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Louise Dahl-Wolfe
, glamour photographer in magazines like ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ during the 1940s and ’50s
Roy DeCarava
, one of the first afro americans that made the black culture as subject, and master of dark tones.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
, meticulously plans every element of a shot in his elaborately staged scenes made to look like real life
Robert Doisneau
, famous for his photo of a couple kissing-on-the-fly on a Paris street, and made 35mm images that captured the humor and pathos of daily life in the streets of Paris
David Douglas Duncan
, known for his war photography of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and works on his friend Pablo Picasso
William Eggleston
, was among the first photographers to work regularly with new color technologies in the 1960s and became ‘Father of Color Photography’
Alfred Eisenstaedt
, photojournalist famous for his ‘kissing sailor’ in Times Square
Elliott Erwitt
, made candid shots of ironic and absurd situations, along with poignant documentary photographs
Walker Evans
, documented the Depression-era with sharecropping families in the rural South
Andreas Feininger
, captured the soul of a bygone era in New York City.
Lee Friedlander
, made several series of street scenes, flowers, trees, desert landscapes, nudes, memorials, portraits, self-portraits and studies of the American culture
Anne Geddes
, makes surreal depictions of babies and motherhood, like infants posed as tiny plants or fruits
Nan Goldin
, made intimate and delicate works on friends and lovers
Emmet Gowin
, documents man-made incursions in the natural landscape from the air, in black and white
Andreas Gursky
, produces gigantic prints often using a high point of view
Ernst Haas
, uses incredible colors, but also did a lot of black and white
Philippe Halsman
, photographer for Life Magazine from the 1940s through to the 1970s, known for jump photos of Marilyn Monroe and Salvador Dali with a skull of nudes
John Heartfield
, satired the war and politicians in his incisive anti-Nazi work in the 1930s
Lewis Hine
, captured the social conditions in early 20th century America, like Ellis Island immigrants and southern child labor practices
George Hoyningen-Huene
, known for his portraits photographs of women and fashion taken while working for Vogue
Josef Koudelka
, documentated gypsies from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, later made more abstract work of textures and rich blacks
Barbara Kruger
, makes black, white and red photo-montages with political commentary and provocative slogans on red bands of text