OC Photography Program/The Masters

The masters

Yahoo and Google are good places to search for these names; you can find a lot about these photographers there.

First Group

• Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
• Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)
• Robert Doisneau (1912-1994)
• André Kertész (1894-1985)
• David Octavius Hill (1802-1870)
• Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) (1820–1910)
• August Sander (1876-1964)
• Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
• Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002)
• Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
• Horst P. Horst (1906-1999)
• Richard Avedon (1923-2004)
• William Klein (1928-??)

• The Farm Security Administration photographers (Listed on the Wikipedia Farm Security Administration page)
  • Walker Evans (1903-1975)
  • Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)

• Lewis Hine (1874-1940)
• Robert Capa (1913-1954)
• Wegee (Arthur H. Fellig) (1899-1968)
• Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956)
• W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)
• Josef Koudelka (1938-)
• Sebastião Salgado (1944-)
• Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
• Eugène Atget (1857-1927)
• Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
• Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932)
• Edward Weston (1886-1958)
• Minor White (1908-1976)
• Michael Kenna
• Ralph Gibson (1939)
• Man Ray (1890-1976)
• Frederick Sommers (1905-1999)

Second Group: Contemporary Masters

• Helmut Newton (1920-2004)
• Diane Arbus(1923-1971)
• Robert Frank (1924-)
• Robert Heinecken (1931-2006)
• Duane Michals (1932-)
• Franco Fontana (1933-)
• David Hockney (1937-)
• William Eggleston(1939-)
• Joel-Peter Witkin (1939-)
• William Wegman (1943-)
• Jeff Wall (1946-)
• Sandy Skoglund (1946-)
• Stephen Shore (1947-)
• Bernard Faucon (1950-)
• Nan Goldin (1953-)
• Philip-Lorca diCorcia (1953-)
• Cindy Sherman (1954-)
• Augusto De Luca (1955-)
• Andreas Gursky (1955-)