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Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) was an American landscape photographer and conservationist. His black-and-white pictures of Yosemite and the national parks are among the best known in photography.

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Jonas Bendiksen

Jonas Bendiksen (born 1977) is a Norwegian documentary photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. His books look at community, faith and technology, from forgotten corners of the former Soviet Union to seven men who say they are the Messiah.

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Dotan Saguy

Dotan Saguy (born c. 1971) is a street and documentary photographer based in Los Angeles. Born in Israel and raised near Paris, he left a career in high tech in 2015 to photograph full time.

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Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) was an American documentary photographer from the Philadelphia area. For more than four decades she photographed people many others overlooked, often staying with them for weeks or returning for years.

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Susan Kandel

Susan Kandel (born 1949) is an American documentary photographer based in Boston. From 1979 she spent about ten years photographing families in their homes in Massachusetts.

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Photographer, Street Photography, Rolleiflex Martin Kaninsky 2/3/22 Photographer, Street Photography, Rolleiflex Martin Kaninsky 2/3/22

Fan Ho

Fan Ho (1931–2016) was a Hong Kong photographer and film director. In the 1950s and 1960s he walked the city with a Rolleiflex and waited for the light.

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Photographer, Leica, Magnum Photographer, Rolleiflex, Nikon, Street Photography Martin Kaninsky 2/2/22 Photographer, Leica, Magnum Photographer, Rolleiflex, Nikon, Street Photography Martin Kaninsky 2/2/22

Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023) was an American photographer, born in Paris and raised in Milan. He joined Magnum Photos in 1953 and worked for magazines such as Life, Look and Collier’s.

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Photographer, Magnum Photographer, Street Photography, Contax, Rolleiflex, Documentary photography Martin Kaninsky 2/1/22 Photographer, Magnum Photographer, Street Photography, Contax, Rolleiflex, Documentary photography Martin Kaninsky 2/1/22

Robert Capa

Robert Capa (1913–1954) was a Hungarian-born photographer and one of the founders of Magnum Photos. He photographed wars from Spain in 1936 to Indochina in 1954, and worked close to the people in them.

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Photographer, Magnum Photographer, Street Photography, Leica Martin Kaninsky 1/30/22 Photographer, Magnum Photographer, Street Photography, Leica Martin Kaninsky 1/30/22

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was a French photographer and one of the founders of Magnum Photos. With a small Leica, he photographed life on the street and great moments of history, from India and China to the Soviet Union.

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