Terry Richardson was born on August 14, 1965, in New York City. His father was a schizophrenic fashion photographer and his mother was also a fashion photographer named Anny Lomax. She got into a car ...

Ansel Adams was a famous photographer and a lifelong conversationalist who encouraged respect for the natural environment. He has spent a large amount time of his career in commercial photography.

Helmut Newton was a German-Australian photographer. He was a fashion photographer who took provocative and erotically charged photos which became a mainstay for Vogue and many other publications.

Diane Arbus was an American photographer known for her often controversial photographs of unusual people, including circus performers, dwarfs, twins and people with mental or physical challenges. Her ...

Anne Geddes is not only one of the world’s most renowned photographers, but she is also an author, clothing designer, and very successful businesswoman who was born in Australia. She is known for her ...

Born on August 22, 1908, in Chanteloup-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne department in France, Henri Cartier-Bresson was an internationally acclaimed and influential painter and photographer who pioneered the m...

Richard Avedon is considered to be one of the more influential photographers of the late 20th century. When he died, his obituary stated that he helped define the image, style and culture of America f...

David LaChapelle is a fine art photographer, film director, commercial photographer, music video director and an artist from America. He is widely known for his photography which mostly references art...

Robert Capa was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist. During his lifetime, Capa was able to cover five different wars, including the Second World War, the First Indochina War, Spanish C...

Peruvian fashion photographer Mario Testino’s work has been published in top fashion magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair. His photo-shoot with Princess Diana for a Vanity Fair edition in 1997 is wide...

Dorothea Lange was an American photojournalist and documentary photographer. She was widely known for the Depression-era job for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) that she did. Her photos humaniz...

Edward Weston was an influential photographer of the 20th century. With his efforts, he helped people see photography as an art. The type of photographs in which Weston specialized are called “straigh...

David Bailey was born in London in 1938, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest photographers. Bailey’s background was modest, and he even speaks of wearing shoes made from cardboard durin...

Martin Parr is a British photojournalist, photobook collector, and documentary photographer. He was born in England in May of 1952. He is best known for his photographic projects which offer a critica...

Andreas Gursky is a German photographer whose work is characterized by tension between clarity and the formal-nature of his photographs and the ambiguous meaning they display.

In 1954, Ellen Von Unwerth was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Her upbringing was unstable and she ended up in foster care many times throughout her life. Although her childhood was difficult, she ended u...

Scott Kelby is an author, publisher of periodicals on Adobe Photoshop and photography, and a photographer from America. His periodicals deal with personal and Macintosh computers and are specifically ...

Nigel barker was born on April 27, 1972, to his Sri Lankan mother and Portuguese-English father. Since Nigel was a child, he was familiar with modeling and photography as his mother was a professional...

Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer during the late 19th century. He is widely recognized for his pioneering work in photography motion which predated the evolvement of the film camera. He ...

Many people recognize the name Allan Arbus for his role in the popular TV program M*A*S*H. However, he had a previous career as a photographer for the United States Army. His photography career, alon...

One of Cecil Beaton’s most well-known photographs is that of a crowned and bejeweled young Queen Elizabeth II. But his credits include much more than that iconic photo.

Patrick Demarchelier is a famous French fashion photographer. He has shot many fashion covers since the late 1970s, for several major fashion magazines, including the Paris, British, and American edit...

Imogen Cunningham is famous for her sensual, pure, and mysterious photographs of flowers and intimate nudes where the bodies of the subjects often resemble flowers. Her portraits of people, including ...

Paul Strand was a photographer and a filmmaker from the United States. He worked with fellow photographers like Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz who together helped turn photography into an art in t...

Margaret Bourke-White was a New York-born photographer famous for her daring and dramatic photographs taken all over the world. Among her most famous photographs are of miners in South Africa, a view ...

Yousuf Karsh was a Canadian-Armenian photographer whose portraits consisted of shadows playing with light. He had a humanistic vision and the revelation of his subject’s personality using photography ...

Julia Margret Cameron was a popular British photographer. She was known for the beautiful portraits of celebrities and for other photographs with the Arthurian and other legendary themes.

Alfred Eisenstaedt was an American photographer who was born in Germany. He is widely considered to be the “father of photojournalism.” He is best known for his work the LIFE magazine and for his icon...

Berenice Abbott was a well-known American photographer who was mainly popular for her black-and-white photography of the New York urban design and architecture during the 1930s.

Eddie Adams was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer and a photojournalist who is known for portraits of politicians and other celebrities as well as his coverage of 13 wars.

Edward Sheriff Curtis was born in 1868 to father Johnson Curtis, who had recently returned from fighting in the Civil War which left him psychologically and physically damaged. This made it difficult ...

Born on March 29th, 1951, in Long An, Vietnam, Nick Ut is a highly-respected and renowned photographer working for the Associated Press (AP). His real name is Huynh Cong Ut and he is a US citizen resi...

Born on June 11, 1934, in Detroit, Jerry Uelsmann is an American photographer whose internationally acclaimed artistic work has been presented in over 100 individual shows all over the US and the rest...

Annie Leibovitz is an American photographer who is best known for her portrait work,

Gyula Halász, otherwise known as Brassai (his pseudonym), was a well-known Parisian photographer. He was born in September of 1899 in Brassó, which was then part of Hungary. When he was three years ol...