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Nobuyoshi Araki
, makes provoking and erotic pictures.
Diane Arbus
, created intense black and white photographs of people who live on the edges of society - freaks, transvestites, giants, midgets, nudists
Eve Arnold
, famous for the intimate images of actress Marilyn Monroe on the set of Monroe’s film, The Misfits.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
, photographer of stunning aerial shots of our planet from above, like desert oases, mountains, and olive groves
Richard Avedon
, helped revolutionize fashion photography in the 1950s, made direct and powerful portraits, and documented the civil rights struggle of the 1960s as well as the Vietnam war
John Baldessari
, photographer but also has done work in video and painting
Tina Barney
, portraitist of the well-to-do denizens of the northeast, the milieu in which she grew up.
Richard Billingham
, known for his powerful photographs of his own family’s life in Birmingham, UK.
Werner Bischof
, photographer of a post-war Europe in poverty and despair, and travel in the Andes
Karl Blossfeldt
, studies plants that expose the parallels between natural structures and architectural ornaments
Phil Borges
, artisticly documentents indeginous peoples and cultures, like Tibetan-refugees
Edouard Boubat
, french photographer, first intimate images of everyday life of Paris and later striking travel pictures taken of Kenya, India, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and China
Margaret Bourke-White
, top photojournalist with Fortune and Life magazine during Great Depression and World War II
Guy Bourdin
, photographer for the French edition of Vogue magazine from the 1950s through the 1980s, with his intense and dramatic fashion photographs
Mathew Brady
, made portraits of famous people and photographs of the American Civil War.
Bill Brandt
, and literary portraits of the 40s 50s and 60s, and experimental wide angle studies of nudes and landscapes.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
, Mexican photographer of nudes in black-and-white
Horace Bristol
, one of the first photographers for Life magazine and in WWII documented the war for the U.S. Navy
Claude Cahun
, pioneer in gender-bending role-playing self-portraits, now seen in works by artists such as Cindy Sherman
Julia Margaret Cameron
, made stunning portraits in an unconventional and loose way
Robert Capa
, photojournalist of wars from the Spanish Civil War to the Vietnam War, an co-founder of Magnum
Paul Caponigro
, finely composes large format black and white landscapes, combining his painting background with digital photographic processes
Keith Carter
, making elegantly toned, dreamlike images of American, especially western, settings and people
Henri Cartier-Bresson
, founder of the concept of “decisive moment” in photography, the particular moment when meaning and composition combine to make an image at once significant and beautiful
Larry Clark
, known for the disturbing images of his books Tulsa and Teenage Lust, documenting teenage subculture and sexuality
Anton Corbijn
, famouz (not famozz) for his grainy black-and-white photos of U2 and Depeche Mode
Gregory Crewdson
, creates images of elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods