This is a list of notable street photographers.

Street photography Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Although there is a difference between street and ca ...

is photography conducted for art or enquiry that presents unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Street photography does not need the backdrop of a street or even an urban environment. Though people are usually present, street photography may lack people and can be of an object or environment where the image projects a decidedly human character in facsimile or aesthetic.

Street photographers

Jun Abe Chronology in ''Creaturers.'' is a Japanese street photographer and educator who lives and works in Osaka. As of autumn 2014, he has produced six books of photographs of people in cities, including ''Citizens: 1979–1983'', which won the Societ ...

(1955–) *

Berenice Abbott Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 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 ...

(1898–1991) * Christophe Agou (1969–2015)Work by this photographer is presented in Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, eds, ''

Street Photography Now ''Street Photography Now'' is a survey book of contemporary street photography, edited by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren and published by Thames & Hudson in 2010. It includes work by 56 photographers. Blake Andrews described the book as "the ...

'' (London: Thames & Hudson, 2010, ; London: Thames & Hudson, 2011, ). The complete list of photographers introduced: Christophe Agou, Gary Alexander, Arif Aşçı, Narelle Autio, Bang Byoung-Sang, Polly Braden, Maciej Dakowicz, Carolyn Drake, Melanie Einzig, Peter Funch, George Georgiou, David Gibson, Bruce Gilden, Thierry Girard, Andrew Glickman, Siegfried Hansen, Cristóbal Hara, Markus Hartel, Nils Jorgensen, Richard Kalvar, Osamu Kanemura, Martin Kollar, Jens Olof Lasthein, Frederic Lezmi, Stephen McLaren, Jesse Marlow, Mirko Martin, Jeff Mermelstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Mimi Mollica, Trent Parke, Martin Parr, Gus Powell, Mark Alor Powell, Bruno Quinquet, Raghu Rai, Paul Russell, Boris Savelev, Otto Snoek, Matt Stuart, Ying Tang, Alexey Titarenko, Nick Turpin, Lars Tunbjörk, Jeff Wall, Munem Wasif, Alex Webb, Richard Wentworth, Amani Willett, Michael Wolf, Artem Zhitenev, Wolfgang Zurborn. See
The book
", Street Photography Now Project. * Daniel Arnold *

John Benton-Harris John Benton-Harris (born 28 September 1939) is an American photographer and educator. Life and work Benton-Harris was born in the Bronx, New York City. He worked as an industrial photographer with the Sinclair Oil Corporation for a period from 196 ...

(1939–) *

Richard Bram Richard Bram (born 1952) is an American street photographer. He is based in London and was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. Bram has published two books of candid public photographs: ''Street Photography'' (2006), a compa ...

(1952–) *

Lola Álvarez Bravo Lola Álvarez Bravo (3 April 1903 – 31 July 1993) was the first Mexican female photographer and a key figure in the post-revolution Mexican renaissance. Known for her high level of skill in composition, her works were seen by her peers as f ...

(1903–1993) * Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002) *

Blake Andrews Blake Andrews (29 December 1968) is an American street photographer and blogger based in Eugene, Oregon. Andrews was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. Life and work Andrews was born in Berkeley and grew up in Briceland, ...

(1968–)Aline Smithson,
Common ground: New American street photography at drkrm
", Lenscratch, 8 July 2013. Andrews is described as one of five "highly-accomplished American street photographers". Accessed 9 February 2017. *

Emmy Andriesse Emmy Eugenie Andriesse (14 January 1914 in The Hague – 20 February 1953 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch photographer best known for her work with the Underground Camera group () during World War II. Early life and education Emmy Andriesse was ...

(1914–1953) *

Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist professionally known by the mononym . Known primarily for photography that blends eroticism and bondage in a fine art context, he has published over 500 books.The number depends on such things ...

(1940–)Work by this photographer is presented in Kerry Brougher and Russell Ferguson, eds, ''Open City: Street Photographs since 1950'' (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2001, ; Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 2001, ); a book accompanying exhibitions at the

Museum of Modern Art, Oxford Modern Art Oxford is an art gallery established in 1965 in Oxford, England. From 1965 to 2002, it was called The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. The gallery presents exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. It has a national and international ...

, May–July 2001;

The Lowry The Lowry is a theatre and gallery complex at Salford Quays, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is named after the early 20th-century painter L. S. Lowry, known for his paintings of industrial scenes in North West England. The complex ope ...

, Manchester, October 2001 – January 2002;

Hirshhorn Museum The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was desi ...

, Washington DC, June–September 2002. The photographers introduced: Nobuyoshi Araki, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Terence Donovan, William Eggleston, Nigel Henderson, William Klein, Nikki Lee, Susan Meiselas, Daidō Moriyama, Catherine Opie, Tazio Secchiaroli, Allan Sekula, Raghubir Singh, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Wall, Garry Winogrand. *

Diane Arbus Diane Arbus (; née Nemerov; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971
" The New York ...

(1923–1971)Work by this photographer is presented in Deborah Klochko and Andy Grundberg, eds, ''Streetwise: Masters of 60s Photography'' (San Francisco: Modernbook, 2010, ). The complete list of photographers introduced: Diane Arbus, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Jerry Berndt, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Danny Lyon, Garry Winogrand, Ernest Withers. The book accompanied an exhibition at the

Museum of Photographic Arts The Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) is a museum in San Diego's Balboa Park. First founded in 1974, MOPA opened in 1983.The way we were
", ''

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'', 11 May 2011; Barbara Schreiber,
Depth of field: ''Streetwise: Masters of 60s Photography''
", '' Creative Loafing Charlotte'', 6 December 2011.Carolina A. Miranda,
Photography's best-kept secret: How Anthony Hernandez put a distinctly Los Angeles lens on picture-making
", ''Los Angeles Times'', 23 September 2016. "For much of the 20th century, street photography was often associated with the dense cities of Europe and the Northeastern United States — particularly New York, where figures such as Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson and Helen Levitt elevated the act of the impromptu street shot into high art. But Hernandez — now 69, and looking stately with a crown of white hair — helped give the form a distinctly Los Angeles cast." Accessed 16 February 2017. *

Eugène Atget Eugène Atget (; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French '' flâneur'' and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to m ...

(1857–1927)

Sean O'Hagan Sean O'Hagan (born 1959) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and arranger who leads the avant-pop band the High Llamas, which he founded in 1992. He is also known for being one half of the songwriting duo (with Cathal Coughlan) in Microdisney and ...

,
Why street photography is facing a moment of truth
", ''The Guardian'', 18 April 2010. " ny of the great pioneers of photography – Eugène Atget, Brassai, André Kertész, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Robert Frank – could all be considered street photographers of one kind or another. . . ." Accessed 10 February 2017. *

Alice Austen Elizabeth Alice Austen (March 17, 1866 – June 9, 1952) was an American photographer working in Staten Island. Biography Alice Austen was born in 1866 to Alice Cornell Austen and Edward Stopford Munn. Austen's father abandoned the family ...

(1866–1952) *

Narelle Autio Narelle Autio (born 1969) is an Australian photographer. Autio is a member of the In-Public street photography collective and is a founding member of the Oculi photographic agency. She is married to the photographer Trent Parke, with whom she ...

(1969–) *

Shirley Baker Shirley Baker (9 July 1932 – 21 September 2014) was a British photographer, best known for her street photography and street portraits in working class areas of Greater Manchester. She worked as a freelance writer and photographer on various ...

(1932–2014) A view through the urban eye of Charlie Phillips at Nottingham's New Art Exchange
", Culture24, 19 April 2013. "' harlie Phillips'swork is as significant as great chroniclers of everyday street life,' aul Goodwinsays, comparing the artist with eastern Europe observer Markéta Luskačová, 1960s northern documenter Shirley Baker and Tom Wood. . . . Accessed 21 February 2017. * James Barnor (1929–) *

Ruth-Marion Baruch Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997) was an American photographer remembered for her pictures of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. Early life and education Baruch was born in Berlin on June 15, 1922. She and her family migrated in 1927 to t ...

(1922–1997) * Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930–) * Lou Bernstein (1911–2005) *

Dimpy Bhalotia Dimpy Bhalotia (born 1987) is an Indian street photographer based out of London and Mumbai. Bhalotia was Grand Prize Winner in the Photographer of the Year category at the iPhone Photography Awards in 2020 for her photograph "Flying Boys" photogra ...

(1987-) *

Valentine Blanchard Valentine Blanchard (1831 – 14 November 1901) was a prominent English photographer who was widely recognized for his artistic and technical contributions to photography in the 1860s. Both his landscape and his portrait photography were highl ...

(1831–1901) *

Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was a German-born British photographer based in London, known for her portraiture, street photography, early adoption of colour, and photography of London and Paris; she is considered one of the doye ...

(1924–2023) *

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(1969–) * David Bradford (1951–) *

Adrian Bradshaw General Sir Adrian John Bradshaw, (born 1958) is a former British Army officer who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. He also served as Director Special Forces from 2006 to 2009 and Commander Land Forces in 2013. Early life Bra ...

(1964-) *

Bill Brandt Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt; 2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983)Paul DelanyBill Brandt: A Life was a British photographer and photojournalist. Born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British ...

(1904–1983) *

Brassaï Brassaï (; pseudonym of Gyula Halász; 9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous ...

(1899–1984) * Giacomo Brunelli (1977–) * Harry Callahan (1912–1999) *

Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as ca ...

(1908–2004) * Vivian Cherry (1920–2019 * Mark Cohen (1943–) * Joan Colom (1921–2017) *

Martha Cooper Martha Cooper is an American photojournalist. She worked as a staff photographer for the ''New York Post'' during the 1970s. She is best known for documenting the New York City graffiti scene of the 1970s and 1980s. In 1984, Cooper and Henry Ch ...

(1943–) * Ted Croner (1922–2005) *

Bill Cunningham Bill Cunningham may refer to: People *Bill Cunningham (rugby union) (1874–1927), New Zealand rugby union player * Bill Cunningham (footballer), Irish international footballer active in the 1890s * Bill Cunningham (infielder) (1886–1946), prof ...

(1929–2016) *

Maciej Dakowicz Maciej Dakowicz (born 20 November 1976) is a Polish street photographer, photojournalist and gallerist. He is from Białystok in North East Poland. Dakowicz is best known for his series of photographs of Cardiff night-life titled ''Cardiff after D ...

(1976–) * Bill Dane (1938–)Susan Kismaric, ''California Photography: Remaking Make-Believe'' (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989; ), p. 15. " e tradition of 'street photography', so prominent in the history of hotography is practically nonexistent in California. It has been taken up by only a few younger photographers, namely Henry Wessel, John Harding, and Bill Dane in San Francisco, and Anthony Hernandez, who photographs Rodeo Drive." Availabl
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on the MoMA website. Accessed 12 February 2019. * Bruce Davidson (1933–) *

Peter Dench Peter Dench (born 23 April 1972) is a British photojournalist working primarily in advertising, editorial and portraiture. His work has been published in a number of books. Biography Dench was born and grew up in Weymouth, Dorset. He graduated f ...

(1972–) *

Raymond Depardon Raymond Depardon (; born 6 July 1942) is a French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. Early life Depardon was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France. Photographer Depardon is a mainly self-taught photographer, as he beg ...

(1942–)

,
Right Here, Right Now: Photography snatched off the streets
", ''The Guardian'', 8 March 2011. " e theme f the Format exhibition isa timely one: contemporary street photography from around the globe. / The lineup is strong: Chris Steele-Perkins's intimate portraits of Tokyo street life; Raghu Rai's vibrant images of India's teeming cities; Raymond Depardon's outsider's view of Manhattan in the 1980s; Giacomo Brunelli's often unsettling shots of animals in the urban jungle. Alongside contemporary street photographers such as Alex Webb and Polly Braden, Format has also attracted two masters of the genre to Derby: Joel Meyerowitz and Bruce Gilden, . . ." Accessed 2 March 2017. *

Philip-Lorca diCorcia Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951) is an American photographer, living in New York City. He teaches at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.Release: David Zwirner - Philip-Lorca diCorcia: ''Thousand'' (February 27 - March 28, 2009). Retrieved ...

(1951–) *

Robert Doisneau Robert Doisneau (; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. Dois ...

(1912–1994) *

Ken Domon is one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the 20th century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary. Biography Domon was born in Sakata, Ya ...

(1909–1990) *

Don Donaghy Don Donaghy (born Leonard Donald Donaghy in Pennsylvania; 2 November 1936 – 23 July 2008) was a member of the New York school of photography. Donaghy studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art after which he pursued street photography in Ph ...

(1936–2008) * Terence Donovan (1936–1996) *

Eamonn Doyle Eamonn Doyle (born 1969) is an Irish photographer, electronic music producer, DJ, and owner/manager of the D1 Recordings record label. He has produced a number of records of his own music. His self-published photo-books include the trilogy ''i' ...

(1969–) *

Carolyn Drake Carolyn Drake (born 1971) is an American photographer based in Vallejo, California. She works on long term photo-based projects seeking to interrogate dominant historical narratives and imagine alternatives to them. Her work explores community an ...

(1971–) *

Nikos Economopoulos Nikos Economopoulos (Νίκος Οικονομόπουλος, ''Nikos Oikonomopoulos'', born 1953) is a Greek photographer known for his photography of the Balkans and of Greece in particular. Life and career Born in Kalamata,Biography of Economop ...

(1953–) *

William Eggleston William Eggleston (born July 27, 1939) is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. Eggleston's books include ''William Eggleston's Guide'' (1976) and ''The ...

(1939–) * Melanie Einzig (1967–) *

Alfred Eisenstaedt Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 – August 23, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for ''Life'' magazine af ...

(1898–1995) * Martin Elkort (1929–2016) * Ed van der Elsken (1925–1990) *

Morris Engel Morris Engel (April 8, 1918 – March 5, 2005) was an American photographer, cinematographer and filmmaker best known for making the first good-quality, internationally-recognized American film "independent" of Hollywood studios, '' Little Fugi ...

(1918–2005) *

Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt (born Elio Romano Erwitt, July 26, 1928) is a French-born American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid photos of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings. He has been a member ...

(1928–) *

Walker Evans Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from ...

(1903–1975) *

Louis Faurer Louis Faurer (August 28, 1916 – March 2, 2001) was an American candid or street photographer. He was a quiet artist who never achieved the broad public recognition that his best-known contemporaries did; however, the significance and caliber of ...

(1916–2001) *

Harold Feinstein Harold Martin Feinstein (April 17, 1931 – June 20, 2015) was an American photographer. Early life Feinstein was born in Coney Island, New York, in 1931. He was the youngest of five children born to Jewish immigrant parents. His mother Sophie R ...

(1931–2015) * Jed Fielding (1953–) * Armet Francis (1945–) *

Robert Frank Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled ''The Americans'', earned Frank comparisons to a modern-da ...

(1924–2019) *

Jill Freedman Jill Freedman (October 19, 1939 – October 9, 2019) was an American documentary photographer and street photographer. She was based in New York City. Early life and education Freedman was Jewish and born in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of ...

(1939–2019) *

Lee Friedlander Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragm ...

(1934–)

,
Why street photography is facing a moment of truth
", ''The Guardian'', 18 April 2010. "Back in the 1960s, when New York was the centre of street photography, the main practitioners of the form would sometimes cross paths. Lee Friedlander was friends with Garry Winogrand who often met Joel Meyerowitz as they crisscrossed Manhattan and beyond on the prowl for pictures that caught the city's tempo, its myriad everyday dramas, and its citizens at work and at play." Accessed 10 February 2017. *

Cristina García Rodero Cristina García Rodero (born 14 October 1949) is a Spanish photographer and member of Magnum Photos and Agence Vu photo agencies. Life and work Rodero was born in Puertollano, Spain, in 1949, and studied painting at Complutense University of Mad ...

(1949-) * William Gedney (1932–1989) * George Georgiou (1961–) * David Gibson (1957–) *

Bruce Gilden Bruce Gilden (born 1946) is an American street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun. He has had various books of his work published, has received the Europe ...

(1946–) *

Shigeo Gochō Shigeo (written: 茂雄, 茂生, 茂男, 茂夫, 成雄, 成男, 重雄, 重男, 重夫, 繁雄, 繁男, 晟郎, 殖生 or 滋雄) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese swimm ...

(1946–1983) * Henry Grant (1907–2004) *

Ken Grant Ken Grant is a photographer who since the 1980s has concentrated on working class life in the Liverpool area. He is a lecturer in the MFA photography course at the University of Ulster. Life and career Born in Liverpool in 1967,Sean O'Hagan,For ...

(1967–) *

Michelle Groskopf Michelle Groskopf is a Canadian photographer. Life Groskopf grew up in the 1980s in a suburb of Toronto. As an adult, she moved to Europe and then New York City, where she worked as a television producer and as a professor at the School of Vi ...

Sid Grossman Sid Grossman (June 25, 1913 in Manhattan – December 31, 1955 in Provincetown) was an American photographer, teacher, and social activist. Life Sid Grossman was the younger son of Morris and Ethel Grossman. He attended the City College of N ...

(1913–1955) *

Ara Güler Ara Güler ( hy, Արա ԿիւլԷր; 16 August 1928 – 17 October 2018) was an Armenian-Turkish photojournalist, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul". He was "one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers ...

(1928–2018) *

John Gutmann John Gutmann (1905 – June 12, 1998) was a German-born American photographer and painter. Early life and education Gutmann was born in 1905 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) to an upper-middle-class Jewish family. He earned a deg ...

(1905–1998) * George Hallett (1942–2020) *

Hiroshi Hamaya was a Japanese photographer active from 1935 to 1999.Mihashi Sumiyo (), "Hamaya Hiroshi", in ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.254. In Japanese only, despite the additional En ...

(1915–1999) * Siegfried Hansen (1961–) * John Harding (1940–) *

Tadahiko Hayashi was a Japanese photographer noted for a wide range of work including documentary (particularly genre scenes of the period immediately after the war) and portraiture. Youth and early career Hayashi was born in Saiwai-chō, Tokuyama (since 2003 ...

(1918–1990) * Dave Heath (1931–2016) *

Nigel Henderson Admiral Sir Nigel Stuart Henderson, (1 August 1909 – 2 August 1993) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1968 to 1971. Naval career Henderson joined the Royal Navy in 1927.

(1917–1985) * Anthony Hernandez (1947–) *

Fred Herzog Fred Herzog D.F.A. (September 21, 1930 – September 9, 2019) devoted his artistic life to walking the streets of Vancouver as well as almost 40 countries with his Leica, photographing - mostly with colour slide film - his observations of the st ...

(1930–2019) * Fan Ho (1931–2016) * Thomas Hoepker (1936–) *

Yasuhiro Ishimoto was a Japanese-American photographer. Biography Ishimoto was born on June 14, 1921 in San Francisco, California, where his parents were farmers. In 1924, the family left the United States and returned to his parents' hometown within present-da ...

(1921–2012) * Walter Joseph (1922–2003) * James Jowers (1939–2009) * Richard Kalvar (1944–) * Osamu Kanemura (1964–) * Peter Kayafas (1971–) * Neil Kenlock (1950–) *

André Kertész André Kertész (; 2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his th ...

(1894–1985) *

Hiroh Kikai was a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for four series of monochrome photographs: scenes of buildings in and close to Tokyo, portraits of people in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, and rural and town life in India and Turkey. He purs ...

(1945–2020) *

Ihei Kimura was a Japanese photographer, known for his portrayal of Tokyo and Akita Prefecture. Life and work Born on 12 December 1901 in Shitaya-ku (now Taitō-ku), Tokyo, Kimura started taking photographs when very young but his interest intensified whe ...

(1901–1974) * Keizō Kitajima (1954–) * William Klein (1928–2022) *

Martin Kollar Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austra ...

(1971–) *

Josef Koudelka Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991), ...

(1938–) *

Seiji Kurata was a Japanese photographer. Career Kurata was born in Chūō-ku, Tokyo, 1945. He graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1968. He taught in secondary school and worked in oils, printmaking, and experimental movie ...

(1945–2020) *

Kineo Kuwabara was a Japanese editor and photographer, known for photographing Tokyo for over half a century. Kuwabara was born in Tokyo in 1913. He started taking photographs around 1931 with a Vest Pocket Kodak, but his interest increased as a result of an ...

(1913–2007) *

Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange' ...

(1895–1965) *

Sergio Larrain Sergio may refer to: * Sergio (given name), for people with the given name Sergio * Sergio (carbonado), the largest rough diamond ever found * ''Sergio'' (album), a 1994 album by Sergio Blass * ''Sergio'' (2009 film), a documentary film * ''Se ...

(1931–2012) *

Jacques-Henri Lartigue Jacques Henri Lartigue (; 13 June 1894 – 12 September 1986) was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models. Biography Born in Courbevoie in western Paris to a ...

(1894–1986) *

Jens Olof Lasthein Jens Olof Lasthein (born 1964) is a Swedish freelance photographer. His widely exhibited work principally covers scenes before and after the war in former Yugoslavia and the areas across Europe bordering the old Iron Curtain. Early life Born in ...

(1964–) *

Nikki S. Lee Nikki Seung-hee Lee (이승희, born 1970) is a South Korea-born visual artist, living in New York City and Seoul, that works with photography and film. Early life and education Lee was born in Geochang, South Korea. During her childhood, Lee ...

(1970–) *

Arthur Leipzig Arthur Leipzig (October 25, 1918 – December 5, 2014) was an American photographer who specialized in street photography and was known for his photographs of New York City. Career Leipzig was born in Brooklyn. After sustaining a serious injury ...

(1918–2014) *

Saul Leiter Saul Leiter (December 3, 1923 – November 26, 2013) was an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as the New York school of photography.Jane Livin ...

(1923–2013) * Rebecca Lepkoff (1916–2014) *

Leon Levinstein Leon Levinstein (1910–1988) was an American street photographer best known for his work documenting everyday street life in New York City from the 1950s through the 1980s. In 1975 Levinstein was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John ...

(1910–1988) *

Helen Levitt Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 – March 29, 2009) was an American photographer and cinematographer. She was particularly noted for her street photography around New York City. David Levi Strauss described her as "the most celebrated and leas ...

(1913–2009) * Feng Li (1971–) *

Jerome Liebling Jerome Liebling (April 16, 1924 Manhattan, New York – July 27, 2011 Northampton, Massachusetts) was an American photographer, filmmaker, and teacher. The documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, who studied with him at Hampshire College, called Liebling ...

(1924–2011) * David Lurie (1951–) * Markéta Luskačová (1944–) * Jon Luvelli (1979-) * Danny Lyon (1942–) *

Vivian Maier Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. She worked for about 40 years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, while pursuin ...

(1926–2009) * Jesse Marlow (1978–) *

Mary Ellen Mark Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015) was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and t ...

(1940–2015) *

Roger Mayne Roger Mayne (5 May 1929 – 7 June 2014) was an English photographer, best known for his documentation of the children of Southam Street, London. Life and work Born in Cambridge, Mayne studied Chemistry at Balliol College, Oxford University. Her ...

(1929–2014) * Paul McDonough (born 1941) * Stephen McLaren *

Susan Meiselas Susan Meiselas (born June 21, 1948) is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and been a full member since 1980. Currently she is the President of the Magnum Foundation. She is best known for h ...

(1948–) * Jeff Mermelstein (1957–) * Joel Meyerowitz (1938–) * Xavier Miserachs (1937–1998) *

Lisette Model Lisette Model (born Elise Amelie Felicie Stern; November 10, 1901 – March 30, 1983) was an Austrian-born American photographer primarily known for the frank humanism of her street photography. A prolific photographer in the 1940s and a member ...

(1901–1983) *

Mimi Mollica Mimi Mollica (born 1975) is an Italian photographer, based in London. His work concerns "social issues and topics related to identity, environment, migration and macroscopic human transitions." Mollica creates self assigned series—his book '' ...

(1975–) *

Daidō Moriyama is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine '' Provoke''. Moriyama’s rough, unfettered photographic style makes use of sharply tilted angles, grain ...

(1938–) *

Shigeichi Nagano __NOTOC__ was a Japanese photographer. He won the Ina Nobuo Award in 1986 and had a major retrospective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2000. Life and work Nagano was born in Ōita City in Ōita Prefecture, and studied economi ...

(1925–2019) *

Masatoshi Naitō is a Japanese photographer. According to Michael Hoppen Gallery, Naitō was born in Tokyo in 1938. He graduated from Waseda University in applied sciences and trained as a research scientist. A keen interest in the folkloric traditions of Japan l ...

(1938–) *

Charles Nègre Charles Nègre (; 9 May 1820 – 16 January 1880) was a pioneering photographer, born in Grasse, France. He studied under the painters Paul Delaroche, Ingres and Drolling before establishing his own studio at 21 Quai Bourbon on the Île Saint-L ...

(1820–1880)

,
Why don't we do it in the road?
", ''The Observer'', 25 May 2008. "Room 1 f the Tate Modern exhibition ''Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography'' entitled 'Precursors', is worth lingering in. It offers a glimpse of the work of the earliest pioneers of street photography, including Charles Nègre, Henri Rivière and Alfred Stieglitz. . . ." Accessed 2 March 2017. *

Horace Nicholls Horace Walter Nicholls (17 February 1867 – 28 July 1941) was an English photographer, notable as a war photographer during World War I. Life and work Nicholls was born in Cambridge, the son of Charlotte (née Johnson) and Arthur N. Nicholls, a ...

(1867–1941) * Colin O'Brien (1940–2016) *

Hildegard Ochse Hildegard Ochse (December 7, 1935 – June 28, 1997) was a German photographer. Life and work Hildegard Maria Helene Ochse (maiden name Römer) was born at home in Bad Salzuflen, Westphalia on December 7, 1935, the daughter of Dr. phil. Emma M ...

(1935–1997) * Takayuki Ogawa (1938–2008) *

Mitsugu Ōnishi Mitsugu Ōnishi (大西みつぐ,His personal name was originally written 貢. ''Ōnishi Mitsugu''; born 7 October 1952) is a Japanese photographer. Born in Tokyo, Ōnishi graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in 1974, rejoining a year ...

(1952–) *

Catherine Opie Catherine Sue Opie (born 1961) is an American fine-art photographer and educator. She lives and works in Los Angeles, as a professor of photography at University of California at Los Angeles. Opie studies the connections between mainstream and i ...

(1961–) *

Ruth Orkin Ruth (or its variants) may refer to: Places France * Château de Ruthie, castle in the commune of Aussurucq in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France Switzerland * Ruth, a hamlet in Cologny United States * Ruth, Alabama * Ruth, Ar ...

(1921–1985) * Graham Ovenden (1943–) * Homer Page (1918–1985) *

Trent Parke Trent Parke (born 1971) is an Australian photographer. He is the husband of Narelle Autio, with whom he often collaborates. He has created a number of photography books; won numerous national and international awards including four World Press ...

(1971–) *

Martin Parr Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in p ...

(1952–) * Charlie Phillips (1944–) *

Gus Powell Gus Powell (1974) is an American street photographer. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective. Powell has published two of his own photography books: ''The Company of Strangers'' (2003) and ''The Lonely Ones'' (2015), the l ...

(1974–) * Mark Powell (1968–) *

Raghu Rai Raghu Rai (born 1942), is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. He was a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who appointed Rai, then a young photojournalist, to Magnum Photos in 1977. Rai became a photographer in 1965, and a year later ...

(1942–) *

Tony Ray-Jones Tony Ray-Jones (7 June 1941 – 13 March 1972) was an English photographer. Life Born Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones in Wells, Somerset, he was the youngest son of Raymond Ray-Jones (1886–1942), a painter and etcher who died when Tony was on ...

(1941–1972) *

Marc Riboud Marc Riboud (; 24 June 1923 – 30 August 2016) was a French photographer, best known for his extensive reports on the Far East: ''The Three Banners of China'', ''Face of North Vietnam'', ''Visions of China'', and ''In China''. Early life and e ...

(1923–2016) * Henri Rivière (1864–1951) *

Willy Ronis Willy Ronis (; 14 August 191012 September 2009) was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence. Life and work Ronis was born in Paris; his father, Emmanuel Ronis, was a Jewish refugee from Odessa, and hi ...

(1910–2009) * Paul Russell (1966–) *

Edward Linley Sambourne Edward Linley Sambourne (4 January 18443 August 1910) was an English cartoonist and illustrator most famous for being a draughtsman for the satirical magazine ''Punch'' for more than forty years and rising to the position of "First Cartoonist" i ...

(1844–1910) * Richard Sandler (born 1946) *

Boris Savelev Boris Savelev (russian: Савельев, Борис Александрович, born 1948) is a Ukrainian-born Russian photographer. Career His original career was as an aerospace engineer, however it is photography that made his name since 1976 ...

(1948–) *

Tazio Secchiaroli Tazio Secchiaroli (26 November 1925 – 24 July 1998) was an Italian photographer known as one of the original paparazzi. He founded the agency Roma Press Photo in 1955. Secchiaroli was the inspiration for the Paparazzo character in Fellini's ...

(1925–1998) * Allan Sekula (1951–2013) * Craig Semetko (1961–) *

Jamel Shabazz Jamel Shabazz (born 1960) is an African-American fashion, fine art, documentary and street style photographer. His work has been published in books, shown in exhibitions, and used in editorial magazine works. He was born in Brooklyn, New York ...

(1960–) * Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) *

Aaron Siskind Aaron Siskind (December 4, 1903 – February 8, 1991) was an American photographer whose work focuses on the details of things, presented as flat surfaces to create a new image independent of the original subject. He was closely involved with, if ...

(1903–1991) *

Gary Mark Smith Gary Mark Smith (born April 27, 1956) is an American street photographer.Near, Mitchell J. (2002-01-03) The MAG: Cover Story – The Art of War, A Lawrence artist captures street photography in world's hot spots. The Art MAG. http://www2.ljwor ...

(1956–) * David Solomons (1965–) *

Terry Spencer Charles Terence Spencer (18 August 1931 – 2 February 2020) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire. Only Ewart Astill and George Geary have taken more wickets for Leicestershire. His career best figures of 9 ...

(1918–2009) * Chris Steele-Perkins (1947–) * Fred Stein (1909–1967) *

Joel Sternfeld Joel Sternfeld (born June 30, 1944) is an American fine-art color photographer. He is noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish color photography as a respected artistic medium. Sternfeld's work is ...

(1944–) *

Louis Stettner Louis Stettner (November 7, 1922 – October 13, 2016) was an American photographer of the 20th century whose work included streetscapes, portraits and architectural images of New York and Paris. His work has been highly regarded because of its hum ...

(1922–2016) *

Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was kno ...

(1864–1946) * Gary Stochl (1947–) *

Paul Strand Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century ...

(1890–1976) *

Beat Streuli Beat Streuli (born 1957)
is a

Christer Strömholm Christer Strömholm (July 22, 1918 – January 11, 2002), also known by the pseudonym Christer Christian, was a Swedish photographer and educator. He is known for his intimate black and white street photography portrait series, particularly his p ...

(1918–2002) * Matt Stuart (1974–) * Thomas Struth (1954–) *

Issei Suda (24 April 1940 – 7 March 2019) was a Japanese photographer who " ombineda pure appreciation of Japanese customs with a sharp investigative eye".大澤友貴, 「須田一政」, 『フジフイルム・フォトコレクション展　富士フ ...

(1940–2019) * Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016) * Michael Ernest Sweet (1979–) *

Homer Sykes Homer Warwick Sykes (born 1949) is a Canadian-born British documentary photographer whose career has included personal projects and landscape photography. Early life and education Sykes's father, Homer Warwick Sykes, was a Canadian-born American ...

(1949–) *

Yutaka Takanashi is a Japanese photographer who has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life, and is best known for his depiction of Tokyo. Life and career Takanashi was born on 6 February 1935 in Shirogane-chō, Ushigome-ku (now Shinjuku), Tokyo."Ch ...

(1935–) *

Takeyoshi Tanuma was a Japanese photographer. In 2019, the Japanese government honoured him with the Order of Culture, making him the first photographer to receive the order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas an ...

(1929–2022) *

Sam Tata Sam Tata (September 30, 1911 – July 3, 2005) was a photographer and photojournalist. Early life Sam Bejan Tata was born in Shanghai, China, on September 30, 1911, to a mercantile Parsi family.Dessureault 1988, p. 20. He went to Shanghai Publ ...

(1911–2005) * Elsa Thiemann (1910–1981) * John Thomson (1837–1921) *

Wolfgang Tillmans Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Tillmans was the first photog ...

(1968–) *

Alexey Titarenko Alexey (Aleksey, Alexis, Alexei) Viktorovich Titarenko (born November 25, 1962; russian: link=no, Алексей Викторович Титаренко) is a Soviet Union-born American photographer and artist. He lives and works in New York City. ...

(1962–) *

Toyoko Tokiwa (1928 – 24 December 2019) was a Japanese photographer best known for her 1957 book of text and photographs ''Kiken na Adabana'' (), and particularly for its portrayal of the red-light district of post- occupation Yokohama, with US servicemen.Tom ...

(1928–2019) *

Lars Tunbjörk Lars Tunbjörk (15 February 1956 – 8 April 2015) was a Swedish photographer known for his "deadpan portraits of office spaces and suburban lifestyles". Background Tunbjörk was born in the Swedish town of Borås, a place which was a big influ ...

(1956–2015) *

Peter Turnley Peter N. Turnley (born June 22, 1955)
nytim ...

(1955–) *

Nick Turpin Nick Turpin (born 1969) is a British street photographer and advertising and design photographer. He is based in London and near Lyon, France. Turpin established the first international collective of street photographers, In-Public, in 2000 and ...

(1969–) * Stephan Vanfleteren (1969–) * David Vestal (1924–2013) *

Roman Vishniac Roman Vishniac (; russian: link=no, Рома́н Соломо́нович Вишня́к; August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990) was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Eur ...

(1897–1990) *

Jeff Wall Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published ess ...

(1946–) *

Dougie Wallace Dougie Wallace, also known as Glasweegee, is a Scottish street photographer from Glasgow, based in east London. He has had five books of his work published and been awarded Second Prize in the Portraiture category of the 2015 Sony World Photo ...

(1953-) *

Munem Wasif Munem Wasif ( bn, মুনেম ওয়াসিফ) (born 11 April 1983) is a photographer from Bangladesh. Biography Munem Wasif is a documentary photographer in Bangladesh. He has been represented by Agence Vu since 2008, and is now teac ...

(1983–) * Alex Webb (1952–) *

Weegee Arthur (Usher) Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York City. Weegee worked in Manhattan's Lower Eas ...

(1899–1968) * Henry Wessel (1942–2018) * William Whiffin (1878–1957) *

Garry Winogrand Garry Winogrand (January 14, 1928 – March 19, 1984) was an American street photographer, known for his portrayal of U.S. life and its social issues, in the mid-20th century. Photography curator, historian, and critic John Szarkowski called Wino ...

(1928–1984) *

Ernest Withers Ernest C. Withers (August 7, 1922 – October 15, 2007) was an African-American photojournalist. He documented over 60 years of African-American history in the segregated Southern United States, with iconic images of the Montgomery bus boycot ...

(1922–2007) * Michael Wolf (1954–2019) * Tom Wood (1951–) *

Michio Yamauchi is a Japanese street photographer focusing in human photography based in Tokyo. Life and career Michio Yamauchi was born in a mountain village in Nishimikawa, Aichi (currently part of Toyota City) on October 23, 1950. He studied in the literatu ...

(1950–) *

Nakaji Yasui (15 December 1903 – 15 March 1942) was one of the most prominent photographers in the first half of the 20th century in Japan. Life Yasui was born in Osaka and became a member of the Naniwa Photography Club (, ''Naniwa Shashin Kurabu'') in ...

(1903–1942) * Yau Leung (1941–1997) * Bernard Pierre Wolff (1930–1985) *

Max Yavno Max Yavno (1911–1985) was a photographer who specialized in street scenes, especially in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. Personal life The son of Russian immigrants, Louis and "Lizzie" (Rudnick) Yavno, Max was born in New York Ci ...

(1911–1985) * Heinrich Zille (1858–1929)Jackie Higgins, "Street and Society", pp. 148–151 of Juliet Hacking, ed., ''Photography: The Whole Story'' (New York: Prestel, 2012; ). " illeroamed the streets of Berlin, rarely venturing beyond his local neighborhood of Charlottenburg, snapping images that exude spontaneity."

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