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David LaChapelle
, makes vibrant works full of garish color, sex, celebrities, strange people and scenes
Dorothea Lange
, photographed in the Depression-era for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), of workers who fled the dust storms and droughts to become migratory workers in California
Jacques Henri Lartigue
, photographed women and people at leisure, some of the best of which he took as a boy
Loretta Lux
, German artist that combines painting, photography and digital imagery to create disturbing, fairy tale-like portraits of children
Herbert List
, portrayed males erotically
Sally Mann
, pictured her children growing up in southwest Virginia
Robert Mapplethorpe
, makes intentionally shocking homoerotic images, flouting conventional sexual morality
Don McCullin
, war photographer, including conflicts in Vietnam, Israel, Biafra and Cambodia
Steve McCurry
, documentary photographyer who captures human struggle and joy, captured the Afghan girl with the piercing eyes which appeared on the cover of National Geographic
Joel Meyerowitz
, pioneer in large format color photographs of architecture, light and space
Lee Miller
, collaborated with the surrealist artist Man Ray in Paris, later took on the demanding role of war photojournalist
Tina Modotti
, Italian-born film star and political activist, learned photography with her lover Edward Weston in California
Jean-Baptiste Mondino
, graphically composes color-saturated images, and made music videos for Bjork, Madonna and others
Eadweard Muybridge
, one of the best early landscape photographers of the American West, became famous for capturing movement of animals and people using twenty four cameras
Helmut Newton
, fashion photographer and especially famous for his many nude studies of women
Arnold Newman
, reveals glimpses of famous artists and world leaders
Norman Parkinson
, photographer of chic Vogue covers in the 1950s
Gordon Parks
, showed the impact of racism and the civil rights movement in gritty photo essays
Martin Parr
, has a satirical photographic eye in everyday life and customs in Britain, and a love of all things kitsch
Irving Penn
, post World War II feminine chic and glamour photographer, also a of still life
Gilles Peress
, his coverage of the South Seas, Japan, Russia, Mexico, and California.
Eliot Porter
, captures strange land formations and archaeological treasures
Man Ray
, experimented in photography with the photogram and solarization
Bettina Rheims
, Since the early 80s one of the most sought-after contemporary photographers, came to fame with sensitive and delicate female eroticism
Leni Riefenstahl
, known for her Nazi propaganda film in the 1930s, later depicted people and culture in Africa
Jacob Riis
, Danish photographer who exposed poverty and life in the New York slums
Herb Ritts
, pictured of celebrities in vulnerable moments and the erotic male, and was also fashion photographer,
Willy Ronis
, lyrically approached street scenes and domestic life, particularly on the streets and in the parks of Paris
Galen Rowell
, photographed the wilderness photography of the Bay Area, the Sierra and across all seven continents