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.
Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau (1912–1994) was a French photographer of everyday life in Paris and its working-class suburbs. He worked for the Rapho agency for most of his career and made pictures for magazines such as Life and Vogue.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born 1946) is a French photographer, filmmaker and environmental activist. He is best known for Earth from Above, a book of aerial photographs first published in 1999 that has sold more than three million copies.
Helene Dujardin
Hélène Dujardin is a French-born food photographer from Provence who lives in Charleston, South Carolina. A former pastry chef, she taught herself photography on her blog Tartelette.
Thierry Legault
Thierry Legault (born 1962) is a French amateur astronomer and astrophotographer. He is known for photographs of the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle and the Hubble Space Telescope crossing the Sun.
Guy Bourdin
Guy Bourdin (1928–1991) was a French fashion photographer. For more than thirty years he worked for Vogue Paris and for brands like Charles Jourdan.
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.
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.