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.
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.
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.
Vineet Vohra
Vineet Vohra (born 1973) is an Indian street photographer based in New Delhi. His color pictures find order in the busy streets of India, where people, shadows and color meet for a moment.
Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry (born 1950) is an American photographer known for his color portraits and his long work in Asia. His portrait Afghan Girl was on the cover of National Geographic in June 1985.
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.
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.
Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) was an American street photographer from the Bronx, New York. He photographed public life in America, from city sidewalks and zoos to airports and press events.
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.
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.
Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was an American photographer and painter. From the late 1940s he photographed the streets of New York in colour, close to his home, at a time when serious photographers worked in black and white.
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023) was an American photographer, born in Paris and raised in Milan. He joined Magnum Photos in 1953 and worked for magazines such as Life, Look and Collier’s.
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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was a French photographer and one of the founders of Magnum Photos. With a small Leica, he photographed life on the street and great moments of history, from India and China to the Soviet Union.