Early architectural photographers include

Roger Fenton Roger Fenton (28 March 1819 – 8 August 1869) was a British photographer, noted as one of the first war photographers. Fenton was born into a Lancashire merchant family. After graduating from London with an arts degree, he became interested i ...

, Francis Frith (Middle East and Britain), Samuel Bourne, Inclined Studio (India) and Albert Levy (United States and Europe). They paved the way for the modern speciality of

architectural photography Architectural photography is the subgenre of the photography discipline where the primary emphasis is made to capturing photographs of buildings and similar architectural structures that are both aesthetically pleasing and accurate in terms of re ...

. Later architectural photography had practitioners such as Ezra Stoller and Julius Shulman. Stoller worked mainly on the east coast of America, having graduated with a degree in architecture in the 1930s. Shulman, who was based on the West Coast, became an architectural photographer after some images that he had taken of one of

Richard Neutra Richard Joseph Neutra ( ; 8 April 1892 – 16 April 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. His most ...

's houses in California made their way onto the architect's desk.

Notable architectural photographers

Berenice Abbott Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science ...

* Eugène Atget * James Austin * Iwan Baan *

Bernd and Hilla Becher Bernhard "Bernd" Becher (; 20 August 1931 – 22 June 2007), and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (2 September 1934 – 10 October 2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their e ...

* Hélène Binet (b. 1959) * Bill Hedrich * Hedrich Blessing Photographers * Jack Boucher * Sergio Castiglione * Phyllis Dearborn * Frederick H. Evans *

Lucien Hervé Lucien Hervé (born László Elkán: 7 August 1910, – 26 June 2007) was a Hungarian photographer. He was notable for his architectural photography, beginning with his work for Le Corbusier. Biography * 1910 : Born as László Elkán on 7 Au ...

* Carol M. Highsmith *

Candida Höfer Candida Höfer (born 4 February 1944) is a German photographer. She is a renowned photographer known for her exploration of public spaces and architecture. In her career she transitioned from portraiture to focusing on spaces like libraries and m ...

* Balthazar Korab * Julien Lanoo * Bedford Lemere * Jet Lowe * Eric de Maré * Robert J. Massar * Duccio Malagamba *

Lucia Moholy Lucia Moholy (née Schulz; 18 January 1894 — 17 May 1989) was a photographer and publications editor. Her photos documented the architecture and products of the Bauhaus, and introduced their ideas to a post-World War II audience. However, Mohol ...

* Joseph W. Molitor * Richard Nickel * Andrew Prokos *

Tim Rawle Tim Rawle is an English architectural photographer and writer. He is best known for his photographs of buildings in Cambridge, England. Biography Tim Rawle was born in Ashford, Kent. After studying fine art and graphic design at St Martin's ...

* Julius Shulman * Wolfgang Sievers * G. E. Kidder Smith * Ezra Stoller * Wayne Thom * Pierre Trémaux * Iwao Yamawaki

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International Association of Architectural Photographers-IAAPAIAP - The Association of Independent Architectural PhotographersViewFinder - over 85,000 photographs from the archives of English Heritage
Arts occupations

Notable architectural photographers

See also

References

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