swap_horiz Nobuyoshi Araki Alternatives

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Eikoh Hosoe

Eikoh Hosoe was a Japanese photographer who co-founded VIVO in 1959 and made Ordeal by Roses with writer Yukio Mishima,...

Dance Japanese Experimental Postwar

9.0 Excellent

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Rineke Dijkstra

Rineke Dijkstra is a Dutch photographer known for frontal portraits of adolescents and new mothers, including the Beach...

Contemporary Youth Large Format Portrait

8.9 Great

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Ishiuchi Miyako

Ishiuchi Miyako is a Japanese photographer whose work on bodies and memory includes Hiroshima; she received the Hasselbl...

Contemporary Japanese Documentary Memory

8.7 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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Rinko Kawauchi

Rinko Kawauchi is a Japanese photographer known for quiet color images of everyday moments, with the 2001 book Utatane h...

Contemporary Japanese Everyday Color

8.6 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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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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Newsha Tavakolian

Newsha Tavakolian is an Iranian photojournalist and Magnum member, known for Listen, a 2011 project on women singers sil...

Contemporary Documentary Portrait Iranian

7.7 Good

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Olivia Arthur

Olivia Arthur is a British Magnum photographer whose 2012 book Jeddah Diary documents the lives of young women in Saudi...

Contemporary Documentary British Portrait

7.4 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

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Campbell Addy

Campbell Addy is a British-Ghanaian photographer and filmmaker whose 2022 book Feeling Seen surveys his fashion images a...

Contemporary Fashion British Portrait

6.8 Fair