Directory of photographers
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This directory provides a concise listing and brief biographies of photographers organized by subject specialties including: architecture, close-up/macro, collage & assemblage, darkroom experiments, documentary, fashion, landscapes, movement, narrative, pin hole, portraits, self portrait, still life/objects, and war. It includes both contemporary photographers and more established historical figures that have made important contributions to the field. The directory contains over 200 photographers and is intended as a starting point of reference, not a definitive or exhaustive compilation.
Directory of photographers
- 1. Directory of Photographers This directory is not definitive, but includes only carefully selected photographers. It includes contemporary photographers as well as more established individuals who have an important place in the history of photography. Architecture & Urban environment Agou, Christophe. Life below in the New York underground Alinari Brothers. Italian nineteenth century architecture Baltz, Lewis. Industrial environment Becher, Bernd and Hilda. Large format images of industrial structures Brassai. Paris by night Eggleston, William. Colour photography with an eye for urban detail
- 2. Feininger, Andreas. Skyscrapers of America Gursky, Andreas. Large scale repetitive subject matter Hofer, Candida. Contemporary internal/external compositions Luxemburg, Rut Bless. Night time urban environments Marlow, Peter. Transit zones (car parks etc) Matze, Yoke. Dutch photographer who takes pictures of contemporary buildings Meyerowitz, Joel. Work includes recent studies of ‘ground zero’ Smith, W Eugene. New York Sudek, Josef. Images of Prague Winogrand, Gary. Definitive street photographer Close-up/Macro Blossfeldt, Karl. Close-up studies of plant forms, showing pattern and texture Cunningham, Imogen. Noted for her flower pictures Groover, Jan. ‘Kitchen sink’ objects O’Hara, Ken. Full-face portraits Renger-Patzsch, Albert. Black and white abstracts Collage & Assemblage Banksy. Famous graffiti artist who also works in other mediums Bayer, Herbert. The Bauhaus revolutionised Art & Design. Bayer taught there Boltanski, Christian. 3D images based on memories Eldon, Dan. Personal photographic collages of his journeys Heartfield, John. Photomonteur who opposed Hitler Heinecken, Robert. Interesting and varied approach to manipulating images Hoch, Hannah. Revolutionary art and propaganda Hockney, David. Famous for his ‘joiners’ Kolar, Jiri. Combining images, very precise and organised Lawson, Stephen. Combining images in series Mahr, Mari. Some unusual approaches to photomontage Raushenberg, Robert. Collages using his own and found images Rodchenko, Alexander. Russian constructivist Stern, Grete. Photomontage and other modernisms Uelsmann, Jerry N. Weird and fantastic surreal photo collages Darkroom experiments Barbey, Thomas. Surreal photomontages – double negatives etc Berman, Wallace. Darkroom ‘drawings’ Blumenfeld, Erwin. Double negatives etc Chadwick, Helen. Experimental work based on her life Derges, Susan. Photograms using natural light Hajek-Halke, Heinz. Interesting black and white experiments Lissitsky, El. Photomontage Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. Experimentation and photograms Picasso, Pablo. Photograms Ray, Man. Surrealist photographer who ‘invented’ solarisation and photograms Starn twins. Unusual experiments Wulz, Wanda. Surrealist photographer Documentary Abbott, Berenice. Photographer of New York life Arbus, Diane. The Americans no one else wanted to photograph Arnold, Eve. Pioneer female photographer Atget, Eugene. Captured Paris by day and night Billingham, Richard. His family and ‘other animals’ Bischof, Werner. A real variety of subjects – mostly documentary Brandt, Bill. Nudes, portraits, landscapes, everything - One of the greats
- 3. Brassai. One of the masters – very extensive collection Calle, Sophie. Explores the function of the photograph Cartier–Bresson, Henri. The photographer of the twentieth century Cruz, Valdir. Indians of the rainforest Decarava, Roy. Life in New York and a fighter against racial discrimination Delahaye, Luc. Range of subjects Doisneau, Robert. French photographer with whimsical and humorous viewpoint Erwitt, Elliot. Well developed sense of humour Evans, Frederick. The master of architectural spaces and composition Evans, Walker. American documentary photographer Fellig, Arthur (Weegee) New York in the 20’s and 30’s Frank, Robert. The Americans Friedlander, Lee. One of the greats – people are the main subject Goldblatt, David. South African photographer whose pictures explore Apartheid Gursky, Andreas. Epic colour images exposing mass consumerism Haas, Ernst. Hass was a pioneer of colour in Photojournalism Hine, Lewis. A campaigner who photographed children working Izis (Israel Bidermanas) Photographer of Paris, innocence and the circus Kertesz, Andre. Master of the Leica camera Lange, Dorothea. Photographed America during the Depression years Lartigue, Jacques Henri. ‘It’s marvellous…..Nothing will ever be so much fun!’ Meyerowitz, Joel. Recently covering ‘ground zero’ Misrach, Richard. Government conspiracies, deserts, the sky. Model, Lisette. The rich photographed up close and brutally Parr, Martin. Humorous, colourful and provocative look at idiosyncratic traditions Riboud, Marc. Mainly reportage from the East Salgado, Sebastiao. Workers of the world Siskind, Aaron. From documentary to colour abstraction Steele-Perkins, Chris. People and places from all over the world Steiglitz, Alfred. One of the masters, photos from 100 years ago Strand, Paul. Families and white fences Wyllie, Donovan. Travellers, squatters etc Fashion Avedon, Richard. Leading fashion photographer of the 60’s and 70’s Bailey, David. London in the swinging sixties Boudin, Guy. Surreal and strange fashion Constantine, Elaine. Colourful and bright approach to fashion photography Dahl-Wolfe, Louise. Helped invent fashion photography with Harper’s Bazaar Day, Corrine. Associated with ‘grunge’ and ‘heroin chic’ that made Kate Moss a star Demarchellier, Patrick. High fashion Knight, Nick. Influential British photographer who pushes the boundaries LaChapelle, David. Bright, staged and surreal fashion McDean, Craig. Wide mix of contemporary approaches Moon, Sarah. Low key soft images Rankin. Fashion for cutting edge magazines Ritts, Herb. Celebrities and fashion Sorrenti, Mario. Very stylised fashion work – worked with Vogue Teller, Juergen. Interesting compositions Testino, Mario. Contemporary and colourful Landscapes Adams, Ansel. Distinguished American landscape photographer Adams, Robert. Clean and precise depiction of landscape altered by man Brotherus, Elina. Epic colour landscapes that include the figure Burtynsky, Edward. Manufactured landscapes Caponigro, Paul. Precise and delicate landscapes Godwin, Fay. Classic British landscapes Hutte, Axel. Mixture of urban and wild landscapes
- 4. Koudelka, Josef. Panoramic landscapes Misrach, Richard. Desert scenes Ristlehuber, Sophie. Conceptual/urban Sommer, Frederick. Landscape and surrealism Sternfeld, Joel. The urban landscape Waite, Charlie. Salisbury based landscape photographer Movement Bragaglia. Futurist Caponigro, Paul. Some good examples of slow shutter speed Connor, Linda. Slow shutter star trails Edgerton, Harold. The speed king of the stroboscope Haas, Ernst. Colour movement Mili, Gjon. Photoflash pioneer Muybridge, Eadward. Documented the movements of man and beast Worthington, A.M. Studies of splashing liquids Narrative Brambilla, Marco. Transit: following his suitcase on its journey Crewdson, Gregory. Strange goings-on in suburbia Hunter, Tom. Contemporary colour images influenced by Old Masters Kruger, Barbara. Typographic imagery Michals, Duane. Sequences and integrated text with pictures Misrach, Richard. Images revealing government conspiracies Pierre & Gilles. Theatrical and colourful symbolic work Wall, Jeff. Digitally manipulated epic images influenced by paintings Pin Hole Cady, Anna. Local artist from Winchester who turned her bedroom into a camera Pippin, Steven. Turned a toilet on a train into a pin hole camera Quinnell, Justin. Used his mouth as a camera! Squires, Russell (Alan) Local artist from Portsmouth. Beautiful pin hole images Portraits Arnold, Eve. Intimate revelations Beaton, Cecil. Aristocratic stage designer, photographer, diarist and writer Bown, Jane. Intimate portraits of British celebrities Cameron, Julia Margaret. Victorian eccentric Dijkstra, Rineke. Portraits over time, reflecting subtle changes and momentous moments Halsmann, Phillipe. Portraitist who made sitters jump Karsh, Yosuf. 20th Century portraits Leibovitz, Annie. Portraits of rock musicians Lord Snowdon. Formal portraits Mann, Sally. Intimate family portraits Mark, Mary Ellen. Portraits in situ McCartney, Linda. The Beatles and other great musicians Meadows, Daniel. Portraits over time Meatyard, Eugene. Photographs of his children Newman, Arnold. Environmental portraits of the famous Nixon, Nicholas. Series of portraits taken over long periods of time O’Hara, Ken. Full face cropped compositions Penn, Irving. Portraits for Vogue Rankin. Celebrities, CD covers and ID magazine Ritts, Herb. Often obscure approach to portraiture Ruff, Thomas. Straight, colour portraits Sander, August. Documented society through portraits
- 5. Stern, Bert. Iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe Struth, Thomas. Deadpan portraits Testino, Mario. Princess Diana and other icons Van Meene, Helen. The awkwardness of being a teenager Wearing, Gillian. Explores the complexity of human relationships. Self Portrait Coplans, John. Exploratory self-portraits (nude) Freidlander, Lee. Self portrait showed new ways to construct pictures Rainer, Arnulf. Arty, worked with paint onto photos Sherman, Cindy. Self portrait as masquerade Taylor Wood, Sam. Self portraits which reflect significant chapters in her life. Still life/Objects Eggleston, William. Everyday American objects Groover, Jan. Superb still-life photography Hao, Hong. Collections of personal objects that reveal the owners politics Modotti, Tina. Close-ups of flowers, shells and peppers Parker, Olivia. Constructed compositions of groups of objects Parr, Martin. Close-ups of cultural symbols Ryan, Seamus. Close ups of flowers Tillmans, Wolfgang. Delights in the beauty of the everyday over looked object Von Dongen, Ron. Close ups of flowers Weston, Edward. Peppers, shells and also landscapes and nudes White, Minor. Textures, shadows and light War Brady, Matthew. A collector of Civil War photography Burrows, Larry. Wide coverage – mix of raw and sensitive imagery Capa, Robert. ‘If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough’ Fenton, Roger. Crimean War Hardy, Bert. London during the blitz McCullin, Donald. War portrayed with elegance and compassion Meiselas, Susan. Famous scenic image with landmine victim Miller, Lee. One of the first female war photographers Norfolk, Simon. Colourful images of the aftermath Ut, Nick. Iconic image of Vietnam War