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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan was an American photographer and teacher known for formal studies of city streets, nature, and his wife E...

American Modernist Experimental Portrait

8.8 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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Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar was an American photographer central to downtown New York culture, known for black-and-white portraits colle...

American Portrait Black And White Subculture

8.7 Great

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Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange was an American photographer renowned for her impactful documentary work documenting the human cost of th...

American Humanity Documentary Social Commentary

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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Aaron Siskind

Aaron Siskind was an American photographer whose close views of walls, signs, and surfaces linked documentary practice w...

American Modernist Abstract Black And White

8.4 Great

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Alvin Langdon Coburn

Alvin Langdon Coburn was an American-born photographer whose 1916 Vortographs were among the earliest abstract photograp...

American Historic Abstract Pictorialism

8.3 Great

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Ming Smith

Ming Smith is an American photographer and Kamoinge member, recognized as the first Black woman photographer acquired by...

American Jazz Portrait Black And White

8.2 Great

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Herb Ritts

Herb Ritts was an American fashion and portrait photographer known for clean black-and-white images of celebrities, athl...

American Fashion Celebrity Portrait

8.1 Great

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Larry Clark

Larry Clark is an American photographer and filmmaker whose 1971 book Tulsa documented youth drug use and violence in Ok...

American Youth Documentary Black And White

8.1 Great

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Larry Fink

Larry Fink was an American photographer known for flash-lit social documentary images, especially the class contrasts in...

American Social Documentary Flash

8.0 Great