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August Sander
, produced the book ‘Citizens of the Twentieth Century’, an ambitious project to create a photographic document of the German people
Jan Saudek
, captures the mysterious aspects of human nature in an unique style
Cindy Sherman
, famous for her series of disguised self portraits in various stereotype roles
Jeanloup Sieff
, prolific worked in the fields of fashion, advertising, and portrait photography, captures “times which cannot recur”
W. Eugene Smith
, war photographer, and made powerful social commentary work, one example exposing the effects of mercury poisoning on the Japanese people in Minamata
Edward Steichen
, one of the most successful commercial photographers ever, as artist, portraitist and chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, became Director of the department of photography of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York
Alfred Stieglitz
, driving force in making photography a respected art form. his own photographs include portraits of his later wife, and a group of photographs of New York City skyscrapers.
Paul Strand
, social engaged documentary film maker and photographer
Roy Stuart
, captures men and women acting out their sexual fantasies
Jock Sturges
, pictures adolescents, usually taken nude, and nudist families
Anthony Suau
, photographs international war zones and effects of war
Josef Sudek
, made detailed, black-and-white panoramas and still lifes of Prague
Hiroshi Sugimoto
, has made series of long-exposure photos of empty movie theaters, drive-ins and museums, and later of icons of 20th-century architecture from around the world
Arthur Tress
, stages surrealistic, fantasy-driven photo montages
Spencer Tunick
, uses large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations, often situated in urban settings
Jerry Uelsmann
, makes seamlessly grafted composite images in black and white
Ellen von Unwerth
, creates highly charged raw, sexual imagery
Jeff Wall
, carefully constructs large-scale back-lit photographs like a painting
Edward Weston
, known for photos of peppers and shells, and abstract close-ups of nudes, rocks, and trees
Garry Winogrand
, influential and extraordinarily prolific photographer, shooting countless street scenes through the middle of the 20th century
Joel-Peter Witkin
, photographs human spectacles including hermaphrodites, freaks, dwarfs, amputees, androgynes, cadavers, people with odd physical capabilities and fetishists
Art Wolfe
, makes striking nature photography of landscapes and wildlife