Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was an American photographer and gallery owner who fought to make photography an art. His New York pictures, The Steerage, his portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe and his cloud Equivalents are classics of modern photography.
Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was a French photographer who spent about thirty years photographing old Paris with a large wooden camera. His quiet pictures of streets, courtyards and shop windows were sold as “documents for artists” and later shaped documentary photography.
Tod Papageorge
Tod Papageorge (born 1940) is an American street photographer and teacher. Close to Garry Winogrand in 1960s New York, he is best known for Passing Through Eden, his pictures of Central Park, and led Yale's graduate photography program from 1979 to 2013.
Daido Moriyama
Daido Moriyama (born 1938) is a Japanese street photographer. His grainy, blurred black and white pictures of Tokyo, made with a small camera, made him one of the best known photographers of postwar Japan.