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.
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.
Thomas Hoepker
Thomas Hoepker (1936–2024) was a German photojournalist from Munich and a member of Magnum Photos, which he led as president from 2003 to 2006. For many years he worked for Stern, in East Berlin and later in New York.
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.
Anders Petersen
Anders Petersen (born 1944) is a Swedish photographer who lives and works in Stockholm. He is best known for Café Lehmitz, his close and tender pictures of the regulars of a Hamburg bar, made between 1967 and 1970.
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.