swap_horiz Lorna Simpson 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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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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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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Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall is a contemporary photographer who creates meticulously staged scenes presented as large format photographs. H...

Contemporary Canadian Conceptual Large Format

9.3 Excellent

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Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin is an American photographer whose 1986 book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency chronicled queer, punk, and intim...

American Contemporary Portrait Diary

9.1 Excellent

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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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Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems is an American artist known for photography on race, gender, and power, especially The Kitchen Table Se...

American Contemporary Conceptual Identity

8.8 Great

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Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and visual activist whose Faces and Phases series, begun in 2006, records...

Contemporary Activism Identity Portrait

8.7 Great

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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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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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Dawoud Bey

Dawoud Bey is an American photographer and educator known for portraits of Black communities, from Harlem, U.S.A. in 197...

American Contemporary Community Portrait

8.5 Great

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Duane Michals

Duane Michals is an American photographer known for staged photo sequences and handwritten text, an approach that helped...

American Conceptual Sequence Staged

8.5 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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Samuel Fosso

Samuel Fosso is a Cameroonian-born photographer known for theatrical self-portraits, including African Spirits, a 2008 s...

Contemporary Identity Self Portrait Staged

8.4 Great

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Deana Lawson

Deana Lawson is an American photographer of Black diasporic interiors and portraits, and in 2020 became the first photog...

American Contemporary Identity Portrait

8.3 Great

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Cristina de Middel

Cristina de Middel is a Spanish photographer whose 2012 book The Afronauts mixed documentary and fiction around Zambia's...

Contemporary Spanish Conceptual Documentary

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

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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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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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Tyler Mitchell

Tyler Mitchell is an American photographer who shot Beyonce for Vogue's September 2018 cover, becoming the magazine's fi...

American Contemporary Fashion Portrait

7.1 Good