Who are the most famous and distinguished photographers from mid-century 
forward (1950 to 2002)?    Examples-  Horst P. Horst to Richard Avedon.

Hi again emmalee!

Once again you’ve given us a wide-open challenge here: “Most famous
and distinguished photographers.”   There are so many! And so many
different categories to choose from: Portrait photographers, nature
photographers, photo-journalist, fine arts photographers, leaders in
technological developments of photography, documentary photographers,
advertising and media photographers…. the list goes on and on …

What I did for you here is pull out some of the big names in each
field. Below the names are some source lists for you to work from. I
highly recommend the Kodak site. There are 23 names right on their
front page that are leaders in their field (although not all apply to
the late century).  I didn’t repeat what’s already listed there since
they provide the links for you.

You also didn’t specify the country you want this for. I assumed US
based on your other questions, but just in case I have included some
international photographers.

The list I’ve compiled below meets your criteria --

Ansel Adams
http://www.enn.com/features/1999/11/110299/ansel_5302.asp

Annie Lebowitz
http://www.nytimes.com/library/photos/leibovitz/bourgeois.html


Patrick McMullan
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0008/friend.htm

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
http://www.photoinsider.com/pages/sanders/sanders.html

Richard Avedon
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/avedon_r.html

Mary Ellen Mark
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibits/maryellen.shtml

Art Wolfe
http://www.artwolfe.com/info.html

Alfred Eisenstaedt
http://www.life.com/Life/eisie/eisie.html

Yousuf Karsh
http://www.detnews.com/2002/obituaries/0207/21/a02-536828.htm

Robert Maplethorpe
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/M/mapplethorpe/mapplethorpe.html

Lothar Wolleh 
http://www.lothar-wolleh.de/english/index.htm

Garry Winogrand
http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1995/Articles0695/Winogrand.html

Sebastiao Salgado
http://www.pdnonline.com/legends/legends10/

Heather Angel
http://www.naturalvisions.co.uk/



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OTHER RESOURCES AND LISTS
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Famous Photographer Resources
http://www.icsd.k12.ny.us/highschool/library/photography.html

Masters of Photography – Biography summaries
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/summaries.html

Kodak – Legends Online
http://www.pdnonline.com/legends/



That should give you a good start on a list of famous photographers
for the late 20th century. If anything I’ve said isn’t clear, please
feel free to ask for clarification.

--K~

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