[{"n": "Clarence Hudson White", "u": "/e/photographers/clarence-hudson-white/", "s": "Pictorialist photographer and founder of the first U.S. school of photography as art."}, {"n": "Edward S. Curtis", "u": "/e/photographers/edward-s-curtis/", "s": "The Shadow Catcher who documented Native American life through photographs and recordings."}, {"n": "Edward Steichen", "u": "/e/photographers/edward-steichen/", "s": "Pioneer of fashion photography and MoMA's photography director."}, {"n": "Eugène Atget", "u": "/e/photographers/eug-ne-atget/", "s": "French flâneur and pioneer of documentary photography"}, {"n": "Gustave Le Gray", "u": "/e/photographers/gustave-le-gray/", "s": "The most important French photographer of the nineteenth century"}, {"n": "Irving Penn", "u": "/e/photographers/irving-penn/", "s": "American photographer known for fashion, portraits, and still lifes."}, {"n": "Ansel Adams", "u": "/e/photographers/ansel-adams/", "s": "American landscape photographer and environmentalist of the American West."}, {"n": "Diane Arbus", "u": "/e/photographers/diane-arbus/", "s": "American photographer who expanded acceptable subject matter in portraiture."}, {"n": "Richard Avedon", "u": "/e/photographers/richard-avedon/", "s": "American fashion and portrait photographer who captured movement in still pictures."}, {"n": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "u": "/e/photographers/robert-mapplethorpe/", "s": "American photographer known for black-and-white photographs and controversial images of the gay male BDSM subc"}, {"n": "Eadweard Muybridge", "u": "/e/photographers/eadweard-muybridge/", "s": "Pioneer of motion photography"}, {"n": "Nadar", "u": "/e/photographers/nadar/", "s": "French photographer, caricaturist, and balloonist who pioneered aerial photography."}, {"n": "Helmut Newton", "u": "/e/photographers/helmut-newton/", "s": "German-Australian photographer known for provocative, erotically charged black-and-white fashion photography."}, {"n": "Richard Prince", "u": "/e/photographers/richard-prince/", "s": "American artist known for rephotographing advertisements to critique pop culture."}, {"n": "Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky", "u": "/e/photographers/sergey-prokudin-gorsky/", "s": "Russian chemist and photographer who pioneered color photography."}, {"n": "Edward Weston", "u": "/e/photographers/edward-weston/", "s": "American photographer known for sharp-focus images of the American West."}, {"n": "Julia Margaret Cameron", "u": "/e/photographers/julia-margaret-cameron/", "s": "English photographer known for soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorians and illustrative images from mytholog"}, {"n": "Lewis Hine", "u": "/e/photographers/lewis-hine/", "s": "Sociologist and muckraker photographer who documented child labor."}, {"n": "Malick Sidibé", "u": "/e/photographers/malick-sidib/", "s": "Malian photographer of 1960s Bamako youth culture."}, {"n": "Manuel Álvarez Bravo", "u": "/e/photographers/manuel-lvarez-bravo/", "s": "Mexican artistic photographer who captured ordinary life in ironic or Surrealistic ways."}, {"n": "Nan Goldin", "u": "/e/photographers/nan-goldin/", "s": "American photographer and activist documenting intimacy and subcultures."}, {"n": "Paul Strand", "u": "/e/photographers/paul-strand/", "s": "American photographer and filmmaker who helped establish photography as art."}, {"n": "Robert Frank", "u": "/e/photographers/robert-frank/", "s": "Swiss American photographer whose 'The Americans' reshaped documentary photography."}, {"n": "Sally Mann", "u": "/e/photographers/sally-mann/", "s": "American photographer of intimate family and landscape imagery."}, {"n": "Tina Modotti", "u": "/e/photographers/tina-modotti/", "s": "Italian-American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary activist."}]