War Photography

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

Alexander Gardner was born in 1821 near Glasgow, Scotland.

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

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

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

Lee Miller (1907-1977) was an American photographer who moved from Vogue fashion modeling into photography, traversing Surrealist experiment, fashion photography, and war reportage across a single career.

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.

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.

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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.

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