These lists are by no means comprehensive, but they contain many of the photographers that we studied on the MFA program and are the ones that made the biggest impact on me.
The individual entries include a favourite image together with various links to Wikipedia, The Tate or The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Sometimes I have just included a link to Google photos by the artist or a link to someone else's archive.
In some cases, I have also included the name of a book by the artist and/or various handwritten notes from the MFA, including extracts from my dissertation.
I have built this database for my own enjoyment and is far from perfect! Enjoy it if its useful to you.
Choose all photographers here:
Or just contemporary photographers here:
Or by nationality here:
Or photographers with great photobooks here:
The photographers are also shown by their various genres :
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The list of individual photographers is WIP and only the names in RED have working links.
JACOB AUE SOBOL
JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE
JAN-HENRIK ENGSTROM
JEFF MERMELSTEIN
JOACHIM SCHMID
JOE DEAL
JOHN BALDESSARI
JOHN GOSSAGE
JOHN SCHOTT
JOHN SCOTT JOSEF SUDEK
JOSEPH KOUDELKA - EXILES
JUDITH ROSS
JULIAN GERMAIN
LARRY BURROWS - VIETNAM WAR
LARRY CLARK
LARS TUNBJÖRKLASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY
LEE MILLER
LEONI HAMPTON
LOUIS PIERSON
LOUISE DAHLWOLF
LUA RIBEIRA
MARK COHEN - FRAME
MARKÉTA LUSKAČOVÁ
MARTINE FRANCK
MARY ELLEN MARK - FALKAND ROAD
MICHAEL SCHMIDT
MIGUEL RIO BRANCO
MINOR WHITE - APERTURE MAGAZINE
NADAR - GASPARD-FÉLIX TOURNACHON
NAOMI HARRIS
OTTO STEINERT
PATRICK ZACHMANN
PAUL OUTERBRIDGE
PAUL STRAND
PETER DENCH
PETER HUJAR
RALF EUGENE MEATYARD
RAPHAEL DELLAPORTA
RED SAUNDERS
RENE BURRI - PHOTOGRAPHS CHE GUEVARA, HAVANA 1963
RICHARD KALVAR - CENTRE POMPIDOU ALBUM PHOTOGRAPHIQUE 1
ROBERT CAPA - DEATH IN THE MAKING
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
RONI HORN
SALLY EAUCLAIRE
SALLY MANN
SAUL LEITER
SHIRLEY BAKER - MANCHESTER
STEPHEN GILL - HACKNEY
STEVE McCURRY (1950)
TACITA DEAN
THOMAS HOEPKER
THOMAS JOSHUA COOPER
TIMOTHY H. O'SULLIVAN
TODD HIDO
TONY RAY-JONES
WALTER CHAPPELL - APERTURE MAGAZINE
WEEGEE - ARTHUR FELIG
WILLIAM KLEIN
ZOE STRAUSS