His famous book The Americans was printed in 1958 and it has revolutionized the genre. Unlike other masters (Henry Cartier Bresson) Robert Frank was less focused on technique: cropped pictures, grain, tilted views, out of focus, burned lights, blurry scenes… He gave more importance to the essence of the moment.

His precisely composed, intricately detailed, spare photographs insisted on their subject matter, and his impartial acceptance of his subjects made his work seem true and aesthetically pure--qualities that have been the goal of documentary photography ever since.

Best know for pioneering a new style in photography has earned Strand the title of the creator of modern American photography. Strand created images that some believe go beyond our vision and perhaps reach a higher truth of reality. He photographed with precision and truth.

Having one of the most-inventive photographers of the 20th century, Kertész set the standard for the use of the handheld camera, created a highly autobiographical body of work, and developed a distinctive visual language.

Shulman did not merely document significant architecture, but interpreted it, becoming one of the most important and influential architectural photographers in history. In fact, when most people think of the work of Neutra, it is Shulman's images that come to mind.

Her decades-long performative practice of photographing herself under different guises has produced many of contemporary art's most iconic and influential images.

Lee Miller was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1907 and became one of the great beauties of her time. She was photographed constantly by her father, Theodore Miller, an amateur enthusiast. She suffered rape at seven, contracted gonorrhoea and endured years of painful and invasive treatment.

Jan Groover is well known for her formalist still life photographs of household utensils. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and graduated in 1965 with a bachelor of fine arts in painting.

Diane Arbus is best known for her stark, documentary style of photography. Her most famous images are those of people outside the boundaries of “proper” society.

Robert Doisneau was a champion of humanist photography and a pioneer of photojournalism. His iconic black and white images of life in Paris some of the most recognisable to this day. He was awarded several prizes for photography during his lifetime and his work continues to be published and exhibited internationally.

David LaChapelle is a celebrated American photographer and video artist. He is perhaps best known for his commercial fashion portraits of celebrities and models, including photos of Amanda Lepore and Angelina Jolie.

She chose to keep her work to herself. In addition to her tens of thousands of photographic materials, Maier collected found objects throughout her life and saved an extraordinarily vast trove of belongings in the two storage lockers she rented. Those artifacts of her life were used to help reconstruct her biography.

His vast, provocative, and powerful body of work has established him as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Today, Mapplethorpe is represented by galleries in North and South America, Europe and Asia and his work can be found in the collections of major museums around the world.

Gursky's photographic style is characterized by its grand scale, meticulous attention to detail, and bold use of color. His images often depict vast landscapes, urban environments, or intricate patterns that reveal the complexity and interconnectedness of the world around us.

McCurry is perhaps most famous for the vivid use of colour that dominates his work. McCurry's reason for this is simple: the world is in colour so it's logical to shoot it in colour. Throughout the years, he has visited locations that naturally lend themselves to color representations.

The Roaring Lion is a black and white photographic portrait of a 67-year-old Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The portrait was taken in 1941 by Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh in the Centre Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He would take portraits of important and famous men and women of politics, Hollywood, and the arts, from Albert Einstein and Sir Winston Churchill to Walt Disney and Grace Kelly

On his 7^th birthday, his father gave him a camera as a gift which opened the world to young Jacques Henri and led him on a lifelong devotion to this craft. He immediately started photographing the world around him, which at that age was his adoring family and his nanny.

His picture of a Loyalist soldier who had just been fatally wounded earned him his international reputation and became a powerful symbol of war.

Van Dyke was a co-founder of the Group f/64, a group of photographers dedicated to "straight", unmanipulated photography, which began in his Oakland studio in 1932. From 1940 to 1945, Van Dyke served as the Technical Director, Film Section, Office of War Information in Washington (D.C.).

Although best known as a photographer, Beaton also worked as an illustrator and designer for stage and film. His designs for productions such as My Fair Lady (1956), and Gigi (1958), defined the glamorous look of the era, as well as winning him three Oscars for costume and art direction.

In the early 1990s, she began working as an assistant to a photographer who specialized in baby portraiture. While she loved shooting children, the static nature of the work became, in her words, exhausting in the way that all creative work eventually becomes when it's not the kind you want to be doing.

Along with Ansel Adams, Weston pioneered a modernist style characterized by the use of a large-format camera to create sharply focused and richly detailed black-and-white photographs.

John Paul Edwards (1884–1968) was an American photographer and a member of the Group f/64.

He was born in Minnesota on June 5, 1884, and moved to California in 1902. It is not known how he became interested in photography, but by the early 1920s he was a member of the Oakland Camera Club, the San Francisco Photographic Society, and the Pictorial Photographers of America. His early photographs were in the pictorialist style, but by the late 1920s he had changed to a pure straight photography style.

Sometime around 1930 he met Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston. Within two years they had become good friends, and in 1932 Edwards was invited to be a founding member of Group f/64, along with Weston, Van Dyke, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Sonya Noskowiak and Henry Swift. He participated in the landmark Group f/64 exhibit at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, showing nine images of boats, anchor chains and farm wagons.

He continued to photograph for many years after Group f/64 dissolved in 1935, but he did not gain any of the fame of many other members of the group. In 1967 he and his wife donated a collection of photographs to the Oakland Museum. He died in Oakland, California, in 1968.

In 1932 he became a founding member of Group f/64 along with Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and several others. Later that year he showed nine prints (the same number as Weston) in the landmark Group f/64 show at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.^[1] While participating in the group, he was also able to collect many of the other photographers prints because of earnings as a stockbroker. Cunningham recalls that Swift bought all of the prints from the first show, which, if he paid the listed price for each photo, would have cost him a grand total of $845 for 80 prints.^[2]

After Group f/64 dissolved in 1935, Swift's interest in photography waned. He is not known to have exhibited again. When he died in 1962, his widow Florence Swift assembled his collection of photographs from members of Group f/64, sought additional donations from some of the original members of the group, and donated the entire collection to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Philippe Halsman was a Latvian-born American photographer known for his portraits of Marilyn Monroe and collaborations with Salvador Dalí. In producing his hallmark photobook Jump (1959), Halsman asked each of his subjects to jump in the air while he photographed them to capture an unguarded moment.

Mann acquired an 8 × 10 inch view camera in 1973 and perfected her technique with the cumbersome equipment over many years. She created most of her family photographs using this camera with black-and-white film.

Around 1900, Kanaga moved with her family to San Francisco, where she worked for the San Francisco Chronicle as a reporter and feature writer (1915–18) and later as a staff photographer (1918–19). At this time, she joined the California Camera Club and befriended the photographers Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange. In 1922 Kanaga moved to New York, where she photographed for the New York American (1922–24). There she met Alfred Stieglitz (1923), whose periodical Camera Work had first spurred her interest in art photography.

Since 1994, Parr has been a member of Magnum Photos. He has had around 40 solo photobooks published, and has featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide – including the international touring exhibition ParrWorld, and a retrospective at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, in 2002.

Jay Maisel began his photography career in 1954. While his portfolio includes the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Miles Davis, he is perhaps best known for capturing the light, gesture and color found in everyday life.

Michael Kenna (born 1953) is one of the most acclaimed landscape photographers of his generation with a truly global audience for his work. He has held over 475 solo exhibitions in 40 countries and his photographs have been the subject of over 70 monographs.

Born in 1967 in the United Kingdom, Jimmy Nelson spent much of his early life traveling due to his father's job as a geologist. This exposure to various cultures and environments sparked Nelson's interest in photography and led him to pursue a career as a photojournalist.

After cutting his teeth as a newspaper photographer, James went freelance in 1980, spurred on by images of the Vietnam War and the American civil rights movement. LIFE photographer Larry Burrows was a huge inspiration for James, as he found his images to be "tremendously moving and informative".

During her years as a model, she started to feel that the industry was missing an element of freedom. After receiving a camera as a gift from her boyfriend, she began to take her own pictures, which eventually led to an improvised photo-shoot in Africa of her model colleagues.

After her graduation from the University of Michigan in 1987, she studied and received a second bachelor's degree in film and photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1990, from 1993 to 1995, she worked as an assistant to photographer Sally Mann she earned an MFA from Mills College in 1997. In 1997 she moved to London with Electro-acoustic composer Frank Ekeberg where their daughter Madeleine was born. During that time her work was exhibited frequently in the UK and Scandinavia.

Alex Prager (b. 1979, Los Angeles, California) is an American artist, director and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. Prager is known for her uncanny images and films that blur the line between artifice and reality to explore the human condition.

His unusual camera angles, uncanny sense of timing, and ability to capture bizarre and sometimes implausible configurations of people, places, and things made him one of the most influential photographers of his generation.

Newton became an iconic fashion photographer recognized for his radical, edgy, and, at times, racy subject matter. Inspired by film noir, Expressionist cinema, S & M, and surrealism, Newton's images are controversial, provocative, and heavily voyeuristic in nature.

The Steerage is not only about the “significant form” of shapes, forms and textures, but it also conveys a message about its subjects, immigrants who were rejected at Ellis Island, or who were returning to their old country to see relatives and perhaps to encourage others to return to the United States with them.

The photograph in question is Alberto Korda's famous picture of Che Guevara taken on March 5, 1960 at a Cuban funeral service for victims of the La Coubre explosion. The photographic reality of Che soon transformed itself into an iconic image which traveled around the world.

Hine used a slide of this photograph of a young girl named Sadie Pfeiffer, tending a row of spinning machines in South Carolina's Lancaster Cotton Mills, in his 1909 talk "Social Photography, How the Camera May Help in the Social Uplift," which he delivered to a national conference of social workers.

In 1908, the National Child Labor Committee hired the photographer Lewis Hine to photograph children at work. Hine’s photos of the “breaker boys” and other child miners helped build public support for legislation barring child labor.

A few feet away stood Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer, eye to his viewfinder. On a little piece of black-and-white film, he captured the exact moment of the gunshot.

The police chief, Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, stands with his back to the camera, right arm fully extended, left arm loosely by his side. The prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, is a Vietcong fighter but wears no uniform, only a plaid shirt and black shorts. His hands are cuffed behind his back. Though in his 30s, he looks little older than a boy. His face is contorted from the bullet’s impact.

The memorable moment, of Ali snarling while apparently swiping a right hand, was caught by photographers Neil Leifer and John Rooney. Rooney's black and white photo taken with a 35mm SLR camera produced a rectangular frame. He worked for Associated Press, and his photo was used around the world.

John's Wood, London, is the location of the recording studio where most of the Beatles music was recorded. Paul McCartney has said in an interview that the photo of the Beatles crossing the road on the Abbey Road album cover symbolizes the Beatles leaving the studio after finishing recording their final album together.

Untitled, Greenwood, Mississippi

Artist name

William Eggleston

Date created

1973

Classification

photograph

Medium

dye transfer print

Dimensions

12 5/16 × 18 1/2 in. (31.3 × 47 cm)

Photo: A member of Black September appears on the balcony of the apartment where gunmen held members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage on Sept. 5, 1972. It was the first time a terrorist attack had been broadcast live to a global audience.