“f/64” group founded 1932:
Ansel Adams - landscape, esp. US national parks; created the “zone system”
Paul Strand
the “
Magnum” group founded by the 1st photojournalist, Robert Capa, a war photographer using the Leica 35mm:
Henri Cartier-Bresson - French travel photographer aiming to capture “the decisive moment”
Robert Capa
David “Chim” Seymour
George Roger
Ernst Haas - Austrian; post-WWII; freelance for Life, etc;
Frank Horvat - Italian; travel photos then later fashion photography; 50's-60's;
“October group” (founded 1930):
Eugene Atget - French, 1900's-1927; 18x24cm wooden camera;
Richard Avedon (1923-2004) - US fashion & portrait;
Herbert Bayer - Austrian/American; studied Bauhaus art in 1920's; surrealism;
Cecil Beaton - UK; 1920's-56 as fashion photographer for Vogue; WWII photographer;
Werner Bischof
Margaret Bourke-White - US industrial; political & social-minded photojournalism; co-founded Life magazine in 1936; WWII photographer; German concentration camp photos shocked the world;
Guy Bourdin (1928-91) - 1950's-80's fashion & editorial;
Helen Chadwick - British, 1980's; used her own body to confront conventional ideas about sexuality
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Alvin Coburn - US; introduced avant-garde style of photography in the 1900's
Jean Dieuzaide - French post-WWII; es. studied the structure of things; Dali in water photo;
Harold Egerton - US 1920's-30's; developed high-speed stroboscopic photography;
Alfred Eisenstaedt - German/American; 1930's-40's;
Ed van der Elsken - Dutch; 1950's-60's;
Walker Evans - US; 1930's; rural politic-social photography;
Andreas Feininger - French/German; Bauhaus; worked for Life from 1939; the image must tell the story with minimal explanatory text;
Hiroshi Hamaya
Robert Hausser - German; light period in 50's then depressive period; “21 doors of Mussolini”;
Philippe Halsman - Latvian/American; 40's & 50's; original & inventive portraits; Surrealism; “Dali's skull of nudes”
Gottfried Helnwein - Austrian/German; 1980's;
Fritz Henle - German/American; 40's; Life magazine;
Florence Henri - US/French; trendsetter of New Vision in the 20's-30's;
Lewis Hine - US; pre-WWI photos to fight child labour; documented the building of Empire State Building in 1930;
David Hockney - UK/American; large format Polaroids in 1980's;
Marta Hoepffner - German; Bauhaus; photograms in 1930's; polarised light; “variochromatic light objects” in 1966;
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Horst Horst - German fashion photographer for Vogue; esp. 1930's;
George Hoyningen-Huene - fashion in 1920's-30's
Walde Huth - German fashion photographer; 1950's;
Yousuf Karsh - Armenian/Canadian; portraits 1940's
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Andre Kertesz - Hungarian; 1920's;
Jurgen Klauke - 70's-80's; self-portraits;
William Klein - US fashion with Vogue 1954-66; unconventional use of wideangle/telephoto;
Barbara Klemm - German; photojournalist; 60's-70's;
Herlinde Koeble - German; photojournalist; 70's-80's;
Dorothea Lange - US; social 1930's in the Great Depression;
Jacques-Henri Lartigue - French; pre-WWI era
Robert Lebeck - German; 50's-60's; Stern;
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El Lissitzky
Herbert List
Man Ray - early 20thC Dadaism & Surrealism
Charlotte March
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Will McBride
Duane Michels
Hansel Mieth - German-born US migrant, social commentary photographer with Life in the 1930's-40's
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - early 20th C Bauhaus photography
Floris Neususs - camera-less photography
Arnold Newman - 1940's portraits
Gordon Parkes
Georgii Petrussow
Albert Renger-Patzsch - artistic photography of objects, architecture, landscapes
Erich Salomon
August Sander
Christian Schad - camera-less photography
Karl Schmolz - architecture
Friedrich Seidenstucker - 1930's
Cindy Sherman - history portraits 1990's
W. Eugene Smith - 1950's
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) - 1960's onwards.
Otto Steinert
Bert Stern
Alfred Stieglitz
Jock Sturges - controversial art nude naturalist photographer
Sholi Ueda
Weegee