Photo Coordinates

Daguerre began as a theatrical designer who ran a large diorama theater in Paris.

In October 1833, while on his honeymoon at Lake Como, Talbot tried to sketch with a camera lucida and was frustrated by what he saw as his own lack of drawing skill.

Fenton, trained as a lawyer, became one of the key figures behind the founding of the Royal Photographic Society in 1853.

Felice Beato was one of the earliest globally mobile photographers, following British and French imperial campaigns from the Crimean War onward.

Nadar, born Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, entered photography around 1853 after careers in journalism and caricature had already connected him to the leading figures of French culture.

Gustave Le Gray, trained first as a painter in Paris, turned to photography in the late 1840s and opened the school that helped shape figures such as Nadar.

Mathew Brady became famous through portraits of major American figures and was widely regarded as the leading portrait photographer in the United States.

In Victorian Britain, Cameron pushed portrait photography beyond outward likeness through soft focus and staged tableaux, showing early that the medium could carry feeling and literary imagination.

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was born in 1765 in Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgundy, France.

Alexander Gardner was born in 1821 near Glasgow, Scotland.

Timothy O'Sullivan was born around 1840, most likely in Ireland, and emigrated with his family to New York as a young child.

David Octavius Hill was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1802 — a painter, printmaker, and founding member and long-serving secretary of the Royal Scottish Academy.

Robert Adamson was born in 1821 in Burnside, Fife, Scotland, the son of a farmer.

Eadweard Muybridge became famous when Leland Stanford hired him to resolve the question of whether a galloping horse ever lifts all four feet from the ground at once.

Etienne-Jules Marey approached photography through physiology.

Jacob Riis emigrated from Denmark to the United States in 1870 and knew poverty first-hand before becoming a reporter.

Charles Marville began as an illustrator and engraver before turning to photography.

Thomas Annan was commissioned by the Glasgow City Improvement Trust to photograph old closes and streets marked for clearance under nineteenth-century urban reform.

Yokoyama Matsusaburo was born in 1838 on Etorofu Island in the Kuril archipelago (present-day Russian territory), into a merchant family.

Tomishige Rihei (born Shinokura Rihei, 1837–1922) is one of the most significant figures in Kyushu's photographic history.

Frederick H. Evans was born in London in 1853.

Tomishige Tokuji is a documented but sparsely recorded figure in the history of Meiji photography.

Peter Henry Emerson argued that photography should be truthful to human vision rather than to studio convention.

Stieglitz made 291 and Camera Work a bridge from pictorialism to modern photography as museum art.

Gertrude Kasebier believed that a portrait should be almost biographical, revealing the sitter's essential temperament and humanity rather than merely recording appearance.

Edward Steichen first embraced pictorialism because he believed photography could only claim equal status with painting if it looked painterly.

Robert Demachy argued that nature might be beautiful, but it could not become art without the intervention of the artist.

Atget did not take up the camera until around 1897, when he was about forty.

Kajima Seibei (1866-1924) was one of the most successful studio photographers of the Meiji period and a central figure in the history of photographic portraiture in Tokyo.

Kamei Koreaki was a Japanese photographer and aristocratic patron active in the late Meiji period, remembered above all for the role he played in introducing and supporting Pictorialist ideas in Japan.

Lewis Hine was an American photographer and trained sociologist who used the camera as an instrument of social reform.

Edward Weston began in pictorialist and studio photography before becoming a central figure of straight photography and Group f/64.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue began photographing as a child and produced a body of work that seems to crystallize the speed, leisure, and visual exhilaration of early twentieth-century modernity.

Paul Geniaux was a French photographer associated with late Pictorialism and with the broader effort to secure photography's standing as an art at the turn of the twentieth century.

Louis Vaire is an identity-audit entry.

Yasu Kohei appears in the record of Meiji photography as a figure connected to the development of studio and regional photographic practice in modern Japan.

Torii Ryuzo was a Japanese anthropologist and photographer whose work is crucial to understanding the relationship between photography, ethnography, and imperial knowledge in modern East Asia.

Paul Strand's decisive break came in part from his first visit to Gallery 291 in 1907, where Lewis Hine introduced him to modern painting.

Alvin Langdon Coburn first became known as a pictorialist through elevated city views and portraits of major cultural figures.

For Emmanuel Radnitzky, later known as Man Ray, the decisive turn toward photography came after the 1913 Armory Show and his growing friendship with Marcel Duchamp.

Born in Hungary, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy served in World War I and began drawing on his own while still in the trenches.

August Sander's vast portrait project People of the Twentieth Century grew in part from the prestige that physiognomy still held in early twentieth-century Germany.

Renger-Patzsch made the photographed object itself central, rejecting both pictorialist beautification and Bauhaus-style visual experiment in favor of precise structural description.

Fukuhara Shinzo was one of the central figures in the formation of modern photographic art in Japan.

Nojima Yasuzo was one of the most important Japanese photographers of the interwar period and a key figure in the move from pictorial softness toward a more rigorous modern photographic language.

Alexander Rodchenko was one of the central figures of the Soviet avant-garde and one of the photographers who most radically redefined what the camera could do in modern visual culture.

André Kertész was a Hungarian-born photographer whose work helped define the lyric, modern possibilities of the medium between the wars.

Germaine Krull was one of the most dynamic photographers of interwar modernism, working across portraiture, journalism, experimental views of machinery, and urban street life.

Nakayama Iwata was a major figure in the development of modern photography in Japan, associated with commercial, portrait, and avant-garde-inflected practices in the interwar years.

Yasui Nakaji is one of the central figures of modern Japanese photography.

Charles Sheeler was an American artist who moved between photography and painting and helped shape the visual language of American modernism.

Dorothea Lange ran a commercial portrait studio in San Francisco, but during the depths of the Depression in 1932 she looked out her studio window, saw unemployed men standing in line in the street, and walked out toward documentary work.

Walker Evans photographed rural poverty in the American South for the Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1937, yet he kept a deliberate distance from the agency's propagandistic purpose.

Henri Cartier-Bresson encountered Surrealism from 1926 onward and, through Rene Crevel, came into contact with Andre Breton.

Robert Capa was a persona invented in Paris in 1933 by the Hungarian-born Andre Friedmann and Gerda Taro, partly so his pictures could command higher prices on the freelance market.

Ken Domon's postwar call for "realist photography" grew out of two dissatisfactions: the salon photography of the prewar years, with its emphasis on technical prettiness, and his own experience participating in wartime propaganda imagery.

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An American photographer whose practice crossed Surrealist darkroom experiment, Vogue wartime photography, and Second World War frontline reporting. Her work—solarization to Dachau—shows how composed images can function as historical testimony.

George Rodger (1908-1995) was a British photographer who worked as a war correspondent during World War II and later devoted himself to long-term documentary projects in Africa.

William Vandivert (1912-1989) was an American photographer, a staff photographer for Life magazine, and one of the founding members of Magnum Photos.

Bill Brandt was one of the most important British photographers of the twentieth century.

Brassai became famous for making Paris at night into one of the defining visual worlds of modern photography.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo is one of the central figures of twentieth-century Mexican photography.

Margaret Bourke-White was one of the most influential photographers of the magazine era and one of the first women to achieve global prominence in industrial, documentary, and war photography.

Robert Doisneau is often remembered through the mythology of poetic Paris, but his work is more than sentimental street charm.

Francois Kollar was a photographer of work, industry, and modern labor whose images occupy an important place between modernist form and documentary attention.

Marcel Bovis was a French photographer whose work is closely tied to Paris, urban night scenes, and the poetic possibilities of the modern city.

Ueda Shoji developed one of the most distinctive photographic languages in modern Japan.

Kanamaru Shigene was an important figure in modern Japanese photography, active as both photographer and critic in the interwar period.

Suzuki Hachiro belongs to the generation of Japanese photographers working in the interwar period when photography was being redefined through modernist experimentation, publishing, and urban visual culture.

Hasegawa Denjiro appears in the record of modern Japanese photography as a figure connected to the interwar photographic field, especially to the spread of modern photographic practice and discourse.

David Seymour, known as Chim, was one of the major photojournalists of the twentieth century and a founding member of Magnum Photos.

John Vachon is an important photographer of the Farm Security Administration and of later American documentary culture.

Arthur Rothstein was one of the best-known photographers of the Farm Security Administration and an important figure in the history of American documentary photography.

Jack Delano was an FSA photographer and later an important documentarian of railroad life, labor, music, and everyday culture in Puerto Rico and the United States.

Russell Lee was one of the most rigorous and sustained documentary photographers of the Farm Security Administration.

Ben Shahn is better known as a painter, but his photography is an essential part of the New Deal documentary field and of his broader political vision.

Ansel Adams is one of the central figures in the history of American landscape photography.

Minor White was one of the most influential postwar American photographers, teachers, and editors.

Helen Levitt transformed the street, especially the streets of New York, into one of the most subtle and inventive visual fields of modern photography.

Kageyama Koyo was a Japanese photographer associated with modern and documentary-oriented photographic culture in the interwar and wartime decades.

Robert Frank was born into a Swiss Jewish family in Zurich and moved to New York in 1947, where he initially found work in fashion photography for Harper's Bazaar.

William Klein brought a painter's aggression to photography, using grain, blur, wide-angle distortion, and invasive closeness as a language of urban energy rather than as technical flaws.

Nobuyoshi Araki built his art from the most intimate material available: his own life.

Shomei Tomatsu made postwar Japan itself into his subject.

Garry Winogrand made street photography feel fast, unstable, and improvisational.

Lee Friedlander made what he called the social landscape, a photography not of untouched nature but of roads, storefronts, signs, windows, cars, and the built environment of modern America.

Takeji Iwamiya developed a photographic practice on the border between document and formal inquiry, focusing on Japanese temples, gardens, craft objects, Buddhist sculpture, and vernacular tools.

Born in 1933 and died in 2021, Kikuji Kawada is known as a member of VIVO and as the maker of The Map (1959–1965), one of the defining photobooks of postwar Japanese photography.

Born in 1934 and deceased in 2012, Masahisa Fukase is known for intensely personal photography centered on family, his wife Yoko, solitude, and psychic collapse.

Born in Wales in 1936 and deceased in 2008, Philip Jones Griffiths is known as a Magnum photographer whose Vietnam Inc.

Born in London in 1935, Don McCullin became one of the defining photojournalists of the postwar period through his coverage of Cyprus, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Northern Ireland.

Ernest Cole (1940-1990) was a South African photographer who exposed apartheid from within the system that shaped his own daily life.

Born in 1916 and deceased in 2001, Louis Faurer is known for photographing New York in the 1940s and 1950s, especially Times Square and Fourteenth Street.

Born in Lithuania in 1911 and deceased in 1980, Izis Bidermanas, known simply as Izis, worked in France after the Second World War and became one of the representative figures of French humanist photography.

Born in East Prussia in 1924 and deceased in 2023, Dorothy Bohm moved to Britain as a refugee and built a long career in London through street photography and portraiture.

Born in the Netherlands in 1925 and deceased in 1990, Ed van der Elsken is known for Love on the Left Bank (1956), made out of his involvement with the bohemian subculture of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in postwar Paris.

Working in Bamako, Mali, from the 1940s through the 1960s, Seydou Keïta opened a path toward an African photographic modernity through studio portraiture.

Takeyoshi Tanuma recorded postwar Japanese civic life and the transformation of Tokyo across more than sixty years, beginning in the immediate aftermath of the war.

Born in 1921 and deceased in 2022, Hideo Haga spent decades recording festivals, folklore, and vernacular custom across Japan at a moment when rapid modernization threatened to erase them.

Born in Oklahoma in 1943, Larry Clark is a photographer and filmmaker best known for Tulsa (1971), a document of drugs, violence, and youth made from inside his own community.

Born in Yamagata in 1933, Eikoh Hosoe developed theatrical and symbolic black-and-white series through collaboration with dancers and writers in postwar Japanese avant-garde culture.

Born in 1940 and deceased in 2024, Kishin Shinoyama became known for a vast practice ranging from celebrity portraiture and nude photography to architecture, magazines, and photobooks.

Diane Arbus grew up in a prosperous Jewish family on Manhattan's Central Park West, insulated from the Depression and from any direct encounter with hardship or difference.

Daido Moriyama was born in Ikeda, Osaka, in 1938 into a family whose frequent moves — Tokyo, Hiroshima, Chiba, Shimane, Osaka — gave him what he later described as an instinct for wandering that became foundational to his practice.

Born in New Jersey in 1954, Cindy Sherman made her Untitled Film Stills between 1977 and 1980, a series of sixty-nine black-and-white photographs that seem to belong to 1950s and 1960s Hollywood movies, film noir, and European art cinema.

Robert Mapplethorpe applied an austere classical sense of balance and form to subjects that American culture often kept sharply apart: flowers, celebrity portraits, Black male bodies, and explicit gay sexual imagery.

Barbara Kruger turned the visual language of magazines and advertising back against itself.

William Eggleston made ordinary Southern life central to fine-art color photography.

British / Manx photographer, born in 1946 and died in 2020.

American photographer, born in 1947.

American photographer and visual artist, born in 1945 and died in 2014.

American photographer, born in 1938.

American photographer, born in 1937.

American photographer, painter, and sculptor, born in 1936 and died in 2016.

American photographer, born in 1944.

Swedish photographer, born in 1944.

Japanese photographer and critic, born in 1938 and died in 2015.

Japanese photographer and artist, born in 1948.

Vietnamese American photographer, born in Saigon in 1960 and based in the United States.

German artist and photographer, born in 1964.

German photographer, born in 1962, associated with the Düsseldorf / Becher-school context while developing a distinct body of large-format color landscape work.

German photographer, born in 1958 in Moers and based in Hamburg; originally trained as a biologist.

French artist born in 1955 in Reims, based in Paris; works across photography, objects, sculpture, and installations, though photography was central to his emergence on the contemporary art scene.

Dutch photographer, born in 1972 in Alkmaar; studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

Dutch artist and photographer, born in 1963 and based in Rotterdam.

Spanish artist, born in Madrid in 1966; works across installation, photography, video, and performance.

Santos R. Vasquez is documented mainly through exhibition records while detailed sources on the work remain scarce.

Japanese photographer, born in 1940 and died in 2019.

Japanese photographer, born in 1946.

Japanese photographer, born in 1950.

Japanese photographer, born in 1947 in Gunma and raised in Yokosuka.

Japanese documentary photographer, born in 1948.

Japanese photographer, born in 1954.

Japanese photographer, born in 1939.

Nan Goldin made intimacy itself into photographic method.

Jeff Wall turned photography toward large-scale staged images that behave like encounters with cinema, painting, and urban modernity all at once.

Born in Leipzig in 1955, Andreas Gursky grew up in a family of photographers, studied first with Otto Steinert at the Folkwang School, and then with Bernd Becher at the Dusseldorf Academy.

Sebastiao Salgado moved from economics to photography because he felt that numbers and reports could not convey human suffering with the force that images might.

Martin Parr changed documentary photography by bringing saturated color, electronic flash, and intrusive closeness into the depiction of ordinary British life.

Bernd and Hilla Becher turned industrial structures into one of the central subjects of postwar conceptual photography.

French artist born in 1953, working across photography, text, installation, and performative investigation.

American artist born in 1947, working in photography, sculpture, painting, and appropriation-based conceptual practice.

German photographer born in 1958, associated with the Düsseldorf school and a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher.

American photographer born in 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut.

British photographer born in 1956, later based in the United States.

Japanese artist born in 1951 in Osaka, working across photography, self-portraiture, performance, and appropriation-based installation.

Italian photographer and artist born in 1954 in Carpi.

German-born, London-based photographer born in 1967.

Belgian photographer born in 1958 in Eeklo, based in Ghent.

Finnish photographer and video artist born in 1972 in Helsinki.

British artist born in 1965, working across film, photography, drawing, and writing.

Dutch photographer born in 1967 in Leeuwarden.

German photographer born in 1970 in Mainz.

Czech-born photographer, born in 1958, who left Czechoslovakia in 1982 and later settled in Essen, Germany.

Swedish artist and photographer born in 1967 in Gothenburg.

Japanese photographer born in 1972 in Shiga Prefecture.

Japanese photographer born in 1972 in Shiga and based in Tokyo.

Japanese photographer born in 1958 in Rikuzentakata, Iwate.

Japanese photographer born in 1962 in Tokyo.

Japanese photographer born in 1965.

American photographer born in 1969 in Warsaw, New York.

Austrian-born photographer and artist, born in 1960 in Salzburg and long based in Brussels.

Italian artist born in 1969 in Como, working primarily with photography and occasionally film.

French and British artist born in 1969, working across film, photography, installation, and artist books.

Dutch artist and photographer born in 1970, based in Amsterdam.

Danish artist born in 1962, working with photography, film, sound, and installation.

Romanian artist, architect, and photographer born in 1957 in Timișoara.

German photographer associated with staged photography since the early 1990s.

French artist born in Paris in 1968, working with photography, video, and performance.

Finnish photographer born in 1965, associated with the Helsinki School.

Finnish photographer born in 1974.

Polish artist born in 1959, working across photography, film, installation, and objects.

German photographer born in 1973 in Stuttgart, later based between Los Angeles and Cologne.

French photographer born in 1946, working closely with birds and their habitats over several decades.

South African photographer and painter born in 1960 in Durban.

Nigerian-born British photographer born in 1963; his own CV lists him as living in Hove and Kabul and identifies him as a landscape photographer concerned with expanding the meaning of the “battlefield.

Hungarian-born photographer and artist, born in 1962, living and working in the Netherlands.

German artist born in 1968, working with photography, found images, artist books, and archival systems.

Brazilian artist born in 1962, working with photography, found images, archives, books, and installation.

Artist and photographer with Mexican background, trained in Zurich and later working in Geneva and internationally.

Swedish artist born in 1962, working across film, photography, sculpture, installation, and text.

German photographer born in 1962.

German photographer born in 1963, known internationally for extremely long exposure photographs.

Chinese artist born in 1966, originally trained as a painter and later becoming widely known for staged large-scale photography.

Chinese artist born in 1971, working across film, video, photography, installation, and painting.

British photographer born in 1959.

British artist born in 1971, based in London, working across print, digital media, collage, video, and text-based image practices.

Spanish photographer born in Barcelona in 1960, with studies in social anthropology and documentary photography.

Swiss/German photographer who has lived and worked across Zürich, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, and Austin.

French photographer born in 1968.

Iranian-born artist and photographer born in 1974 in Tehran, later based in Zurich.

Norwegian photographer born in 1970.

German photographer born in 1972 in Dresden.

Dutch photographer and artist born in 1964 in Delft, based in Rotterdam.

Japanese photographer born in 1957, originally trained in sculpture and later active as a photographer and educator.

Japanese photographer, writer on photography, and editor born in 1936.

German artist born in 1964, trained first as a sculptor before turning to photography in the 1990s.

German artist born in 1968 whose work spans photography, installation, publishing, and political image-making.

Korean-born artist born in 1970, active in New York from the 1990s, best known for the series *Projects*.

American artist born in 1964 whose practice moves between photography and film.

Canadian-born artist born in 1962, based in Chicago, known for still-life and domestic interior photography.

American artist born in 1951, active across photography, abstraction, architecture, and image history.

German photographer born in 1951, associated with the Düsseldorf School.

American artist born in 1953, known for photographing model constructions of architectural and institutional spaces.

Australian artist born in 1960 whose practice spans photography, film, montage, and staged image-making.

Austrian artist born in 1954, best known for the expanded field of sculpture, but also deeply engaged with photography as a necessary part of the work’s conception and circulation.

Austrian photographer born in 1952, also active as curator and editor, especially through Camera Austria.

Canadian artist born in 1957, associated with the Vancouver context often described as photo-conceptualism, though he has resisted that label.

The Atlas Group / Walid Raad uses a fictional or quasi-fictional archive of the Lebanese wars to question how photographs, videos, documents, and lectures become evidence for history.

South Korean artist born in 1973, known for photographic series that examine simulation, ideology, and the politics of representation.

French-Moroccan artist born in 1971 whose work spans photography, film, installation, publishing, and archival practice.

French artist born in 1964, known for photography that stages encounters between hyperreal description and artifice.

British artist born in 1970, first widely known for the photographic series *Ray’s a Laugh*.

Austrian artist duo working together since 1993, closely associated with photography, architecture, and urban representation.

Dutch photography duo, both born in 1969, who began working together shortly after graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the mid-1990s.

German artist born in 1968, working with staged or fabricated photographic environments.

Ukrainian artist and photographer born in 1960, associated with the Kharkiv/Kharkov School of Photography and active across photography, video, sculpture, and installation.

Collaborative artists and photographers who worked together for more than two decades, becoming central figures in contemporary photography’s critique of documentary and institutional image systems.

German-born Swiss-based artist born in 1977, trained in photography in Zurich and active across photography, sculpture, installation, and action.

Irish artist born in 1969, known for work across film, photography, and installation.

French artist born in 1963, active across websites, publishing, drawing, collage, photography, installation, and video.

collectif_fact is a Swiss artist collective using photography, video, 3D scanning, and architectural modeling to test how urban space, media images, and fiction condition perception.

French photographer born in 1962, first known as a photojournalist and later as a maker of large-scale museum photographs of war, politics, and historical crisis.

Dutch photographer born in 1977, known for portrait-like images of animals and, at times, vulnerable human subjects linked to labor, service, or mourning.

German photographer and visual artist born in 1963, working with photography, video, text, and research-based projects.

Dutch artist born in 1958, known for digitally composed photographic works that appear hyperreal while being entirely constructed from multiple source photographs.

Swedish photographer born in 1969, known for diaristic, unstable, and emotionally charged bodies of work often published in book form.

American photographer born in 1969, known for mixing commercial, vernacular, and art-photographic image languages.

French photographer born in 1975, known for serial portrait projects on uniforms, ritual groups, masquerades, and collective identity.

British photographer born in 1971, known for books and series that reinvent documentary photography through material experiment.

Cuban-American artist born in 1971, active across photography, drawing, sculpture, film, and installation, but first widely recognized through staged photographic tableaux.

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Polish artist born in 1974, working across photography, film, sculpture, and staged self-representation.

Venezuelan artist born in 1964, active internationally in sculpture, photography, video, and installation.

Artist and photographer born in 1970, working with landscape, horizon, and urban form at large scale.

Austrian photographer born in 1957, active since the 1980s and closely associated with Austria’s author-photography tradition and with obsessive collecting, archiving, and artist’s books.

American artist born in 1979, known primarily for image-based work spanning painting, installation, editions, and photography-related appropriation.

Macedonian visual artist born in 1971 in Skopje, working across photography, video, and visual storytelling.

Multiplicity is an Italian research collective using photography, maps, testimony, video, and installation to investigate migration, borders, infrastructure, and the politics of mobility.

Wangechi Mutu reworks fragments of ethnographic photography, fashion imagery, medical illustration, and photomontage to challenge colonial and gendered histories of the body.

Dutch artist born in 1964, working with photography, video, books, archive material, and installation.

OHIO is a German photomagazine and art project that treats publication as an exhibition space, reframing everyday and reproducible photographs through editing, sequencing, and circulation.

Jasansky & Polak is a Berlin-based artist duo associated with photography and installation, known for long-term work on ordinary architecture, interiors, and objects.

Swiss artist born in 1962, working with photography, video, installation, and research-based narrative forms.

Spanish artist born in 1950, working across photography, video, and installation.

Albanian artist born in 1974, working across video, sound, installation, and photography-related image practices.

Swiss artist, photographer, editor, and lecturer born in 1964; trained in documentary photography at ICP in New York in 1994 before moving into long-term conceptual projects.

German artist born in 1963, working across photography, sculpture, text, installation, and conceptual formats.

Eve Sussman extends art-historical tableaux and photographic composition into film and installation, exploring how still images become unstable through duration, gesture, and performance.

French artist born in 1970, working with photography, film, video, and installation.

Belgian artist born in 1963, working across photography, text, projection, installation, and moving image.

German-Brazilian artist born in 1973, working across photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, and painting.

German artist born in 1972, working with photography, sculpture, collage, and installation.

Useful Photography collects and edits practical, anonymous, and vernacular images, shifting attention from authored art photographs to the social uses and afterlives of photographic images.

Japanese photographer born in 1962, based for long periods in France, known for conceptually structured photographic series and experimental darkroom processes.

Japanese photographer and writer born in 1973, known from the 1990s onward for self-portraiture, family nudity, feminist critique, and later writing on photography and gender.

Pieter Hugo (born 1976 in Johannesburg) is a South African photographic artist based in Cape Town.

Ryan McGinley (born 1977) is an American photographer who first photographed New York downtown youth subcultures at close range and later staged outdoor nude road-trip images.

Viviane Sassen (born 1972 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch photographer whose work crosses fine art and fashion through saturated color, deep shadow, fragmented bodies, and concealed faces.

Sara VanDerBeek (born 1976) is an American artist who assembles art-historical, archival, and urban fragments into temporary sculptures, photographs them, and then dismantles them.

Shannon Ebner (born 1971, based in Los Angeles) is an American artist who builds letters and words from cardboard, wood, and concrete blocks, then photographs them as visual structures.

Jessica Eaton (born 1977 in Canada) uses RGB filters and multiple exposures to generate abstract color structures inside the camera.

Eileen Quinlan (born 1972) is an American photographer whose studio experiments with smoke, mirrors, Mylar, gels, expired film, and scanning develop a feminist form of photographic abstraction.

Lucas Blalock (born 1978) is an American photographer who photographs ordinary objects with a large-format camera and leaves visible traces of Photoshop manipulation.

Kate Steciw (born 1978) is an American artist who draws images from the internet and stock-image databases, combining digital manipulation, Plexiglas, collage, and print structures.

Rashid Johnson (born 1977 in Chicago) is an American artist whose early photographs used historical processes such as Van Dyke brown printing and staged portraiture to examine Black identity, double consciousness, and the politics of representation.

Artie Vierkant (born 1986) is an American artist working across photography, sculpture, digital files, and online circulation.