Germany Photographers

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.

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

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

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.

German artist and photographer, born in 1964.

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

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 1970 in Mainz.

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

German photographer born in 1962.

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

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

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

German photographer born in 1972 in Dresden.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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, and other printed matter, marking words and photographing the page as a field where reading and seeing overlap.