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Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz was a pivotal figure in 20th-century American photography. He championed photography's status as an ind...

American Historic Modernist Gallery

9.6 Brilliant

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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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Edward Weston

Edward Weston was an American photographer influential within the modernist movement. His meticulously crafted images, p...

American Modernist Landscape Still Life

9.5 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

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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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Irving Penn

Irving Penn was an American photographer noted for Vogue fashion work and austere studio portraits; he began contributin...

American Studio Fashion Portrait

9.4 Excellent

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William Eggleston

William Eggleston is an American photographer whose 1976 MoMA exhibition helped legitimize color photography as a seriou...

American Fine Art Color South

9.4 Excellent

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Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen was a Luxembourg-born American photographer who co-founded Camera Work and curated The Family of Man at...

American Fashion Modernist Portrait

9.4 Excellent

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William Klein

William Klein is a prominent American photographer known for his distinctive style. His work frequently employs high con...

American Fashion Film Street

9.4 Excellent

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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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Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand was an American street photographer whose wide-angle images of public life, especially in 1960s New York...

American Social Postwar Black And White

9.3 Excellent

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Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer whose 1878 motion studies of a galloping horse helped found chronophotogr...

19TH Century Historic Motion Sequence

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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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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Man Ray

Man Ray was an American artist in Paris whose rayographs and Surrealist portraits made camera-less photography central t...

American Avant Garde Portrait Paris

9.2 Excellent

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Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander is an American photographer known for complex street views, reflections, and self-portraits; MoMA mounte...

American Postwar Landscape Street

9.2 Excellent

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Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Philip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer whose staged documentary style shaped contemporary art, notably the 19...

American Contemporary Portrait Street

8.6 Great

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Lorna Simpson

Lorna Simpson is an American conceptual photographer whose 1980s photo-text works helped redefine images of race, gender...

American Contemporary Conceptual Identity

8.6 Great

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Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer known for elaborately staged cinematic tableaux, including the suburban ser...

American Contemporary Cinematic Suburban

8.5 Great

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Joel-Peter Witkin

Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer known for elaborate, often macabre staged images that reference art histor...

American Studio Fine Art Surreal

7.7 Good