swap_horiz Eugène Atget Alternatives

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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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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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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 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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Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian photographer known for long-term black-and-white projects on labor, migration, and natu...

Documentary Landscape Humanitarian 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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Shomei Tomatsu

Shomei Tomatsu was a Japanese photographer who co-founded VIVO in 1959 and made stark postwar images of Nagasaki's atomi...

Japanese Documentary Postwar Black And White

9.3 Excellent

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Bill Brandt

Bill Brandt was a German-born British photographer noted for stark social documentary work and distorted nudes, includin...

Documentary British Landscape Black And White

9.3 Excellent

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Brassaï

Brassaï was a Hungarian-French photographer known for Paris de Nuit, a 1933 book that made nighttime Paris, cafés, and s...

Hungarian Modernist Street Paris

9.2 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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Nadar

Nadar was the studio name of French photographer Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, noted for Paris portraits and early aerial ph...

French Studio 19TH Century Historic

9.2 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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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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Gustave Le Gray

Gustave Le Gray was a French photographer known for 1850s seascapes and technical innovations, including combined negati...

French 19TH Century Historic Pioneer

8.9 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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Raymond Depardon

Raymond Depardon is a French photographer and filmmaker who co-founded the Gamma agency in 1966 and later joined Magnum...

French Documentary Film Photojournalism

8.3 Great

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Frances Benjamin Johnston

Frances Benjamin Johnston was an American photographer who documented schools, architecture, and public figures, includi...

American Architecture Historic Documentary

8.0 Great

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Antoine d'Agata

Antoine d'Agata is a French Magnum photographer and filmmaker whose work on addiction, sex, and marginality includes the...

French Personal Documentary Night

7.9 Good