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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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James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey is an American photojournalist known for conflict and humanitarian work in places including Rwanda, Bosni...

American Documentary War Conflict

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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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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Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark was an American documentary photographer known for intimate social-reportage projects, including the 198...

American Social Documentary Portrait

8.8 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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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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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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Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh is an Indian photographer whose book-object Museum Bhavan won the 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook of...

Contemporary Archive Indian Documentary

8.4 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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Raghu Rai

Raghu Rai was an Indian photojournalist nominated to Magnum by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1977 and known for his 1984 Bhop...

Indian Documentary Black And White Photojournalism

8.3 Great

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Stuart Franklin

Stuart Franklin is a British Magnum photographer who made one of the 1989 Tiananmen Tank Man photographs and later led M...

Documentary British Photojournalism Magnum

8.0 Great

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Chien-Chi Chang

Chien-Chi Chang is a Taiwanese Magnum photographer whose project The Chain, portraits from a Taiwan asylum, was shown at...

Contemporary Documentary Migration Taiwanese

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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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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Cornell Capa

Cornell Capa was a Hungarian-American photojournalist who founded New York's International Center of Photography in 1974...

Documentary Photojournalism Hungarian American Magnum

7.6 Good

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Bieke Depoorter

Bieke Depoorter is a Belgian Magnum photographer whose 2011 book Ou Menya grew from photographing strangers who hosted h...

Contemporary Documentary Intimate Belgian

7.6 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