20 Famous and not so famous photographers in no particular order. Again.

1. Man Ray: Dadaist known for his photograms and fashion photography which often utilized solarization in his prints. I'm not too crazy about the solarization effect but I do like his layering of images and i'm more fond of him as an artist than photographer.

2. Henri Cartier Bresson: Became known for his street photography, which are everyday photos of everyday life. Bresson almost exclusively shot in black and white with a Leica rangefinder and cropped his photos in the viewfinder which meant he would enlarge to full frame so that he would not lose anything. Bresson also did not like to develop his own photos but rather just enjoyed the act of shooting and composing. 

3. Olafur Eliasson: A Danish artist who creates large grids of oversized prints of the same subject matter. He has a series of faults that I find pretty powerful. Each photograph could stand on it's own as a successful image but the real beauty lies in placing them together. 

4. Robert Capa: War photographer who famously had photos of D-Day published which were ruined by a lab tech. I like Capa mainly because of the situations he put himself in to get a shot, from what I can remember from reading he didn't use too many zoom lenses but preferred to get up close. 

5. Dash Snow: Younger photographer who takes candid photos of friends and acquaintances engaged in illicit activities. Dash pretty much lived on the streets for awhile and just did a lot of drugs and took polaroids of his friends doing the same. Graffiti, drugs and sex are pretty common subject matter. The fact that he shot on a polaroid camera doesn't take away anything for me.

6. Ryan McGinley: Takes mostly color photographs of youth engaged in nude activities such as swimming and frolicking. He puts out calls for models and goes on road trips to shoot photos. Some of his photos are pretty noisy because he often shoots at night and because of this has to use faster film which creates noise and grain. Some of his photos are pretty washed out and give a nice ethereal look to them. 

7. Weegee: Specialized in street photography notably crime scenes, he used a 4x5 format camera and often shot at night with flash bulbs. Weegee relied on some kind of police scanner which allowed him to make it to a crime scene often before the police. I think he even had some kind of developing set up for his negatives in his car so that he could sell his photos to the press before anyone else. Lot's of gore. His photos went on to to influence this jazz grind band called Naked City, that's how I found out about him. 

8. Brian Ulrich: Is famous for taking photos of consumer culture, photos of products inside grocery stores and thrift shops are the norm. Ulrich is capable of using repetitive objects to make some very outstanding and balanced color photographs. Think stacks of 12 packs of soda. 

9. Afred Stieglitz: excellent American photographer with a great eye for composition one of his most famous series consisted of of portraits of the artist Georgia  O'Keefe .

10. Nicholas Nixon: American who photographed people suffering from HIV/AIDS utilized larger formats and combined with subject matter produced some very detailed and emotional portraits.

11. Ansel Adams: Famous for shooting very detailed and clear photos of Yosemite National Park, utilized 8x10 format camera. Very labor intensive. His photos are regarded as some of the best American photography. 

12. Edward Weston: Another photographer who worked with large format cameras to produce very detailed photos of sea shells and nudes.

13. Nobuyoshi Araki: Prolific Japanese photographer known for photographing scenes of bondage that are on the verge of being pornographic. I really like Araki's output, he's had an impressive amount of books published. 

14. Diane Arbus: Worked as a photojournalist who captured people on the fringes of society, her photographs aften appear to look very surreal on account of the people she is photographing. Very capable at producing memorable images. Worked with her subjects just enough to get some interesting facial expressions out of them. 

15. Walker Evans: Worked for the FSA during the great depression and documented life with an 8x10 camera, one of his most famous images is that of Allie Mae Burroughs, most of can recall the image but can't recall the name. 

16. Danny Lyons: A self taught photographer who photographed the life of biker gangs and the constant demolition and construction in New York.

17. Bill Owens: Famous for his suburbia series which featured people living in newly built suburbs in the 70's. I really just like looking at all the outdated fashion and decor in his photographs. 

18. Andre Kertesz: Used distortion in some of his most famous photographs which game them very luscious curves and shadows. 

19. Helen Levitt: Another street photographer who mainly worked around New York city. She began by shooting children's sidewalk chalk drawings. 

20. Jessica Williams: A young photographer and multimedia artist who shoots film and digital, her photographs simply document the things she wants to remember, she has a series called light hunting that depicts light coming in through windows onto floors that i'm fond of. On occasion she will also take her prints and collage them together and she often distributes her work though limited edition zines.