Photographers Codexery

A source-cited reference to photographers

Photographers (25)

• Clarence Hudson White — Pictorialist photographer and founder of the first U.S. school of photography as art.
• Edward S. Curtis — The Shadow Catcher who documented Native American life through photographs and recordings.
• Edward Steichen — Pioneer of fashion photography and MoMA's photography director.
• Eugène Atget — French flâneur and pioneer of documentary photography
• Gustave Le Gray — The most important French photographer of the nineteenth century
• Irving Penn — American photographer known for fashion, portraits, and still lifes.
• Ansel Adams — American landscape photographer and environmentalist of the American West.
• Diane Arbus — American photographer who expanded acceptable subject matter in portraiture.
• Richard Avedon — American fashion and portrait photographer who captured movement in still pictures.
• Robert Mapplethorpe — American photographer known for black-and-white photographs and controversial images of the gay male BDSM subculture.
• Eadweard Muybridge — Pioneer of motion photography
• Nadar — French photographer, caricaturist, and balloonist who pioneered aerial photography.
• Helmut Newton — German-Australian photographer known for provocative, erotically charged black-and-white fashion photography.
• Richard Prince — American artist known for rephotographing advertisements to critique pop culture.
• Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky — Russian chemist and photographer who pioneered color photography.
• Edward Weston — American photographer known for sharp-focus images of the American West.
• Julia Margaret Cameron — English photographer known for soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorians and illustrative images from mythology…
• Lewis Hine — Sociologist and muckraker photographer who documented child labor.
• Malick Sidibé — Malian photographer of 1960s Bamako youth culture.
• Manuel Álvarez Bravo — Mexican artistic photographer who captured ordinary life in ironic or Surrealistic ways.
• Nan Goldin — American photographer and activist documenting intimacy and subcultures.
• Paul Strand — American photographer and filmmaker who helped establish photography as art.
• Robert Frank — Swiss American photographer whose 'The Americans' reshaped documentary photography.
• Sally Mann — American photographer of intimate family and landscape imagery.
• Tina Modotti — Italian-American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary activist.

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