Sam Haskins
Sam Haskins (1926–2009) was a South African-born British photographer. His 1960s books Five Girls and Cowboy Kate & Other Stories changed how photographers saw the nude and still influence fashion photography today.
Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt (1913–2009) was an American photographer who spent her life photographing the streets of New York. Her pictures of children playing in the late 1930s and 1940s are among the best-loved images in street photography.
Julius Shulman
Julius Shulman (1910–2009) was an American photographer whose pictures of modern houses shaped how the world sees mid-century California. He worked for about seventy years, for architects such as Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, John Lautner and Pierre Koenig.
Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier (1926–2009) was an American street photographer who worked as a nanny in Chicago for most of her life. She made more than 100,000 negatives, mostly in New York and Chicago, and showed almost none of them to anyone.
Irving Penn
Irving Penn (1917–2009) was an American photographer. For more than sixty years he made fashion pictures, portraits and still lifes for Vogue, in a calm and simple style.