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Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is an American photographer recognized for creating meticulously staged self-portraits. Her work explores...

American Contemporary Conceptual Self Portrait

9.5 Brilliant

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Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer known for long-exposure series such as Theaters, begun in 1978, and Seascape...

Contemporary Conceptual Architecture Japanese

9.4 Excellent

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Eugène Atget

Eugene Atget was a French photographer whose systematic views of old Paris, made from the 1890s to 1920s, became central...

French Architecture Historic Documentary

9.3 Excellent

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Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall is a Canadian artist known for large backlit photographic transparencies, with The Destroyed Room from 1978 he...

Contemporary Canadian Conceptual Large Format

9.3 Excellent

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Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer whose varied images of youth, abstraction, and print display made him the fir...

German Contemporary Youth Fine Art

9.2 Excellent

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Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin is an American photographer whose 1986 book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency chronicled queer, punk, and intim...

American Contemporary Portrait Diary

9.1 Excellent

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Hilla Becher

Hilla Becher was a German photographer who, with Bernd Becher, made typological grids of water towers, blast furnaces, a...

German Conceptual Industrial Black And White

9.1 Excellent

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Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore is an American photographer whose 1970s road-trip color series, including Uncommon Places, influenced New...

American Large Format Road Trip Color

9.0 Excellent

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Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky is a German photographer known for large-scale digitally refined color images; Rhein II set a major aucti...

German Contemporary Conceptual Architecture

8.9 Great

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Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott was an American photographer whose 1930s project Changing New York documented the city's architecture an...

American Architecture New York Documentary

8.9 Great

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Joel Sternfeld

Joel Sternfeld is an American color photographer whose 1987 book American Prospects helped establish large-format color...

American Large Format Landscape Road Trip

8.9 Great

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Nobuyoshi Araki

Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer noted for diaristic books and erotic Tokyo images, including the 1971 self-pu...

Contemporary Japanese Tokyo Portrait

8.9 Great

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Rineke Dijkstra

Rineke Dijkstra is a Dutch photographer known for frontal portraits of adolescents and new mothers, including the Beach...

Contemporary Youth Large Format Portrait

8.9 Great

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Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth is a German photographer from the Düsseldorf school, known for large-scale museum, street, and family phot...

German Contemporary Architecture Large Format

8.9 Great

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Sally Mann

Sally Mann is an American photographer known for large-format black-and-white studies of family and the American South,...

American Family Large Format Portrait

8.9 Great

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Carleton Watkins

Carleton Watkins was an American photographer whose mammoth-plate Yosemite views of the 1860s influenced U.S. landscape...

American 19TH Century Large Format Landscape

8.8 Great

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Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz is an American street and color photographer; his 1970s Cape Light work and 2001 World Trade Center arch...

American Large Format Urban Street

8.7 Great

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Ishiuchi Miyako

Ishiuchi Miyako is a Japanese photographer whose work on bodies and memory includes Hiroshima; she received the Hasselbl...

Contemporary Japanese Documentary Memory

8.7 Great

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Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and visual activist whose Faces and Phases series, begun in 2006, records...

Contemporary Activism Identity Portrait

8.7 Great

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Nanna Heitmann

Nanna Heitmann is a German documentary photographer whose Siberian project Hiding from Baba Yaga won the 2019 Leica Oska...

German Russia Contemporary Documentary

7.2 Good