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.
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.
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.
Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog (1930–2019) was a German-born Canadian photographer. From the 1950s on, he walked the streets of Vancouver with colour slide film, at a time when serious photography was almost always black and white.
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.
Bruce Gilden
Bruce Gilden (born 1946) is an American street photographer from Brooklyn, New York. He is known for photographing people very close, often with a flash, on the streets of New York and in places like Haiti, Japan, Ireland and England.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995) was a German-born American photojournalist. He began in Berlin in the late 1920s and in 1936 became one of the first four staff photographers of Life magazine.
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.
Arnold Newman
Arnold Newman (1918–2006) was an American portrait photographer. He is known as the pioneer of the environmental portrait: he showed people in places that tell something about their life and work.
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.
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 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.
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.