famous photographers

Key:

adv = 'advertising photographer'

air = 'aerial photographer'

art = 'art photographer'

doc = 'documentary photographer'

fash = 'fashion photographer'

food = 'food photographer'

inds = 'industrial photographer'

int = 'interiors photographer'

land = 'landscape photographer'

port = 'portraitist'

sci = 'scientific/technical photographer'

war = 'war photographer'

spt = 'sports photographer'

A

• Slim Aarons (doc)
• Abbas
• Berenice Abbott
• Sam Abell
• Ansel Adams (art, doc)
• Eddie Adams
• Robert Adams (art)
• Gustavo Aguerre (art)
• Mushfiqul Alam (adv, art, doc)
• Cris Alexander
• Fratelli Alinari
• Lola Alvarez Bravo
• George Edward Anderson
• Dieter Appelt
• Nobuyoshi Araki (art)
• Diane Arbus (art)
• Roy Arden
• Eve Arnold
• Hippolyte Arnoux
• Bill Aron
• Yann Arthus-Bertrand
• Anthony Asael
• Eugène Atget
• Richard Avedon (port, fash)

B

• David Bailey (fash, port)
• Reg Balch
• John Baldessari
• Edouard Baldus
• Lewis Baltz (art)
• Tina Barney (port)
• George Barris
• Uta Barth
• Jean Baudrillard
• Hippolyte Bayard
• Richard Beard
• Antonio Beato
• Felice Beato
• Cecil Beaton (fash, port)
• Bernd and Hilla Becher (art, doc)
• Francis Bedford
• Manzur Alam Beg (art)
• Charles Belden
• Hans Bellmer (art)
• E. J. Bellocq (port)
• Fernando Bengoechea (int)
• Gilles Bensimon (fash)
• Harry Benson
• James Bidgood
• Richard Billingham (art, doc)
• Jack Birns
• Werner Bischof
• Auguste-Rosalie Bisson
• Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
• Karl Blossfeldt (doc, art)
• Erwin Blumenfeld
• Félix Bonfils
• Phil Borges
• Edouard Boubat (art)
• Jack E. Boucher (doc)
• Jacques Bourboulon
• Margaret Bourke-White
• Guy Bourdin (fash)
• Samuel Bourne
• Jane Bown
• Polly Braden (art)
• Mathew Brady (port, war)
• Brian Brake
• Bill Brandt (art, doc)
• Brassaï
• Manuel Alvarez Bravo
• Marilyn Bridges
• Zana Briski (doc)
• Horace Bristol
• Alexey Brodovich
• Giacomo Brogi
• Wynn Bullock (art)
• Max Burchartz
• Wilhelm J. Burger
• Victor Burgin
• James Burke
• René Burri
• Larry Burrows (war)
• Harry Burton (doc)
• Edward Burtynsky (land)
• Jean-Marc Bustamante (art)

C

• Pogus Caesar (doc, art)
• Claude Cahun
• Harry Callahan
• Sophie Calle
• Julia Margaret Cameron (art)
• Walter Mason Camp
• Mauro Campagnoli (art, doc)
• Cornell Capa (doc)
• Robert Capa (war, doc)
• Paul Caponigro (art)
• Lewis Carroll (art, port)
• Keith Carter
• Kevin Carter
• Henri Cartier-Bresson (doc)
• Chaiya
• Dean Chamberlain
• Martín Chambi
• Jean Chamoux (doc, port, fash, war)
• Polly Chandler (art, port)
• Chien-Chi Chang
• Sarah Charlesworth
• Désiré Charnay
• Hugo Cifuentes
• Elio Ciol
• Edward Clark
• Larry Clark (doc)
• Bob Carlos Clarke (art)
• William Clarridge
• Antoine Claudet
• Charles Clegg
• Alvin Langdon Coburn
• Ioan Mihai Cochinescu (art, doc)
• Lois Conner
• Anton Corbijn
• Manuel da Costa (art)
• Gregory Crewdson
• Imogen Cunningham
• Asahel Curtis (doc)
• Edward S. Curtis (doc)
• Eleanor Parke Custis

D

• Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
• Louise Dahl-Wolfe
• Bruce Davidson
• Daniel Davis Jr.
• F. Holland Day
• John Deakin (port, art)
• Roy DeCarava
• Edgar de Evia (art, adv, doc, fash, food, int)
• Terry Deglau (doc, port)
• Lala Deen Dayal
• Patrick De Warren
• Patrick Demarchelier
• Hugh Welch Diamond
• Mark Divo art
• Philip-Lorca diCorcia
• André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
• Julie Doiron
• Robert Doisneau (doc)
• Peter Dombrovskis
• Terence Donovan (fash, doc)
• Richard Drew
• František Drtikol
• Maxime Du Camp
• David Douglas Duncan
• Ken Duncan
• Jeff Dunas
• Max Dupain
• Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu
• Dutton & Michaels (photographic studio)

E

• Charles C. Ebbets
• Harold Eugene Edgerton (sci)
• Hugh Edwards
• Isidore Jacques Eggermont
• William Eggleston
• Alfred Eisenstaedt
• Ólafur Elíasson
• Peter Henry Emerson
• Clay Enos
• Elliott Erwitt
• Walker Evans

F

• Bruno Fabien (art)
• Ingrid Falk (art)
• Adolfo Farsari
• Antoine Fauchery
• Bernard Faucon (art)
• Chris Faust
• James Fee (art, war)
• Andreas Feininger
• Mark Feldstein
• Roger Fenton (war)
• Fernando Fernández Navarrete
• Marc Ferrez
• Frode Fjerdingstad (art)
• George Fiske
• Adam Foley
• Fernand Fonssagrives (art, fash)
• Franco Fontana (art)
• Anna Fox
• Martine Franck
• Robert Frank
• Lee Friedlander
• Francis Frith
• Hakuyō Fuchikami
• Eva Fuka
• Jill Furmanovsky
• Adam Fuss

G

• Ron Galella
• Isidoro Gallo
• Alexander Gardner
• William Garnett
• Anne Geddes (art)
• Arnold Genthe
• Mario Giacomelli
• Andre Giroux
• Wilhelm von Gloeden (art)
• Frank Gohlke
• Anthony Goicolea
• David Goldblatt
• Nan Goldin (art)
• John Gossage
• Hal Gould (art)
• Emmet Gowin
• Paul Graham
• Lauren Greenfield
• Athen Grey
• Stan Grossfield
• Emile Gsell
• Ara Güler
• Andreas Gursky
• John Gutmann

H

• Ernst Haas
• Philippe Halsman
• Dirck Halstead
• David Hamilton (art)
• Bert Hardy (doc, war)
• Alfred A. Hart
• Victor Hasselblad
• John Heartfield
• David Octavius Hill
• David Hilliard
• Lewis Hine
• Terushichi Hirai
• John Hoagland (war)
• Hannah Höch
• David Hockney (art)
• Ismo Hölttö
• Horie Kuwajirō
• Masao Horino
• Horst P. Horst
• George Hoyningen-Huene
• Fred Hultstrand
• Frank Hurley
• George Hurrell
• John Harrington

I

• Walter Iooss
• Edith Irvine
• Johann Baptist Isenring
• Yasuhiro Ishimoto (doc, art)

J

• William Henry Jackson
• Lotte Jacobi (port)
• Jan Töve Johansson
• Anthony Jones
• Charles Jones (food)
• Steve Jones
• Bishin Jumonji

K

• Jesse Kalisher
• Yousuf Karsh (port)
• Gertrude Käsebier
• Seydou Keita
• Charles Kerry
• André Kertész
• Carl de Keyzer
• Yevgeny Khaldei
• Hiroh Kikai (doc, port)
• Ihei Kimura (doc, port)
• William Klein
• Mattias Klum
• Nick Knight
• Kiyoshi Koishi
• Alberto Korda
• Josef Koudelka
• Ed Krebs (port)
• Barbara Kruger
• Justine Kurland (art)
• Kusakabe Kimbei
• Yasuo Kuniyoshi
• Kineo Kuwabara (doc)
• Shisei Kuwabara (doc)

L

• David LaChapelle
• Karl Lagerfeld
• Clarence John Laughlin
• Inez van Lamsweerde
• Dorothea Lange (doc)
• Frans Lanting
• Jacques Henri Lartigue (doc)
• Lennie Lee
• Russell Lee (doc)
• Louis Legrand
• Gustave Le Gray
• Annie Leibovitz (port, fash)
• Neil Leifer
• Jacques Leiser
• Sebastiao Carvalho Leme
• Sherrie Levine
• Helen Levitt
• Patrick Lichfield (port)
• Peter Lindbergh (fash)
• Lawrence Denny Lindsley (land, doc)
• O. Winston Link
• El Lissitzky
• Herbert List
• Jacqueline Livingston
• Harold Lloyd (port)
• Alejandro López de Haro (art)
• Serge Lutens (art, fash)
• Loretta Lux (art)
• George Platt Lynes (fash, adv)
• Danny Lyon (doc)

M

• Iain MacMillan
• Glynnis McDaris
• Maeda Genzō
• Shinzo Maeda
• Mahlon (art, doc, port)
• Sally Mann (art, port)
• Robert Mapplethorpe (art, port)
• Mary Ellen Mark (doc, port)
• Willy Matheisl
• Gordon Matta-Clark
• Alfred Maudslay
• Roger Mayne (doc)
• Will McBride (doc, port)
• Linda McCartney
• Steve McCurry
• Don McCullin
• Dave McKean
• Laura McPhee
• Ralph Eugene Meatyard
• Steven Meisel
• Susan Meiselas
• Joel Meyerowitz
• Lee Miller
• Richard Misrach
• Tina Modotti
• László Moholy-Nagy
• Jean-Baptiste Mondino (fash)
• Charles Moore
• Raymond Moore (art)
• Julie Moos
• Inge Morath
• Abelardo Morell
• Barbara Morgan
• Daido Moriyama
• Wright Morris
• Nickolas Muray
• Vik Muniz
• Eadweard Muybridge
• Carl Mydans

N

• James Nachtwey (doc,war)
• Nadar
• Graham Nash (art)
• Negretti and Zambra (photographic studio)
• Helmut Newton (fash)
• Arnold Newman (port)
• Nicéphore Niépce
• Lennart Nilsson
• Nicholas Nixon (doc)
• William Notman
• Lee Nye

O

• Arthur Omar
• Ján Ondrejka (art)
• Timothy O'Sullivan
• Stephens Orr
• Graham Ovenden
• Paul Outerbridge

P

• Tim Page (war)
• Basil Pao
• John Papillon
• Norman Parkinson
• Gordon Parks (doc)
• Martin Parr (art, doc)
• Freeman Patterson
• Relja Penezic
• Irving Penn (art, fash)
• Gilles Peress (doc)
• Lucian Perkins (doc, war)
• John Pfahl
• Secondo Pia
• Gueorgui Pinkhassov (doc)
• Frank Plicka (doc)
• Guglielmo Plüschow
• Eliot Porter
• Dith Pran
• Richard Prince
• Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Q

R

• Raghu Rai
• Rankin (fash)
• Paul Raphaelson (art)
• Man Ray (art)
• Tony Ray-Jones (art, doc)
• Henri-Victor Regnault
• Oscar Gustave Rejlander (art, port)
• Albert Renger-Patzsch
• Bettina Rheims
• Marc Riboud (doc)
• Michael Richard
• Terry Richardson (fash, art)
• Leni Riefenstahl (doc)
• Frank Rinehart (doc)
• Jacob Riis
• Herb Ritts (art)
• James Roark
• Grace Robertson
• James Robertson
• Henry Peach Robinson
• Alexandr Rodchenko
• George Rodger
• José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (art, doc)
• Willy Ronis
• Joe Rosenthal
• Martha Rosler
• Pierre Rossier
• Arthur Rothstein
• Galen Rowell
• Michael Ruetz (art, doc)
• Thomas Ruff
• Andrew J. Russell
• Martin Ryter (art, fash)

S

• Sebastião Salgado (doc)
• Erich Salomon
• August Sander
• Jan Saudek (art)
• Charles Roscoe Savage
• Francesco Scavullo
• Ignác Šechtl
• Stéphane Sednaoui (art, fash, adv)
• Andres Serrano (art)
• David Seymour
• Charles Sheeler
• Cindy Sherman (art)
• Stephen Shore
• Malick Sidibé
• Jeanloup Sieff
• Floria Sigismondi (art)
• Aaron Siskind
• Sandy Skoglund
• Victor Sloan (art)
• Edwin Smith
• Pennie Smith
• W. Eugene Smith (doc)
• Melvin Sokolsky (art, fash, adv)
• Frederick Sommer
• Alec Soth
• Albert Spaggiari
• Humphrey Spender (doc)
• Vytautas Stanionis
• Edward Steichen (art)
• Ralph Steiner
• Joel Sternfeld (doc)
• Alfred Stieglitz (art, port)
• Stillfried & Andersen (photographic studio)
• Nellie Stockbridge(doc)
• Kęstutis Stoškus
• Paul Strand (art)
• Thomas Struth
• Roy Stuart
• Jock Sturges (art, port)
• Anthony Suau (doc, war)
• Issei Suda (art)
• Josef Sudek (art)
• Hidesawa Sudo (art)
• Hiroshi Sugimoto
• Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
• John Szarkowski (doc)

T

• Masataka Takayama
• William Fox Talbot
• Sam Taylor-Wood
• Anya Teixeira
• Juergen Teller (fash)
• Teo Bee Yen
• Mario Testino
• Warren T. Thompson
• John Thomson
• Wolfgang Tillmans
• Oliviero Toscani
• Pierre Toutain-Dorbec
• Bill Travis (art, port)
• Eric Treacy
• Arthur Tress
• Olegas Truchanas
• Spencer Tunick
• David C. Turnley

U

• Uchida Kuichi
• Jerry Uelsmann
• Doris Ulmann
• Ellen von Unwerth
• Huynh Cong Ut
• Ueno Hikoma

V

• James Van Der Zee
• Kathy Vargas
• Dimitris Varos
• John Veltri
• Roman Vishniac

W

• Bob Walker
• Jeff Wall
• Andy Warhol
• Carleton Watkins
• Bruce Weber
• Weegee (doc)
• William Wegman
• Henry Wessel, Jr.
• Brett Weston (art, port)
• Cole Weston (art, port)
• Edward Weston (art, port)
• Minor White (art)
• Jeff Widener
• Hannah Wilke
• Christopher Williams
• Michael Williamson
• George Washington Wilson
• Garry Winogrand
• Abby Winters
• Joel-Peter Witkin (art)
• Art Wolfe
• Walter B. Woodbury
• Francesca Woodman (art)

Y

• Nakaji Yasui (Japanese)
• Yevonde
• Yokoyama Matsusaburo
• Paul Yule
• Jerry Yulsman

Z

• Jerome Zerbe (art, doc, fash, war)
• David Drew Zingg
• Stanislovas Žvirgždas

See also

• Photography
• Photograph
• Photojournalism
• Fine art photography
• Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
• Magnum Photos
• Glamour photographer
• Fetish photographer
• Photographers of the erotic male
• Macro photography
• Wikipedian Photographers