This page gathers photographers connected to Germany and traces how each links to a period and movement in the history of photography.
Hungarian-born artist and educator who, through Bauhaus teaching and photogram experiments, conceived of photography as an apparatus for renewing perception rather than …
Portrait photographer known for People of the Twentieth Century, a systematic documentation of German society across occupations, classes and regions. His method of converting …
Renger-Patzsch made the photographed object itself central, rejecting both pictorialist beautification and Bauhaus-style visual experiment in favor of precise structural …
German-born photographer known for the photobook Métal, which edits industrial structures through fragmentation and diagonals. She moved across avant-garde practice, photobooks …
German artist and photographer, born in 1964. Historical significance: she is significant because she made photographic multiplicity itself into the subject of art. Her work …
German photographer, born in 1962, associated with the Düsseldorf / Becher-school context while developing a distinct body of large-format color landscape work. Historical …
German photographer, born in 1958 in Moers and based in Hamburg; originally trained as a biologist. Historical significance: he is significant because he redefined nature …
Born in Leipzig in 1955 to a family of photographers, Gursky studied under Otto Steinert at the Folkwang school before joining Bernd Becher's class at the Düsseldorf Academy …
They photographed water towers and blast furnaces endlessly under identical conditions, then arranged the results in grids. They opened up a use for photography that is not …
German photographer born in 1958, associated with the Düsseldorf school and a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Known for large-scale portraiture and later for …
German-born, London-based photographer born in 1967. Known for large-scale nocturnal photographs of cities, especially London, and for later public works that connect …
German photographer born in 1970 in Mainz.*1*2 Known for large-scale constructed photographs of landscapes and cityscapes assembled from numerous image fragments into scenes …
German photographer associated with staged photography since the early 1990s. Known for photo-stagings and carefully constructed images rather than direct documentary capture.
German photographer born in 1973 in Stuttgart, later based between Los Angeles and Cologne.*1*2*3 Known for landscape and urban photographs that combine traditional photographic …
German artist born in 1968, working with photography, found images, artist books, and archival systems. Best known for collecting, classifying, and repurposing vernacular …
German photographer born in 1962.*1*2*3 Known for projects on architecture, the urban environment, and later portraiture, often using photography to test abstraction, power …
German photographer born in 1963, known internationally for extremely long exposure photographs. His work often records architecture, urban transformation, demonstrations, and …
Swiss/German photographer who has lived and worked across Zürich, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, and Austin.*1*2 Known for editorial, celebrity, and autobiographical …
German photographer born in 1972 in Dresden. Known for analog photographs of abandoned objects, interiors, industrial remnants, and staged spatial situations that hover between …
Sibylle Bergemann built fashion, the city and the monument into series and photo-essays, grounded in Arno Fischer's teaching and the magazine culture of East Germany. Through …
German artist born in 1964, trained first as a sculptor before turning to photography in the 1990s. Best known for building life-size paper reconstructions of …
Wolfgang Tillmans is a contemporary artist whose work moves across magazines, clubs, exhibition spaces, publishing, and political messaging—treating photography not as a single …
German photographer born in 1951, associated with the Düsseldorf School. Known for large-scale color photographs of landscape, architecture, interiors, and nocturnal or …
German artist born in 1968, working with staged or fabricated photographic environments. Her work is relevant to photographic history because it turns apparently documentary …
German photographer and visual artist born in 1963, working with photography, video, text, and research-based projects. In photographic history, Einsele is most relevant for …
OHIO is a German photomagazine and art project that treats publication as an exhibition space, reframing everyday and reproducible photographs through editing, sequencing, and …
German-Brazilian artist born in 1973, working across photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, and painting. In a photography-history context, Tschäpe is relevant for …
German artist born in 1972, working with photography, sculpture, collage, and installation. His practice often revisits existing images and cultural forms through repetition …
Natalie Czech (born 1976, based in Berlin) is a German conceptual photographer known for Hidden Poems, in which she finds existing poems within magazines, newspapers, packaging …