Directory of photographers

1. Directory
of Photographers
This directory is not definitive, but
includes only carefully selected
photographers. It includes
contemporary photographers as well
as more established individuals who
have an important place in the history
of photography.
Architecture & Urban environment
Agou, Christophe. Life below in the New York underground
Alinari Brothers. Italian nineteenth century architecture
Baltz, Lewis. Industrial environment
Becher, Bernd and Hilda. Large format images of industrial structures
Brassai. Paris by night
Eggleston, William. Colour photography with an eye for urban detail

2. Feininger, Andreas. Skyscrapers of America
Gursky, Andreas. Large scale repetitive subject matter
Hofer, Candida. Contemporary internal/external compositions
Luxemburg, Rut Bless. Night time urban environments
Marlow, Peter. Transit zones (car parks etc)
Matze, Yoke. Dutch photographer who takes pictures of contemporary buildings
Meyerowitz, Joel. Work includes recent studies of ‘ground zero’
Smith, W Eugene. New York
Sudek, Josef. Images of Prague
Winogrand, Gary. Definitive street photographer
Close-up/Macro
Blossfeldt, Karl. Close-up studies of plant forms, showing pattern and texture
Cunningham, Imogen. Noted for her flower pictures
Groover, Jan. ‘Kitchen sink’ objects
O’Hara, Ken. Full-face portraits
Renger-Patzsch, Albert. Black and white abstracts
Collage & Assemblage
Banksy. Famous graffiti artist who also works in other mediums
Bayer, Herbert. The Bauhaus revolutionised Art & Design. Bayer taught there
Boltanski, Christian. 3D images based on memories
Eldon, Dan. Personal photographic collages of his journeys
Heartfield, John. Photomonteur who opposed Hitler
Heinecken, Robert. Interesting and varied approach to manipulating images
Hoch, Hannah. Revolutionary art and propaganda
Hockney, David. Famous for his ‘joiners’
Kolar, Jiri. Combining images, very precise and organised
Lawson, Stephen. Combining images in series
Mahr, Mari. Some unusual approaches to photomontage
Raushenberg, Robert. Collages using his own and found images
Rodchenko, Alexander. Russian constructivist
Stern, Grete. Photomontage and other modernisms
Uelsmann, Jerry N. Weird and fantastic surreal photo collages
Darkroom experiments
Barbey, Thomas. Surreal photomontages – double negatives etc
Berman, Wallace. Darkroom ‘drawings’
Blumenfeld, Erwin. Double negatives etc
Chadwick, Helen. Experimental work based on her life
Derges, Susan. Photograms using natural light
Hajek-Halke, Heinz. Interesting black and white experiments
Lissitsky, El. Photomontage
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. Experimentation and photograms
Picasso, Pablo. Photograms
Ray, Man. Surrealist photographer who ‘invented’ solarisation and photograms
Starn twins. Unusual experiments
Wulz, Wanda. Surrealist photographer
Documentary
Abbott, Berenice. Photographer of New York life
Arbus, Diane. The Americans no one else wanted to photograph
Arnold, Eve. Pioneer female photographer
Atget, Eugene. Captured Paris by day and night
Billingham, Richard. His family and ‘other animals’
Bischof, Werner. A real variety of subjects – mostly documentary
Brandt, Bill. Nudes, portraits, landscapes, everything - One of the greats

3. Brassai. One of the masters – very extensive collection
Calle, Sophie. Explores the function of the photograph
Cartier–Bresson, Henri. The photographer of the twentieth century
Cruz, Valdir. Indians of the rainforest
Decarava, Roy. Life in New York and a fighter against racial discrimination
Delahaye, Luc. Range of subjects
Doisneau, Robert. French photographer with whimsical and humorous viewpoint
Erwitt, Elliot. Well developed sense of humour
Evans, Frederick. The master of architectural spaces and composition
Evans, Walker. American documentary photographer
Fellig, Arthur (Weegee) New York in the 20’s and 30’s
Frank, Robert. The Americans
Friedlander, Lee. One of the greats – people are the main subject
Goldblatt, David. South African photographer whose pictures explore Apartheid
Gursky, Andreas. Epic colour images exposing mass consumerism
Haas, Ernst. Hass was a pioneer of colour in Photojournalism
Hine, Lewis. A campaigner who photographed children working
Izis (Israel Bidermanas) Photographer of Paris, innocence and the circus
Kertesz, Andre. Master of the Leica camera
Lange, Dorothea. Photographed America during the Depression years
Lartigue, Jacques Henri. ‘It’s marvellous…..Nothing will ever be so much fun!’
Meyerowitz, Joel. Recently covering ‘ground zero’
Misrach, Richard. Government conspiracies, deserts, the sky.
Model, Lisette. The rich photographed up close and brutally
Parr, Martin. Humorous, colourful and provocative look at idiosyncratic traditions
Riboud, Marc. Mainly reportage from the East
Salgado, Sebastiao. Workers of the world
Siskind, Aaron. From documentary to colour abstraction
Steele-Perkins, Chris. People and places from all over the world
Steiglitz, Alfred. One of the masters, photos from 100 years ago
Strand, Paul. Families and white fences
Wyllie, Donovan. Travellers, squatters etc
Fashion
Avedon, Richard. Leading fashion photographer of the 60’s and 70’s
Bailey, David. London in the swinging sixties
Boudin, Guy. Surreal and strange fashion
Constantine, Elaine. Colourful and bright approach to fashion photography
Dahl-Wolfe, Louise. Helped invent fashion photography with Harper’s Bazaar
Day, Corrine. Associated with ‘grunge’ and ‘heroin chic’ that made Kate Moss a star
Demarchellier, Patrick. High fashion
Knight, Nick. Influential British photographer who pushes the boundaries
LaChapelle, David. Bright, staged and surreal fashion
McDean, Craig. Wide mix of contemporary approaches
Moon, Sarah. Low key soft images
Rankin. Fashion for cutting edge magazines
Ritts, Herb. Celebrities and fashion
Sorrenti, Mario. Very stylised fashion work – worked with Vogue
Teller, Juergen. Interesting compositions
Testino, Mario. Contemporary and colourful
Landscapes
Adams, Ansel. Distinguished American landscape photographer
Adams, Robert. Clean and precise depiction of landscape altered by man
Brotherus, Elina. Epic colour landscapes that include the figure
Burtynsky, Edward. Manufactured landscapes
Caponigro, Paul. Precise and delicate landscapes
Godwin, Fay. Classic British landscapes
Hutte, Axel. Mixture of urban and wild landscapes

4. Koudelka, Josef. Panoramic landscapes
Misrach, Richard. Desert scenes
Ristlehuber, Sophie. Conceptual/urban
Sommer, Frederick. Landscape and surrealism
Sternfeld, Joel. The urban landscape
Waite, Charlie. Salisbury based landscape photographer
Movement
Bragaglia. Futurist
Caponigro, Paul. Some good examples of slow shutter speed
Connor, Linda. Slow shutter star trails
Edgerton, Harold. The speed king of the stroboscope
Haas, Ernst. Colour movement
Mili, Gjon. Photoflash pioneer
Muybridge, Eadward. Documented the movements of man and beast
Worthington, A.M. Studies of splashing liquids
Narrative
Brambilla, Marco. Transit: following his suitcase on its journey
Crewdson, Gregory. Strange goings-on in suburbia
Hunter, Tom. Contemporary colour images influenced by Old Masters
Kruger, Barbara. Typographic imagery
Michals, Duane. Sequences and integrated text with pictures
Misrach, Richard. Images revealing government conspiracies
Pierre & Gilles. Theatrical and colourful symbolic work
Wall, Jeff. Digitally manipulated epic images influenced by paintings
Pin Hole
Cady, Anna. Local artist from Winchester who turned her bedroom into a camera
Pippin, Steven. Turned a toilet on a train into a pin hole camera
Quinnell, Justin. Used his mouth as a camera!
Squires, Russell (Alan) Local artist from Portsmouth. Beautiful pin hole images
Portraits
Arnold, Eve. Intimate revelations
Beaton, Cecil. Aristocratic stage designer, photographer, diarist and writer
Bown, Jane. Intimate portraits of British celebrities
Cameron, Julia Margaret. Victorian eccentric
Dijkstra, Rineke. Portraits over time, reflecting subtle changes and momentous moments
Halsmann, Phillipe. Portraitist who made sitters jump
Karsh, Yosuf. 20th Century portraits
Leibovitz, Annie. Portraits of rock musicians
Lord Snowdon. Formal portraits
Mann, Sally. Intimate family portraits
Mark, Mary Ellen. Portraits in situ
McCartney, Linda. The Beatles and other great musicians
Meadows, Daniel. Portraits over time
Meatyard, Eugene. Photographs of his children
Newman, Arnold. Environmental portraits of the famous
Nixon, Nicholas. Series of portraits taken over long periods of time
O’Hara, Ken. Full face cropped compositions
Penn, Irving. Portraits for Vogue
Rankin. Celebrities, CD covers and ID magazine
Ritts, Herb. Often obscure approach to portraiture
Ruff, Thomas. Straight, colour portraits
Sander, August. Documented society through portraits

5. Stern, Bert. Iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe
Struth, Thomas. Deadpan portraits
Testino, Mario. Princess Diana and other icons
Van Meene, Helen. The awkwardness of being a teenager
Wearing, Gillian. Explores the complexity of human relationships.
Self Portrait
Coplans, John. Exploratory self-portraits (nude)
Freidlander, Lee. Self portrait showed new ways to construct pictures
Rainer, Arnulf. Arty, worked with paint onto photos
Sherman, Cindy. Self portrait as masquerade
Taylor Wood, Sam. Self portraits which reflect significant chapters in her life.
Still life/Objects
Eggleston, William. Everyday American objects
Groover, Jan. Superb still-life photography
Hao, Hong. Collections of personal objects that reveal the owners politics
Modotti, Tina. Close-ups of flowers, shells and peppers
Parker, Olivia. Constructed compositions of groups of objects
Parr, Martin. Close-ups of cultural symbols
Ryan, Seamus. Close ups of flowers
Tillmans, Wolfgang. Delights in the beauty of the everyday over looked object
Von Dongen, Ron. Close ups of flowers
Weston, Edward. Peppers, shells and also landscapes and nudes
White, Minor. Textures, shadows and light
War
Brady, Matthew. A collector of Civil War photography
Burrows, Larry. Wide coverage – mix of raw and sensitive imagery
Capa, Robert. ‘If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough’
Fenton, Roger. Crimean War
Hardy, Bert. London during the blitz
McCullin, Donald. War portrayed with elegance and compassion
Meiselas, Susan. Famous scenic image with landmine victim
Miller, Lee. One of the first female war photographers
Norfolk, Simon. Colourful images of the aftermath
Ut, Nick. Iconic image of Vietnam War