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.
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.
Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka (born 1938) is a Czech-born photographer who has been a French citizen since 1987. He is known for his pictures of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Prague and for Gypsies, his long study of Roma life.
Abbas Attar
Abbas Attar (1944–2018), known simply as Abbas, was an Iranian photographer based in Paris and a member of Magnum Photos. He covered wars and revolutions for six decades, above all the revolution in his own country.
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.
André Kertész
André Kertész (1894–1985) was a Hungarian-born photographer who worked in Budapest, Paris and New York. In Paris in the late 1920s he made street scenes, night views and studio interiors that influenced photographers such as Brassaï and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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.
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.
Harry Gruyaert
Harry Gruyaert (born 1941) is a Belgian photographer who lives in Paris. He was one of the first photographers in Europe to work entirely in color, and he has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1982.
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.
Philippe Halsman
Philippe Halsman (1906–1979) was a portrait photographer born in Riga. He worked in Paris in the 1930s and in New York from 1940, where his pictures appeared on 101 covers of Life magazine.
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.
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.
Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton (1920–2004) was a fashion and portrait photographer. Born in Berlin, he built his career in Australia, London and Paris, and worked for Vogue for decades.
Balthazar Korab
Balthazar Korab (1926–2013) was a Hungarian-born architect and photographer who worked in the Detroit area. He is best known for his photographs of Eero Saarinen’s buildings, from the first study models to the finished TWA Flight Center.
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.
Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) was a Brazilian photographer who trained as an economist. For fifty years he worked on long black-and-white projects about workers, migrants, untouched nature and the peoples of the Amazon.