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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

2

Robert Frank

Robert Frank is a photographer renowned for his unflinching documentation of American society during the postwar era. Hi...

Switzerland Documentary Postwar Black And White

9.6 Brilliant

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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

4

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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Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a contemporary photographer creating enduring images through extended exposure techniques. His work,...

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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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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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

9

Raghubir Singh

Raghubir Singh was an Indian photographer who helped legitimize color documentary photography with Ganga: Sacred River o...

Travel Indian Documentary Street

8.7 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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Raghu Rai

Raghu Rai was an Indian photojournalist nominated to Magnum by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1977 and known for his 1984 Bhop...

Indian Documentary Black And White Photojournalism

8.3 Great

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Chien-Chi Chang

Chien-Chi Chang is a Taiwanese Magnum photographer whose project The Chain, portraits from a Taiwan asylum, was shown at...

Contemporary Documentary Migration Taiwanese

7.9 Good

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Shahidul Alam

Shahidul Alam is a Bangladeshi photojournalist who founded Drik in 1989, Pathshala in 1998, and Chobi Mela in 1999 in Dh...

Contemporary Activism Documentary Photojournalism

7.9 Good

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Laia Abril

Laia Abril is a Catalan artist and photographer noted for research-based work on women's rights, including On Abortion,...

Contemporary Spanish Social Conceptual

7.8 Good

15

Carolyn Drake

Carolyn Drake is an American Magnum photographer whose 2013 book Two Rivers documents Central Asia between the Amu Darya...

American Contemporary Documentary Central Asia

7.8 Good

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Newsha Tavakolian

Newsha Tavakolian is an Iranian photojournalist and Magnum member, known for Listen, a 2011 project on women singers sil...

Contemporary Documentary Portrait Iranian

7.7 Good

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Bieke Depoorter

Bieke Depoorter is a Belgian Magnum photographer whose 2011 book Ou Menya grew from photographing strangers who hosted h...

Contemporary Documentary Intimate Belgian

7.6 Good

18

Rebecca Norris Webb

Rebecca Norris Webb is an American photographer and former poet whose 2012 book My Dakota joins South Dakota landscapes...

American Contemporary Documentary Color

7.5 Good

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Olivia Arthur

Olivia Arthur is a British Magnum photographer whose 2012 book Jeddah Diary documents the lives of young women in Saudi...

Contemporary Documentary British Portrait

7.4 Good

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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