Top 100 Best High-End Art & Fashion Photographers

FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY is photography created in accordance with the vision of the artist as photographer. Fine art photography stands in contrast to representational photography, such as photojournalism, which provides a documentary visual account of specific subjects and events, literally re-presenting objective reality rather than the subjective intent of the photographer; and commercial photography, the primary focus of which is to advertise products or services.

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Elle. Over time, fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by the presence of exotic locations or accessories.

PHOTOJOURNALISM is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (e.g., documentary photography, social documentary photography, street photography or celebrity photography) by complying with a rigid ethical framework which demands that the work is both honest and impartial whilst telling the story in strictly journalistic terms. Photojournalists create pictures that contribute to the news media.

Photographer News, Reviews & Resources

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• 25 Photos That Defined the Modern Age - "A group of experts met to discuss the images that have best captured - and changed - the world since 1955."
• 40 outrageous photos that changed fashion - From teenage Kate Moss to Twiggy in a mini and Lady Gaga’s meat dress.
• 41 era-defining music photos - From Elton John at the piano to Stormzy at Glastonbury & Madonna snogging Britney - "Icons, rock stars - and divas behaving badly: these photographs of musicians struck a chord around the world."
• 59th World Press Photo Contest 2016 - The Winners.
• 2016 Audubon Photography Awards - Top 100.
• 2022 Sony World Photography Awards - "The winners of the Open category of the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards have been revealed. More than 170,000 images were entered into this year's Open competition, with over 100 photographers shortlisted. Each winner will go on to compete for the overall Open Photographer of the Year title and a $5,000 prize. The overall winners in the Open, Student, Youth and Professional competitions will be announced on 12 April."
• 2024 World Press Photo - global winners - "The global winners in the World Press Photo annual competition have been announced, with Mohammed Salem winning world press photo of the year. The winners were selected from 24 regional winners and there were also six honourable mentions and two special mentions this year."
• 2024 World's best photos revealed - "Take a look at this year’s winning images in the Sony World Photography Awards 2024."
• A wedding photographer like no other - "Photographer captures weddings in their candid, chaotic glory."
• Alamy - since 1999. "Over 70 million high quality stock images, vectors and videos from Alamy, the world’s largest stock photo collection."
• ALBERT KAHN MUSEUM & GARDENS - Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Historic photographs and film.
• Albert Watson’s portraits - in pictures - "Divine, Pacino, Jagger ... and me." The legendary photographer’s new book features inspiring images and insider tips - such as remembering to order in a subject’s favourite coffee.
• Annie Leibovitz interview: 'The Queen gave me career advice' - The Telegraph.
• Annie Leibovitz: Life behind the lens - "Celebrated portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz has spent decades capturing images of some of the most iconic people of our time for the covers of Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines. But for all her celebrity pull, some of her most striking work can be seen in 'Women,' a powerful series of images she first launched in 1999, which has strong connections to her own close female relationships."
• Annie Leibovitz Remembers Photographing Queen Elizabeth II - "Annie Leibovitz was invited to photograph Queen Elizabeth II twice, in 2007 and in 2016. She was the first American photographer to be asked by the royal family to do so, and considered it an honor. As Leibovitz wrote in her 2008 book At Work, 'It was ok for me to be reverent. The British are conflicted about what they think of the monarch. If a British portraitist is reverent he’s perceived to be doting. I could do something traditional.'"
• Annie Leibovitz teaches photography - MasterClass.
• Annie Leibovitz’s Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done - The New York Times.
• ART + COMMERCE - agency specializing in photography for advertising and editorial clients. Includes online image archive.
• Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 shortlist revealed - "Breathtaking images of a lavender field lit up by the Milky Way, a panorama of Iceland's Northern Lights over a frozen estuary, and a hazy sunrise in Shanghai are among those shortlisted for this year's 2021's Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition."
• best photographs of 2020 & the stories behind them - "From an apocalyptic Australian dust storm to elephants scavenging in Kenya and goats roaming Llandudno - photographers recall how they grabbed some of the most eye-catching images of the year."
• Bokeh - the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image, caused by Circles of Confusion. Bokeh has also been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause very different bokeh effects.
• ‘Born with a twisted mind’: Helmut Newton’s freaky fashion - in pictures - "The photographer’s offbeat shoots for magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair had a lasting influence on visual art - and are the subject of a new book."
• Camera Work - was a quarterly photographic journal published by Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917. It is known for its many high-quality photogravures by some of the most important photographers in the world and its editorial purpose to establish photography as a fine art.
• Cecil Beaton: Icons of the 20th century - in pictures - The Guardian.
• Cecil Beaton's sublime portraits - in pictures - "From Salvador Dalí in a fencing mask to Coco Chanel in her luxurious Paris flat, everyone who was anyone in the early 20th century had their portrait taken by Cecil Beaton."
• Charlie Watts, Miles Davis, John & Yoko ... and other David Bailey wonders - in pictures - "The celebrated photographer will open up his archive for the first time at Photo London - with portraits of the Rolling Stones, Michael Caine and Jerry Hall on display."
• Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
• Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019: Here are the finalists - "Frightened fish, shy bears, sarcastic owls and birds that were just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
• CORBIS - "Premium Quality Stock Photography and Illustrations." Privately owned by Bill Gates, who founded the company in 1989. It has a collection of more than 100 million images.
• Cyanotype, Photography’s Blue Period, Is Making a Comeback - The New York Times.
• David Bailey: 'Jack Nicholson turned me on to viagra very young' - The Telegraph.
• David LaChapelle: ‘I’ve never seen what I do as objectification’ - "The world famous photographer, known for portraits of Britney Spears, Eminem, Tupac and Angelina Jolie, discusses his long career ahead of a new retrospective."
• David LaChapelle: can the king of hyper-real photography help heal the world? - The Guardian.
• David Hamilton found dead amid allegations of historical rape - The Guardian.
• Eve Arnold - The groundbreaking female photographer who changed the way we see fashion - "When Eve Arnold joined Magnum in 1951 - four years after the renowned photographic agency was founded - she was its first female photographer. 'Magnum was about to open a New York office,' she would write in her acclaimed monograph, 1976’s 'The Unretouched Woman'. 'I went to see them. Being a woman helped. I was to be their token American woman stringer.' By 1957, when she became a full member, she was one of just two women on the agency’s books internationally."
• Explore 56 years of award-winning photojournalism - World Press Photo.
• Famous Helmut Newton pictures on display in London - Daily Mail.
• FILM UND FOTO - exhibition held in Stuttgart in May-June 1929.
• FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY - Wikipedia.
• first colour photographs of America - The Telegraph.
• Forget Filters - 19th Century Tintype Photography Still Rules - Wired.
• Free Resources for Photographers - Digital Photography School.
• From cats to cakes: The photo that made me - "The Association of Photographers asked its members to go through their archives during the lockdown and find a single photograph that changed their career."
• From Pro Skater To Photographer Tyler Shields Captures Contemporary Culture - "Part provocative, part hyper-real meet cheeky chappie photographer, Tyler Shields."
• Getty Acquires Early Photographs of Lebanon & Syria
• Getty Images - "Stock Photography, Royalty-Free Photos, Video Footage & Music."
• Getty Search Gateway - allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.
• GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE - the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York.
• GETTY IMAGES GALLERY - "London's largest independent photographic gallery with unique access to one of the greatest photographic collections in the world."
• Gian Paolo Barbieri’s wild fashion shoots - in pictures - "The Italian photographer was inspired by cinema and art history to create outlandish images depicting Audrey Hepburn, Naomi Campbell and others."
• Golden hour - the period of daytime shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the Sun is higher in the sky.
• greatest travel photographs of all time? - The Telegraph.
• Guy Bourdin: A fetish for fashion - BBC Culture.
• Guy Bourdin’s images of ChloÉ are celebrated at the fashion house’s new Maison - The Telegraph.
• HELMUT NEWTON FOUNDATION - Berlin, Germany. Donated in October 2003 an extensive photo collection to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, establishing the Helmut Newton Foundation.
• Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful review - not-so fawning fashion doc - "Director Gero von Boehm’s fascinating film includes the famed fashion photographer’s muses but also asks questions about his misogynist images."
• 'Heroin chic’ & the tangled legacy of photographer Davide Sorrenti - "A new documentary about the late fashion photographer, who died at the age of 20, recalls the rise of the controversial look with which he made his name."
• hidden fingerprint inside your photos - "They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Actually, there's a great deal more hidden inside the modern digital image."
• 'His pictures are timeless': celebrating the work of Irving Penn - "In a new exhibition, the career of esteemed photographer Irving Penn is being remembered from everyday objects to Vogue covers."
• Hats off! How Frank Horvat changed fashion photography - in pictures - "The Italian-born photographer Frank Horvat, (1928-2020), took models out of the studio and shot them in inventive locations, as a new exhibition at Photo London 2022 shows."
• How Helmut Newton created some of the world’s most sexy & subversive images - "In the 1970s, photographing with carte blanche for Vogue France, he invented a bold monochrome visual language - black lingerie, insouciant countenance, power plays and decadent interiors - that has been widely imitated in the years since."
• How Irving Penn ‘changed the way people saw the world’ - "Alastair Smart and Photographs specialist Rebecca Jones examine the legacy of a photographer whose elegant minimalism broke down boundaries - illustrated with works offered at Christie’s."
• How Man Ray changed fashion photography forever - "When is a fashion or beauty image art? Cath Pound explores the remarkable work of the legendary artist whose ‘strangeness’ raised the status of the medium."
• How Peter Lindbergh Helped Change the Meaning of Glamour - TIME Magazine.
• How Studying Karsh, the Man & the Artist, Can Make Us Better Portrait Photographers - "Yousuf Karsh is widely regarded as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the twentieth century. In this essay, I discuss five ways that studying Karsh's life and photos can impact our own work as portrait artists."
• How to Pose for a Photograph - The New York Times.
• 'I wasn't too obvious': how Bob Colacello captured candid celebrities - "In a new exhbition, the writer, photographer and longtime friend and biographer of Andy Warhol, shares his look at VIP culture of the late 70s and early 80s."
• ICONIC PHOTOS - "Famous, Infamous and Iconic Photos."
• Incredible images shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2021 - "Curious meerkats, a rescued Amazon river dolphin and a school of barracudas feature on the shortlist of images for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice competition, and fans can vote for their favorite. The 25 images are currently on display at an exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London until voting ends on February 2, 2022, according to a press release from the museum."
• International Center of Photography - since 1974. Photography museum, school, and research center. 1114 (School) & 1133 (Museum) Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, Manhattan, New York, NY 10036, U.S.A.
• iPhone at 15, through pro photographers' eyes - "This week marks 15 years since the iPhone first went on sale and ushered in a new era: the age of the smartphone. The modern smartphone has changed photography. To capture a snapshot of that change, we asked more than a dozen Associated Press photographers across the world who use iPhones - some of the most talented journalists in the business - to capture an image on their phone and submit it."
• Leaf peeping - informal term in the United States for the activity in which people travel to view and photograph the fall foliage in areas where foliage changes colors in autumn, particularly in New England. A similar custom in Japan is called momijigari.
• Look Again by David Bailey review - no reflection, no regret - "Juicy anecdotes, a huge amount of sex and stories of the Krays ... but the photographer’s memoir reveals a narcissist and bully."
• MAGNUM PHOTOS - photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members.
• Man Ray's 'Le Violon d'Ingres' could become the most expensive photo ever sold - "The original print of the masterpiece, widely considered to be Man Ray's most famous work, is expected to fetch between $5-7 million when it goes under the hammer at Christie's in May - the highest estimate for a single photograph in auction history, according to the auction house."
• Man Ray's 'Le Violon d'Ingres' photograph sells for record $12.4 million - "The original print of the masterpiece, widely considered to be Man Ray's most famous work, sold for $12.4 million, smashing sale estimates. Prior to the sale, it was expected to fetch between $5-7 million, the highest estimate for a single photograph in auction history, according to Christie's, which sold the work."
• Many Accusations, Few Apologies - The New York Times.
• Mobile phones have killed photography - "Renowned film director Wim Wenders hits out at 'phone photography'."
• new 'Big 5' are for shooting with a camera, not a gun - "In the 1800s, when blood sports were more socially acceptable, the term 'Big Five' was coined to refer to the lion, rhino, buffalo, elephant and leopard -- the animals that trophy hunters in Africa considered the most dangerous to hunt on foot."
• NYC PAST - historical photos from New York City.
• On Photography - collection of essays by Susan Sontag.
• Paolo Di Paolo's Italy in the 1950s & 60s – in pictures - "The Paolo Di Paolo: Lost World exhibition presents more than 250 largely unseen images from the photographer’s archive. Di Paolo chronicled life in his country as an economic boom followed the destruction of the second world war. Although those were the years of la dolce vita he was an anti-paparazzo - he shunned the salacious and respected his subjects."
• PARIS PHOTO | Foire internationale de photographie d'art - since 1997. The largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium and is held each November at the historic Grand Palais in Paris.
• Patrick Demarchelier obituary - "French fashion photographer whose 1990 portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, transformed her image all over the world."
• Pete Turner, Whose Color Photography Could Alter Reality - The New York Times.
• Peter Beard (1938-2020): reckless playboy photographer whose life was as wild as his work - "He got trampled by elephants, swam in crocodile-infested waters and was painted by Francis Bacon - while making images revealing man’s plunder of the natural world."
• Photographer Alison Jackson: 'I'm always almost getting arrested' - "The controversial artist discusses her celebrity lookalike photos in a time when fake news is all around us and why she finds men’s photography to be crude."
• Photographer Known for Huge Polaroid Images Is Retiring - The New York Times.
• Photographer transforms into eclectic characters inspired by thrifted nametags - "British fashion photographer and director Nadia Lee Cohen's self-portrait series imagines 33 different characters and their posessions based on nametags she collected at thrift shops and flea markets."
• PHOTOJOURNALISM - Wikipedia.
• PHOTOMONTAGE - Wikipedia.
• Picking an iPad as a Portable Photo Studio - "Apple has a range of models in its tablet line, but you may not need the most expensive one to suit your image-editing needs."
• Picture Post - was a photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957. It is considered a pioneering example of photojournalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,700,000 copies a week after only two months. It has been called the UK's equivalent of Life magazine.
• Pollux Award - "The Photography Gala Awards." This Award is open to all photographers, professional and non professional worldwide, working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements will be welcome.
• Proud Galleries - since 1998. Europe’s most popular privately funded photographic gallery.
• Rebel, rebel: how Lee Miller’s defiance in fashion, photography & life still endures - "Miller counted Picasso and Man Ray as friends, took devastating war photos and dressed outrageously. A new film starring Kate Winslet and exhibition explore her renegade spirit."
• Remarkable Journeys with 6 photographers - The New York Times.
• Richard Avedon: is this what power looks like? - The Telegraph.
• Richard Avedon: Tina Turner to Cindy Crawford: icons shot by Richard Avedon - in pictures - "To celebrate 100 years since the renowned American photographer’s birth, famous names pick their favourite images - of Malcolm X, Marilyn Monroe and more."
• RIP Photographers? All The Wild Things People Are Doing With Photoshop’s New Generative Fill Tool - "Since Adobe Photoshop launched its new artificial intelligence (AI) Generative Fill tool last week, the 'photoverse' has been awash with its awesome power. PetaPixel has rounded up some of the most remarkable examples so far."
• Secrets of fashion photographers revealed - "Secrets of the fashion week pit: Photographing the other side of the runway."
• See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer review - how to really read a picture - "In these seductively curious essays, Dyer scrutinises images and photographers, unearthing hidden truths and a sense of the uncanny."
• Sex, supermodels & champagne: Guy Bourdin - in pictures - "In 1987, Chanel asked the fashion master to shoot an ad campaign for its new watch. The strange, dreamlike images he produced are at Paris Photo this weekend, alongside other rare Bourdin photographs."
• SIPA PRESS - independent French agency founded in 1969 representing over 2000 photographers worldwide.
• Sony World Photography Awards 2023 - "These were judged the world's best photos. The year's best images unveiled."
• Sony World Photography Awards 2024 - "World's best photos revealed: Take a look at this year’s winning images in the Sony World Photography Awards 2024."
• Street Photography: Leica meets Fibonacci & the golden ratio - "Forget the rule of thirds. My new favourite compositional device is the golden ratio. But what does a formula described by a 13th century Italian mathematician have to do with taking pictures? And what on earth does a recursive spiral have to do with street photography? It’s all about the intersection of mathematics, history, and art. Read on to dive deeper into the mystery."
• The boy who photographed La Belle Époque of France - "Jacques Henri Lartigue, born in 1894 in Courbevoie, was given a camera as a boy by his father at the dawn of the 20th Century."
• The celebrity photographer who refuses to Photoshop movie icons - "Celebrity photographer Andy Gotts has snapped numerous stars, from Hollywood titans Al Pacino, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts to promising newcomers like Anya Taylor-Joy and Nathalie Emmanuel. But one picture stands out to him as the most poignant of his career: a portrait of the late Tony Curtis, his face painted with an American flag."
• THE DECISIVE MOMENT - Henri Cartier-Bresson.
• The Diane Arbus You've Never Seen - The New York Times.
• THE FAMILY OF MAN - "The greatest photographic exhibition of all times." Created by Edward J Steichen in 1955 for the Museum of Modern Art in New York brought to the Château de Clervaux.
• The fashion industry says goodbye to the most loved character in fashion, Bill Cunningham - The Telegraph.
• 'The most honest picture ever taken of Marilyn Monroe' has been sold for £77,500 at Sotheby's - The Telegraph.
• The Red List - since 2012. "Designed as a trend book, the Red List offers total immersion in the world of visual arts so as to build bridges between historic and contemporary creativity."
• The stories behind 10 of the world's earliest known photographs - CNN style.
• THE TRI-X FACTOR - The Economist Intelligent Life.
• The year's best photographs revealed - "Sony World Photography Awards 2020."
• This Photo of a Potato Sold for Over $1,000,000 - PetaPixel.
• VEER - stock photos, stock illustrations, fonts, free downloads.
• TIME's top 100 photos of 2024 - "very year the TIME photo department sits down to curate the strongest images that crossed our path over the previous 12 months. And every year, sitting with the images, we find ourselves mulling the ways this collection feels heavier than the last, how the year produced images unlike what we’ve seen before."
• Tony Kelly Serves Up Unadulterated Glamour With His High-Octane Photography - "Los Angeles-based, Ireland-born creative Tony Kelly started off as a reportage photographer in his teens, and with a trip to Barcelona he was entranced by fashion photography. So entranced in fact, that it provoked his light bulb moment. And ding! That was that, he realised it was the path he was meant to be on."
• VISA Pour l'Image - since 1989. "The premier International Festival of Photojournalism held in Perpignan, France."
• When a fashion photographer wants more - "Michel Comte was a renowned fashion photographer but he needed more."
• Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters - The New York Times.
• WORLD PRESS PHOTO - known for organizing the world's largest and most prestigious press photography contest.
• WORLD PRESS PHOTO Archive - "Welcome to the World Press Photo Archive." For over fifty years the World Press Photo contest has captured images of our times. Our archive of winning photos is not only a record of more than half a century of human history, but a showcase of successive styles in photography and reportage.
• World Press Photo of the Year - 2020 Photo Contest.
• World Press Photo winners 2022 - in pictures - "A selection of images from this year’s World Press Photo 2022 contest, with regional as well as overall winners for the first time, supported by a regional judging process."

Top 75 Art Photographers

• Adolph de Meyer - (1868-1946). Dubbed 'the Debussy of photography' by Cecil Beaton.
• ALEXANDER RODCHENKO - (1891-1956).
• ALFRED EISENSTAEDT - (1898-1995).
• ALFRED STIEGLITZ - (1864-1946).
• ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ - (1894-1985).
• ANDREAS GURSKY - (1955-). German visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs. Rhein II, an image by Gursky, fetched $4.3m (£2.7m) at Christie's, New York on November 8, 2011, becoming the most expensive photograph ever sold.
• ANNIE LEIBOVITZ - (1949-).
• ANSEL ADAMS - (1902-1984).
• Arnold Genthe - (1869-1942).
• AUGUST SANDER - (1876-1964).
• BERENICE ABBOTT - (1898-1991). Was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation in the 1940s to 1960s.
• Bert Stern - (1929-2013). Was an American commercial, fashion & portrait photographer. He was one of the last photographers to shoot Marilyn Monroe, in June and July 1962 for Vogue magazine. Monroe died in August 1962.
• Bettina Rheims - (1952-). French photographer. Bettina Rheims says that she has been inspired by Diane Arbus and Helmut Newton as well as by the work of early painters.
• BILL BRANDT - (1904-1983).
• BILL CUNNINGHAM - (1947-2016).
• BRASSAÏ - (1899-1984).
• BRUCE WEBBER - (1946-). American fashion photographer and occasional filmmaker. He has made ad campaigns for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Pirelli, Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon, and Gianni Versace, and made work for Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone.
• Carl Van Vechten - (1880-1964).
• CECIL BEATON - (1904-1980).
• Charles Marville - (1813-1879).
• Charles Sheeler - (1883-1965).
• Chris Buck - (1964-).
• Chris von Wangenheim - (1942-1981). German fashion photographer of the late 1960s through the early 1980s.
• DAVID BAILEY - (1938-).
• David LaChapelle - (1963-). He is best known for his work in fashion, photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages. His photographic style has been described as "hyper-real and slyly subversive" and as "kitsch pop surrealism". Once called the Fellini of photography, LaChapelle has worked for international publications and has had his work exhibited in commercial galleries and institutions around the world.
• David Seidner - (1957-1999). Was an American photographer known for his portraits and fashion photography.
• DIANE ARBUS - (1923-1971).
• DOROTHEA LANGE - (1895-1965).
• Eadweard Muybridge - (1830-1904).
• EDWARD STEICHEN - (1879-1973).
• EDWARD WESTON - (1886-1958).
• ELLIOTT ERWITT - (1928-).
• ERWIN BLUMENFELD - (1897-1969).
• EUGÈNE ATGET - (1857-1927).
• Eve Arnold - (1912-2012). American photojournalist, long-resident in the UK. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957. She was the first woman to join the agency.
• Francesco Scavullo - (1921-2004). American fashion photographer best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan and his celebrity portraits.
• Garry Winogrand - (1928-1984). Street photographer known for his portrayal of America in the mid-20th century.
• Gordon Parks - (1912-2006).
• Gray Malin - (1986-). US fine art photographer and New York Times bestselling author, who shoots aerial bird’s eye views of beaches and landscapes around the world.
• GREGORY CREWDSON - (1962-).
• GUSTAV KLUTSIS - (1895-1938).
• GUY BOURDIN - (1928-1991). Was a French artist and fashion photographer known for his highly stylized and provocative images. From 1955, Bourdin worked mostly with Vogue as well as other publications including Harper's Bazaar. He shot ad campaigns for Chanel, Charles Jourdan, Pentax and Bloomingdale's. His work is collected by important institutions including Tate in London, MoMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Getty Museum.
• Guy le Baube - (1944-). Franco-American fashion and art photographer.
• HELMUT NEWTON - (1920-2004). German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."
• HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON - (1908-2004). Considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. At MAGNUM PHOTOS.
• HENRY PEACH ROBINSON - (1830-1901).
• Horst P. Horst - (1906-1999).
• HUGH WELCH DIAMOND - (1809-1886).
• Imogen Cunningham - (1883-1976).
• IRVING PENN - (1917-2009).
• JACOB RIIS - (1849-1914).
• Jacques Henri Lartigue - (1894-1986).
• Jean-Paul Goude - (1940-).
• Jeanloup Sieff - (1933-2000). French photographer famous for his portraits of politicians, famous artists, landscapes, as well as for his nudes and use of wide-angle lens and visible dodging marks. He worked mainly in black and white and for the fashion.
• JOEL MEYEROWITZ - (1938-).
• KARL BLOSSFELDT - (1865-1932).
• Kevin Abosch - (1969-). In 2015, Abosch's photographic work of a potato, "Potato #345" was sold to an unnamed businessman in Europe for a reported €1,000,000, making it one of the most expensive photographs in the world.
• LÁszlÓ Moholy-Nagy - (1895-1946).
• LEE MILLER - (1907-1977).
• MAN RAY - (1890-1976).
• Martin Schoeller - (1968-). New York-based photographer whose style of "hyper-detailed close ups" is distinguished by similar treatment of all subjects whether they are celebrities or unknown. His most recognizable work are his portraits, shot with similar lighting, backdrop, and tone.
• Mary Ellen Mark - (1940-2015).
• NADAR - (1820-1910). Examples of Nadar's photographic portraits are held by many of the great national collections of photographs.
• NICK KNIGHT - (1958-).
• NORMAN PARKINSON - (1913-1990).
• Oliviero Toscani - (1942-).
• Otto Fenn - (1913-1993). American photographer of fashion, celebrity portraits, architecture and food photography. Fenn was an early friend and creative collaborator with artist Andy Warhol.
• Paul Strand - (1890-1976).
• PETER BEARD - (1938-).
• RICHARD MOSSE - (1980-).
• ROBERT CAPA - (1913-1954).
• Robert Doisneau - (1912-1994). French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He and Henri Cartier-Bresson were pioneers of photojournalism.
• Robert Frank - (1924-).
• ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE - (1946-1989).
• Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky - (1863-1944). Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia.
• SPENCER TUNICK - (1967-). Since 1994 he has photographed over 75 human installations around the world.
• STEPHEN SHORE - (1947-).
• Terry O'Neill - (1938-). He gained renown documenting the fashions, styles, and celebrities of the 1960s.
• Tony Kelly - (1975-). Fine art photographer and director. Based in Los Angeles, he is known for a cinematic style of photography with a luxury aesthetic and vibrant use of colour.
• TONY VACCARO - (1922-).
• TRUDE FLEISCHMANN - (1895-1990).
• W. EUGENE SMITH - (1918-1978).
• WALKER EVANS - (1903-1975). American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression.
• WILLIAM EGGLESTON - (1939-).
• YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND - (1946-).
• YOUSUF KARSH - (1908-2002). He has been called one of the great portrait photographers of the 20th century by TIME magazine and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the latter noting the "distinct style in his theatrical lighting."

Fashion Photographers

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• A Legendary Fashion Photographer, Revisited - The New York Times.
• Fashion photography - Wikipedia.
• German Fashion Photographer Peter Lindbergh Dies at 74 - TIME Magazine.
• List of photographers - Wikipedia.
• Making mischief: celebrating Norman Parkinson’s playful take on fashion photography - The Telegraph.
• Norman Parkinson: the photographer who made fashion glam - The Telegraph.
• Richard Avedon: is this what power looks like? - The Telegraph.
• Secrets of fashion photographers revealed - "Secrets of the fashion week pit: Photographing the other side of the runway."

Top 25 Fashion Photographers

• Alexi Lubomirski - (1975-). Fashion and Celebrity Photographer based in New York City. Polish photographer and nobleman best known for taking the official photographs of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for their engagement and their wedding.
• AndrÉ Carrara - (1939-).
• Arthur Elgort - (1940-). American fashion photographer best known for his work with Vogue magazine.
• Bill Cunningham - (1929-2016). American fashion photographer for the New York Times, known for his candid and street photography.
• BRUCE WEBBER - (1946-).
• CECIL BEATON - (1904-1980).
• DAVID BAILEY - (1938-). English fashion and portrait photographer. Along with Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy, Bailey captured and helped create the 'Swinging London' of the 1960s: a culture of fashion and celebrity chic. The film Blowup (1966), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, depicts the life of a London fashion photographer (played by David Hemmings) whose character was inspired by Bailey.
• David LaChapelle - (1963-). Photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique, sexualized, and often humorous style.
• Deborah Turbeville - (1932-2013). American fashion photographer. She is widely credited with adding a darker, more brooding element to fashion photography, beginning in the early 1970s. Turbeville is one of just three photographers, together with Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton, who essentially changed fashion photo shoots from traditional, well-lit images into something much more edgy.
• Eric Boman - (1946-2022).
• FRANCESCO SCAVULLO - (1921-2004). Was an American fashion photographer best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan and his celebrity portraits.
• George Hoyningen-Huene - (1900-1968).
• GUY BOURDIN - (1928-1991). Was a French artist and fashion photographer known for his provocative images. From 1955, Bourdin worked mostly with Vogue as well as other publications including Harper's Bazaar. He shot ad campaigns for Chanel, Charles Jourdan, Pentax and Bloomingdale's. He is considered one of the best-known photographers of fashion and advertising of the second half of the 20th century. He set the stage for a new kind of fashion photography. "While conventional fashion images make beauty and clothing their central elements, Bourdin’s photographs offer a radical alternative."
• Guy le Baube - (1944-). Franco-American fashion and art photographer. He was born in France and moved from Paris to New York in 1976. His work has appeared in magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, and Marie Claire.
• Hans Feurer - (1939-). Swiss fashion photographer who lives in Zürich, Switzerland.
• HELMUT NEWTON - (1920-2004). German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."
• Herb Ritts - (1952-2002).
• Horst P. Horst - (1906-1999). Was a German-American fashion photographer. Horst is best known for his photographs of women and fashion, but is also recognized for his photographs of interior architecture, still lifes, especially ones including plants, and environmental portraits. One of the great iconic photos of the 20th century is "The Mainbocher Corset" with its erotically charged mystery, captured by Horst in Vogue’s Paris studio in 1939. Designers like Donna Karan continue to use the timeless beauty of "The Mainbocher Corset" as an inspiration for their outerwear collections today. His work frequently reflects his interest in surrealism and his regard of the ancient Greek ideal of physical beauty.
• Irving Penn - (1917-2009). Was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography.
• Karl Lagerfeld - (1935-2019). Was a German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer, and caricaturist.
• Louise Dahl-Wolfe - (1895-1989).
• Mario Testino - (1954-).
• Michael Reinhardt - (1938-).
• Misan Harriman - (1977-). The first black man to shoot a cover of British Vogue in the magazine's 104-year history.
• Norman Parkinson - (1913-1990).
• Oliviero Toscani - (1942-). Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton, from 1982 to 2000.
• Patrick Demarchelier - (1943-2022). Was a French fashion photographer.
• Peter Lindbergh - (1944-2019). Was a German fashion photographer and film director.
• Pierpaolo Ferrari - (1971-).
• Rankin - (1966-).
• RICHARD AVEDON - (1923-2004). American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century".
• Steven Klein - (1965-).
• Steven Meisel - (1954-). American fashion photographer, who obtained popularity and critical acclaim with his work in Vogue and Vogue Italia as well as his photographs of friend Madonna in her 1992 book, Sex. He is now considered one of the most successful fashion photographers in the industry. He used to work regularly for both US and Italian Vogue, and W (at the time also published by Condé Nast) and now exclusively for British Vogue.
• Toni Frissell - (1907-1988).
• Victor Skrebneski - (1929-2020). Most known for his fashion photography and his work for the ad campaigns of the cosmetics company Estée Lauder, Inc. He has also photographed various celebrities.
• Willy Rizzo - (1928-2013).