The Essential List of Photographers We Should All Know
For anyone claiming to be a photographer, or a photography enthusiast, or even interested in photography should be familiar with the people on this list. Without them, photography would be nothing. I know I am forgetting tons of people… Also, I am not necessarily including modern photojournalists, because that’s a whole new ball game and I’ve also listed some people that are less “famous” but still very influential. Please feel free to reblog and add to the list:)
These 3 basically invented photography in the 1830’s. There are many arguments on this:
Early Pioneers
The Farm Security Administration photographers (Great Depression):
Biggies (in no particular order):
- Henri Cartier Bresson
- Man Ray
- Richard Avedon
- Herb Ritts
- Diane Arbus
- Cindy Sherman
- Nan Goldin
- Helmut Newton
- Patrick Demarchelier
- Steven Meisel
- Ellen Von Unwerth
- Margaret Bourke White
- Irving Penn
- Peter Lindbergh
- Ansel Adams
- Annie Liebovitz
- Mario Testino
- Noboyushi Araki
- Joel Peter Witkin
ADDITIONS*:
- Sally Mann
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Edward Weston
- Lee Miller
- David Lachapelle
- W Eugene Smith
- Joel Meyerowitz
- Edward Steichen
- Paul Strand
- Lewis Hine
- Bruce Davidson
- William Eggleston
- Bruce Weber
*I’ve added some people that I suddenly remembered, and some that you all brought back to my attention. (Again, still not listing photojournalists since it is a very different “photographic world” and the list would contain thousands of people.)
