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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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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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Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama is a prominent Japanese photographer whose work significantly influenced postwar photography. He’s recogn...

Japanese Postwar Black And White Street

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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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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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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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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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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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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Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was an influential American landscape photographer celebrated for his iconic black-and-white images of the A...

Classic Pioneer Landscape Environmentalism

9.2 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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Josef Koudelka

Josef Koudelka is a Czech-French photographer whose images of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Prague won a Robert Capa...

Documentary Black And White Czech Exile

9.1 Excellent

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Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer known for formal black-and-white portraits, flowers, and nudes; his 198...

American Studio Fine Art Portrait

9.0 Excellent

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Josef Sudek

Josef Sudek was a Czech photographer known for lyrical images of Prague, including The Window of My Atelier series made...

Black And White Czech Still Life Poetic

9.0 Excellent

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a pivotal figure in 20th-century photography. His work exemplifies modernist street photograph...

Vintage Minimalist Documentary Modernist

8.9 Great

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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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Don McCullin

Don McCullin is a British photojournalist known for stark war reporting in Cyprus, Vietnam, and Northern Ireland, beginn...

Documentary British Black And White War

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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Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt was a French-born American Magnum photographer known for witty black-and-white images of daily life, dogs...

American Humor Black And White Street

8.8 Great

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Germaine Krull

Germaine Krull was a modernist photographer active in Paris, noted for Métal, her 1928 portfolio of bridges, machines, a...

German Avant Garde Documentary Modernist

8.2 Great