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Walker Evans

Walker Evans was a prominent American photographer known for his stark and direct images documenting rural life during t...

American Documentary Modernist Vernacular

9.6 Brilliant

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Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was an American photographer noted for square portraits of marginalized people; her 1972 MoMA retrospective...

American Documentary Postwar Portrait

9.4 Excellent

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Paul Strand

Paul Strand was an American modernist photographer whose 1916 street portraits and abstract compositions helped establis...

American Documentary Modernist 20TH Century

9.3 Excellent

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W. Eugene Smith

W. Eugene Smith was an American photojournalist known for the photo essay form; his 1970s Minamata work exposed mercury...

American Documentary War Photojournalism

9.2 Excellent

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Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks was an American photographer and filmmaker, Life magazine's first Black staff photographer, known for 1940s...

American Documentary Portrait Civil Rights

9.1 Excellent

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Lewis Hine

Lewis Hine was an American photographer whose early 1900s images of child labor for the National Child Labor Committee s...

American Historic Documentary Reform

9.1 Excellent

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James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey is an American photojournalist known for conflict and humanitarian work in places including Rwanda, Bosni...

American Documentary War Conflict

9.0 Excellent

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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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Alex Webb

Alex Webb is an American Magnum photographer known for complex color street photographs, surveyed in Aperture's 2011 boo...

American Documentary Street Color

8.9 Great

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Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark was an American documentary photographer known for intimate social-reportage projects, including the 198...

American Social Documentary Portrait

8.8 Great

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Bruce Davidson

Bruce Davidson is an American Magnum photographer known for immersive series such as Brooklyn Gang in 1959 and East 100t...

American Documentary Street Civil Rights

8.7 Great

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Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange was an American photographer renowned for her impactful documentary work documenting the human cost of th...

American Humanity Documentary Social Commentary

8.5 Great

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Alexander Gardner

Alexander Gardner was a Scottish-born American photographer who published Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War...

American 19TH Century Historic Documentary

8.5 Great

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Susan Meiselas

Susan Meiselas is an American documentary photographer whose 1970s Carnival Strippers series and Nicaragua conflict imag...

American Social Documentary Conflict

8.5 Great

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Alec Soth

Alec Soth is an American photographer and Magnum member known for large-format projects on American life, including Slee...

American Documentary Portrait Road Trip

8.5 Great

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Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold was an American photojournalist and the first woman to join Magnum Photos, entering the agency in 1951 as an...

American Documentary Celebrity Portrait

8.4 Great

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LaToya Ruby Frazier

LaToya Ruby Frazier is an American photographer whose 2014 book The Notion of Family documents Braddock, Pennsylvania, t...

American Contemporary Social Family

8.4 Great

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Steve Schapiro

Steve Schapiro was an American photojournalist who covered the 1963 March on Washington and later photographed The Godfa...

American Celebrity Editorial Photojournalism

8.2 Great

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Larry Clark

Larry Clark is an American photographer and filmmaker whose 1971 book Tulsa documented youth drug use and violence in Ok...

American Youth Documentary Black And White

8.1 Great

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Larry Fink

Larry Fink was an American photographer known for flash-lit social documentary images, especially the class contrasts in...

American Social Documentary Flash

8.0 Great