Photographers - Definition and Overview

This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions.

Key:

art = 'art photographer'

doc = 'documentary photographer'

fash = 'fashion photographer'

port = 'portraitist'

war = 'war photographer'

A

• Berenice Abbott
• Mark Abrahamson
• Ansel Adams (art, doc)
• Eddie Adams
• Robert Adams (art)
• Fratelli Alinari
• Diane Arbus (art)
• Roy Arden
• Eve Arnold
• Yann Arthus-Bertrand
• Anthony Asael
• Eugène Atget
• Richard Avedon

B

• Amos Badertscher
• David Bailey (fash, port)
• John Baldessari
• Edouard Baldus
• Lewis Baltz
• Tina Barney
• George Barris
• Uta Barth
• David Bates
• Carlo Bavagnoli
• Hippolyte Bayard
• Richard Beard
• Felice A. Beato
• Cecil Beaton (fash, port)
• Bernd and Hilla Becher
• Francis Bedford
• Hans Bellmer (art)
• E. J. Bellocq
• Fernando Bengoechea
• Harry Benson
• James Bidgood
• Richard Billingham (art, doc)
• Jack Birns
• Rhona Bitner
• Karl Blossfeldt
• Erwin Blumenfeld
• Edouard Boubat (art)
• Margaret Bourke-White
• Guy Bourdin (fash)
• Jane Bown
• Mathew Brady (port)
• Bill Brandt (art, doc)
• Brassaï
• Lola Alvarez Bravo
• Manuel Alvarez Bravo
• Horace Bristol
• Giacomo Brogi
• Manfred Buchheit
• Max Burchartz
• James Burke
• Larry Burrows (war)
• Jean-Marc Bustamante
• Richard S. Buswell

C

• Pogus Caesar
• Claude Cahun
• Harry Callahan
• Sophie Calle
• Julia Margaret Cameron (art)
• Cornell Capa (doc)
• Robert Capa (war, doc)
• John Paul Caponigro
• Paul Caponigro
• Roy Caratozzolo
• Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (art, port)
• Henri Cartier-Bresson (doc)
• Martha Casanave
• Dean Chamberlain
• Martín Chambi
• Paula Chamlee
• Sarah Charlesworth
• Edward Clark
• Larry Clark (doc)
• Antoine Claudet
• Alvin Langdon Coburn
• Dimitrios Constantin
• Anton Corbijn
• Eileen Cowin
• Tillman Crane
• Ralph Crane (doc)
• Gregory Crewdson
• Imogen Cunningham
• Edward S. Curtis
• Eleanor Parke Custis

D

• Louise Dahl-Wolfe
• F. Holland Day
• Davis & Davis
• Myron Davis
• Loomis Dean
• Johnny De Brest
• Roy DeCarava
• Patrick Demarchelier
• Hugh Welch Diamond
• Philip-Lorca diCorcia
• Rineke Dijkstra (art, port)
• Julie Doiron
• Robert Doisneau (doc)
• John Dominis (doc)
• Terence Donovan (fash, doc)
• David Douglas Duncan
• Tony Duffy (fash, port)

E

• William Edgerton
• Hugh Edwards
• William Eggleston
• Alfred Eisenstaedt
• Ed van der Elsken
• Peter Henry Emerson
• Clay Enos
• Elliott Erwitt
• Frederick Henry Evans
• Terry Evans
• Walker Evans

F

• Bernard Faucon (art)
• Chris Faust
• Andreas Feininger
• Roger Fenton (war)
• Marc Ferrez
• Hans Feurer
• Samuel Fosso
• William Fox Talbot
• Robert Frank
• Lee Friedlander
• Ernest or Endre Friedmann - see Robert Capa (war)
• Francis Frith
• Eva Fuka
• Casey Fulton
• Adam Fuss

G

• Isidoro Gallo
• Alexander Gardner
• Anna Gaskell
• Anne Geddes (art)
• Arnold Genthe
• Franz Gertsch
• Mario Giacomelli
• Ralph Gibson
• Andre Giroux
• Andrew Glickman
• Wilhelm von Gloeden (art)
• Anthony Goicolea
• David Goldblatt
• Jim Goldberg
• Nan Goldin (art)
• Emmet Gowin
• Paul Graham
• William Gruber (inventor of View-Master)
• Che Guevara (although famous for reasons other than his photography)
• Ara Güler
• Andreas Gursky
• John Gutmann
• Carol Guzy

H

• Ernst Haas
• Doug Hall
• Philippe Halsman
• Dirck Halstead
• David Hamilton (art)
• Bert Hardy (doc, war)
• Alfred A. Hart
• Charles Harbutt
• Sam Haskins
• Robert Heinecken
• Nigel Henderson
• David Octavius Hill
• John K. Hillers
• Lewis Wickes Hine
• Hannah Hoch
• Stan Honda
• Horst P. Horst
• Robert Howlett
• George Hoyningen-Huene
• Cornelius Jabez Hughes
• George Hurrell

I

• Walter Iooss
• Yasuhiro Ishimoto (doc, art)

J

• William Henry Jackson
• Michael Jacobs
• Jay Jaffee
• Tony Ray-Jones (art, doc)

K

• Yousuf Karsh
• Gertrude Kasebier
• Cima Katz
• Clarence Kennedy
• André Kertész
• Robert Glenn Ketchum
• William Klein
• Nick Knight
• Alberto Korda
• Josef Koudelka
• Yasuo Kuniyoshi

L

• David Lachapelle
• Inez van Lamsweerde
• Dorothea Lange (doc)
• Frans Lanting
• Jacques Henri Lartigue
• Corky Lee
• Gustave Le Gray
• Annie Leibovitz (port, fash)
• Neil Leifer
• Herman Leonard
• Henri Jean-Louis Le Secq
• David Levinthal
• Helen Levitt
• Patrick Lichfield (port)
• O. Winston Link
• Jerome Liebling
• Herbert List
• Sharon Lockhart
• Danny Lyon (doc)
• Mark Law

M

• Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo
• Shinzo Maeda
• Sally Mann (art, port)
• Robert Mapplethorpe (art, port)
• Mary Ellen Mark (doc, port)
• Willy Matheisl
• Gordon Matta-Clark
• John Jabez Edwin Mayall
• Roger Mayne (doc)
• Will McBride (doc, port)
• Linda McCartney
• Steve McCurry
• Dave McKean
• Robert MacPherson
• Ralph Eugene Meatyard (art)
• Susan Meiselas
• Adolphe de Meyer
• Joel Meyerowitz
• Boris Mikhailov
• Lee Miller
• Fred E. Miller
• Richard Misrach
• Lisette Model
• Tina Modotti
• László Moholy-Nagy
• Sarah Moon (fash)
• Charles Moore
• Raymond Moore (art)
• Inge Morath
• Barbara Morgan
• Daido Moriyama
• Charles Morris
• Wright Morris
• Nickolas Muray
• John Murray
• Vik Muniz
• Eadweard Muybridge
• Carl Mydans

N

• James Nachtwey (doc,war)
• Nadar
• Charles Negre
• Helmut Newton (fash)
• Arnold Newman
• Nicéphore Niépce
• Lennart Nilsson
• Nicholas Nixon (doc)
• William Notman

O

• Arthur Omar
• Timothy O'Sullivan
• Stephens Orr
• Paul Outerbridge

P

• Tim Page (war)
• Benito Panunzi
• Norman Parkinson
• Gordon Parks
• Martin Parr (art, doc)
• Freeman Patterson
• Irving Penn
• Gilles Peress
• Philibert Perraud
• Pierre-Louis Pierson
• Guglielmo Plüschow
• Carl Robert Pope Jr.
• Dith Pran
• Richard Prince
• Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii

Q

R

• José Rahola
• Ricardo Rangel
• Rankin (fash)
• William Herman Rau
• Man Ray (art)
• Henri-Victor Regnault
• Oscar Gustave Rejlander (art, port)
• Albert Renger-Patzsch
• Jorge Ribalta
• Marc Riboud
• Eugene Richards
• Terry Richardson
• Leni Riefenstahl (doc)
• Jacob Riis
• Herb Ritts
• Henry Peach Robinson
• Alexandr Rodchenko
• Joe Rosenthal
• Arthur Rothstein
• Michal Rovner
• Galen Rowell
• Thomas Ruff
• Andrew J. Russell

S

• Sebastiao Carvalho Leme
• Sebastião Salgado
• Erich Salomon
• August Sander
• Jan Saudek (art)
• Francesco Scavullo
• Gary Schneider
• J. Pascal Sebah
• Ignác Šechtl
• Andres Serrano (art)
• John Sexton
• David Seymour
• Charles Sheeler
• Cindy Sherman (art)
• Malick Sidibé
• Jeanloup Sieff
• Katharina Sieverding
• Roman Signer
• Camille-Leon-Louis Silvy
• Laurie Simmons
• Aaron Siskind
• Sandy Skoglund
• Edwin Smith
• Michael A. Smith
• W. Eugene Smith (doc)
• Frederick Sommer
• Giorgio Sommer
• Humphrey Spender (doc)
• Ann Stautberg
• Edward Steichen (art)
• Louis Stettner
• Alfred Stieglitz (art, port)
• Paul Strand (art)
• Beat Streuli
• Thomas Struth
• Jock Sturges (art, port)
• Josef Sudek
• Hiroshi Sugimoto
• Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
• John Szarkowski (doc)
• Gabor Szilasi

T

• Sam Taylor-Wood
• Juergen Teller (fash)
• George Tice
• Wolfgang Tillmans
• Stephanie Torbert
• Eric Treacy
• Jane Tuckerman
• Spencer Tunick

U

• Jerry Uelsmann
• Doris Ulmann
• Ellen von Unwerth
• Huynh Cong Ut

V

• James Van Der Zee
• JoAnn Verburg
• Roman Vishniac

W

• Jeff Wall
• Carleton Watkins
• Alex Webb
• Todd Webb
• Bruce Weber
• Weegee (doc)
• Carrie Mae Weems
• William Wegman
• Brett Weston
• Cole Weston
• Edward Weston (art, port)
• Kim Weston
• Minor White (art)
• Hannah Wilke
• George Washington Wilson
• Garry Winogrand
• Abby Winters
• Joel-Peter Witkin (art)
• Art Wolfe

X

Y

• Yevonde

Z

See also

• Photography
• Photograph
• Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
• Magnum
• Glamour photographer
• Fetish photographer
• Amateur photographer