A List of Important and Influential Photographers
*updated: 02-19-12
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Original Photo.net Thread
Wikipedia Photographer List
100 Most Influential Photogs of all Time
Large Format Forum Top 10 Lists
Ansel Adams-14
Henri Cartier Bresson-12
John Sexton-12
John Paul Caponigro-9
Edward Weston-8
Sally Mann (8)
Sebastiao Salgado-8
Walker Evans-7
Roman Loranc (7)
George Tice (7)
Joel Sternfeld (7)
Hiroshi Sugimoto (7)
Robert Frank-6
Michael Kenna (6)
Galen Rowell-6
Stephen Shore (6)
Alec Soth (6)
Robert Adams (5)
Robert Mapplethorpe-5
Joel Meyerowitz (5)
Helmut Newton-5
Brett Weston-5
Sam Abell-4
Gabriele Basilico (4)
Robert Capa-4
Bruce Davidson (4)
Lee Friedlander (4)
Flor Garduno (4)
Ralph Gibson (4)
Andreas Gursky (4)
David Alan Harvey-4
Franz Lanting-4
Annie Leibovitz-4
Jay Maisel-4
Ray McSavaney (4)
David Muench-4
Martin Parr (4)
Eliot Porter-4
Cindy Sherman (4)
John Shaw-4
W Eugene Smith-4
Alfred Stieglitz-4
Thomas Struth (4)
Jerry Uelsman (4)
Bernd and Hilla Becher-3
Margaret Bourke-White-3
Wynn Bullock - 3
Clyde Butcher (3)
Harry Callahan-3
Keith Carter (3)
Imogen Cunningham-3
William Eggleston (3)
Ernst Haas-3, "The Creation"
Andre Kertesz-3
Brian Kosoff (3)
O. Winston Link-3
Mary Ellen Mark-3
Richard Misrach (3)
James Nachtwey-3
Freeman Patterson-3
Irving Penn (3)
Man Ray-3
Aaron Siskind-3
Paul Strand-3
Jeff Wall (3)
Weegee (Arthur Fellig)-3
Minor White-3
Art Wolfe-3
Diane Arbus-2
Eugene Atget-2
Richard Avedon-2
David Bailey-2
Bruce Barnbaum (2)
Phil Borges-2
Bill Brandt-2
Manuel Bravo-2
Christopher Burkett-2
Julia Margaret Cameron-2
Mark Citret (2)
William Clift (2)
Edward Curtis-2
Gregory Crewdson (2)
Klaus Ditte-2
Alfred Eisenstadt-2
Mitch Epstein (2)
Elliott Erwitt (2)
Misha Gordin-2
Ashley Hernandez-2
Dorothea Lange-2
Annie Liebowitz (2)
Tom Mangelson-2
Sally Mann-2
Don McCullen (2)
Steve McCurry-2
Wright Morris-2
William Mortensen-2
Ted Orland (2)
David Plowden (2)
Raghu Rai - 2
Eugene Richards-2
Herb Ritts-2
Willy Ronnis (2)
August Saunder-2
Toshio Shibata (2)
Edward Steichen-2
Josef Sudek-2
William Henry Fox Talbot-2
Tom Till-2
Shoji Ueda-2
Garry Winogrand-2
Abbas
Al Abaster
Berenice Abbott
Shelby Lee Adams
Robert Adamson
William Allard
Nobuyoshi Araki
Joe Baraban
Peter Beard
Cecil Beaton
Bellocq
Henry Hamilton Bennett
Robert R. Bennet
P.F. Bently
Zeke Berman
Werner Bischof
Karl Blossfeldt
A. Aubrey Bodine
Jack Boucher
Matthew Brady
Jim Brandenburg
Brassai
Alexey Brodovitch
Leslie Scher Brown
Michael Brusselle
Yul Brynner
Larry Burrows
Edward Burtynsky
Morrie Camhi
Charles Campbell
Cornell Capa
Paul Caponegro
Lewis Carrol
James Casabere
William Claxton
William Cliff
Jodi Cobb
Linda Conner
Lois Conner
Anton Corbijn
Barbara Crane
Louis Daguerre
Reza Deghati
Mike Dixon
Robert Doisneau
Christopher Doyle
D.D. Duncan
Jack Dykinga
Charles Eastlake
Lady Eastlake
Harold Edgerton
Arthur Elgort
Eliot Erwit
Frederick Evans
Louis Faurer
Andreas Feininger
Roger Fenton
John Fielder
Giselle Freund
Glen E. Friedman
Oliver Gagliani
William Gedney
Gary Gladstone
Nan Goldin
Greg Gorman
Emmet Gowin
Peter Gowland
Jack Gruber
Jan Groover
John Haley
Naoya Hatakeyama
Gregory Heisler
Jacques Henri-latrigue
David Hill
Lewis Hine
Milt Hinton
David Hockney
Horst
Mike Hunt
Frank Hurley
Graciela Iturbide
Mitsuaki Iwago
William Henry Jackson
Pirkle Jones
Kenneth Josephson
Yousuf Karsh
Gertrude Kasebier
Andre Kertesz
David Hume Kennerly
Evgeni Khaldei
William Klein
Josef Koudelka
Russell Lee
Cheyco Leidmann
Saul Leiter
David Levinthal
Helen Levitt
Helmar Lerski
Tsin San Long
Danny Lyon
Robert De Machy
Shinzo Maeda
David Malin
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Susan Meiselas
Ray Metzger
Arthur Meyerson
Duanne Michaels
Lisette Model
Abelardo Morrel
Ray Mortenson
Vik Muniz
Muybridge
Nadar
James Nachwey
Lazlo Moholy Nagy
Ralph Morse
John Netherton
Arnold Newman
Nicholas Nixon
Catherine Opie
Ruth Orkin
Gordon Parks
Bryan Patterson
Gilles Peress
Sylvia Plachy
Marc Pokempner
Chris Ranier
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Billy Reuben
Leni Riefenstahl
Alexander Rodchenko
Joe Rosenthal
Georges Rousse
Erich Salomon
Jan Saudek
Charles Scheeler
Mark Seliger
Vittorio Sella
Howard Shatz
Claudia Shiffert
Jeanloup Sieff
Raghubir Singh
Art Sinsabaugh
Rodney Smith
Frederick Sommer
Robert Soublette
Tito Soublette
Humphrey Spender
Ben Shahn
Peter Stackpole
James Stanfield
Eric Stoller
Jock Sturges
Penny Tweedie
Charlie Waite
Melanie Wahla
Jeff Wall
Oliver Wasow
Carleton Watkins
Albert Watson
Boyd Webb
Joel-Peter Witkin
Reinhard Wolf
