PHOTOPEDIA

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

Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was an American photographer and teacher. He returned again and again to a few subjects close to him: his wife Eleanor, nature, buildings and people in the street.

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.

Jan Groover (1943–2012) was an American photographer who started out as a painter. She is best known for her color still lifes of kitchen utensils from the late 1970s, which helped color photography win a place in museums.

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.

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.

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.

Rinko Kawauchi (born 1972) is a Japanese photographer known for soft, bright color photographs of small everyday things. Her first three books came out on the same day in 2001.

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.

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 (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 (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.

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.

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 (1868–1952) was an American photographer from Seattle. For more than twenty years he photographed Native peoples across the American West.