Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was an American photographer and teacher. He returned again and again to a few subjects close to him: his wife Eleanor, nature, buildings and people in the street.
Louis Stettner
Louis Stettner (1922–2016) was an American photographer who spent his life between New York and Paris. He photographed ordinary people at work, at rest and in the street, and his pictures join American street photography with French humanist photography.
Louis Faurer
Louis Faurer (1916–2001) was an American photographer from Philadelphia who made his best-known pictures on the streets of New York between 1946 and 1951. He earned his living with fashion and magazine work and photographed the city, often at dusk and at night, for himself.
Jan Groover
Jan Groover (1943–2012) was an American photographer who started out as a painter. She is best known for her color still lifes of kitchen utensils from the late 1970s, which helped color photography win a place in museums.
Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander (born 1934) is an American photographer from Aberdeen, Washington. Since the 1960s he has photographed what he calls the American social landscape: streets, shop windows, motel rooms, monuments and roadsides.
Walker Evans
Walker Evans (1903–1975) was an American photographer known for clear, direct pictures of American life during the Great Depression. His photographs of three farm families in Alabama appeared in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), made with the writer James Agee.
Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore (born 1947) is an American photographer from New York. His color pictures of ordinary streets, motels, meals and gas stations, made on road trips in the 1970s, helped make color photography part of art.
William Eggleston
William Eggleston (born 1939) is an American photographer from Memphis, Tennessee. His 1976 show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York helped make color photography accepted as art.
James VanDerZee
James VanDerZee (1886–1983) was an American photographer who ran a portrait studio in Harlem for about half a century. His pictures of families, weddings, soldiers, shops and funerals are one of the richest records of Black life in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s.
Ave Pildas
Ave Pildas (born 1939) is an American photographer, designer and teacher who lives in Santa Monica, California. He is best known for his street portraits of Hollywood Boulevard from 1972 to 1975, collected in the book Star Struck.
Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson (born 1933) is an American photographer who joined Magnum Photos in 1958. He is known for long, close projects with people on the edges of society, from a circus clown and a Brooklyn gang to one block in East Harlem and the New York subway.
William Klein
William Klein (1926–2022) was an American-born photographer, painter and filmmaker who lived in Paris for most of his life. His 1956 book about New York, full of grain, blur and faces close to the lens, changed street photography.
Bruce Gilden
Bruce Gilden (born 1946) is an American street photographer from Brooklyn, New York. He is known for photographing people very close, often with a flash, on the streets of New York and in places like Haiti, Japan, Ireland and England.
Edward S. Curtis
Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) was an American photographer from Seattle. For more than twenty years he photographed Native peoples across the American West.
David Douglas Duncan
David Douglas Duncan (1916–2018) was an American photojournalist. He photographed three wars, most famously Korea for LIFE magazine, and his pictures focused on the faces of the men who fought.
Arnold Newman
Arnold Newman (1918–2006) was an American portrait photographer. He is known as the pioneer of the environmental portrait: he showed people in places that tell something about their life and work.
William Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith (1918–1978) was an American photojournalist. His long photo essays for Life magazine, like Country Doctor (1948), set a new standard for the photo essay.