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.
Christopher Anderson
Christopher Anderson (born 1970) is a photographer and filmmaker, born in Kelowna, Canada, and raised in West Texas. He first became known for his work in conflict zones and for his pictures of Haitian migrants on a boat that sank at sea.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank (1924–2019) was a Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker who moved to New York in 1947. His book The Americans, made on a Guggenheim-funded road trip in 1955 and 1956, changed how photographers saw everyday life.
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.
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks (1912–2006) was an American photographer, filmmaker and writer. He taught himself photography with a camera from a pawnshop, worked for the Farm Security Administration and became the first African American staff photographer at Life.
James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey (born 1948) is an American photojournalist. Since 1981 he has photographed wars, famines and disasters around the world, and since 1984 he has worked under contract for TIME.
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) was an American documentary photographer. She left a portrait studio in San Francisco to photograph the people of the Great Depression for the US government.
Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is an American photographer from the Bronx, New York. He started on the streets of New York in 1962 and became one of the early champions of color photography as art.
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.
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) was an American photographer from New York. After ten years in fashion photography with her husband, she began her own work in 1956.
Bieke Depoorter
Bieke Depoorter (born 1986) is a Belgian photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. She is known for asking strangers if she can spend the night in their homes, first in Russia, then in the United States and Egypt.
Jonas Bendiksen
Jonas Bendiksen (born 1977) is a Norwegian documentary photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. His books look at community, faith and technology, from forgotten corners of the former Soviet Union to seven men who say they are the Messiah.
Martin Parr
Martin Parr (1952–2025) was a British documentary photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. His bright, close and funny colour photographs of the seaside, shopping and tourism changed British documentary photography.
Dotan Saguy
Dotan Saguy (born c. 1971) is a street and documentary photographer based in Los Angeles. Born in Israel and raised near Paris, he left a career in high tech in 2015 to photograph full time.
Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) was an American documentary photographer from the Philadelphia area. For more than four decades she photographed people many others overlooked, often staying with them for weeks or returning for years.
Susan Kandel
Susan Kandel (born 1949) is an American documentary photographer based in Boston. From 1979 she spent about ten years photographing families in their homes in Massachusetts.
Robert Capa
Robert Capa (1913–1954) was a Hungarian-born photographer and one of the founders of Magnum Photos. He photographed wars from Spain in 1936 to Indochina in 1954, and worked close to the people in them.