20 Famous Photographers

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Jerry Uelsmann
He is known for his manipulation of black and white photographs in the darkroom, otherwise known as photomontage. His pictures involve multiple exposures merged into one to produce the surreal. What’s also neat is that his film of choice is Kodak T-MAX 400.

Arthur Tress
The Dream Collector, Shadow Series, and Theater of the Mind, all of these works, show the extent of their creator’s imagination. Tress doesn’t seem to get too complicated with his prints. He simply takes carefully planned shots.

Josef Sudek
A Czech photographer known for his haunting night-scapes in Prague. It seems that losing his arm while in the Austro-Hungarian Army greatly affected his life and influenced his style of photography. However, having one arm didn’t keep him from taking such beautiful pictures (like those of the St. Vitus cathedral) with large format, bulky cameras.

Alfred Stieglitz
He helped, in great part, to make photography an equally acceptable art form such as painting and sculpture. He is best known for his works with Georgia O’Keeffe, of whom he took over 300 pictures.

Edward Steichen
Already an established as a fine painter by the beginning of the 1900s, Steichen master pictoralism before moving on to straight photography and eventually fashion photography. The Pond-Moonlight, one of his early pictoralist photographs using a then-experimental approach to color, sold in 2006 for $2.9 million, the highest price ever paid for a photograph at auction.

W. Eugene Smith
Smith’s fame comes from his photo-essays. Throughout his life he seems to have been in the front lines of every major political issue, always looking for complete control of his subject matter.

Sandy Skoglund
Known for her surrealist images. Skoglund originally started learning photography as a way to document her art. That quickly changed to her works involving elaborate sets with actors or objects, of contrasting or monochromatic colors.

Sebastiao Salgado
Salgado’s photography can be categorized as documentary. He is most noted for his photography of workers in less developed nations, such as the picture in our Black and White Photography book (Firefighters at Work).
Arnold Newman
Known for his “environmental portraits,” pictures of subjects in a controlled environment, in their most familiar surroundings. His idea was that the photograph had to be interesting even if the subject was unknown or had long been forgotten. For Newman, the subject wasn’t the only thing that made the photograph interesting, but the surroundings as well.

Barbara Morgan
Is most noted for her dance-photography. Of particular interest is Morgan’s photograph, Valerie Bettis: Desperate Heart. It captures the element of motion while at the same time an artistic effect by placing two exposures in one photograph.

Duane Michals
He describes himself not as a photographer but rather, an expressionist, someone who expresses himself according to his needs. Michals steps out of the norm by using text in some of his pictures and photo sequences.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard
An optician, married, a father of three, president of the Parent-Teacher Association, and a coach of a boy's baseball team, Meatyard wasn’t the most typical of photographers. Neither are his photographs. With such eerie and disturbing pictures, it’s hard to believe Meatyard when he says, “an educated background of Zen influences all of my photographs.”

Sally Mann
Known for her photographic books: “Immediate Family,” “At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women;” and “Mother Land: Recent Landscapes of Georgia and Virginia.” For her collection, “Deep South,” Mann used damaged cameras and lenses to produce eerie, ghostly pictures.

David Levinthal
When Levinthal takes photographs, he thinks small. He uses miniatures in his photographs, complete with a surrounding environment and skillfully placed lighting. The miniatures at times can easily be mistaken for real people.

Dorothea Lange
Like S. Salgado and W. E. Smith, Lange was a documentary photographer and photojournalist. Her works dealt mostly with the Great Depression. They brought to public attention the lives of the poor, the migrant workers, the displaced families.

Barbara Kruger
Kruger is an American photographer known for her conceptual art, usually black and white photographs with overlaid captions of white on red. Her messages are about how we are to each other, about our society.

Michael Kenna
This English photographer is known for his unusual landscapes. His film of choice is black and white. His choice in angles, time of day, and exposure times make his photographs unique.

Jim Goldberg
An American photographer known for mixing photographs and text to create a type of storytelling. Goldberg explores various aspects of our subcultures and social classes. The text in his photographs often involves the writing of his subjects.