swap_horiz Shomei Tomatsu Alternatives

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chris Killip

Chris Killip was a British photographer known for In Flagrante, his 1988 book on deindustrialized communities in northea...

Documentary Postwar British Black And White

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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Lisette Model

Lisette Model was an Austrian-born American photographer whose direct street portraits and 1940s New York work influence...

Austria Documentary Postwar Portrait

8.6 Great

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Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide is a Mexican photographer known for poetic documentary images of Indigenous and everyday life, includi...

Culture Documentary Portrait Black And White

8.6 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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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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Tony Ray-Jones

Tony Ray-Jones was a British photographer whose late-1960s images of English seaside rituals reshaped British documentar...

Documentary Seaside British Black And White

8.3 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