OC Photography Program/The Masters
The masters
Yahoo and Google are good places to search for these names; you can find a lot about these photographers there.
Early Pioneers
- Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833)
- Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
- David Octavius Hill (1802-1870)
- Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
- Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) (1820–1910)
- Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
- Jacob Riis (1849-1914)
- w:Roger Fenton (1819-1869)
- w:Mathew_Brady (1823-96)
- Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882)
- Eugène Atget (1857-1927)
Modern Classics
- Lewis Hine (1874-1940)
- Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
- Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
- Edward Weston (1886-1958)
- Man Ray (1890-1976)
- Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956)
- Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)
- André Kertész (1894-1985)
- Wegee (Arthur H. Fellig) (1899-1968)
- Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
- Frederick Sommers (1905-1999)
- August Sander (1876-1964)
- Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932)
- Horst P. Horst (1906-1999)
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
- Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002)
- Robert Doisneau (1912-1994)
- Robert Capa (1913-1954)
- W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)
- The Farm Security Administration photographers (Listed on the Wikipedia Farm Security Administration page)
- Walker Evans (1903-1975)
- Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
- Minor White (1908-1976)
- Vivian Maier (1926-2009)
Contemporary Masters
- Richard Avedon (1923-2004)
- William Klein (1928-)
- Ralph Gibson (1939)
- Josef Koudelka (1938-)
- Sebastião Salgado (1944-)
- Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
- Michael Kenna (1953-)
- Helmut Newton (1920-2004)
- Diane Arbus(1923-1971)
- Robert Frank (1924-)
- Robert Heinecken (1931-2006)
- Duane Michals (1932-)
- Franco Fontana (1933-)
- David Hockney (1937-)
- William Eggleston(1939-)
- Joel-Peter Witkin (1939-)
- William Wegman (1943-)
- Jeff Wall (1946-)
- Sandy Skoglund (1946-)
- Stephen Shore (1947-)
- Bernard Faucon (1950-)
- Nan Goldin (1953-)
- Philip-Lorca diCorcia (1953-)
- Cindy Sherman (1954-)
- Augusto De Luca (1955-)
- Andreas Gursky (1955-)