PHOTOPEDIA

Sam Haskins (1926–2009) was a South African-born British photographer. His 1960s books Five Girls and Cowboy Kate & Other Stories changed how photographers saw the nude and still influence fashion photography today.

Alec Soth (born 1969) is an American photographer from Minneapolis. On long road trips he photographs the people he meets, with a big view camera that makes everyone slow down.

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 (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.

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.

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.

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.

Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002) was an Armenian-Canadian portrait photographer. He came to Canada as a young refugee and opened a studio in Ottawa in 1932.

Irving Penn (1917–2009) was an American photographer. For more than sixty years he made fashion pictures, portraits and still lifes for Vogue, in a calm and simple style.

Annie Leibovitz (born 1949) is an American portrait photographer. She began at Rolling Stone in 1970 and has worked for Vanity Fair since 1983 and for Vogue since 1998.

Richard Avedon (1923–2004) was an American photographer from New York. At Harper’s Bazaar and later Vogue, he let fashion models move, jump and laugh.

David Muench (born 1936) is an American landscape photographer. For more than seventy years he has photographed the wild places of the American West, many of them for Arizona Highways magazine.

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.

Peter Lik (born 1959) is an Australian-born landscape photographer who lives and works in Las Vegas. He is known for large, bright panoramic prints of canyons, coasts and cities, which he sells in his own galleries.

Galen Rowell (1940–2002) was an American photographer, writer and mountaineer. He carried a light 35mm camera up walls and peaks around the world and made color photographs of mountains in rare light.

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) was an American landscape photographer and conservationist. His black-and-white pictures of Yosemite and the national parks are among the best known in photography.

Ami Vitale (born 1971) is an American photographer, writer and filmmaker based in Montana. She started out covering conflict as a photojournalist and has worked in more than 100 countries.

Beverly Joubert (born 1957) is a South African wildlife photographer, filmmaker and conservationist. Since the early 1980s she has lived and worked in the African bush with her husband, Dereck Joubert, mostly in Botswana.

Andy Rouse (born c. 1965) is a British wildlife photographer based in South Wales. He left a career as a computer consultant to photograph animals full time in 1999.

Paul Nicklen (born 1968) is a Canadian photographer and marine biologist who works mostly in the Arctic and Antarctica. He has photographed more than twenty stories for National Geographic, often from under the ice.

Steve Winter (born c. 1956) is an American wildlife photographer who has worked for National Geographic since 1991. He is best known for his pictures of big cats, many made with camera traps he sets up like a studio in the wild.

Frans Lanting (born 1951) is a Dutch wildlife photographer who lives in Santa Cruz, California. For more than three decades he has photographed animals and wild places for National Geographic, from the Amazon to Antarctica.

Wolfgang Zurborn is a German photographer, teacher and curator based in Cologne.

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 (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.

Lee Friedlander (born 1934) is an American photographer from Aberdeen, Washington. Since the 1960s he has photographed what he calls the American social landscape: streets, shop windows, motel rooms, monuments and roadsides.

Ernst Haas (1921–1986) was an Austrian-born photographer who helped turn color photography into an art. A member of Magnum Photos from 1949, he became famous with a 24-page color essay on New York in Life magazine in 1953.

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.

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.

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 (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 (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.

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 (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 (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 (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.

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 (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.

Alex Webb (born 1952) is an American street photographer and a full member of Magnum Photos since 1979. He is known for complex, layered color pictures made in Mexico, the Caribbean, Istanbul and many other places.

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.

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 (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 (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.

Eric Kim (born 1988) is an American street photographer, teacher and blogger. Born in San Francisco to a Korean-American family, he started his street photography blog in 2010 and has taught workshops around the world since 2011.

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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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.

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.

Lee Friedlander (born 1934) is an American photographer from Aberdeen, Washington. Since the 1960s he has photographed what he calls the American social landscape: streets, shop windows, motel rooms, monuments and roadsides.

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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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.

Todd Hido (born 1968) is an American photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is best known for color pictures of suburban houses at night, made with long exposures and lit only by the windows.

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 (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.

Alec Soth (born 1969) is an American photographer from Minneapolis. On long road trips he photographs the people he meets, with a big view camera that makes everyone slow down.

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 (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 (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 (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.

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 (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.

Nick Ut (born 1951), born Huynh Cong Ut, is a Vietnamese American photojournalist. He joined the Associated Press in Saigon at 15 and covered the Vietnam War.

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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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.

Simon Bruty is a sports photographer who has worked for Sports Illustrated for many years. He grew up in London and Cape Town, started at the sports agency Allsport and moved to New York in 1994.

Peter Read Miller (c. 1947–2026) was an American sports photographer. He worked for Sports Illustrated for more than 35 years, and his pictures ran on more than 100 of its covers.

Bob Martin is a British sports photographer based in London. He has covered more than a dozen Olympic Games, worked as a staff photographer for Sports Illustrated and leads the photo team at Wimbledon.

Neil Leifer (born 1942) is an American sports photographer from New York. Over more than 60 years his pictures have appeared on over 200 covers of Sports Illustrated, Time and People.

Walter Iooss Jr. (born 1943) is an American sports photographer. He got his first Sports Illustrated assignment at 17 and has shot more than 300 covers for the magazine.

Alex MacLean (born 1947) is an American pilot and photographer. Trained as an architect, he has flown his own plane over the United States since the 1970s.

Tommy Clarke (born c. 1986) is a British aerial photographer. He is self-taught.

Vincent Laforet (born 1975) is a French-American photographer and director. As a staff photographer for The New York Times, he shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

George Steinmetz (born 1957) is an American photographer who works from the air. He flies a motorized paraglider, and later also drones, low over deserts, farms and cities.

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.

Elizabeth Messina is an American wedding and portrait photographer based in Southern California. She is known for soft portraits in natural light of brides, couples, mothers and women, made on film and digital.

Jerry Ghionis (born 1973) is an Australian wedding and portrait photographer based in Las Vegas. He is known for glamorous wedding portraits that have the finesse of a pose and the feel of a candid moment.

Joe Buissink (born around 1950) is an American wedding photographer based in Los Angeles. He is known for candid, emotional pictures made in a photojournalistic style, and for the weddings of many famous couples.

Jasmine Star is an American wedding photographer from Southern California. She left law school, started her business without owning a camera and, four years later, was named one of the top ten wedding photographers in the world.

Jose Villa (born 1980) is an American wedding photographer, born in Mexico and raised in California’s Santa Ynez Valley. He is known for soft, romantic pictures made in natural light, often on medium format film.