of the first books using photography to illustrate literary works.-Early years:...
(pict) - Georg Emil HansenGeorg Emil HansenGeorg Emil Hansen was one of Denmark's pioneering photographers in the second half of the 19th century. He had his own studio in Copenhagen and later became a successful court photographer.-Early life:...
(port) - Charles HarbuttCharles HarbuttCharles Harbutt is an American photographer, a former president of Magnum, and full-time Professor at Parsons School of Design in New York.-Biography:...
- Bert HardyBert HardyBert Hardy was a documentary and press photographer known for his work published in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and1957....
(doc, war) - John HarringtonJohn Harrington (photographer, author)John Harrington is an American photographer and author. Harrington wrote the manual Best Business Practices for Photographers, and provided the photography for three books by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian: Meet Naiche, Meet Mindy, and Meet Lydia.Harrington...
- Alfred A. HartAlfred A. HartAlfred A. Hart was a 19th-century American photographer for the Central Pacific Railroad. Hart was the official photographer of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad, for which he took 364 historic stereoviews of the railroad construction in the 1860s...
- Sam HaskinsSam HaskinsSam Haskins, born Samuel Joseph Haskins , was a South African photographer best known for his contribution to nude photography, pre-Photoshop in-camera image montage, and his books, the most influential of which were Cowboy Kate and Haskins Posters...
(adv, art, doc, fash, inds, food, land, port) - Victor HasselbladVictor HasselbladVictor Hasselblad was a Swedish inventor and photographer, known for inventing the Hasselblad 6x6 cm medium format camera....
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- Harald HauswaldHarald HauswaldHarald Hauswald is a German photographer.With Sibylle Bergemann and Ute Mahler, Hauswald was a co-founder of the Ostkreuz photo agency.-Exhibitions:*"Ostzeit – Stories from a Vanished Country", House of World Cultures, 2009....
(doc) - Ron HavivRon HavivRon Haviv is a photojournalist, producing work covering a broad spectrum of international conflict. He is the author of several photographic collections and the recipient of a number of awards. Haviv is also a co-founder of VII Photo Agency, which is dedicated to documenting change, conflict, and...
(doc, war) - Masumi HayashiMasumi Hayashi (photographer)Dr. Masumi Hayashi was an American photographer and artist who taught art at Cleveland State University, in Cleveland, Ohio, for 24 years...
- Tadahiko HayashiTadahiko Hayashiwas a Japanese photographer noted for a wide range of work including documentary and portraiture.-Youth and early career:...
(doc, port) - Takanobu HayashiTakanobu Hayashiis a Japanese photographer.Hayashi was born in Dalian, China, in 1946, but his family then quickly moved to Japan, first to Beppu and then to Kyoto. He worked in a darkroom for a year after graduating from high school, and in 1965 moved to Tokyo, where he studied at the Tokyo College of Photography...
(art) - William HayesWilliam Hayes (photographer)William Hayes was a Victorian photographer in York: see* Buchanan, Terry William Hayes, 1871-1940: York Photographic Artist. Beverley: Hutton Press, ISBN 9780907033394 ISBN 0907033393...
- Frank Jay HaynesFrank Jay HaynesFrank Jay Haynes , known as F. Jay or the Professor, to almost all that knew him, was a professional photographer, publisher and entrepreneur from Minnesota who played a major role in documenting through photographs, the settlement and early history of the great Northwest...
(doc, land, inds) - John HeartfieldJohn HeartfieldJohn Heartfield is the anglicized name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld...
- Darren HeathDarren HeathDarren Heath is a motorsport photographer specialising in Formula One motor racing, and is principal photographer for F1 Racing magazine....
(spt) - Petter HegrePetter HegrePetter Hegre is a Norwegian photographer, most famous for his nude photography of women.-Biography:Hegre studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography in California and worked in New York with Richard Avedon before returning to his native Norway. He received the "Photographer of the Year 2001"...
(dig) - William HeickWilliam HeickWilliam Heick is a San Francisco based photographer and filmmaker. He is best known for his ethnographic photographs and documentary films of North American Indian cultures. W.R. Heick served as producer-director and chief cinematographer for the of the University of California, Berkeley on their...
(art, doc, ethno, inds) - Keld Helmer-PetersenKeld Helmer-PetersenKeld Helmer-Petersen is a Danish photographer who achieved his international breakthrough in 1948 when he published 122 Farvefotografier/122 Colour Photographs, a collection of experiments with shapes inspired by Albert Renger-Patzsch and the poetic realism of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement...
(art) - Gottfried HelnweinGottfried HelnweinGottfried Helnwein is an Austrian-Irish fine artist, painter, photographer, installation and performance artist.-Work:Helnwein studied at the University of Visual Art in Vienna...
(art) - Fritz HenleFritz HenleFritz Henle was a photographer, known as "Mr. Rollei" for his use of the 2.25" square format film used in the Rolleiflex camera.Henle was born in Dortmund, Germany in 1909 and died in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1993...
- Bill HensonBill HensonBill Henson is an Australian contemporary art photographer.-Background:Henson's art has been exhibited in many locations, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in...
(art) - Carli HermèsCarli HermèsCarli Hermés , is a Dutch photographer and director.Carli Hermès studied photography at the Royal Academy of Art and The Arts Institute at Bournemouth in England. He became international known with his commercial photographs for brands like Martini, Swatch, Levi's, Mexx, Nike, WE, Philips, Sony,...
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- J Malan HeslopJ Malan HeslopJ Malan Heslop to Jesse and Zella Malan Heslop, was a World War II combat photographer with Arnold E. Samuelson's Combat Assignment Unit #123 of the 167th Signal Photographic Company who documented evidence of Nazi war crimes...
(war) - David Octavius HillDavid Octavius HillThe Scottish painter and arts activist David Octavius Hill collaborated with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of photography in Scotland.-Early life:...
- John K. HillersJohn K. HillersJohn Karl Hillers was an American government photographer.Hillers came to the United States in 1852. He was a policeman and then a soldier in the American Civil War, first with the New York Naval Brigade, then in the army, he re-enlisted after the war and served with the Western garrisons until 1870...
- David HilliardDavid HilliardDavid Hilliard is a member of the Black Panther Party. He was Chief of Staff in the party. He is currently a visiting instructor at the University of New Mexico....
- Lewis HineLewis HineLewis Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.-Early life:...
(art, doc, port) - Terushichi HiraiTerushichi Hiraiwas one of the most prominent Japanese photographers in the first half of the 20th century in Japan.As an amateur photographer, he was very energetic in photography groups, such as Naniwa Photography Club and Tampei Photography Club....
- HiroHiro (photographer)Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, professionally known as Hiro, is an American commercial photographer. He was born in Shanghai in 1930 to Japanese parents...
(fash) - John HoaglandJohn HoaglandJohn Hoagland was a war photographer and photojournalist noted for his documentation of civil conflicts in Nicaragua, Lebanon, and El Salvador....
(war) - David HobbyDavid HobbyDavid Hobby is an American photographer and author of the Strobist.com lighting blog, a site which promotes lighting techniques — such as off-camera flash — among photographic enthusiasts, often with an emphasis on the practical knowledge rather than the gear.- Professional life :Until July 2008,...
(dig) - Hannah HöchHannah HöchHannah Höch was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.-Biography:...
(abs, art, port) - David HockneyDavid HockneyDavid Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....
(abs, art, doc, int, land, port) - Heinrich HoffmannHeinrich HoffmannHeinrich Hoffmann was a German photographer best known for his many published photographs of Adolf Hitler.-Early life and career:...
- Josef HoflehnerJosef HoflehnerJosef Hoflehner is an Austrian photographer known for his black-and-white landscape images. He was voted Nature Photographer of the Year 2007, and his photographs are regularly exhibited in New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, London and other world cities.- Photobooks :* ZNZ: Zanzibar *...
- Jacob HoldtJacob HoldtJacob Holdt is a Danish photographer, writer and lecturer. His mammoth work, American Pictures, gained international fame in 1977 for its effective photographic revelations about the hardships of America's lower classes....
(doc) - Frederick HollyerFrederick HollyerFrederick Hollyer was an English photographer and engraver known for his photographic reproductions of paintings and drawings, particularly those of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and for portraits of literary and artistic figures of late Victorian and Edwardian London.-Family:Hollyer was the...
(port, art, int) - Joseph HolmesJoseph HolmesJoseph E. Holmes is a color, natural light, landscape photographer from California. He is an innovator in the field of inkjet fine art print making, and has developed his own visual calibration software.-Life and work:...
- Ismo HölttöIsmo HölttöIsmo Hölttö is a Finnish documentary photographer known for his monochrome portraits of Roma people and others living in the cities and countryside of Finland in the 1960s, a time of rapid societal change....
- Jesper HømJesper HømIb Jesper Brieghel Høm was a Danish photographer and film director. After opening his own studio in Copenhagen, he travelled widely, finally working for Agence VISA in Paris. Jesper Høm was a co-founder of Copenhagen's Delta Photos, an organization designed to inspire and assist press photographers...
(doc) - Douglas HopkinsDouglas HopkinsDouglas Hopkins is a photographer whose fashion and beauty images have appeared in Vogue, W, Women's Wear Daily, Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and The New York Times, among others...
(fash) - Rob HornstraRob HornstraRob Hornstra is a Dutch photographer and self-publisher of documentary work, particularly of areas of the former Soviet Union.- Career :...
(doc) - Horie KuwajirōHorie KuwajiroHorie Kuwajirō was an early Japanese photographer and science writer.Horie studied rangaku, specifically chemistry, at the Nagasaki Naval Training Center where J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort was an instructor. In addition to chemistry, Pompe van Meerdervoort taught photography...
- Masao HorinoMasao Horinowas one of the most prominent Japanese photographers in the first half of the 20th century in Japan.He was born in Tokyo and graduated from , now .He was a member of which was founded by in 1930....
- Horst P. HorstHorst P. HorstHorst Paul Albert Bohrmann who chose to be known as Horst P. Horst was a German-American fashion photographer.-Early life:...
(doc, fash, port) - Eric HoskingEric HoskingEric John Hosking OBE was an English photographer noted for his bird photography.Hosking was born in London. Although he pioneered several techniques for bird photography, during the first 10 years of his photography career, Hosking was not successful in being published...
- Charles HowardCharles Howard (photographer)A private in the Fourth Infantry, Charles Howard served as photographer for the Stanton Expedition in 1877, traveling throughout eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska and into the Black Hills of Dakota Territory.-Early years:...
(doc) - Robert HowlettRobert HowlettRobert Howlett , was a pioneering British photographer whose pictures are widely exhibited in major galleries. Howlett produced portraits of Crimean War heroes, genre scenes and landscapes...
Pioneer, 1831–1858 - George Hoyningen-HueneGeorge Hoyningen-HueneBaron George Hoyningen-Huene was a seminal fashion photographer of the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Russia to Baltic German and American parents and spent his working life in France, England and the United States.-Europe:...
- Henri HuetHenri HuetHenri Huet was a French war photographer, noted for his work covering the Vietnam War for Associated Press .- Early life :Huet was born in Da Lat, Vietnam, the son of a Breton engineer and Vietnamese mother...
- Fred HultstrandFred HultstrandFred Hultstrand was a professional photographer. His photography helped document life in the U.S. state of North Dakota in the early twentieth century.-Background:...
- William HundleyWilliam HundleyWilliam Hundley is an American artist born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He lives and works in Austin, Texas.In 2006 he began an ongoing series of photographs that he titled “Entoptic Phenomena” in which he photographs people jumping underneath fabrics and other various materials...
- Art HupyArt HupyArt Hupy was an American freelance commercial photographer noted for his images of architecture and artists from the Northwest School. Hupy also founded the Museum of Northwest Art.-Personal life:...
(arch, port) - Frank HurleyFrank HurleyJames Francis "Frank" Hurley, OBE was an Australian photographer and adventurer. He participated in a number of expeditions to Antarctica and served as an official photographer with Australian forces during both world wars.His artistic style produced many memorable images but he also used staged...
- David HurnDavid HurnDavid Hurn, born July 21, 1934, in Redhill, Surrey, England of Welsh descent, is a documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos.-Career:...
- George HurrellGeorge HurrellGeorge Hurrell was a photographer who made a significant contribution to the image of glamour presented by Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:...
(art, fash) - Philip HydePhilip Hyde (photographer)Philip Hyde was a pioneer landscape photographer and conservationist. He attended Ansel Adams' photography program at the California School of Fine Arts, now the San Francisco Art Institute, beginning with the Summer Session in 1946 and enrolling in the full-time professional photography training,...
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- Tetsuya IchimuraTetsuya IchimuraIchimura was born, with the family name Hamaguchi, in Nagasaki on 10 June 1930. As a young adult Ichimura moved to Tokyo, where he studied for a year at Nihon University, took various jobs, and chanced to meet Shōtarō Akiyama, who aroused his interest in photography....
- Daisaku IkedaDaisaku Ikedais president of Sōka Gakkai International , a Nichiren Buddhist lay association which claims 12 million members in 192 countries and territories, and founder of several educational, cultural and peace research institutions.-Life and establishment of SGI:...
- William H. IllingworthWilliam H. IllingworthWilliam H. Illingworth was an English photographer who accompanied both Captain James L. Fisk's 1866 expedition to the Montana Territory and Lt. Colonel George Custer's 1874 U.S. military expedition into the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory .- Early life :William Henry Illingworth was born in...
- Jesús InostrozaJesús InostrozaJesús Inostroza Toro is a Chilean photographer born on 25 December 1956 in Santiago, Chile. He is noted for having worked as official photographer of Chilean presidents Patricio Aylwin, Eduardo Frei and Ricardo Lagos, between 1990 and 2001....
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- Seiryū InoueSeiryu Inouewas a renowned Japanese photographer.Born in 1931 in Tosa, Kōchi Prefecture, Inoue became the first apprentice to Takeji Iwamiya in Osaka in 1951. While continuing to work with Iwamiya in 1954 he started work as temporary cameraman for Asahi Broadcasting Corporation in Osaka.Iwamiya recognized his...
(doc) - Jerry IntervalJerry IntervalJerry Interval, , was an American portrait photographer and educator known for his expert studio and natural lighting techniques and for his Merry Monks series of portraits.- The early years :...
- Walter IoossWalter IoossWalter Iooss Jr. is a professional photographer.He is best known for his work with Sports Illustrated magazine, which has featured his photos on its cover several times and for his portraits of famous athletes such as Michael Jordan, Cal Ripken, Jr. and Ken Griffey, Jr....
- Taikichi IrieTaikichi IrieTaikichi Irie was a Japanese photographer. He concentrated on Yamatoji and Buddhist statues....
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- Edith IrvineEdith IrvineLizzie Edith Irvine American photographer who documented the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.-Early life:Irvine was born in Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County, California to Thomas Hanna Irvine and Mary Irene Irvine. Her father was a gold miner.Edith’s grandfather, William Irvine, was the youngest in a...
- Lee IsaacsLee IsaacsLee Isaacs is an American photographer, living and working in Birmingham, Alabama.Isaacs studied pinhole photography with Pinky Bass. He has worked both with commercial and art photography. He works with photography seminars and teaches classes and workshops across the US.He has involved himself...
(abs, adv, art, doc, port) - Johann Baptist IsenringJohann Baptist IsenringJohann Baptist Isenring was a Swiss painter, printmaker and daguerreotypist. In 1840 or 1841 he produced the first coloured daguerreotype using a mixture of gum arabic and pigments. The coloured powder was fixed on the delicate surface of the daguerreotype by the application of heat...
- Yasuhiro IshimotoYasuhiro IshimotoIshimoto was born on 14 June 1921 in San Francisco, California, where his parents were farmers. In 1924, the family left the United States and returned to his parents' hometown within present-day Tosa, in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan...
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- Jules ItierJules ItierJules Alphonse Eugène Itier French customs inspector and amateur daguerreotypist. Between 1842 and 1843 he traveled to Senegal, Guadeloupe and India, where he took a number of early daguerreotypes....
- Mitsuaki IwagōMitsuaki Iwagois a prominent Japanese wildlife photographer and filmmaker.-Biography:He is the son of Tokumitsu Iwagō, himself a noted wildlife photographer. After graduating from Hosei University, Iwago went as his father's assistant to the Galápagos Islands, where he decided to become a photographer. His work...
- Takeji IwamiyaTakeji Iwamiyawas a Japanese photographer particularly known for his depiction of architecture, gardens, and Japanese crafts.-Career:Iwamiya was born on 4 January 1920 in Yonago, Tottori, the second son of parents running a shop selling traditional confectionery...
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- Bill JacksonBill Jackson (photographer)Bill Jackson is a contemporary English photographer.-Education and career:Jackson was born in 1953 and graduated from Coventry School of Art and Birmingham School of Art. He first exhibited at The Photographers Gallery in the exhibition Fleeting Gestures...
- William Henry JacksonWilliam Henry JacksonWilliam Henry Jackson was an American painter, Civil War, geological survey photographer and an explorer famous for his images of the American West...
- Lotte JacobiLotte JacobiJohanna Alexandra Jacobi was a German photographer, who immigrated to the United States to escape Nazi Germany....
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- Bahman JalaliBahman JalaliBahman Jalali is a Persian/Iranian name. There are few Persians/Iranians with this name, but the most famous one to date was an Iranian photographer who taught photography at different universities in Iran for 20 years.-Career:...
(doc, art) - Russell JamesRussell JamesRussell James is a fashion, celebrity and beauty photographer. He is not to be confused with Russell James, British writer.-Photography:...
- Olof JarlbroOlof JarlbroOlof Jarlbro is a Swedish photographer.He started to photograph at the age of 20. At the age of 22 he moved to New York and studied photojournalism at Icp, international center of photography...
- Mimmo JodiceMimmo JodiceMimmo Jodice is an Italian photographer. He was professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli from 1970 to 1996.-Biography:...
(doc, land) - Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de LotbinièreGaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de LotbinièreGaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, born in 1798 in Frauenfeld and died in 1865 in Paris, was a French merchant and photographer born in Switzerland, married to a Canadian seigneuress. Famous for being the first to photograph the Acropolis and then the Egyptian Pyramids with Horace Vernet...
(arch, land) - Jan Töve JohanssonJan Töve JohanssonJan Töve Johansson is a Swedish landscape photographer, publicist, writer and lecturer.Johansson has won several awards in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, owned by BBC Wildlife and The Natural History Museum, and beside his publicist's work shot a documentary for the Swedish...
- Alfred Cheney JohnstonAlfred Cheney JohnstonAlfred Cheney Johnston was a New York City-based photographer known for his portraits of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls as well as of 1920s/1930s actors and actresses....
- John S. JohnstonJohn S. JohnstonJohn S. Johnston was a late 19th-century maritime and landscape photographer. He is known for his photographs of racing yachts and New York City landmarks and cityscapes....
- Anthony JonesAnthony Jones (photographer)For another photographer named Anthony Jones, see Tony Ray-Jones Anthony Jones is an English photographer known for his black and white photos of the urban environment....
- Charles JonesCharles Jones (photographer)Charles Harry Jones was an English gardener and photographer, noted for his still lifes of fruit and vegetables.Born in Wolverhampton, Charles Jones became a gardener working on a number of private estates in England from the 1890s. His gardening was noted for the quality of his flowerbeds and...
(food) - Pirkle JonesPirkle JonesPirkle Jones was a documentary photographer born in Shreveport, Louisiana. His first experience with photography was when he purchased a Kodak Brownie at the age of seventeen. In the 30's his photographs were featured in pictorialist salons and publications...
- Bishin JumonjiBishin Jumonjiis a photographer who has done advertising, portrait, architectural, and other work.Jumonji was born in Yokohama on 4 March 1947. After studying at the Tokyo College of Photography he worked as an assistant to Kishin Shinoyama and went freelance in 1971, when he was the cameraman for advertisements...
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- Gertrude KäsebierGertrude KäsebierGertrude Käsebier was one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th century. She was known for her evocative images of motherhood, her powerful portraits of Native Americans and her promotion of photography as a career for women.-Early life :Käsebier was born Gertrude...
- Clemens KalischerClemens KalischerClemens Kalischer is a photojournalist and art photography. He emigrated to France via Switzerland and then to the United States via Morocco . Clemens Kalischer married Angela Wottitz in 1956. They have two daughters, Cornelia and Tanya...
(doc, art) - Jesse KalisherJesse KalisherJesse Kalisher is an American photographer credited with having the first photographs of Barack Obama to be acquired by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History....
- Kameya TokujirōKameya Tokujirowas a pioneering, though now little-known, nineteenth-century Japanese photographer. Kameya's original surname was Abe ; he was adopted by a family named Kameya. He learned photography at Deshima, the Dutch enclave in the harbour of Nagasaki where physicians Jan Karel van den Broek and...
- Consuelo KanagaConsuelo KanagaConsuelo Delesseps Kanaga was an American photographer and writer who became well known for her photographs of African-Americans.-Life:...
- Nadav KanderNadav KanderNadav Kander is a London based photographer, artist and director, internationally renowned for his portraiture and landscapes. His work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Kander's work is also exhibited in numerous...
- Yousuf KarshYousuf KarshYousuf Karsh, CC was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.-Biography:...
(port) - Nasrollah KasraianNasrollah Kasraian-Biography:A graduate in law from Tehran University, Nasrollah Kasraian has been engaged in photography since 1966. The Kasraian family is an influential Iranian family...
(doc, land) - Emy KatEmy KatEmy Kat is an American photographer working in the fields of fashion, advertising, and Fine art photography.-Career and life:Emy Kat was born in 1959. He is a US citizen with a Middle Eastern descent. He started photography when his father gave him his first camera at age 12...
(art) - Rinko KawauchiRinko KawauchiRinko Kawauchi is a Japanese photographer, shooting mostly in 6×6 format. Her work is characterized by a serene, poetic style, depicting the ordinary moments in life....
- Barry KayBarry KayBarry Kay , who studied arts at the Académie Julian in Paris, was a stage and costume designer of international renown...
(doc, art) - Seiki KayamoriSeiki KayamoriSeiki Kayamori was a Japanese photographer who lived in Yakutat, Alaska, before World War II. His photographs captured the village's residents, mostly Tlingit Indians, at a time when the fish canning industry and other outside influences were beginning to change or eclipse traditional ways of...
(doc, ethno) - Kensuke KazamaKensuke Kazamais a Japanese photographer who for many years lived in and photographed the one-time mining town of Yūbari, Hokkaidō.Born in Mie Prefecture, Kazama moved to Tokyo in 1978. He held exhibitions in Tokyo two years later...
- Mary Morgan KeippMary Morgan KeippMary Morgan Keipp was a noted figure in the art photography movement of the early 20th century, exhibiting her photographs of rural Dallas County African-Americans in major exhibitions at the New York Camera Club , the Annual Photographic Salon , Dudley Galleries in London , and the...
- Seydou KeïtaSeydou Keita (photographer)Seydou Keïta was a self-taught portrait photographer from Bamako. He is mostly known for his portraits of people and families he took between 1940 and the early sixties and that are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society, but also as pieces of art.-Biography:Seydou Keïta was...
- Michael KennaMichael Kenna (photographer)Michael Kenna is an English photographer best known for his black & white landscapes.Kenna attended Upholland College in Lancashire, the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire, and the London College of Printing...
(art, int, land) - James KennyJames Kenny (photographer)James Kenny is a professional photographer based in the United Kingdom, best known for his fashion, celebrity portrait and documentary work.- Biography :...
- Mitch KernMitch KernMitch Kern is an American photographer living in Canada whose work explores the relationship between the individual and society. Kern uses portrait photography as a vehicle for social commentary....
(art, port) - Charles KerryCharles KerryCharles Henry Kerry was an Australian photographer noted for his photographs that contributed to the development of the Australian national psyche and romance of the Bush.- Early life and career :...
- André KertészAndré KertészAndré Kertész , born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition...
(doc, land, int, port) - Robert Glenn KetchumRobert Glenn KetchumRobert Glenn Ketchum is a landscape and nature photographer whose work has a strong environmental advocacy message.-Life and career:...
- Carl de KeyzerCarl de KeyzerCarl de Keyzer is a Belgian contemporary photographer. He was nominated to the Magnum Photos agency in 1990, became an associated member in 1992 and a full member in 1994.-Career:...
(doc) - Yevgeny KhaldeiYevgeny KhaldeiYevgeny Khaldei was a Red Army photographer, best known for his World War II photograph of a Soviet soldier Raising a flag over the Reichstag, in Berlin, capital of the vanquished Nazi Germany .-Life:...
- Takashi KijimaTakashi KijimaKijima was born in Calexico, California on 24 December 1920, the son of a Mr Watanabe, a shoe manufacturer who had immigrated in 1905, and his wife Sei . The boy's name as a US citizen was Ryu Watanabe...
- Hiroh KikaiHiroh Kikaiis a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for three series of monochrome photographs: scenes of buildings in and close to Tokyo, portraits of people in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, and rural and town life in India...
(doc, port) - Shunkichi KikuchiShunkichi Kikuchiwas a Japanese photographer best known for his documentation of Hiroshima and Tokyo immediately after the war.Kikuchi was born in Hanamaki, Iwate on 1 May 1916. After graduating from the Oriental School of Photography, Kikuchi was employed in the Photography Division of Tokyo Kōgeisha and began his...
(doc, sci) - Chris KillipChris KillipChristopher David Killip was born in Douglas, Isle of Man and in 1964 moved to London where he worked as an assistant to the advertising photographer Adrian Flowers. He soon went freelance, but in 1969 stopped his commercial work to concentrate on the photography that he wanted to do. In 1969 he...
- Miru KimMiru KimMiru Kim is an artist, photographer, illustrator, and arts events coordinator, who has explored, documented, and photographed various urban settings such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, the Croton aqueduct, Paris catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards. Kim's Naked City Spleen series...
(doc, art, land) - Ihei KimuraIhei KimuraBorn on 12 December 1901 in Shitaya-ku , Tokyo, Kimura started taking photographs when very young but his interest intensified when he was around 20 and living in Tainan, Taiwan, where he was working for a sugar wholesaler. He opened a photographic studio in Nippori, Tokyo in 1924...
(doc, port) - Darius KinseyDarius KinseyDarius Kinsey was a photographer active in western Washington State from 1890 to 1940. He is best known for his large-format images of loggers and phases of the region's lumber industry...
- Genzō KitazumiGenzo Kitazumiwas an influential Japanese photographer. Kitazumi's work is characterized by manipulation of photographic process for aesthetic rather than representational or documentary effect. His pre-war work features the use of lith print process and solarization. Photograms feature frequently in his...
(art, doc) - Kirsten KleinKirsten KleinKirsten Klein is a Danish photographer who since the mid-1970s has lived on the island of Mors. She has become one of Denmark's foremost landscape photographers, developing a highly characteristic, somewhat melancholic style, frequently achieved by employing older photographic techniques.-Early...
(art, land) - William KleinWilliam KleinWilliam Klein is a photographer and filmmaker noted to for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography...
- Luca Kleve-RuudLuca Kleve-RuudKleve-Ruud studied photojournalism at Høgskolen i Oslo. He also studied medicine and homeopathy.He is currently working for Save the Children, Dagens Næringsliv and Samfoto, but has done several assignments for Red Cross, Amnesty and others. And was both freelance and staff phootgrapher at...
(doc, port) - Stuart KlipperStuart Klipper'Photographer Stuart Klipper, was born in the Bronx borough of New York City in 1941. He lived in Stockholm, Sweden, but then moved to his current residence in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1970....
(art, land) - Mattias KlumMattias KlumMattias Klum is a Swedish freelance photographer and film producer in natural history and cultural subjects. He is the son of Swedish academic educator Arne Klum and Ingegärd Klum, née Stefanson. Klum has worked full-time as a freelance photographer since 1986, and as a cinematographer and...
- Gary KnightGary KnightGary Knight was born in 1964 in Oakham, England and was raised in the village of Knowle in the West Midlands. He attended Arden School and Solihull Sixth Form College. He left higher education mid way through his first year and started to travel in Europe and the Middle East...
(doc, war) - Nick KnightNick Knight (photographer)Nick Knight OBE is a British fashion photographer, documentary photographer, and web publisher—as director of SHOWstudio.com.-Life and career:Knight studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design....
- Kiyoshi KoishiKiyoshi KoishiHe was born in Osaka and became a member of Naniwa Shashin Club in the 1920s.In 1933 he published the monograph Shoka Shinkei , one of the most important works for Japanese modernist photography...
- Akira KomotoAkira KomotoBorn Masaaki Komoto in Ōmori-ku, Tokyo on 14 August 1935, Komoto was brought up in Seki, Gifu Prefecture. He studied at Gifu University, graduating in 1958; and until 1962 at the graduate school of Tokyo University of Education .Nomoto has created paintings, prints and photographs from the 1960s...
(art) - Tomio KondōTomio KondoKondō was born on 24 January 1900 to a landowning family in Kanazawa village . He started with a camera at 18, and also had a keen interest in archaeology...
(doc, port) - Sirkka-Liisa KonttinenSirkka-Liisa Konttinen-Life and work:Born in Myllykoski Finland in 1948, Konttinen studied photography in London in the 1960s, and cofounded the Amber collective, which moved to Newcastle....
(doc) - Yannis KontosYannis KontosYannis Kontos , is a Greek freelance photojournalist.-Studies:From 1988 to 1994, he studied at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Science of the University of Thessaloniki....
(doc) - Ad KoningsAd KoningsAd Konings is an ichthyologist originally trained in medicine and biology. Konings is best known for his research on African rift lake cichlids. After studies in Amsterdam he has spent most of his life in Rotterdam.- Early life :Konings started keeping cichlids when he was 14 years old in 1970...
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- Rudolf KoppitzRudolf KoppitzRudolf Koppitz was a Czechoslovak photographer, often credited as Viennese or Austrian, and photo-secessionist whose work is seen as maintaining the photographic style of pictorialism well past its heyday in light of the straight photography and modernist movements in photography at that time and...
- Alberto KordaAlberto KordaAlberto Díaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his famous image Guerrillero Heroico of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.-Early life:Korda, whose real name was Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, was born on 14 September 1928 in...
- Ziv KorenZiv KorenZiv Koren is an Israeli photojournalist, popular for his work showing the cruelties of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has received many prizes, including the Simon Rokower Award, 1st Place for Excellence in Photography for "Last Look: A new Leash on Life" 2004.Ziv gained popularity with the...
(doc, war) - Josef KoudelkaJosef KoudelkaJosef Koudelka is a Czech photographer.-Biography:Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia, town of about 10,000 inhabitants. He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera...
- Antonin KratochvilAntonin KratochvilAntonin Kratochvil is a Czech-born American photojournalist. He is a founding member of the VII Photo Agency. He received his BFA in Photography from Gerrit Rietveld Academie which is located in Amsterdam, Holland...
(doc, war) - George KrauseGeorge KrauseGeorge Krause is an American artist photographer, now retired from the University of Houston where he established the photography department....
- Ed KrebsEd KrebsEdward "Ed" H. Krebs , is a photographer and musician based in Laguna Beach, California. He works predominantly in monochrome and is best known for his portraiture using equipment popular in the 1960s including a 1954 Rolleiflex TLR camera, a Mamiya 645, and a Koni-Omega 6x7.Themes that recur in...
(port) - Barbara KrugerBarbara KrugerBarbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...
(abs, art, doc) - Astrid Kruse JensenAstrid Kruse JensenAstrid Kruse Jensen is a Danish photographer who specializes in artistic night photography where she brings out the mysteriously unreal, working on the play between artificial light and darkness...
(art) - Motoichi Kumagai (doc)
- Yasuo KuniyoshiYasuo Kuniyoshiwas an American painter, photographer and printmaker born in Okayama, Japan.He migrated to America in 1906, a year later began studying at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. In 1935 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. He taught at the Art Students League of New York in New York City...
- Justine KurlandJustine KurlandJustine Kurland is a fine art photographer based in New York.-Education:Kurland earned her B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. She went on to Yale University where she studied with Gregory Crewdson and Philip-Lorca diCorcia and graduated with an M.F.A...
(art) - Seiji KurataSeiji Kuratais a Japanese photographer.-Career:Kurata graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1968. He taught in secondary school and worked in oils, printmaking, and experimental movies....
(doc) - Kusakabe KimbeiKusakabe KimbeiKusakabe Kimbei was a Japanese photographer. He usually went by his given name, Kimbei, because his clientele, mostly non-Japanese-speaking foreign residents and visitors, found it easier to pronounce than his family name....
- Kineo KuwabaraKineo Kuwabarawas a Japanese editor and photographer, known for photographing Tokyo for over half a century.Kuwabara was born in Tokyo in 1913. He started taking photographs around 1931 with a Vest Pocket Kodak, but his interest increased as a result of an invitation by his neighbor Hiroshi Hamaya to go to a...
(doc) - Shisei KuwabaraShisei Kuwabarais a photojournalist best known for his depiction of the effects of mercury poisoning on people in and near Minamata over a period of some forty years....
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- David LaChapelleDavid LaChapelleDavid LaChapelle is a photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique, sexualized, and often humorous style.-Early life:...
(art, fash) - Vincent Laforet (doc)
- Karl LagerfeldKarl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel...
(fash) - Inez van Lamsweerde
- Penny LancasterPenny LancasterPenny Lancaster-Stewart is an English model and photographer. She is probably best known for her modeling work for designer lingerie brand Ultimo. She is married to rock singer Rod Stewart.-Early life & career:...
- Ernst Heinrich LandrockErnst Heinrich LandrockErnst Heinrich Landrock was a photographer, based in Tunis, Leipzig and Cairo.He is known for his works with Rudolf Franz Lehnert, published as "Lehnert & Landrock".- External links :*...
- Dorothea LangeDorothea LangeDorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration...
(doc, port) - Frans LantingFrans LantingFrans Lanting, is a Dutch photographer specializing in wildlife photography.Lanting was born in Rotterdam and later emigrated to the United States after being educated in the Netherlands. He now lives in Santa Cruz, California and operates a studio and gallery, as well as a stock photography...
- Claus Bjørn LarsenClaus Bjørn LarsenClaus Bjørn Larsen is an award-winning Danish press photographer, now working as a freelance. He gained special recognition in 2000 when he won the World Press Photo of the Year competition for his work in Kosovo.-Early life:...
(doc, war) - Jacques Henri LartigueJacques Henri LartigueJacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter.Born in Courbevoie to a wealthy family, he is most famous for his stunning photos of automobile races, planes and fashionable Parisian women from the turn of the century.He started taking photos when he was 7, his subject matter being...
(doc) - Clarence John LaughlinClarence John LaughlinClarence John Laughlin was a United States photographer best known for his surrealist photographs of the U.S. South.Laughlin was born in to a middle class family in Lake Charles, Louisiana. His rocky childhood, southern heritage, and interest in literature influenced his work greatly...
(art, int, land, port) - Alma LavensonAlma LavensonAlma Ruth Lavenson was a leading American photographer of the first half of the 20th century...
- Jim LeeJim Lee (photographer)Jim Lee is a London-based photographer and film director. A fashion photographer for magazines during the late sixties and seventies, he worked closely with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour in London and New York on fashion and advertising shoots...
(art, fash) - Russell LeeRussell Lee (photographer)Russell Lee was an American photographer and photojournalist.Lee had trained as a chemical engineer, and in the fall of 1936 became a member of the team of photographers assembled under Roy Stryker for the federally sponsored Farm Security Administration documentation project...
(doc) - Louis LegrandLouis Legrand (photographer)Louis Legrand was a French photographer based in Shanghai who may have been commissioned to accompany French forces and photographically document their participation in the Anglo-French military expedition to northern China during the Second Opium War in 1860...
- Gustave Le GrayGustave Le GrayJean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray has been called "the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century" because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture...
- Hans G. LehmannHans G. LehmannHans Georg Lehmann is a retired German photographer who is noted for his spy shots of prototype automobiles whilst they undergo testing stages, frequenting in locations where test sessions are likely to occur. These photographs regularly appear in automobile magazine.As a result of his success, a...
- Rudolf Franz LehnertRudolf Franz LehnertRudolf Franz Lehnert was a photographer.- Life :Lehnert was born in Gross Aupa , then in Bohemia and now in the Czech Republic...
- Peter LeibingPeter LeibingPeter Leibing was a German photographer known for his 1961 photographs of escaping East German border guard, Conrad Schumann jumping a barbed wire fence during construction of the Berlin Wall.Leibing was born in Hamburg in 1941...
- Annie LeibovitzAnnie LeibovitzAnna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer.-Early life and education:Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children. She is a third-generation American whose great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants, from Central and Eastern Europe. Her father's...
(art, doc, fash, port) - Neil LeiferNeil LeiferNeil Leifer is a photographer and filmmaker known mainly for his work in the Time Inc. family of magazines. He is generally considered the greatest sports photographer in history.- Early career :...
- Jacques LeiserJacques LeiserJacques Leiser is an international artists manager and photographer who has represented and collaborated with many of the world's greatest concert pianists, composers, violinists, composers and singers.-Biography:...
- Eugene LemaireEugene LemaireEugène Lemaire was a Belgian pictorialist photographer. He is an excellent artist of portrait and still life.He was a friend of Léonard Misonne.- Exhibitions :...
- Herman LeonardHerman LeonardHerman Leonard was an American photographer known for his unique images of jazz icons.-Life:...
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- Helmar LerskiHelmar LerskiHelmar Lerski was a photographer who laid some of the important foundations of modern photography. His works are on display in the USA, Germany, Israel and Switzerland. He focused mainly on portraits and the technique of photography with mirrors.His real name was Israel Schmuklerski...
- Henri Le SecqHenri Le SecqHenri Jean-Louis Le Secq was a French painter and photographer. After the French government made the daguerreotype open for public in 1851, Le Secq was one of the five photographers selected to carry out a photographic survey of architecture .-Early life:Henri Le Secq was born in 1818 in Paris and...
(arch) - Alex LevacAlex LevacAlex Levac is an Israeli photojournalist and street photographer. He won the Israel Prize for photography in 2005.-Biography:Alex Levac was born in Tel Aviv in 1944...
(art, doc) - Esther LevineEsther LevineEsther Levine is a German born, New York based photographer. After studying photography at the City College of New York from 1994 to 1996 she enrolled in the documentary photography program at the International Center of Photography in New York City in 1996...
(art) - Sherrie LevineSherrie LevineSherrie Levine is an American photographer and appropriation artist.-Education:Levine received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1969. In 1973, she earned an M.F.A. from the same institution....
(art, doc) - Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky (art, port)
- Sergei Lvovich LevitskySergei Lvovich LevitskyCount Sergei Lvovich Levitsky , is considered one of the patriarchs of Russian photography and one of Europe's most important early photographic pioneers, inventors and innovators.- Early life :...
(art, port, land) - Helen LevittHelen LevittHelen Levitt was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time."- Biography :...
(doc, port) - Patrick Lichfield (port)
- Jerome LieblingJerome LieblingJerome Liebling was an American photographer, filmmaker, and teacher.He studied photography under Walter Rosenblum and Paul Strand, and joined New York's famed Photo League...
(art) - Peter LikPeter LikPeter Lik is a self-taught Australian landscape photographer. While traveling in Alaska in 1984, Lik began to experiment with panoramic cameras. He is known for his limited editions and his work has been compared to that of legendary photographer Ansel Adams...
(land) - Peter LindberghPeter LindberghPeter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, is a German photographer and filmmaker, born on November 23, 1944 in Leszno, Poland. He currently lives in Paris, New York and Arles....
(fash) - Lawrence Denny LindsleyLawrence Denny LindsleyLawrence Denny Lindsley was an American photographer and also worked as a miner, hunter, and guide. Lindsley was a grandson of Seattle pioneer David Thomas Denny , a member of the Denny Party.-Personal life:...
(land, doc) - O. Winston LinkO. Winston LinkOgle Winston Link , known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer. He is best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk & Western in the United States in the late 1950s...
(abs, adv, art, doc, land, inds) - El LissitzkyEl Lissitzky, better known as El Lissitzky , was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works...
- Herbert ListHerbert ListHerbert List was a German photographer who worked for magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Life and was associated with Magnum Photos...
- Jacqueline LivingstonJacqueline LivingstonJacqueline Louise Livingston is an American photographer known for her work exploring woman's role as artist and person and investigating the boundaries of intimacy and propriety.-Life and career:...
- Harold LloydHarold LloydHarold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
(port) - R. Ian Lloyd
- Sun-chang LoSun-chang Lo-Early life:Sun-chang Lo is a Chinese American photographer, artist, architect. Born in Guangzhou, China, and has lived and studied in Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and the United States....
(art) - Eugeniusz LokajskiEugeniusz LokajskiEugeniusz Zenon Lokajski was a Polish athlete, gymnast and photographer. He is notable as the Champion of Poland in javelin throw and the creator of more than 1000 photos documenting the Warsaw Uprising.-Biography:...
- Alejandro López de HaroAlejandro López de HaroAlejandro López de Haro Ramirez. was a Venezuelan photographer, writer and stockbroker. He held a Bachelor of Science in business from Bryant College and an MBA in Finance from New York University....
(art) - Jet LoweJet LoweJohn T. "Jet" Lowe is an American photographer. He is one of the photographers employed by the U.S. National Park Service on the Historic American Building Survey and Historic American Engineering Record projects, and is now supervisor of engineering photography for HAER...
(arch, doc, port) - Auguste and Louis LumièreAuguste and Louis LumièreThe Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean , were among the earliest filmmakers in history...
- Markéta LuskačováMarkéta LuskacováMarkéta Luskačová is a Czech photographer known for her series of photographs taken in Slovakia, Britain and elsewhere. Considered one of the best Czech social photographers to date, since the 1990s she has photographed children in Czech Republic, Slovakia, and also Poland.- Biography :In 1968...
(doc) - Serge LutensSerge LutensSerge Lutens is a French photographer, filmmaker, hair stylist, perfume art-director and fashion designer....
(art, fash) - Loretta LuxLoretta LuxLoretta Lux was born in Dresden, East Germany and is a fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She currently lives and works in Monaco....
(art) - George Platt LynesGeorge Platt LynesGeorge Platt Lynes was an American fashion and commercial photographer.Born in East Orange, New Jersey to Adelaide and Joseph Russell Lynes he spent his childhood in New Jersey but attended the Berkshire School in Massachusetts. He was sent to Paris in 1925 with the idea of better preparing him...
(adv, art, doc, fash, port) - Danny Lyon (doc, port)
- Darryn LyonsDarryn LyonsDarryn Lyons is an Australian paparazzo, media personality and entrepreneur, best known for his work in Britain.-Early life:...
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- Pirie MacDonaldPirie MacDonaldIan Pirie MacDonald was an American portrait photographer, New York City civic leader, and peace advocate. He photographed over 70,000 men in the span of his career, including international heads of state, religious leaders, and artists.-Photography career:Born in Chicago, MacDonald moved to...
(port) - Iain MacMillanIain MacMillanIain Stewart Macmillan, was the Scottish photographer famous for taking the cover photograph for The Beatles' album Abbey Road in 1969. After growing up in Scotland, he moved to London to become a professional photographer. He used a photo of Yoko Ono in a book he published in 1966 and was invited...
- Chema MadozChema MadozJose Maria Rodriguez Madoz better known as Chema Madoz, is a Spanish photographer, best known for his black and white surrealist photographs.Chema Madoz studied Art History at Universidad Complutense de Madrid between 1980 and 1983...
(art) - Maeda GenzōMaeda GenzoMaeda Genzō was a Japanese photographer from northern Kyūshū. In Nagasaki he studied photography under Jan Karel van den Broek and J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort. Neither of these teachers was an experienced photographer, and their attempts to produce photographs were largely failures...
- Shinzo MaedaShinzo Maedawas a Japanese photographer famous for landscape photographs and movies.He published 46 photography books in Japan, and founded the Tankei Photo Agency Co...
- Arnaud MaggsArnaud Maggs-Biography:Arnaud Maggs is a Canadian artist and photographer. Born in Montreal, he lives in Toronto. Maggs is best known for stark portraits arranged in grid-like arrangements....
(art, port) - Vivian MaierVivian MaierVivian Maier was an American amateur street photographer who was born in New York but grew up in France, and after returning to the U.S., worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago...
- Jay MaiselJay MaiselJay Maisel is an American color photographer. His awards include the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society of Media Photographers, and the Infinity Award of the International Center of Photography...
(adv) - Marianne MajerusMarianne MajerusMarianne Majerus, born 1956 in Clervaux, Luxembourg, is a garden and portrait photographer based in London. She is one of Europe's leading specialist garden photographers. After taking her international baccalaureate at the Lycée Hubert Clément she studied in England graduating in Economics and in...
- Vassilis MakrisVassilis MakrisVassilis Makris was born in Patras, Greece in 1958.He is a professional photographer, highly specialised in applied photography, particularly architectural photography and interior photography....
- Christopher MakosChristopher MakosChristopher Makos is an American photographer and artist. He apprenticed with photographer Man Ray in Paris and collaborated with Andy Warhol, whom he showed how to use his first camera. He introduced Warhol to the work of both Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring...
- Joseph MakulaJoseph MakulaJoseph Makula was a photographer from the Belgian Congo.After joining the Force Publique, Makula served on the army newspaper, Sango ya biso, and in a military photographic laboratory...
- Steve MandelSteve MandelSteve Mandel is an American communications coach for professional executives, the founder and the president of the Mandel Communications company, which aims to teach effective communication and public speaking. He is also a keen amateur astronomer and astrophotographer. He owns a small observatory,...
(astro) - Erling MandelmannErling MandelmannErling Mandelmann is a Danish photographer. He began his career as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1960s.- Biography :...
- Sally MannSally MannSally Mann is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.-Early life and education:...
(art, doc, pict, port) - Jonathan MannionJonathan MannionJonathan Mannion is a photographer and film director. With English and American ancestry, he was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His father and mother are both well known Midwest artists. His mother is from London and his father from Brooklyn....
(music, adv, celeb) - Robert MapplethorpeRobert MapplethorpeRobert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men...
(art, fash, port) - Ken MarcusKen MarcusKen Marcus is an American photographer, known for his glamour photography with Penthouse and Playboy magazines. For over 30 years he has produced hundreds of centerfolds, editorials, album covers, and advertisements. His work is shown in galleries, published in books and magazines...
- Joan MarcusJoan MarcusJoan Marcus is a theatrical photographer based in Manhattan, New York, USA.Marcus was educated at George Washington University in Washington, D.C....
- Fosco MarainiFosco MarainiFosco Maraini was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic.-Biography:...
(ethno) - Marcel MariënMarcel MariënMarcel Mariën was a Belgian surrealist , poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects....
- Mary Ellen MarkMary Ellen MarkMary Ellen Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. She has had 16 collections of her work published and has been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. She has received numerous accolades, including three Robert F...
(doc, port) - Spider MartinSpider MartinJames "Spider" Martin was an American photographer known for his work documenting the American Civil Rights Movement....
(doc, port) - Enrico MartinoEnrico MartinoEnrico Martino is an Italian photojournalist.-Biography:Turin-born, freelance photojournalist from 1971, covered Sahel famine in 1984, Yom Kippur War, 1991 Gulf War. first elections in German Democratic Republic, Hungary and Romania after Berlin Wall fall...
(ethno, land, war) - Oscar G. MasonOscar G. MasonOscar G. Mason , better known as O. G. Mason, was an American photographer and radiographer. For most of his professional life, O. G. Mason directed the photographic department of Bellevue Hospital in New York City...
(sci) - Willy MatheislWilly MatheislWilly Matheisl is a photographer living in Deggendorf, Bavaria, Germany. He is the creator of a famous photo of a tree through the four seasons. The image has been used on calendars, on book covers and school books.-External links:*...
- Margrethe MatherMargrethe MatherMargrethe Mather was a photographer who, through her exploration of light and form, helped to transform photography into a modern art.- Personal life :...
- Susumu MatsushimaSusumu MatsushimaMatsushima was born on 5 January 1913 in Ushigome, Tokyo. He studied at Tōkyō Kōtō Kōgei Gakkō , where a fellow-student was Gen Ōtsuka. On graduating in 1933, he joined Jiji Shinpō-sha, but soon quit and moved to Nikkatsu, where he worked as a photographer of stills, especially portraits of women,...
(fash, port) - Gordon Matta-ClarkGordon Matta-ClarkGordon Matta-Clark was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his "building cuts," a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls.-Life and work:Both of Gordon Matta-Clark's...
(art) - Kate MatthewsKate MatthewsKate Seston Matthews was a photographer who depicted tableaux vivants and scenes of everyday life in her community of Pewee Valley, Kentucky, at the turn of the 20th century.- Early life :...
- Alfred MaudslayAlfred MaudslayAlfred Percival Maudslay was a British colonial diplomat, explorer and archaeologist. He was one of the first Europeans to study Mayan ruins....
- Morton D. MayMorton D. MayMorton D. May was an American philanthropist and art collector. He was also at various times director, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of the May Department Stores Company. -Biography:Morton D...
- John Jabez Edwin MayallJohn Jabez Edwin MayallJohn Jabez Edwin Paisley Mayall was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria. -External links:*...
- Roger MayneRoger MayneRoger Mayne is an English photographer, most famous for his documentation of the children of Southam Street, London.-Life and work:...
(doc) - Raphael MazzuccoRaphael MazzuccoRaphael Mazzucco or Rafael Mazzucco is a Canadian fashion, art and music photographer. His photographs have appeared on the cover of five consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues, including the 2006, 2008 and 2009 main cover images....
(fashion) - Angus McBeanAngus McBeanAngus McBean , was a Welsh photographer, associated with surrealism.-Biography:Angus McBean was born in South Wales in June 1904. Despite the surname and the family's claim to be head of the sub-clan McBean, they had been Welsh for generations. Clem McBean was a surveyor in the mines and the family...
- John McBrideJohn McBride (photographer)John McBride is an American photographer probably best known for his photographs taken in New York City of the riots surrounding Tompkins Square Park in 1988 and the eviction of Lower East Side squatters in 1989, although much of his work is not in the style of photojournalism.John McBride...
- Will McBrideWill McBride (photographer)Will McBride is a photographer in reportage, art photography and book illustration. He is also known as a painter and sculptor....
(doc, port) - Linda McCartneyLinda McCartneyLinda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman....
(art, doc, fash) - Mary McCartneyMary McCartneyMary Anna McCartney is a photographer. The first biological child of rock photographer Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, Mary was named after her paternal grandmother, Mary McCartney....
(port) - Don McCullinDon McCullinDonald McCullin, FRPS CBE is an internationally known British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife...
- Steve McCurrySteve McCurrySteve McCurry is an American photojournalist best known for his photograph, "Afghan Girl" that originally appeared in National Geographic magazine.-Early life:...
- Glynnis McDarisGlynnis McDarisGlynnis McDaris from Memphis, Tennessee is a photographer, artist, and curator based in New York City.- External links :* * * * * * *...
- Dave McKeanDave McKeanDavid McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician....
- Joseph McKeownJoseph McKeownJoseph McKeown was a British photojournalist whose work documented the changes in Great Britain following the Second World War as well as embracing celebrity and fashion photography.-Early life:...
(adv, doc, inds, war) - Wendy McMurdoWendy McMurdoWendy McMurdo is a British artist who specialises in photography and digital media. She attended Edinburgh College of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York where she first became interested in photography.-Career:Her work centres around the relationship...
(art, dig) - Joe McNallyJoe McNallyJoe McNally is an American photographer who has been shooting for the National Geographic Society since 1987.McNally was born in Montclair, New Jersey. He received his bachelor's and graduate degrees from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University...
(doc, port) - Laura McPheeLaura McPheeLaura McPhee is a Boston-based photographer.She is the daughter of award winning author John McPhee and photographer Pryde Brown, sister of novelists Jenny McPhee and Martha McPhee, architectural historian Sarah McPhee, and Joan Sullivan, founding principal of the Bronx Academy of Letters.McPhee...
- Daniel MeadowsDaniel MeadowsDaniel Meadows is an English photographer turned maker of digital stories, and a teacher of photography turned teacher of participatory media.-Life and career as photographer:...
(doc, port) - Steven MeiselSteven MeiselSteven Meisel is an American photographer, who obtained popular acclaim with his work in US and Italian Vogue and his photographs of friend Madonna in her 1992 book Sex...
(art, fash) - Susan MeiselasSusan MeiselasSusan Meiselas is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and a full member since 1980. Her works have been published in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Times, Time, Geo and Paris Match...
- Anton MelbyeAnton MelbyeDaniel Hermann Anton Melbye was a Danish painter. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and was a private student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg...
(art) - Donald MennieDonald MennieDonald Mennie , was a Scottish businessman and amateur photographer who worked in early twentieth century China. Mennie was born in Scotland in 1875 or 76 being aged 15 when listed as a chemist’s apprentice in the Scottish census of April 1891 for a residence in Main street, Golspie,...
- Enrique MetinidesEnrique MetinidesJaralambos Enrique Metinides Tsironides is a Mexican photographer known for his stark and often grisly depictions of life in Mexico City...
- Pascal MeunierPascal MeunierPascal Meunier is a French documentary photographer and photojournalist based in Paris, whose works are mainly about the Arab and Muslim world. He began his professional career in Aleppo, Syria...
(doc) - Adolf de MeyerAdolf de MeyerAdolph de Meyer was a photographer famed for his elegant photographic portraits in the early 20th century, many of which depicted celebrities such as Mary Pickford, Rita Lydig, Luisa Casati, Billie Burke, Irene Castle, John Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Ruth St. Denis, King George V of the United...
- Joel MeyerowitzJoel MeyerowitzJoel Meyerowitz is a street photographer who began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art...
- Gjon MiliGjon MiliGjon Mili was an Albanian-American photographer best known for his work published in Life.-Biography:Born to Vasil Mili and Viktori Cekani in Korçë, Albania, Mili came to the United States in 1923. In 1939, Mili landed a job as a freelance photographer for Life...
- Lee MillerLee MillerElizabeth 'Lee' Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris where she became an established fashion and fine art photographer...
- Mark MiremontMark MiremontMark Miremont is an American philosopher, photographer, filmmaker, music video director and occasional street artist.He was born in Madrid, Spain and studied philosophy at UCLA and Harvard...
- Mohammadreza MirzaeiMohammadreza MirzaeiMohammadreza Mirzaei is an Iranian photographer, known for his minimalist photographs.He attended IRIB Art School, in Tehran to study graphic design, when he was 15, but he quickly discovered photography and focused his artworks on this medium....
(art) - Richard MisrachRichard MisrachRichard Misrach is an American photographer known for his photographs of human intervention in landscapes. His works are represented in more than fifty major museum collections around the world....
(abs, art, doc) - Daniel S. MitchellDaniel S. MitchellDaniel Sedgley Mitchell is a famous photographer best known for his series of stereoscopic views of the Black Hills in 1876, his Indian portraits from the Red Cloud Agency in 1877, and his photographs of the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889.-Early life:...
(doc) - Tōyō MiyatakeToyo MiyatakeTōyō Miyatake was a Japanese American photographer, best known for his photographs documenting the Japanese American people and the Japanese American internment at Manzanar during WWII.- Life :...
- Miyazaki YūhiMiyazaki Yuhiwas a photographer who ran a photographic studio in Tokyo in the 1870s. Two of his photographs were within the collection of the mining engineer Benjamin Smith Lyman and are now within the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.-References:...
- Lisette ModelLisette ModelLisette Model was an Austrian-born American photographer.Lisette Model was born Elise Felic Amelie Stern in Vienna, Austria...
- Tina ModottiTina ModottiTina Modotti was an Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist.- Early life :Modotti was born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini in Udine, Friuli, Italy...
(art, doc, port) - László Moholy-NagyLászló Moholy-NagyLászló Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.-Early life:...
(art) - Jean-Baptiste MondinoJean-Baptiste MondinoJean-Baptiste Mondino is a French fashion photographer and music video director. He has directed music videos for Madonna, David Bowie, Sting, Björk, Neneh Cherry and Les Rita Mitsouko...
(fash) - Geoff MoonGeoff MoonGeoff Moon, OBE MRCVS ARPS Hon FPSNZ MACVs., was a New Zealand naturalist an ornithologist, conservationist, veterinary surgeon and photographer. He is the author and photographer of many books on New Zealand birds and landscape...
(birds, nz natural) - Charles MooreCharles Moore (photographer)Charles Lee Moore was an American photographer most famous for his photographs documenting the American civil rights era.-Life and career:...
(doc, port) - Derry Moore, 12th Earl of DroghedaDerry Moore, 12th Earl of DroghedaHenry Dermot Ponsonby Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda is a British photographer known professionally as Derry Moore.He inherited the title of Earl of Drogheda from his father, Charles Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda...
(port, art, int) - Raymond Moore (art)
- Julie MoosJulie MoosJulie Moos is a Canadian photographer and art writer.Moos' work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and curated by Lawrence Rinder...
(art, doc, land, port) - Inge MorathInge MorathIngeborg Morath was an Austrian-born photographer. In 1953 she joined the Magnum Photos Agency, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with them in 1955...
- Abelardo MorellAbelardo MorellAbelardo Morell is a Boston-based photographer.Morell and his family fled Cuba in 1962, moving to New York City. Morell earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College in 1977, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art in 1981...
- Aizō MorikawaAizo Morikawawas a renowned Japanese portrait and commercial photographer.Born in Fukui Prefecture in 1878, Fukui went some time around 1897 to Sapporo, where he studied photography under Tokiwa Mishima in Mishima's studio...
(port) - Daidō MoriyamaDaido Moriyamais a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan.- Life and career :Born in Ikeda, Osaka, Daidō Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe...
- Christopher MorrisChristopher Morris (photographer)Christopher Morris is an American photojournalist, best known for his war photographs.Most of Morris' work has concentrated on war. Some of the wars he photographed were the US invasion of Iraq, the drug war in Colombia, the Persian Gulf war, the wars in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yugoslavia, and...
(doc, war) - Wright MorrisWright MorrisWright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms. Wright Morris died April 25, 1998 at the age of 88 years. He is...
- David MuenchDavid MuenchDavid Muench is an American landscape and nature photographer known for portraying the American western landscape...
- Ugo MulasUgo MulasUgo Mulas was an Italian photographer noted for his portraits of artists and his street photography.Ugo Mulas began his studies in law in 1948 in Milan, but left to take art courses at the Brera Fine Arts Academy. In 1954 he was asked to cover the Venice Biennale, his first professional assignment...
(art, doc, port) - Vik MunizVik MunizVicente José de Oliveira Muniz, known as Vik Muniz , is a visual artist living in New York City.-Early career:Muniz began his career as a sculptor in the late 1980s after relocating from Brazil to Chicago and later to New York. His early work grew out of a post-Fluxus aesthetic and often involved...
(abs, art) - Martin MunkácsiMartin MunkácsiMartin Munkácsi Kolozsvar, Austro-Hungary, May 18, 1896, died July 13, 1963, New York, NY) was a Hungarian photographer who worked in Germany and the United States.- Life and Works :...
(spt, doc, fash) - Isabel MuñozIsabel MuñozIsabel Muñoz is a Spanish photographer who lives in Madrid.When she was 20 years old, she moved to Madrid and started studying photography in 1979 in Photocentro....
- Nickolas MurayNickolas MurayNickolas Muray was a Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic fencer.-Biography:...
- Richard MurrianRichard MurrianRichard Murrian is a noted Paris-based American photographer, most known for his nude photography of girls.- Biography :...
(art) - Eadweard MuybridgeEadweard MuybridgeEadweard J. Muybridge was an English photographer who spent much of his life in the United States. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible...
(art, doc, land) - Carl MydansCarl MydansCarl Mydans was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine....
- Rigmor MydtskovRigmor MydtskovRigmor Mydtskov was a Danish court photographer who is remembered for her portraits of artists performing in Danish theatres but especially for her many portraits of Queen Margrethe and other members of the Danish royal family....
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- James NachtweyJames NachtweyJames Nachtwey is an American photojournalist and war photographer.He grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied Art History and Political Science ....
(doc, war) - NadarNadar (photographer)Félix Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon , a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist. Some photographs by Nadar are marked "P. Nadar" for "Photographie Nadar" .-Life: born in April 1820 in Paris...
- Shigeichi NaganoShigeichi NaganoBorn on 30 March 1925 in Ōita City, Nagano studied economics at Keio University . On graduating, he joined a trading company, but soon resigned. He was recruited by Natori Yōnosuke for Weekly Sun News ; and in 1949 moved to Iwanami Shoten where, again under Natori, he did the photography for about...
(doc) - Yasushi NagaoYasushi Nagaowas a Pulitzer Prize-winning press photographer.Nagao took a photograph of Otoya Yamaguchi killing Inejiro Asanuma. At the time Nagao was a cameraman working for Mainichi Shimbun; Hisatake Abo, Nagao's picture editor, told Nagao to cover a debate at Hibiya Hall...
(doc) - Billy NameBilly NameBilly Name, , is an American photographer, filmmaker and lighting designer. He was the archivist of the Warhol Factory, from 1964 to 1970. His brief romance and subsequent friendship with Andy Warhol led to substantial collaboration on Warhol's work, including his films, paintings and sculpture...
(art, doc, port) - Hans NamuthHans NamuthHans Namuth was a German-born photographer. Namuth specialized in portraiture, photographing many artists, including abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock. His photos of Pollock at work in his studio increased Pollock's fame and recognition and led to a greater understanding of his work and...
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- Ikkō NaraharaIkko Naraharais a Japanese photographer. Born in Fukuoka, Narahara studied law at Chuo University and, influenced by statues of Buddha at Nara, art history at the graduate school of Waseda University ....
(art) - Graham NashGraham NashGraham William Nash, OBE is an English singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer...
(art) - Yōnosuke NatoriYonosuke NatoriBorn in Tokyo on 3 September 1910, Natori studied at Keio normal school but upon graduation went with his mother to Munich, where he studied at a school of arts and crafts. He became interested in photography and in 1931 obtained a Leica, later that year getting a contract to work as a photographer...
(doc) - Filip NaudtsFilip NaudtsFilip Naudts is a photographer and photography reviewer based in Belgium.- Biography :In 1992 Filip Naudts began his career working for the Belgian national television and press. The following year, he was employed by the Antwerp Fotomuseum, where he remained until 2002...
(art, port) - Negretti and ZambraNegretti and ZambraThe firm Negretti and Zambra was a producer of scientific and optical instruments and also operated a photographic studio based in London, England...
(photographic studio) - Nelly'sNelly'sElli Souyioultzoglou-Seraïdari b.1899 - d.1998 is one the most celebrated Greek photographers of all time, and during the interwar period became one of the world's most celebrated female photographers...
(Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraïdari)
- Arnold NewmanArnold NewmanArnold Abner Newman was an American photographer, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians...
(port) - Helmut NewtonHelmut NewtonHelmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."-Early life:Newton was born in Berlin, the son of Klara...
(art, fash, port) - Pipo Nguyen-duyPipo Nguyen-duyPipo Hieu Nguyen-duy is a fine art photographer, based in Ashland, Oregon and a professor of Photography at Oberlin College.-Early life:...
(art) - Dianora NiccoliniDianora NiccoliniDianora Niccolini is a fine art photographer who is widely considered to be one of the female pioneers in the photography of the male nude...
(art) - Nic NicosiaNic NicosiaNic Nicosia is an American art photographer who was born in Dallas, Texas. He received a BS in radio-television-film, with a concentration in motion pictures, from the University of North Texas in 1974. He was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant in 1984 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in...
(art) - Anja NiedringhausAnja NiedringhausAnja Niedringhaus is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist from Germany. She was the only woman on a team of11 Associated Press photographers awarded the prestigious journalism prize in 2005 for breaking news photography for their coverage of the war in Iraq...
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- Nicéphore NiépceNicéphore NiépceNicéphore Niépce March 7, 1765 – July 5, 1833) was a French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field.He is most noted for producing the world's first known photograph in 1825...
- Lennart NilssonLennart NilssonLennart Nilsson is a Swedish photographer and scientist. He is noted for his photographs of in vivo human embryos and other medical subjects once considered unphotographable, and more generally for his extreme macro photography...
- Kiyoshi NishiyamaKiyoshi Nishiyamawas a versatile Japanese amateur photographer who specialized in landscapes.Born in Tokyo in 1893 as Kiyonosuke Nishiyama , Nishiyama became interested in photography at 15...
(arch, land, pict) - Nicholas NixonNicholas NixonNicholas Nixon is a photographer, known for his work in portraiture and documentary photography, and for championing the use of the 8x10 inch view camera.-Biography:...
(doc, port) - William NotmanWilliam NotmanWilliam Notman was a Canadian photographer and businessman.Notman was born in Paisley, Scotland in 1826, the same year in which photography was born in France. William Notman moved to Montreal in 1856. An amateur photographer, he quickly established a flourishing professional photography studio on...
- Kazimierz NowakKazimierz NowakKazimierz Nowak – was a Polish traveller, correspondent and photographer, born in Stryi. After the First World War he lived in Poznań....
(doc, ethno) - Lee NyeLee NyeLee Nye was an American photographer best known for his series of photographs entitled Eddie's Club Collection that documents Missoula, Montana's working class inhabitants....
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- Michael O'BrienMichael O'Brien (photographer)Michael O’Brien is an American photographer noted for his portraiture.O’Brien took up photography at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he became a photographer for the student newspaper. After graduation, O'Brien went to work as a staff photographer for The Miami News, where he...
- Ogawa KazumasaOgawa Kazumasa, also known as Ogawa Kazuma or Ogawa Isshin, was a Japanese photographer, printer and publisher who was a pioneer in photomechanical printing and photography in the Meiji era.Ogawa was born in Saitama to the Matsudaira samurai clan...
- Ogawa Seiyo
- Yoshino ŌishiYoshino Oishiis a renowned Japanese photojournalist.Ōishi was born in Suginami-ku, Tokyo on 28 May 1944. Seeing Melanesian art while at Nihon University had a big effect on her, as did a visit to Vietnam and Cambodia in 1966. After graduating in photography, she became a freelance photojournalist, working in...
(doc) - Takashi OkamuraTakashi Okamura (photographer), is a Japanese photographer who has specialized in the photography of art.Okamura was born on 13 December 1927 in Kichijōji, Tokyo. He studied architecture at Nihon University from 1948. Okamura was a keen and proficient skiier , and a photographer of skiing...
- Erwin OlafErwin OlafErwin Olaf is a Dutch photographer.Olaf is most famous for his commercial and personal work. He has been commissioned to photograph advertising campaigns for large international companies such as Levi's, Microsoft and Nokia. Some of his most famous photographic series include "Grief", "Rain", and...
(fash, port) - Arthur OmarArthur OmarArthur Omar is a Brazilian contemporary artist. Omar is a video artist, photographer, filmmaker, and installation artist.Omar works with cinema, video, photographic installations, music, poetry, and drawing...
- Kōshirō Onchi (art)
- Mitsugu ŌnishiMitsugu OnishiMitsugu Ōnishi is a Japanese photographer.Born in Tokyo, Ōnishi graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in 1974, rejoining a year later as a teacher, and staying there in that capacity until 1994....
- Chizu OnoChizu Onois a Japanese photographer.Ono was born in Akita Prefecture. She studied interior design at Tama Geijutsu Gakuen , graduating in 1991 to work as a designer...
- Catherine OpieCatherine OpieCatherine Opie is an American artist specializing in issues within documentary photography. Throughout her work she has investigated aspects of community, making portraits of many groups including LGBT community; surfers; and most recently high school football players. She is also interested in...
- Charles O'RearCharles O'RearCharles O'Rear is an American photographer best known for his photos of wine country and the image Bliss that was used as a standard wallpaper in Windows XP....
- Stephens OrrStephens OrrJ. Stephens Orr was a 20th century Scottish Glasgow photographer with an interest in people and motor cars. Practicing between 1930 and 1970 in Glasgow's Langside and later at No. 4 Somerset Place, Charing Cross, he became known for his portraits of society figures in magazines such as Scottish Field...
- Rubén Ortiz TorresRubén Ortiz TorresRubén Ortiz Torres is a Mexican photographer, painter, sculptor, film and video producer. He was the subject of the mid-career survey show Desmothernismo at the Huntington Beach Art Center, a show which toured to the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte in Mexico City. was shown as part of the...
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- Timothy O'SullivanTimothy H. O'SullivanTimothy H. O'Sullivan was a photographer widely known for his work related to the American Civil War and the Western United States.O'Sullivan was born in New York City. As a teenager, he was employed by Mathew Brady...
- Paul OuterbridgePaul OuterbridgePaul Outerbridge, Jr. was an American photographer prominent for his early use and experiments in color photography...
- Graham OvendenGraham OvendenGraham Ovenden is an English painter, fine art photographer, writer and architect. His estranged wife is the artist Annie Ovenden. Their daughter, Emily, is a writer and is a singer with the Mediaeval Baebes...
- Bill Owens (photographer)Bill Owens (photographer)Bill Owens is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer and editor living in Hayward, California. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976 and two NEA Grants, he is best known for his photographs of suburban domestic scenes taken in the East Bay and published in the book Suburbia...
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- Johannes PääsukeJohannes PääsukeJohannes Pääsuke was an Estonian photographer and filmmaker.-Life:Very little is known of the youth of Johannes Pääsuke, the fourth of six children to a comfortably-off couple living in Tartu, Livonia, Russian Empire. Johannes's siblings were well educated, but all that is known about Johannes's...
(doc, ethno) - Charles PageCharles Page (photographer)Charles Page is a Brisbane-based documentary photographer, and lecturer at the Queensland College of Art, He studied at Griffith University where he got a PhD.- Biography :...
(doc) - Tim Page (war)
- Giuseppe PalmasGiuseppe PalmasGiuseppe Palmas was an Italian photo journalist famous for his pictures of celebrities taken in the 1950s–1960s....
- Frederick Christian PalmerFrederick Christian PalmerFrederick Christian Palmer , known professionally as Fred C. Palmer, was the main public photographer of Herne Bay, Kent in the early years of the 20th century, working from Tower Studio...
(doc, port, land) - John Eastman Palmer (port)
- William Eastman Palmer & SonsWilliam Eastman Palmer & SonsWilliam Eastman Palmer & Sons was the name of a family partnership of photographers which was started in Devon in the 1860s by William Eastman Palmer and his wife Maria Louisa née Eales. By 1881 the five sons in the partnership were beginning to separate and to pursue their photographic careers...
(land, port) - Basil PaoBasil PaoBasil Pao Ho-Yun is a Hong Kong-based photographer who is perhaps best known for his work as the stills photographer on the BBC filming teams that made Michael Palin's TV travel programs.-Early career:...
- John PapillonJohn PapillonJohn Ashton Papillon was a British photographer and Royal Engineer who was commissioned to accompany and photographically document the Anglo-French military expedition to northern China during the Second Opium War in 1860...
- Richard PareRichard PareRichard Pare is an English photographer known for his work documenting Soviet modernist architecture. He was born in Portsmouth, England, on 20 January 1948. He studied graphic design and photography at Winchester and Ravensbourne College of Art before attending the Art Institute of Chicago...
- Trent ParkeTrent ParkeTrent Parke is an Australian photographer.Parke was born and brought up in Newcastle ; he now lives in Sydney. He started photography when he was twelve. In 2003 he and his wife the photographer Narelle Autio made a 90,000 km trip around Australia, resulting in the series and book "Minutes to...
(doc) - Norman ParkinsonNorman ParkinsonNorman Parkinson, CBE was a celebrated English portrait and fashion photographer.-Biography:Parkinson was born in London, and educated at Westminster School. He began his career in 1931 as an apprentice to the court photographers Speaight and Sons Ltd...
- Gordon ParksGordon ParksGordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director...
(doc) - Martin ParrMartin ParrMartin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take a critical look at aspects of modern life, in particular provincial and suburban life in England...
(art, doc) - Steve ParishSteve ParishSteve Parish OAM is a multi-award winning photographer and pioneer of photographic Australian publishing. Born in Great Britain in 1945, he is the founder of Steve Parish Publishing.- Early life :...
- Robert ParkeHarrisonRobert ParkeHarrisonRobert ParkeHarrison is a photographer, best known for his work in the area of fine art photography....
(art) - Christian PattersonChristian PattersonChristian Patterson is an American photographer.Born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Patterson lives in New York City.In 2002 Patterson moved from Brooklyn, New York to Memphis, Tennessee to work with the photographer William Eggleston...
(art) - Freeman PattersonFreeman PattersonFreeman Wilford Patterson, CM is a Canadian nature photographer and writer born at Long Reach, New Brunswick.He earned a B.A., from Acadia University and was granted a fellowship to study at Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University...
- Dino PedrialiDino PedrialiDino Pedriali is an Italian photographer who lives and works in Rome. His subjects are the male nude as well as portraits. His work has been compared by art critic Peter Weiermair during the retrospective "Nudi e Ritratti — Fotografie dal 1974/2003" to Caravaggio's because he similarly...
- Irving PennIrving PennIrving Penn was an American photographer known for his portraiture and fashion photography.-Early career:Irving Penn studied under Alexey Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art from which he was graduated in 1938. Penn's drawings were published by Harper's Bazaar and he...
(art, fash) - Gilles PeressGilles PeressGilles Peress is an internationally renowned French photojournalist known for his documentation of war and strife, including in Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia, Iran, and Rwanda. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Du magazine, Life, Stern, Geo, Paris-Match, Parkett, Aperture and...
(doc) - Lucian PerkinsLucian PerkinsLucian Perkins is an award-winning American photojournalist, who is best known for covering a number of controversial conflicts with profound compassion for his photograph's subjects, including the war in Afghanistan, Kosovo and the 1991 Persian Gulf War...
(doc, war) - Anders PetersenAnders Petersen (photographer)Anders Petersen is a Swedish photographer, who lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.-Biography:Anders Petersen is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. He studied photography under Christer Stromholm in Sweden, 1966-1967...
- Bob Peterson (photographer)Bob Peterson (photographer)Bob Peterson , from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is a professional photographer and publisher of Paralympics: Where Heroes Come, the first book ever written about the history of the Paralympic Games....
- John PezzentiJohn PezzentiJohn Pezzenti, Jr. was an American wildlife photographer born in Newington, Connecticut, but who spent much of his life taking pictures of wildlife in the Alaska wilderness....
(wildlife) - John PfahlJohn PfahlJohn Pfahl is an American photographer. He is known for his landscape photography such as his 1974 "Altered Landscapes" series. He taught at Rochester Institute of Technology from 1968 – 1983. He received a BFA from Syracuse University in the School of Art and his MA from Syracuse University in...
- Secondo PiaSecondo PiaSecondo Pia was an Italian lawyer and amateur photographer. He is best known for taking the first photographs of the Shroud of Turin on May 28, 1898...
- Jack PiersonJack PiersonJack Pierson is a photographer and an artist. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books...
(art) - Gueorgui PinkhassovGueorgui PinkhassovGueorgui Pinkhassov is a photographer, born in Moscow in 1952. He began his interest in photography in his teens, and enrolled at the Moscow Institute of Cinematography in 1969....
(doc) - Peter PitseolakPeter PitseolakPeter Pitseolak was an Inuit photographer, artist and historian.-Life:]...
- Sylvia PlachySylvia PlachySylvia Plachy is a Hungarian/American photographer.Plachy was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her Czech Jewish mother was in hiding in fear of Nazi persecution during World War II. Her father was a Hungarian Roman Catholic aristocrat and she was raised in his faith.Plachy's family moved to New York...
- Frank PlickaFrank PlickaFrank Plicka is a Czech-born Australian photographer, best known for his book Streets of Sydney, an extraordinary tour of Sydney, documented in black & white photographs taken over the last 30 years...
(doc) - Karel PlickaKarel PlickaKarel Plicka was a Czechoslovak photographer, film director, cinematographer, folklorist and pedagogue. He is considered a founder of Slovak film education and filmmaking. He helped establish the genre of ethnographic film in Czechoslovakia.- Biography :Plicka was born to Czech parents in Vienna...
(arch, doc, ethno) - David PlowdenDavid PlowdenDavid Plowden , is an American photographer known for his historical documentary photography of urban cities, steam trains, American farmlands, and small towns....
(doc) - Guglielmo PlüschowGuglielmo PlüschowGuglielmo Plüschow , was a German photographer who moved to Italy and became known for his nude photos of local youths, predominantly males...
- Robert PolidoriRobert PolidoriRobert Polidori is a photographer known for his architectural studies and frequent contributions to magazines and books.-Biography:...
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- Eliot PorterEliot PorterEliot Furness Porter was an American photographer best known for his color photographs of nature.-Early life:...
- Mark PowerMark PowerMark Power is an English photographer, born in Harpenden, England. He studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic , and then traveled extensively, discovering a love for photography along the way...
- Dith PranDith PranDith Pran was a Cambodian photojournalist best known as a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian Genocide. He was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields . He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor Haing S. Ngor , who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor...
- Victor PrevostVictor PrevostFrench-born Victor Prevost is one of the earliest photographers to work in New York City.Prevost studied in France under Paul Delaroche, and learned complicated photographic printing techniques from fellow student, Gustave Le Gray. However, after setting up his own studio on Broadway and Bleecker...
- Richard PrinceRichard PrinceRichard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975...
- Priya RamrakhaPriya RamrakhaPriya Ramrakha was a Kenyan photojournalist of Indian background and one of the first Africans to be given a contract by LIFE and TIME magazines. After his education at the Art Center College of Los Angeles , Ramrakha began work at LIFE...
- Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-GorskiiSergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-GorskiiSergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia.. Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 August 2006.-Early life:...
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- Willy PuchnerWilly PuchnerWilly Puchner is an Austrian photographer, artist, painter and author..- Life :Puchner was born and grew up in Mistelbach an der Zaya, Lower Austria, where his parents owned a photo studio...
(art, doc) - Melanie PullenMelanie PullenMelanie Pullen is a photographer who currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CaliforniaPullen's work has been exhibited internationally, including solo-shows at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles and Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills; White Wall Gallery, Seoul; MiCamera, Milan...
- Gerald P. PulleyGerald P. PulleyGerald P. Pulley was an American photographer noted for his work with the United States Navy.-Career:Pulley's Navy career included serving under Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, during the U.S...
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- Khalil RaadKhalil RaadKhalil Raad was a photographer, known as "Palestine's first Arab photographer." His works include over 1230 glass plates, tens of postcards, and as yet unpublished films that document political events and daily life in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon over the course of fifty years.-Early life:Raad...
(doc, ethno, port, land) - Ragnar AxelssonRagnar AxelssonRagnar Axelsson, who also calls himself RAX, is a photographer born in Iceland in 1958. He has been a staff photographer of Morgunblaðið since 1976...
(doc) - Raghu RaiRaghu RaiRaghu Rai is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. A protege of Henri Cartier-Bresson who appointed Rai, then a young photojournalist to Magnum Photos in 1977, which he co-founded....
- Ritam BanerjeeRitam BanerjeeRitam Banerjee is an Indian photographer, specializing in a variety of fields such as Travel, Fashion, Photojournalism, Advertising, Interiors, Portraits and Automobiles, among others. He started pursuing photography in 1996...
(art, adv, fash, port, doc, land ) - Gérard RancinanGérard RancinanGérard Rancinan is a French photographer whose work has appeared in publications such as Sports Illustrated, Time, and Life.Born in Talence, south-west France near Bordeaux region, Gérard Rancinan started his career at the Sygma press agency of which he became one of the leading lights...
(fash, art, doc) - Herbert RandallHerbert RandallHerbert Eugene Randall, Jr. is an American photographer who had documented the effects of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Randall is of Shinnecock, African-American and West Indian ancestry.- Education :...
- RankinRankin (photographer)John Rankin Waddell, working name Rankin, born 1966, is a British portrait and fashion photographer.-Life and career:Waddell was brought up in St Albans, Hertfordshire. At the age of 21, whilst studying accounting at Brighton Polytechnic, he realized that his interests lay elsewhere and dropped...
(fash) - Paul RaphaelsonPaul RaphaelsonPaul Raphaelson , is an American artist best known for urban landscape photography.In the early 1990s, after moving to Providence, Rhode Island, he started producing formally complex, often dark depictions of the urban, suburban, and industrial landscape...
(art) - Man RayMan RayMan Ray , born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...
(art, port) - Tony Ray-JonesTony Ray-JonesTony Ray-Jones was an English photographer.Born Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones, he was the youngest son of Raymond Ray-Jones , a painter and etcher who died when his son was only eight months old, and Effie Irene Pearce, who would work as a physiotherapist...
(art, doc) - Jahangir RazmiJahangir RazmiJahangir Razmi is an award-winning Iranian photographer and the author of the entry that won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. His photograph, Firing Squad in Iran, was taken on August 27, 1979 and published anonymously in the Iranian daily Ettela'at, the oldest still running...
(doc) - David RedfernDavid RedfernDavid Redfern is an English photographer specialising in music photography. He has been a photographer for 45 years and has over 10,000 pictures in his collection. His collection includes many famous photos of the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. In 1999 he published a book about his life call The...
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- H. ReidH. ReidHarold A. Reid was an American writer, photographer, and historian. Reid is best known for his lifelong love of railroading and related photography and published work...
- Oscar Gustave RejlanderOscar Gustave RejlanderOscar Gustave Rejlander was a pioneering Victorian art photographer and an expert in photomontage...
(art, port) - Albert Renger-PatzschAlbert Renger-PatzschAlbert Renger-Patzsch was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity.Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg and began making photographs by age twelve. After military service in the First World War he studied chemistry at Dresden Technical College...
- Lorne ResnickLorne ResnickLorne Resnick is a Los Angeles based photographer who was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He began his career photographing rock concerts in his home town of Toronto, featuring performers from Bruce Springsteen to Madonna...
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- Carlos Reyes-ManzoCarlos Reyes-ManzoCarlos Reyes-Manzo is a documentary photographer, photojournalist and poet.He studied photography at the Instituto Filmico of the Universidad Catolica de Chile and in 1964 began working as a photojournalist for Revista Vea in ZigZag Publishing...
(doc) - Bettina RheimsBettina RheimsBettina Rheims is a French artist and photographer. She is the daughter of Maurice Rheims, of the French Academy. Her sister Nathalie is an actress, writer and film producer...
- Marc RiboudMarc RiboudMarc Riboud is a French photographer, best known for his extensive reports on the East: The Three Banners of China, Face of North Vietnam, Visions of China, and In China.-Early life and education:...
(art, doc, int, land) - Michael RichardMichael RichardMichael Richard was a professional rock musician and amateur photographer. In 2002, surgery to remove a malignant tumor behind his right eye left him legally blind, and he began taking abstract photos of urban scenes...
- Eugene RichardsEugene RichardsEugene Richards is a noted American documentary photographer.During the 1960s, Richards was a civil rights activist and VISTA volunteer...
(doc) - Terry RichardsonTerry RichardsonTerrence "Terry" Richardson is an American fashion photographer.-Early life:Richardson was born in New York City, the son of Bob Richardson, a fashion photographer who struggled with schizophrenia and drug abuse...
(fash, art) - Sophy RickettSophy RickettSophy Rickett is a visual artist, working with photography and video/sound installation.-Career:Between 1990 and 1993, Rickett studied for a BA in Photography at London College of Communication, London...
- Leni RiefenstahlLeni RiefenstahlHelene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...
(doc, int, land, port) - Robert RigerRobert RigerRobert Riger was a celebrated sports illustrator, photographer, award-winning television director, and cinematographer....
(spt) - Jacob RiisJacob RiisJacob August Riis was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific...
- Frank RinehartFrank RinehartFrank Albert Rinehart was an American artist famous for his drawings, paintings, and photographs depicting Native American personalities and scenes, especially the leaders and members of the delegations who attended the 1898 Indian Congress in Omaha.-Biography:Rinehart was born in Lodi, Illinois...
(doc) - Herb RittsHerb RittsHerbert "Herb" Ritts was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture.-Early life and career:...
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- Viggo RivadViggo RivadViggo Rivad is a Danish photographer who started as an autodidact in 1946 and went on to win numerous competitions in the 1950s and 1960s. Around 1960, he adopted his so-called essay approach resulting in series of related photographs such as Et farvel and Laurits...
(doc) - Manuel Rivera-OrtizManuel Rivera-OrtizManuel Rivera-Ortiz is an American documentary photographer of Puerto Rican descent, the author of several photographic collections and the recipient of a number of awards. He is best known for his documentary photographs of people's living conditions in less developed countries...
- James RoarkJames RoarkJames Barnas, aka James Roark, was a Pulitzer Prize nominated photographer and photo editor for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.Born James Barnas, in the late 1960s he and his brother John took the surnames of the main characters from the Ayn Rand novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.In...
- Grace RobertsonGrace RobertsonGrace Robertson, OBE, is a Scottish photographer who was born in Manchester, England in 1930.After leaving school she looked after her mother who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis. Robertson's father gave her a second-hand camera in 1949 and the following year she had a photo story about her...
- Ruth RobertsonRuth RobertsonRuth Agnes McCall Robertson Marietta was an American photojournalist known most for photographing Angel Falls in Venezuela and surveying them to establish them as the tallest waterfalls in the world.-Associations:...
- James RobertsonJames Robertson (photographer)James Robertson was an English photographer and gem and coin engraver who worked in the Mediterranean region, the Crimea and possibly India. He was one of the first war photographers....
- Ziki RobertsonMyrtle Robertson, 11th Baroness WhartonMyrtle Olive Felix Robertson, 11th Baroness Wharton was born the Honourable Myrtle Arbuthnot, known as Ziki. Daughter of David George Arbuthnot and Elisabeth, née Kemeys-Tynte, 10th Baroness Wharton, she was brought up in South Africa but moved to England in her teens...
- Henry Peach RobinsonHenry Peach RobinsonHenry Peach Robinson was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing - joining multiple negatives to form a single image, the precursor to photomontage...
(pict) - John V. RobinsonJohn V. RobinsonJohn V. Robinson is an American photographer who specializes in photographing heavy construction work with a focus on bridge construction and the men and women who do the work. Robinson goes onto construction sites and does detailed photo essays of the iron workers, pile drivers, carpenters,...
(arch, doc, inds) - Thomas C. RocheThomas C. RocheThomas C. Roche was a photographer known for his photographs of the American Civil War.Roche's first job as a professional photographer was for Henry T. Anthony, a chemist in New York, and his brother Edward, for whom he took photographs of the city and the harbor starting in 1859...
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- George RodgerGeorge RodgerGeorge Rodger was a British photojournalist noted for his work in Africa and for taking the first photographs of the death camps at Bergen-Belsen at the end of the Second World War....
- José Luis Rodríguez PittíJosé Luis Rodríguez PittíJosé Luis Rodríguez Pittí is a contemporary writer and documentary photographer. He was born in Panamá.He is the author of short stories, poems and essays and published the books "Panamá Blues" , "miniTEXTOS" , "Sueños urbanos" , "Crónica de invisibles" José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 29 March...
(art, doc) - Milton RogovinMilton RogovinMilton Rogovin was a documentary photographer who has been compared to great social documentary photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis. His photographs are in the Library of Congress, the J...
(doc) - Matthew RolstonMatthew RolstonMatthew Russell Rolston is an American photographer and music video director. Rolston is known for his signature lighting techniques and detailed approach to art direction and design, and has been repeatedly identified throughout his career with the revival and modern expression of Hollywood glamour...
- Willy RonisWilly RonisWilly Ronis was a French photographer, the best-known of whose work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence.-Early life:...
- Ben RoseBen RoseBen Rose was an American photographer.Ben Rose started as a photographer when he was a young man. He was graduated from the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in 1938 and where he taught Photography and Advertising Photography from 1945–1950...
(fash, food, port) - Barbara RosenthalBarbara RosenthalBarbara Rosenthal is an American avant-garde artist and writer. Her existential themes have contributed to contemporary art and philosophy...
(art, surrealism) - Joe RosenthalJoe RosenthalJoseph John Rosenthal was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war.-Early life:Joseph Rosenthal was born on...
- Martha RoslerMartha RoslerMartha Rosler is an American artist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She graduated from Brooklyn College and the University of California, San Diego . Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture...
- Horatio RossHoratio RossHoratio Ross was a celebrated sportsman and a pioneer amateur photographer.-Background and early life:Ross was born at Rossie Castle, near Montrose, Angus on 5 September 1801, the son of Hercules Ross, a rich landowner who had acquired a substantial fortune in Jamaica...
- Mary RosseMary rosseMary Rosse, Countess of Rosse , was a British amateur astronomer and pioneering photographer. She was one of the early practitioners of making photographs from waxed-paper negatives.- Life :...
- Pierre RossierPierre RossierPierre Joseph Rossier was a pioneering Swiss photographer whose albumen photographs, which include stereographs and cartes-de-visite, comprise portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes...
- Arthur RothsteinArthur RothsteinArthur Rothstein was an American photographer.Rothstein is recognized as one of America’s premier photojournalists. During a career that spanned five decades, he provoked, entertained and informed the American people...
- Dominic RouseDominic RouseDominic Rouse is a contemporary digital photographer from England. His stylized approach to photography consists of creating digital monochrome compositions that deconstruct and reconstruct the human form.-Early life and career:...
(art) - Galen RowellGalen RowellGalen Avery Rowell was a noted wilderness photographer and climber. Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972.-Early life and education:...
- Johnny RozsaJohnny RozsaJohnny Rozsa is a New York-based photographer, specializing in fashion, portrait, and celebrity photography.-Early life:Rozsa was born and raised in Nairobi, the son of Jewish Hungarian-Czech parents...
(celeb, port, fash) - Didier RuefDidier RuefDidier Ruef is a Swiss documentary photographer best known for his portrayal of Man & Waste, Africa and Switzerland.-Life and career:Didier Ruef was born in Geneva, Switzerland on July 15, 1961 and has dual nationality, Swiss and Italian...
- Michael RuetzMichael RuetzMichael Ruetz works as artist and author. He is a well known German photographer.- Biography :Michael Ruetz was born in 1940 in Berlin, Germany)...
(art, doc) - Thomas RuffThomas RuffThomas Ruff is an internationally renowned German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf.-Life:...
(art) - Andrew J. RussellAndrew J. RussellAndrew Joseph Russell was a 19th-century American photographer of the Civil War and Union Pacific Railroad. Russell was the official photographer of the eastern half of the first transcontinental railroad...
- Jiří RůžekJiří RůžekJiří Růžek is a Czech art photographer.- Life :Descends from a family without any artistic background. Until his age of 7 he lived in Litoměřice, a picturesque town in northern Bohemia...
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- Sebastião SalgadoSebastião SalgadoSebastião Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.-Biography:Salgado was born on February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in...
(art, doc) - Erich SalomonErich SalomonErich Salomon was a German-born news photographer known for his pictures in the diplomatic and legal professions and the innovative methods he used to acquire them....
- Lucas SamarasLucas SamarasLucas Samaras , is an artist, born in Kastoria, Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal. While at Rutgers, he joined Gamma Sigma . He participated in Kaprow's "Happenings," and posed for Segal's plaster sculptures...
- Arnold E. SamuelsonArnold E. SamuelsonArnold E. Samuelson was a combat photographer during World War II who was among the first Allied photographers to document Nazi war crimes....
(war) - August SanderAugust SanderAugust Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander's first book Face of our Time was published in 1929...
- Akira SatōAkira Satowas a Japanese photographer noted for his photographs of girls and of Europe.Satō was born on 30 July 1930 in Tokyo. While a student of economics at Yokohama National University he was an avid reader of Life and other photographic and fashion magazines at the American CIE library in Hibiya. He...
(art, fash) - Kōji SatōKoji Sato (photographer)was a renowned Japanese amateur photographer, particularly in the 1930s. was born in Kumagaya, Saitama on 1 November 1911. From the age of thirteen Satō had a Thornton reflex camera; on his graduation from school he took photographs in his free time from his work in a bicycle wholesaler...
- Tokihiro SatōTokihiro SatoRecognized for his playful interaction of light, Sato uses a large-format camera for exposures that last from one to three hours, while he moves through the space creating points of light or illuminated lines drawn with flashlights or flashes made by reflecting mirrors. The results are detailed...
(art) - Jan SaudekJan SaudekJan Saudek is a Czech art photographer.- Life :Saudek's father was a Jew and the family was therefore persecuted by Germans. Many of his family members died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Jan and his brother Karel were held in a children's concentration camp located...
(art, port) - William SaundersWilliam Saunders (photographer)William Thomas Saunders was a British-born photographer who settled in China and became one of the main commercial photographers in nineteenth century China.- Life and career :...
- Charles Roscoe SavageCharles Roscoe SavageCharles Roscoe Savage was a British-born landscape and portrait photographer who produced images of the American West. He is best known for his 1869 photographs of the linking of the first transcontinental railroad....
- Francesco ScavulloFrancesco ScavulloFrancesco Scavullo was an American fashion photographer best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan and his celebrity portraits.-Biography:...
(art, fash) - Jürgen SchadebergJürgen Schadeberg-Overview:Jürgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin in 1931. In 1950, he moved to South Africa to rejoin his family and joined Drum magazine as official photographer and layout artist....
- Rocky SchenckRocky SchenckRocky Schenck is an American music video director and photographer. He has worked with such artists as Adele, Nick Cave, Joni Mitchell, The Cramps, Alice in Chains, Redd Kross, Godsmack, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Rod Stewart, and Van Halen, among others...
(art) - Leif SchillerLeif SchillerLeif Schiller was a Danish-born fashion and commercial photographer. During his working career, Schiller worked with supermodels Helena Christensen, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour and many more...
- Stefanie SchneiderStefanie SchneiderStefanie Schneider is a German photographer living in Berlin and Los Angeles. Stefanie Schneider is known for using expired Polaroid instant film material to achieve an effect of washed-out colors and random artifacts from the deprecation of the chemicals...
(art, port) - Bill SchwabBill SchwabBill Schwab is an American photographer known for his emotionally charged yet peaceful urban and natural landscapes.Born in Detroit, Michigan he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Central Michigan University in 1983....
(art) - Lars SchwanderLars SchwanderLars Schwander is a Danish photographer and gallerist. As a photographer he is most known for his portraits of international artists. In 1996 he founded Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, an exhibition space for art photography....
(port) - John SchwartzJohn Schwartz (photographer)John Swartz was a photographer in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, in the early 20th century. He is notable for taking the only known portrait of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang....
- Arthur E. ScottArthur E. ScottArthur E. "Scotty" Scott was the United States Senate's first photo-historian. He was a professional photographer in Washington, D.C. from 1934 to 1976.-Early life and career:...
- Ignác ŠechtlIgnác ŠechtlIgnác Šechtl , also known as Ignace Schächtl or Hynek Šechtl, was a pioneer of Czech photography and cinematography...
- Josef Jindřich ŠechtlJosef Jindrich ŠechtlJosef Jindřich Šechtl was a Czech photographer who specialized in photojournalism and portrait photography...
- Marie ŠechtlováMarie ŠechtlováMarie Šechtlová was a Czech photographer, one of the proponents of the "poetry of everyday" style.-Chronology:- Awards :...
- Stéphane SednaouiStéphane SednaouiStéphane Sednaoui is a French-American photographer, director and producer whose work includes music videos, art projects, photographic essays, portrait photography, fashion photography and photojournalism....
(adv, art, fash) - Allan SekulaAllan SekulaAllan Sekula is an American artist of Polish descent, writer, and critic based at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.-Work:...
- Mark SeligerMark SeligerMark Seliger is an American photographer noted for his portraiture.Seliger was born in Amarillo, Texas and attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, and Texas A&M University–Commerce. Seliger served as the chief photographer for Rolling Stone from 1992 to 2002 and...
(port) - Vittorio SellaVittorio SellaVittorio Sella was an Italian photographer and mountaineer, who took photographs of mountains which are regarded as some of the finest ever made....
(land) - Benu SenBenu SenBenu Sen was an Indian photographer from Kolkata, India. He was the second son among seven children of Manindranath and Provabati Sengupta....
(art, pict) - Andres SerranoAndres SerranoAndres Serrano is an American photographer and artist who has become notorious through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported...
(art, doc, port) - Masato SetoMasato Seto-Biography:Seto was born in Udon Thani, Thailand, to a Japanese father and a Vietnamese Thai mother. He moved to Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in 1961, and studied photography at Tōkyō Shashin Senmon Gakkō , graduating in 1973. After further study under Daidō Moriyama, Seto became an assistant to...
(doc) - Charles SettringtonCharles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and KinraraCharles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara is the heir apparent of the 10th Duke of Richmond, 10th Duke of Lennox and 5th Duke of Gordon...
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- John SextonJohn Sexton (photographer)John Sexton is an American fine art photographer who specializes in black and white photographs.-Life:John Sexton was born in 1953. He was educated at Cypress College and Chapman University .-Career:Sexton worked for Ansel Adams from 1979 to 1984 , first as Technical and Photographic...
- David SeymourDavid SeymourChim was the pseudonym of David Seymour , a Polish photographer and photojournalist. Born Dawid Szymin in Warsaw to Polish Jewish parents, he became interested in photography while studying in Paris...
- Herzekiah Andrew ShanuHerzekiah Andrew ShanuHerzekiah Andrew Shanu was an African photographer. A Yoruba man, originally from Lagos in what is now Nigeria, in 1884 he entered the colonial service of the Congo Free State as a clerk, rising to the rank of district sub-commissioner. Establishing himself at Boma, then the capital, he opened a...
- Charles SheelerCharles SheelerCharles Rettew Sheeler, Jr. was an American artist. He is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the master photographers of the 20th century.-Early life and career:...
- Bob ShellBob ShellRobert Edward Lee "Bob" Shell is an American photographer and author who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the death of his model, Marion Franklin, in his Radford, Virginia studio...
- Charles ShepherdCharles Shepherd (photographer)Charles Shepherd was an English photographer and printer who worked in India in the latter part of the 19th century. In 1862, Shepherd and Arthur Robertson established a photographic studio called Shepherd & Robertson in Agra. The firm moved to Simla in 1864, at which point Samuel Bourne joined...
- Cindy ShermanCindy ShermanCindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
(art, doc, port) - Noriyoshi ShibataNoriyoshi ShibataShibata was born in Nagasaki in 1966. After graduating from Keio University in 1990 he joined Kyodo News, but he left and turned freelance in 1995....
(doc) - Bukō ShimizuBuko Shimizuwas a Japanese photographer who lived in and photographed Chichibu .Shimizu was born on 12 October 1913 in Chichibu, the eldest son of the family running a photography studio in Kumaki, Chichibu...
(doc, ethno, land) - Stewart ShiningStewart ShiningStewart Shining is a New York City-based photographer of contemporary actors, musicians, and models. Shining, born in Burlington, Vermont, and who grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota, studied at the Parsons School of Design in the early 1980s and has been commissioned by both Vanity Fair and...
(fashion) - Kishin ShinoyamaKishin Shinoyamais a Japanese photographer.Shinoyama graduated from Nihon University. He worked with the Light Publicity agency while still a student, and freelanced after graduation....
- Mieko ShiomiMieko Shiomiwas a Japanese amateur photographer.Shiomi joined the Tampei Photography Club in 1948, and thereafter joined two other photography groups while also exhibiting in the Nikakai Photography Section...
- Stephen ShoreStephen ShoreStephen Shore is an American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography.- Life and work :...
- John ShuptrineJohn ShuptrineJohn Robert Shuptrine is a self-taught black-and-white American photographer. His work encompasses a wide range of topics, from portraits to landscapes, with a special emphasis on abstract close-ups....
- Malick SidibéMalick SidibéMalick Sidibé is Malian photographer noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako. He was born in Soloba, Mali and completed his studies in design and jewelry in the École des Artisans Soudanais in Bamako...
- Katharina SieverdingKatharina SieverdingKatharina Sieverding is a photographer known for her self-portraiture. Sieverding lives and works in Berlin and Düsseldorf. She is a professor at the University of the Arts, Berlin.- Early life and education :...
- Jeanloup SieffJeanloup SieffJeanloup Sieff was a fashion photographer.Sieff was born in Paris to parents of Polish origin. His interest in photography was first piqued when he received a Photax plastic camera as a birthday gift for his fourteenth birthday...
- Wolfgang SieversWolfgang SieversWolfgang Georg Sievers, AO was an Australian photographer who specialised in architectural and industrial photography.Seivers was born in Berlin, Germany...
(arch, ind) - Steven SiewertSteven SiewertSteven Siewert is an Australian photojournalist and art photographer.Siewert's photographs have appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and the book, "The Last Anzacs: Lest We Forget" with the author Tony Stephens. He has photographed many celebrities, including the Dalai Lama, Christina Aguilera,...
(art, doc) - Floria SigismondiFloria SigismondiFloria Sigismondi is an Italian, naturalised Canadian, photographer and director.Apart from her art exhibitions, she is best known for writing and directing The Runaways, starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning...
(art) - Roman SignerRoman SignerRoman Signer is principally a visual artist who works in sculpture, installations photography, and video.-Early life and career:...
- Jakob SildnikJakob SildnikJakob Sildnik was an Estonian photographer and filmmaker, based in Tartu. Together with Fjodor Ljubovski, he directed one of the first Estonian films, the short drama "Must teemant" , released in 1923.Sildnik was murdered in 1973, at the age of 90.-External links:...
- Marilyn SilverstoneMarilyn SilverstoneMarilyn Rita Silverstone was an accomplished photo-journalist and ordained Buddhist nun. Hers would be an eventful life, and she is said to have proclaimed with undeniable truth: "I can say that I did it all."-Youth:...
- Camille SilvyCamille SilvyCamille Silvy was a French photographer, primarily active in London.He became a member of the Société française de photographie in 1858, then moved to London and opened a portrait studio at 38 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, becoming a member of the Photographic Society in 1859.Sitters in Silvy's...
(art, port) - Lorna SimpsonLorna SimpsonLorna Simpson is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex...
(art) - Raghubir Singh
- Aaron SiskindAaron SiskindAaron Siskind was an American abstract expressionist photographer. In his biography he wrote that he began his foray into photography when he received a camera for a wedding gift and began taking pictures on his honeymoon. He quickly realized the artistic potential this offered...
- Hilda SjölinHilda SjölinHilda Sjölin , was a Swedish photographer, likely the first professional woman pioneer photographer in her country.Sjölin was raised in Malmö as one of four daughters. On 24 May 1860 she advertised in Malmö that she performed photography on glass, waxcanvas and paper, and by February 1861, she...
- Natalia SkobeevaNatalia SkobeevaNatalia Skobeeva, born in Russia in 1975, is a London based artist and photographer graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Natalia's work tackles the themes of identity and belonging. She explores the psychology of perception and identifying, and pathways of forming unique...
(art, fashion) - Sandy SkoglundSandy SkoglundSandy Skoglund is an American photographer and installation artist.Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected small children and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete. Finally, she photographs the set,...
(art, doc) - Neal SlavinNeal SlavinNeal Slavin is an American photographer and television/film director.- Overview :Slavin graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in New York, where he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree...
- Moneta Sleet Jr.
- Hedi SlimaneHedi SlimaneHedi Slimane is a French fashion designer of Tunisian, Italian-Brazilian origins. He studied political sciences , and Art History at the École du Louvre, and was also educated as a tailor...
- Victor SloanVictor SloanVictor Sloan MBE is an Irish photographer and artist.Victor Sloan studied at the Royal School, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone and Belfast and Leeds Colleges of Art, England. He lives and works in Portadown, County Armagh in Northern Ireland...
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- Rick SmolanRick SmolanRick Smolan is an American photographer. He is CEO of Against All Odds Productions.-Background:Smolan is a 1972 graduate of Dickinson College. He has worked for TIME, LIFE and National Geographic...
- Edwin SmithEdwin Smith (photographer)Edwin George Herbert Smith was an English photographer. He is best known for his distinctive vignettes of English gardens, landscapes, and architecture...
(arch, int, land) - Graham SmithGraham Smith (photographer)__NoTOC__Graham Smith is a photographer from Middlesbrough, England, who was particularly active in photographing Middlesbrough and the northeast of England in the 1970s and 1980s....
- Henry Holmes SmithHenry Holmes SmithHenry Holmes Smith was an American photographer and one of most influential fine art photography teachers of the mid 20th century. He was inspired by the work that had been done at the German Bauhaus and in 1937 was invited to teach photography at the New Bauhaus being founded by Moholy-Nagy in...
(abs) - Mickey SmithMickey Smith (artist)is an American conceptual artist.She received a BA in Photography from Minnesota State University Moorhead, MN in 1994. Images from her series have been exhibited in New York, China and Russia. Smith has received the as well as grants from , , and the . Smith's first major public art project at...
- Pennie SmithPennie SmithPennie Smith is an English photographer, known for having photographed several rock musicians. She specialises in black-and-white photography.Smith attended Twickenham Art school in the late 1960s, studying graphics and fine art...
- W. Eugene SmithW. Eugene SmithWilliam Eugene Smith was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs.- Life and work :...
(doc) - Snowdon (Antony Armstrong-Jones)
- Jacob Aue SobolJacob Aue SobolJacob Aue Sobol is a Danish photographer. He has worked around the world, including in East Greenland, Guatemala, Tokyo, Bangkok and Copenhagen.Since 2007 Sobol has been a nominee at Magnum Photos...
(art) - Melvin SokolskyMelvin SokolskyMelvin Sokolsky is an American photographer and film director.Born in New York City, Sokolsky had no formal training in photography, but started to use his father's box camera at about the age of ten. Always analytical, he started to realize the role that emulsion played as he compared his own...
(art, fash, adv) - Frederick SommerFrederick SommerFrederick Sommer , was an artist born in Angri, Italy and raised in Brazil. He earned a M.A. degree in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University where he met Frances Elisabeth Watson whom he married in 1928; they had no children...
- Giorgio SommerGiorgio SommerGiorgio Sommer was born in Frankfurt am Main , and became one of Europe’s most important and prolific photographers of the 19th century...
- Sherif SonbolSherif SonbolSherif Sonbol is a photographer specializing in architecture, scenic fine arts and photojournalism.- Early life :...
(arch, art, doc, dig, lans) - Alec SothAlec SothAlec Soth is an American photographer notable for "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. His photography has a cinematic feel with elements of folklore that hint at a story behind the image. New York Times art critic Hilarie M...
(art, doc, land, port) - Pete SouzaPete SouzaPete Souza is an American photojournalist and the current Chief Official White House photographer for President Barack Obama and Director of the White House Photography Office...
- Albert SpaggiariAlbert SpaggiariAlbert Spaggiari , nicknamed Bert, was a French criminal chiefly known as the organizer of a break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France in 1976.-Earlier life:...
- Jack Spencer (art, doc, int, land)
- Humphrey SpenderHumphrey SpenderHumphrey Spender was an English photographer, painter, architect and designer.-Family:Humphrey Spender was the third son of Harold Spender, a Liberal journalist and writer who founded the Boys' Club movement with Arnold Toynbee. Humphrey's mother, Violet Schuster, came from a German family who had...
(doc) - Christine SpenglerChristine SpenglerChristine Spengler is one of only a few renowned female war photographers of the 20th Century. Since 1970, she has photographed and reported on conflicts, primarily from the point of view of the victims of war...
(war) - Melissa SpringerMelissa SpringerMelissa Springer is an American photojournalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including Aperture, Elle, Forbes, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Southern Living, The Village Voice and House & Garden.Springer was one of the first...
(art, doc, port) - Raymond Henry St. ArnaudRaymond Henry St. ArnaudRaymond Henry St. Arnaud was born on June 24, 1942 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is a Canadian photographer who centres his photography on a series of personal obsessions often using close-ups with extreme lighting as his preferred technique....
(art) - Vytautas StanionisVytautas StanionisVytautas Stanionis was a Lithuanian photographer of Lithuania and Ukraine during the Soviet period.Born in Drisa on 27 February 1917, Stanionis was brought up in Kaunas. His mother died when he was young; his father then remarried but he too died when the son was only 16. Stanionis trained and...
- John StanmeyerJohn StanmeyerJohn Stanmeyer , is a celebrated American photojournalist based in Otis, Massachusetts.He is best known for his contributions to TIME Magazine and National Geographic. His work centered on Asian and Middle-Eastern political and human rights issues for the past 11 years and more recently on the...
(doc) - Andrew StarkAndrew StarkAndrew Stark is an Australian street photographer mainly photographing in Sydney since the early 1980s. He was educated at Newington College .-Professional exhibits and books:...
(art, doc) - Chris Steele-PerkinsChris Steele-PerkinsChristopher Horace Steele-Perkins is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his depiction of Africa, Afghanistan, England, and Japan.-Life and career:...
(doc) - Mary SteenMary SteenMary Dorothea Frederica Steen was a Danish photographer and feminist. At the age of 28, she opened a studio in Copenhagen where she specialized in indoor photography. She later became Denmark's first female court photographer, working not only with the Danish royals but, at the invitation of...
(port) - Edward SteichenEdward SteichenEdward J. Steichen was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Steichen also contributed the logo design and a custom typeface...
(art, land, pict, port) - Ralph SteinerRalph SteinerRalph Steiner was an American photographer, pioneer documentarian and a key figure among avant-garde filmmakers in the 1930s.-Biography:...
- Joel SternfeldJoel SternfeldJoel Sternfeld, , is a fine-art color photographer noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish color photography as a respected artistic medium. He has many works in the permanent collections of the MOMA in New York City and the Getty Center in Los...
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- Louis StettnerLouis StettnerLouis Stettner is an American photographer of the 20th century whose work includes streetscapes, portraits and architectural images of New York and Paris. His work has been highly regarded because of its humanity and capturing the life and reality of the people and streets of both cities...
- David StewartDavid Stewart (photographer)David Stewart photographer and director, working in advertising and fine art photography. He is noted for his surreal and often humorous large format portraits....
(art, adv) - John StezakerJohn Stezaker-Overview:Stezaker attended the Slade School of Art in London in the 1960s. In the early 1970s he was among the first wave of British conceptual artists to react against what was then the predominance of Pop art....
- Alfred StieglitzAlfred StieglitzAlfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form...
(art, port) - Baron Raimund von StillfriedBaron Raimund von StillfriedBaron Raimund von Stillfried, also known as Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Rathenitz , was an Austrian photographer.He was a son of August Wilhelm Freiherr Stillfried von Rathenitz Baron Raimund von Stillfried, also known as Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Rathenitz (6 August 1839, Komotau – 12...
- Stillfried & AndersenStillfried & AndersenThe firm of Stillfried & Andersen, also known as the Japan Photographic Association, was a photographic studio founded by Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Hermann Andersen that operated in Yokohama, Japan between 1876 and 1885. The studio is noted for its fine portraits and landscapes that were...
(photographic studio) - Nellie StockbridgeNellie StockbridgeNellie Stockbridge was an early Idaho frontier mining district photographer. Her career spanned over 60 years. She was the oldest living member of the Zonta International club for advancement of women when she died in 1965....
(doc) - Ezra StollerEzra StollerEzra Stoller was an American architectural photographer.Stoller was born in Chicago. His interest in photography began while he was an architecture student at New York University, when he began making lantern slides and photographs of architectural models, drawings and sculpture...
- Dana StoneDana StoneDana Stone was a U.S. photo-journalist best known for his work for CBS during the Vietnam War....
(war) - Tom StoneTom Stone (photographer)Tom Stone is an American photographer. His work depicts the discrepancy between the American dream and the American reality, clearly captured through the telling faces of those living on the fringes of society...
(doc) - Kęstutis StoškusKestutis StoškusKęstutis Ipolitas Stoškus is a Lithuanian architectural photographer and a museum curator.Born in Dūdlaukis on March 13, 1951, Stoškus graduated in economics from the University of Vilnius in 1973...
- Paul StrandPaul StrandPaul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century...
(art) - Zoe StraussZoe Strauss-Biography:Born in Philadelphia, Strauss was given a camera for her 30th birthday and started taking pictures of life in the city’s marginal neighborhoods. She is a photo-based installation artist who uses Philadelphia as a primary setting and subject for her work...
(art) - Jindřich ŠtreitJindřich ŠtreitJindřich Štreit is a Czech photographer and pedagogue known for his documentary photography. He focuses on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages...
(doc) - Rudolph StrieglerRudolph StrieglerRudolph Striegler was one of Denmark's early photographers, specialising in portrait photography.Trained as a picture-framer, Strieger opened Odense's first daguerreotype studio in 1846. With his experience of gold-plating, he was able to combine photography with ornate framing...
(port) - Thomas StruthThomas StruthThomas Struth is a German photographer whose wide-ranging work includes depictions of detailed cityscapes, Asian jungles and family portraits. He is one of Germany's most widely exhibited and collected fine art photographers...
(art, doc) - Roy StuartRoy Stuart (photographer)Roy Stuart is an American photographer and director who lives in Paris. His books are published by Taschen....
- Jock SturgesJock SturgesJock Sturges is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families, primarily taken at communes in Northern California and at the Atlantic-coast naturist resort at Montalivet, France. His work has been the subject of controversy...
(art, port) - Anthony SuauAnthony SuauAnthony Suau , is an American award-winning photojournalist.-Life:He worked for the Chicago Sun Times, and Denver Post....
(doc, war) - Issei SudaIssei Sudais a Japanese photographer.Born in Tokyo in 1940, Suda graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in 1962. From 1967 to 1970 he worked as the cameraman of the theatrical group Tenjo Sajiki, under Shūji Terayama. He has worked as a freelance photographer since 1971. Suda is a professor at Osaka...
(art) - Josef SudekJosef SudekJosef Sudek was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague.Originally a bookbinder. During The First World War he was drafted into Austro-Hungarian Army. In 1915 and served on the Italian Front until he was wounded in the right arm in 1916...
(art, pict) - Hiroshi SugimotoHiroshi SugimotoHiroshi Sugimoto , born on February 23, 1948, is a Japanese photographer currently dividing his time between Tokyo, Japan and New York City, USA. His catalog is made up of a number of series, each having a distinct theme and similar attributes.-Life and works:Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in...
(art, doc, port) - Francis Meadow SutcliffeFrancis Meadow SutcliffeFrancis Meadow Sutcliffe was an English pioneering photographic artist whose work presented an enduring record of life in the seaside town of Whitby, England, and surrounding areas, in the late Victorian era and early 20th century.-Early life:He was born in Headingley, Leeds, to the painter...
- Antanas SutkusAntanas SutkusAntanas Sutkus is a renowned Lithuanian photographer and recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize and Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. He was one of the co-founders and a President of the Photography Art Society of Lithuania .Sutkus's series People of Lithuania is considered one of...
- Kenneth Dupee SwanKenneth Dupee SwanKenneth Dupee Swan , more commonly known as K.D. Swan, was an American nature photographer in the early part of the 20th century. During his career in the USDA Forest Service he took many picture of the American Northwest....
(land) - Homer SykesHomer SykesHomer Warwick Sykes is a Canadian-born British photographer whose career has included personal projects and landscape photography.-Life and career:...
(doc, land) - John SzarkowskiJohn SzarkowskiJohn Szarkowski was a photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art.-Early life and career:...
(doc) - Nik SzymanekNik SzymanekNicholas Szymanek, better known as Nik Szymanek, is a British amateur astronomer and prolific astrophotographer, based in Essex, England. He is known for his deep sky CCD images and his contributions to education and public outreach....
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- I. W. TaberI. W. TaberIsaiah West Taber was an American daguerreotypist, ambrotypist, and photographer who took many pictures of noted Californians, which he donated to the California State Library "that the state may preserve the names and faces, and keep alive the memory of those who made it what it is." He was also...
- Kaietsu TakagiKaietsu Takagiwas a Japanese photographer.After studying at Waseda University, Takagi joined Ōkura-gumi and in 1907 went to New York to head the company's office there. While in New York, he met Shinzō Fukuhara, and became interested in photography....
- Yutaka TakanashiYutaka Takanashiis a Japanese photographer who has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life, and is best known for his depiction of Tokyo.-Life and career:...
- Masataka TakayamaMasataka TakayamaMasataka Takayama was one of the most prominent Japanese photographers in the first half of the twentieth century....
(abs, art) - William Fox TalbotWilliam Fox TalbotWilliam Henry Fox Talbot was a British inventor and a pioneer of photography. He was the inventor of calotype process, the precursor to most photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an...
- Tamamura KozaburōTamamura KozaburoTamamura Kozaburō was a Japanese photographer. In 1874 he opened a photographic studio in Asakusa, Tokyo and subsequently moved to Yokohama in 1883, opening his most successful studio. He was an originator of the Yokohama shashin photographic scene. His studio was still operating in...
- Akihide TamuraAkihide Tamurais a Japanese photographer. He was born in Tokyo on 13 March 1947 as Shigeru Tamura . He studied at Tokyo College of Photography, graduating first in 1967 and then from a more advanced course two years later....
(aka Shigeru Tamura) - Sakae TamuraSakae Tamura (photographer)was a Japanese photographer, prominent in the years before the war.Born in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Tamura graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography and entered Oriental in 1928 and became editor of Photo Times. He was an active contributor to the magazine Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū and in the...
(art, port) - Sakae TamuraSakae Tamura (nature photographer)was a Japanese magazine editor and photographer of nature.Tamura was born in Chiba in 1910, but his family moved to Tokyo in 1924. Under the influence of his father, an amateur photographer, he started taking photographs in 1927....
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- Shigeru TamuraShigeru Tamura (photographer)For a younger photographer of the same name, see Akihide Tamura. was a Japanese photographer notable for his work in fashion and photojournalism....
(not Akihide Tamura) - Kōtarō Tanaka
- Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle)Gerda TaroGerda Taro was born into a Polish Jewish family living in Germany. She became a war photographer, and the companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa...
(doc) - Henry TauntHenry TauntHenry William Taunt was a professional photographer based in Oxford, England. His studio was in Broad Street, Oxford.Henry Taunt was born in Penson's Gardens in St Ebbe's, Oxford...
(land) - John Bigelow TaylorJohn Bigelow TaylorJohn Bigelow Taylor, based in New York City, is a photographer of works of art and, along with his partner, Dianne Dubler, is known for photographic essays on diverse subjects.-Career:...
(arch, art, port) - Maggie TaylorMaggie TaylorMaggie Taylor is an artist who works with digital images. She won the Santa Fe Center for Photography's Project Competition in 2004. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe and is represented within the permanent collections of several galleries and museums...
(art) - Sam Taylor-WoodSam Taylor-WoodSamantha "Sam" Taylor-Wood OBE , born Samantha Taylor, is an English filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon...
(art, doc, port) - Anya TeixeiraAnya TeixeiraAnya Teixeira was a street photographer and photojournalist.Teixeira's family escaped the Russian Revolution through a rescue mounted by her uncle Morris Gest, a New York impresario. The family settled in Berlin in 1924 so as to be near at hand for the expected overthrow of the Bolshevik regime...
- Joyce TennesonJoyce TennesonJoyce Tenneson is an American fine art photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involves nude or semi-nude women. Tenneson shoots primarily with the Polaroid 20x24 camera...
- Juergen TellerJuergen TellerJuergen Teller is an artist and fashion photographer.-Life and career:Teller studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich, Germany...
(fash) - Teo Bee YenTeo Bee Yen-References:...
- Mario TestinoMario Testino-Early Life:Testino grew up in Lima, the eldest son of a businessman. When he was young he wanted to be a priest. Testino recalls being unpopular at school because of his flamboyance. He was good at math and went on to study economics at Universidad del Pacífico, where his insistence on wearing...
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- Peter ThomannPeter ThomannPeter Thomann is a German photographer who worked as a staff photographer for Stern magazine.- Photography :His photograph "The Soul of a Horse" won the 1st prize WORLD PRESS PHOTO AWARD 1963 and in 1996 entered the Guiness Book of Records as the most frequently copied fotograph...
(doc) - Warren T. ThompsonWarren T. Thompson (photographer)Warren T. Thompson was an American photographer. Between 1840 and 1846 Thompson worked in Philadelphia and in 1843 refined Daniel Davis Jr.'s electroplating method for colouring daguerreotypes by using a gum tragacanth resist. With this technique colours could be built up in the manner of some...
- John ThomsonJohn Thomson (photographer)John Thomson was a pioneering Scottish photographer, geographer and traveller. He was one of the first photographers to travel to the Far East, documenting the people, landscapes and artifacts of eastern cultures...
- Miroslav TichýMiroslav TichýMiroslav Tichý was a photographer who from the 1960s to 1985 took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes, tin cans and other at-hand materials. Most of his subjects were unaware they are...
(surreptitious) - Nicolas TikhomiroffNicolas TikhomiroffMarried Shirley Lou Ritchie by whom he had a daughter, Tamara Joan Tikhomiroff.Nicolas Tikohomiroff is a Russian photographer, born and raised in France. He started working for Magnum in 1959. Famous for his work on World Cinema, he also had a large portfolio of war photography...
- Wolfgang TillmansWolfgang TillmansWolfgang Tillmans is a German Fine-art photographer and artist. His comprehensive and diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer and also the first...
(abs, art, land) - Alexey TitarenkoAlexey TitarenkoAlexey Viktorovich Titarenko is a Soviet and Russian photographer and artist.-Biography:At age 15, he became the youngest member of the independent photo club Zerkalo [Mirror]...
- Herbert TobiasHerbert TobiasHerbert Tobias was a German photographer who specialized in black & white. He is credited with giving Christa Päffgen the sobriquet Nico. Also he made some famous portraits of the performer Valeska Gert and Andreas Baader from RAF. He was born in Dessau, and died in Hamburg, from AIDS.-External...
- Toyoko TokiwaToyoko Tokiwais a Japanese photographer best known for her 1957 book of text and photographs Kiken na Adabana , and particularly for its portrayal of the red-light district of post-occupation Yokohama, with US servicemen.-Life and career:...
(doc) - Shōmei TōmatsuShomei Tomatsuis a Japanese photographer.Born Teruaki Tōmatsu in Nagoya in 1930, Tōmatsu studied economics at Aichi University, graduating in 1954. While still a student, he had his photographs published by the major Japanese photography magazines. He entered Iwanami and worked on the series Iwanami Shashin Bunko...
(art, doc) - Tomishige RiheiTomishige Riheiwas an important 19th and early 20th century Japanese photographer. He was a pioneer of wet-plate photography in Japan and is noted for his excellent large-format, albumen landscapes. Tomishige is especially renowned in Kyūshū....
- Marcus TomlinsonMarcus TomlinsonMarcus Tomlinson is a photographer and fine art film and commercial ads director based in London. Tomlinson's work is produced in equal measure for commercial brands and clients as well as for museums and art galleries....
- Heinrich TønniesHeinrich TønniesJohan Georg Heinrich Ludwig Tønnies was an early German-Danish photographer who had a studio in Aalborg, Denmark.-Biography:Born in Grünenplan, Germany, he was trained as a glass painter and cutter....
(port, land) - Akira ToriyamaAkira Toriyama (ophthalmologist)was a Japanese opthalmologist who rose to become president of Showa University; he was also an exhibited and published amateur photographer.-Biography and medical career:...
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- Oliviero ToscaniOliviero ToscaniOliviero Toscani is an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton, from 1982 to 2000...
- Larry TowellLarry TowellLarry Towell is a Canadian photographer, poet, and oral historian.Towell grew up in a large family in rural Ontario and studied visual arts at York University in Toronto where his interest in photography first began...
- Barbara TraubBarbara TraubBarbara Traub is an American photographer who was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Several years after graduating from Johns Hopkins, she went to art school in Italy for a semester with the intention of doing painting and drawing, but at the last minute was loaned a Leica and decided that...
- Bill TravisBill TravisBill Travis is an American photographer known for his cityscapes and the sensual male figure.His discovery of photography came through art history—he earned a Ph.D. in medieval art and taught at the university level for several years—and this background has influenced his creative work...
(art, port) - Eric TreacyEric TreacyThe Rt Revd Eric Treacy MBE was an English railway photographer and Anglican Bishop.Born in London, Treacy was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and at King's College London, though he left without taking a degree...
- Arthur TressArthur TressArthur Tress is a notable American photographer born on November 24, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. He is well known for his staged surrealism and exposition of the human body.- Education :* Abraham Lincoln High School, Coney Island, New York* B.F.A...
(art, fash, port) - Linnaeus TripeLinnaeus TripeLinnaeus Tripe was a British photographer, best known for his photographs of India and Burma taken in the 1850s. His works are on display at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.He was born in Devonport, Devon, UK....
- John TrobaughJohn TrobaughJohn Trobaugh in Lansing, Michigan is an American artist specializing in photography and based in Birmingham, Alabama. Trobaugh received his BFA in 1996 with honors from University of Alabama at Birmingham and went on to study photography at the School of Visual Arts...
(art, doc, port) - Olegas TruchanasOlegas TruchanasOlegas Truchanas was a Lithuanian-Australian conservationist and nature photographer.He was a key figure in the attempt to stop the damming of the ecologically sensitive Lake Pedder in South West Tasmania by the Hydro Electricity Commission...
- Thomas TulisThomas TulisThomas Tulis is an American photographer and painter living and working in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.Tulis lives a very simple life....
(art, doc, inds, land, port) - Spencer TunickSpencer TunickSpencer Tunick is an American photographer. Tunick is best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots. Since 1994 he has photographed over 75 human installations around the world.-Biography:...
(art, doc, fash, port) - David C. TurnleyDavid C. TurnleyDavid C. Turnley is an American photographer. He won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for photography for images of the political uprisings in China and Eastern Europe, the World Press Photo Picture of the Year in 1988 for a photo taken in Leninakan after the devastating Armenian earthquake and again in...
(doc) - Peter TurnleyPeter TurnleyPeter Turnley is a photojournalist known for documenting the human condition and current events. Over the past two decades, he has traveled to eighty-five countries and covered nearly every major news event of international significance. His photographs have been featured on the cover of Newsweek...
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- Uchida KuichiUchida Kuichiwas a pioneering Japanese photographer from Nagasaki. He was greatly respected as a portrait photographer and was the only photographer granted a sitting to photograph the Emperor Meiji....
- Shōji UedaShoji UedaUeda was born on 27 March 1913 in Sakai , Tottori. His father was a manufacturer and seller of geta; Shōji was the only child who survived infancy...
- Noboru UekiNoboru Uekiwas a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:*Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese....
- Jerry UelsmannJerry UelsmannJerry N. Uelsmann is an American photographer.Uelsmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. When he was in high school, his interest in photography sparked. He originally believed that using a camera could allow him to exist outside of himself, to live in a world captured through the lens...
(art, land, port) - Ueno HikomaUeno Hikomawas a pioneer Japanese photographer, born in Nagasaki. He is noted for his fine portraits, often of important Japanese and foreign figures, and for his excellent landscapes, particularly of Nagasaki and its surroundings...
- Ukai GyokusenUkai Gyokusenwas a pioneering Japanese photographer. Although he is much less well known than his contemporaries Shimooka Renjō and Ueno Hikoma, he is important for being the first Japanese professional photographer, having established a photographic studio in Edo in 1860 or 1861.Ukai was born in what is now...
- Brian UlrichBrian UlrichBrian Ulrich is an American photographer known for his photographic exploration of consumer culture.Born in Northport, New York, Ulrich lives in Richmond, Virginia....
(art, doc) - Doris UlmannDoris UlmannDoris Ulmann was an American photographer, best known for her dignified portraits of the people of Appalachia, particularly craftsmen and musicians such as Jean Ritchie's family, made between 1928 and 1934.-Life and career:...
- Steven UnderhillSteven UnderhillSteven Underhill is an American photographer. He grew up in Northern California and graduated from University of California, Los Angeles....
- Ellen von UnwerthEllen von UnwerthEllen von Unwerth is a photographer and director, specializing in erotic femininity. She worked as a fashion model for ten years herself before moving behind the camera, and now makes fashion, editorial, and advertising photographs.Ellen von Unwerth found fame when she first photographed Claudia...
- Kaoru UsuiKaoru UsuiUsui was born in Nagoya on 12 December 1916; the actor Shigeru Amachi was a younger brother. He started photography around 1933 — when he bought a Rokuoh-sha Pearlette — and from 1934 subscribed to Photo Times, whose regular contributor Sakae Tamura inspired and influenced him.From...
(doc) - Huynh Cong UtHuynh Cong UtHuỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut, is a photographer for the Associated Press who works out of Los Angeles...
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- John VachonJohn Vachon-External links:*...
(arch, doc, port) - Max VadukulMax VadukulMax Vadukul is a photographer who has worked mostly in America. He is noted for his fashion photography, portraits published in The New Yorker and many covers for Rolling Stone magazine.-Early life and career:...
- James ValentineJames Valentine (photographer)James Valentine was a well-known photographer of Dundee, Scotland. Valentines of Dundee produced Scottish topographical views from the 1860s, and later became internationally famous as the producers of picture postcards.-History:...
- Ali Khan ValiAli Khan ValiAli Khan Vali the Governor' علی خان والی was a notable 19th-century Iranian photographer. He is best known for his photograph album documenting his career as governor at various places in Azerbaijan between 1879 and 1896....
- James Van Der ZeeJames Van Der ZeeJames Van Der Zee was an African American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee produced the most comprehensive documentation of the period...
- Carl Van VechtenCarl van VechtenCarl Van Vechten was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.-Biography:...
- Kathy VargasKathy VargasKathy Vargas is an American photographer.Kathy Vargas became interested in the hand-coloured photography around 1970...
- Salvatore VasapolliSalvatore VasapolliSalvatore Marchese-Vasapolli is a nationally acclaimed artist best known for his art photographic prints of the American landscape....
- John VeltriJohn VeltriJohn Veltri is a photographer who was born in 1938 in New Jersey. He studied filmmaking and theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles City College, Warner Bros. Film Studio and San Francisco State University...
- Luigi VeronesiLuigi VeronesiLuigi Veronesi was an Italian photographer, painter, scenographer and film director.- Biography :...
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- Mathias VestergaardMathias VestergaardMathias Vestergaard is a photographer, writer, entrepreneur, and founder of daily Danish Streetstyle blog GadeMode. The nature of Vestergaards multiple creative project are reflected in the broad range of topics on which he has delivered speeches...
- Kiino VillandKiino VillandKiino Villand, born to Estonian emigre family in the United States, is a Los Angeles-based DJ and commercial photographer best known for his photographs of personalities from the worlds of film, music, art and culture. His editorial and advertising work has appeared in publications such as Emmy,...
- Roman VishniacRoman VishniacRoman Vishniac was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. A complete archive of his work now rests at the International Center of Photography....
- Massimo VitaliMassimo VitaliMassimo Vitali is a photographer, born in Como, Italy in 1944. Vitali studied photography in London; he first worked as a photojournalist in the 1970s and then worked later as a movie camera operator...
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- William George WadmanWilliam George WadmanWilliam George Wadman is an American portrait photographer. He has been a contributor to TIME, BusinessWeek, Improper Bostonian, POZ, and others. His images have been featured worldwide in Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Times of London, USA Today, The New York Times, and Corriere della Sera...
- Bob WalkerBob Walker (photographer)Robert John Walker was a San Francisco, California-based photographer and environmental activist. In an intense period of activism from 1982 to 1992 he was associated with more than a dozen Bay Area conservation organizations and as a photographer for the East Bay Regional Park District...
- Jeff WallJeff WallJeffrey "Jeff" Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s...
- Ian WallaceIan Wallace (photographer)Ian Wallace is a Tasmanian landscape photographer.Born in 1972 in the Isle of Man he emigrated to Melbourne, Victoria in 1985. From there he moved to Hobart, Tasmania in 2003. In 2004 he self-published his first book Tasmania: Portrait of an island...
(land) - Chris von WangenheimChris von WangenheimChristoph von Wangenheim was a top professional fashion photographer of the late 1960s through early 1980s.-Biography:Christoph was born in Brieg near Breslau, Germany Christoph von Wangenheim (21 February 1942 – 9 March 1981) was a top professional fashion photographer of the late 1960s...
(fash) - Nick WaplingtonNick WaplingtonThe artist and photographer Nick Waplington was born 1970 in Aden and lives in New York City. The eldest of three children, he traveled extensively during his childhood as his father worked as a scientist in the nuclear industry. He studied art at Worthing Art College, Trent Poly and The Royal...
- Patrick WardPatrick Ward (photographer)Patrick Ward is a British photographer who has published collections of his own work on British and other subjects as well as working on commissions for the press.-Life and career:...
(doc) - Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
(art, doc, fash, port) - Allan WarrenAllan WarrenMichael Allan Warren is an English society-photographer, writer and former actor. His work encompasses works of many celebrities during the late 1960s, 70s and into the 80s, such as members of the British Royal Family, influential politicians and artists in both music and literature as well as...
(port) - Waswo X. WaswoWaswo X. WaswoWaswo X. Waswo , is an artist and writer most commonly associated with his chemical process sepia-toned photographs of India, and also hand-colored portraits made at the artist’s studio in Udaipur, Rajasthan...
(art, port) - Hiroshi WatanabeHiroshi Watanabe (photographer)is a California-based Japanese photographer.Born in Sapporo in 1951, Watanabe graduated from the Department of Photography of Nihon University in 1975 and moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a production coordinator for Japanese television commercials and later co-founded a Japanese...
(port) - Carleton WatkinsCarleton WatkinsCarleton E. Watkins was a noted 19th century California photographer.Carleton Emmons Watkins was born in Oneonta, upstate New York. He went to San Francisco during the gold rush, arriving in 1851...
- Albert WatsonAlbert Watson (photographer)Albert Watson is a Scottish photographer well known for his fashion, celebrity and art photography, and whose work is featured in galleries and museums worldwide. He has shot over 200 covers of Vogue around the world and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s...
- Bruce WeberBruce Weber (photographer)Bruce Weber is an American fashion photographer and occasional filmmaker. He is most widely known for his ad campaigns for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Pirelli, Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon, and Gianni Versace, as well as his work for Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone...
(art, doc, fash) - WeegeeWeegeeWeegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig , a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography....
(abs, art, doc) - Carrie Mae WeemsCarrie Mae WeemsCarrie Mae Weems is an award-winning photographer and artist. Her photographs, films, and videos have been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad and focus on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity...
- William WegmanWilliam Wegman (photographer)William Wegman is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.-Life and career:...
- Minnie WeiszMinnie WeiszMinnie Weisz is a photographer and curator, having studied at the Royal College of Art and the London College of Printing,and freelance editor for Rizzoli International Publications -Nature of activities:...
- Eudora WeltyEudora WeltyEudora Alice Welty was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published...
- Sigvart WernerSigvart WernerSigvart Werner was a Danish amateur photographer who gained fame through his artistic landscape photographs, published in book form....
(art, land) - Henry Wessel, Jr.Henry Wessel, Jr.Henry Wessel, Jr. is an American photographer noted for his descriptive, yet poetic photographs of the human environment.- Photography career :...
- Brett WestonBrett WestonBrett Weston was an American photographer and grew up in LA. He was the second son of photographer Edward Weston. Van Deren Coke, former curator of the San Francisco Museum of Art referred to Brett Weston as the "child genius of American photography." Brett began taking photographs in 1925 and...
(art, port) - Cole WestonCole WestonCole Weston was the youngest son of photographer Edward Weston and brother of photographer Brett Weston. He dedicated his life to photography and the theater....
(art, port) - Edward WestonEdward WestonEdward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of...
(art, pict, port) - Kim WestonKim Weston (photographer)Kim Weston is an American photographer known for his fine art nude studies.Kim Weston is the grandson of photographer Edward Weston, son of photographer Cole Weston and nephew of photographer Brett Weston. He worked for a number of years helping his father make new prints of Edward Weston's...
- John H. White (doc)
- Minor WhiteMinor WhiteMinor Martin White was an American photographer born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.White earned a degree in botany with a minor in English from the University of Minnesota in 1933. His first creative efforts were in poetry, as he took five years thereafter to complete a sequence of 100 sonnets while...
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- Jeff WidenerJeff WidenerJeff Widener is an American photographer, best known for his image of the Tank Man confronting a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square during the 1989 Beijing riots which made him a nominated finalist for the 1990 Pulitzer...
- Leigh WienerLeigh WienerLeigh Auston Wiener was an award-winning American photographer and photojournalist. In a career that spanned five decades, he covered hundreds of people and events...
(art, celeb, doc) - Hannah WilkeHannah WilkeHannah Wilke was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist.-Biography:...
(art, port) - Christopher WilliamsChristopher Williams (artist)Christopher Williams is an American conceptual artist and fine art photographer. He is represented by David Zwirner, New York.-Academic career:Williams graduated from Grinnell College...
- Michael Williamson
- Deborah Willis (art)
- Mary WillumsenMary WillumsenMary Birgitte Cecilie Magdalene Willumsen was a Danish photographer who, as early as 1916, sold postcards with photographs of women in scanty clothing or nude postures taken at Copenhagen's Helgoland beach establishment. She discontinued her work when the police began to show interest in kiosks...
(port) - Charles Paul WilpCharles Paul WilpCharles Paul Wilp was a German advertising-designer, artist, photographer and short-movie-editor.-Study and career:...
(adv) - Laura WilsonLaura Wilson (photographer)Laura Cunningham Wilson is an American photographer. Her photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ Magazine, London’s Sunday Times Magazine, Wallpaper and the Washington Post Magazine.-Life and career:Wilson was born Laura Cunningham and raised in...
- George Washington WilsonGeorge Washington WilsonGeorge Washington Wilson was a pioneering Scottish photographer.After studying art in Edinburgh and London, Wilson returned to his native city of Aberdeen in 1849 and established a business as a portrait miniaturist catering to the wealthy families of the North East of Scotland...
- Kathryn Tucker WindhamKathryn Tucker WindhamKathryn Tucker Windham was an American storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist. She was born in Selma, Alabama and grew up in nearby Thomasville....
(doc) - Garry WinograndGarry WinograndGarry Winogrand was a street photographer known for his portrayal of America in the mid-20th century. John Szarkowski called him the central photographer of his generation....
(art, land)
- Ernest WithersErnest WithersErnest Withers was an African American freelance photographer famous for his black and white images of the segregated South in the 1950s and 60s, Negro league baseball, and the Memphis blues scene.-Early life:...
(doc) - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
- Joel-Peter WitkinJoel-Peter WitkinJoel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses , and various outsiders such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people...
(art, doc, port) - Michael WolfMichael Wolf (photographer)Michael Wolf is a German artist and photographer who lives and works in Hong Kong and Paris.-Biography:Wolf was born in Germany and was raised in the United States, Europe, and Canada. He attended the North Toronto Collegiate Institute and the University of California, Berkeley...
- Art WolfeArt WolfeArt Wolfe is an American photographer, television host, conservationist, photography teacher and artist. He is most notably known for his color photographs of wildlife, nature and cultures.- Image manipulation :...
- Brian WoodBrian Wood (artist)Brian Wood , is a visual artist working with multiple media in photography, painting, drawing and printmaking in New York City.- Biography :...
(art) - Walter B. WoodburyWalter B. WoodburyWalter Bentley Woodbury was an inventor and pioneering English photographer. He was one of the earliest photographers in Australia and the Dutch East Indies...
- Francesca WoodmanFrancesca WoodmanFrancesca Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring herself and female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, who are blurred , who are merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured...
(art) - Severin Worm-PetersenSeverin Worm-PetersenSeverin Worm-Petersen was a Norwegian photographer.-Biography:He learned photography in 1876, at age 15, as an apprentice to John Lindegaard . In 1877 he started his own studio for portrait photography. In 1881 he photographed the unveiling of Brynjulf Bergslien's monument to Henrik...
(port) - Don WorthDon WorthThe childhood of Don Worth on an Iowa farm inspired an abiding love of exotic horticulture, which later became the primary focus of his artistry with the camera. He attended Juilliard as well as the Manhattan School of Music, receiving a graduate degree in piano and composition in 1951...
(land, botanical) - Otto WunderlichOtto WunderlichOtto Wunderlich was a German photographer that worked mainly in Spain. He started working for a mineral trading company when he arrived to Spain in 1913....
- Donovan WylieDonovan WylieDonovan Wylie, is a British Photographer from Northern Ireland.-Career:He started photography in his teens, and at the age of 16 he left school and went on a three-month journey around Ireland...
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- Lorna YabsleyLorna YabsleyLorna Yabsley is a British former actress and photographer who pioneered the "reportage" style of wedding photography during the early 1990s and founded the photographic company known as "bangwallop"....
(port) - Alfred YaghobzadehAlfred YaghobzadehAlfred Yaghobzadeh , is an Iranian Photographer of Assyrian descent who is noted for his war photography.Yaghobzadeh was born in Tehran, to a Christian Assyrian family. His photographs in Iran during the turmoil of 1979 and during the Iran-Iraq war led to his work for the Associated Press, Gamma,...
- Hiroshi Yamazaki
- Nakaji YasuiNakaji Yasui-Life:Yasui was born in Osaka and became a member of the Naniwa Photography Club in 1920s and also became a member of the Tampei Photography Club in 1930.His photographs cover a wide range from pictorialism to straight photography, including photomontages...
- Max YavnoMax YavnoMax Yavno was a photographer who specialized in street scenes, especially in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.-Personal life:...
- Bunny YeagerBunny YeagerBunny Yeager is an American photographer and former pin-up model.Born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. Yeager became one of the most photographed models in Miami. After retiring from modeling, she began her career behind the camera. She met Bettie Page in 1954, and took most of her photographs...
- YevondeYevondeYevonde Cumbers Middleton was an English photographer, who pioneered the use of colour in portrait photography...
- Yokoyama MatsusaburōYokoyama Matsusaburowas a pioneering Japanese photographer, artist, lithographer and teacher.Yokoyama was born Yokoyama Bunroku in Iturup on 10 October 1838. Early in his life, Yokoyama and his family moved to Hakodate, where in 1854 he was first exposed to photography on seeing daguerreotypes by Eliphalet Brown,...
- Kohei YoshiyukiKohei Yoshiyuki__notoc__ is a Japanese photographer who attracted much attention in 1979 with his exhibition "Kōen" at the Komai Gallery, Tokyo. The black-and-white photographs were presented in a book published in 1980 that is "nominally a soft-core voyeur's manual", with photographs of people in sexual...
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- Paul YulePaul YulePaul Harris Yule is a photographer and film maker.Born in South Africa his family emigrated to England when he was 8 years old. After studying at Aldenham School and Oxford University he became an acclaimed photojournalist and documentary film maker, founding Berwick Universal Pictures in London in...
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- Casimir ZagourskiCasimir ZagourskiCasimir Zagourski was a pioneering photographer of Central African peoples and customs.Zagourski was born in Zhytomyr in 1883. He was of Polish ethnicity, from the noble Clan of Ostoja...
(doc, ethno, port) - Jerome ZerbeJerome ZerbeJerome Zerbe was one of the originators of a genre of photography that is now utterly common: celebrity paparazzi. Zerbe was a pioneer in the 1930s of shooting photographs of the famous at play and on-the-town...
(art, doc, fash, war)
- John G. ZimmermanJohn G. ZimmermanJohn Gerald Zimmerman, born 30 October 1927, Pacoima, CA - died 3 August 2002, Monterey, CA, was one of America's premier magazine photographers. His hallmarks of technical precision and innovation produced groundbreaking photographs and influenced a generation of photographers.-Early life and...
(adv, arch, celeb, doc, spt, und) - David Drew ZinggDavid Drew ZinggDavid Drew Zingg , was an American photographer and journalist. He spent nearly forty years in Brazil , beginning in 1964, becoming an important figure in the cultural life of the both cities and the bossa nova movement of the 60s.David Zingg was born in Montclair, New Jersey on December 14, 1923...
- Fred ZinnFred ZinnFriedrich Wilhelm "Fred" Zinn was a volunteer American aviator who flew with French Armée de l'Air forces in World War I and an early pioneer of aerial photography for wartime reconnaissance and Military intelligence....
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- Monte ZuckerMonte ZuckerMonte Zucker was an American photographer. He specialized in wedding photography, entering it as a profession in 1947. In the 1970s he operated a studio in Switzerland...
(port) - Stanislovas ŽvirgždasStanislovas ŽvirgždasStanislovas Žvirgždas is a Lithuanian photographer, particularly of landscapes.Born in Balbieriškis on 13 September 1941, Žvirgždas studied history at Vilnius University in 1960–61, but after participating in an event in which the banned Lithuanian flag was raised was imprisoned in the...
See also
- Fetish photographer
- Magnum PhotosMagnum PhotosMagnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices located in New York, Paris, London and Tokyo...
- Norwegian photographers
- New Zealand photographyPhotography in New ZealandNew Zealand photography began in the mid-19th century when photographers first documented the country's natural beauty and people. Alfred Burton, of the Dunedin Burton Brothers, also travelled through many of the Pacific islands near New Zealand with the P&O Shipping line, in the early days of...
- PhotojournalismPhotojournalismPhotojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism...
- Photojournalists
- PictorialismPictorialismPictorialism is the name given to a photographic movement in vogue from around 1885 following the widespread introduction of the dry-plate process. It reached its height in the early years of the 20th century, and declined rapidly after 1914 after the widespread emergence of Modernism...
- Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News PhotographyPulitzer Prize for Breaking News PhotographyThe Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, has been awarded since 2000. Before 1968, there was only one photography category, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was divided into the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and feature categories...
- Pulitzer Prize for Feature PhotographyPulitzer Prize for Feature PhotographyThe Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography has been awarded since 1968 for a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album....
- Women in photographyWomen in photographyWomen have made significant contributions to photography since its inception.-Notable female photographers:* Berenice Abbott 1898-1991* Karimeh Abbud 1896-1955* Heather Angel 1941-* Eleanor Antin 1935-* Diane Arbus 1923-1971* Eve Arnold 1913-...
- Wikipedian Photographers