This is a list of notable street photographers. Street photography is photography conducted for art or enquiry that presents unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within

public places A public space is a place that is open and accessible to the general public. Roads (including the sidewalk, pavement), public squares, parks, and beaches are typically considered public space. To a limited extent, government buildings which are ...

. 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 Society ...

(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 Christophe Agou (1969 – September 2015) was a French documentary photographer and street photographer who lived in New York City. His work has been published in books and is held in public collections. He was a member of the In-Public street ph ...

(1969–2015)Work by this photographer is presented in Sophie Howarth and

Stephen McLaren Stephen McLaren is a Scottish photographer, writer, and curator, based in Los Angeles. He has edited various photography books published by Thames & Hudson—including '' Street Photography Now'' (2010)—and produced his own, ''The Crash'' (2018) ...

, 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 "th ...

'' (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 19 ...

(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 compac ...

(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 fin ...

(1903–1993) *

Manuel Álvarez Bravo Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 4, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes a ...

(1902–2002) *

Blake Andrews Blake Andrews (29 December 1968) is an American Street photography, 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, Californ ...

(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 th ...

(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 Kerry Brougher is the founding director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California. He has served as curator at several museums, most recently as the curator and acting director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ...

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

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, May–July 2001; The Lowry, Manchester, October 2001 – January 2002; Hirshhorn Museum, 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 (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, San Diego, February–May 2011. See W. S. Di Piero,
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 mod ...

(1857–1927) Sean O'Hagan,
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 (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 James Barnor HonFRPS (born 6 June 1929) is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered b ...

(1929–) * Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997) *

Gianni Berengo Gardin Gianni Berengo Gardin (born 1930) is an Italian photographer who has concentrated on reportage and editorial work, but whose career as a photographer has encompassed book illustration and advertising. "Undoubtedly the most important photographer i ...

(1930–) *

Lou Bernstein Lou Bernstein (born ''Judah Leon Bernstein''; February 28, 1911 – August 2, 2005) was an American photographer and teacher. His career began during the Great Depression and the Photo League and ended shortly before he died. Early life Bernste ...

(1911–2005) * Dimpy Bhalotia (1987-) *

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

(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) * Boogie (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 H ...

(1899–1984) *

Giacomo Brunelli Giacomo Brunelli (born 1977) is a British/Italian artist working with photography, who lives in London. Brunelli has published the following books of film noir and street photography black and white photographs: ''The Animals'' (2008 and 2016), ' ...

(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 cap ...

(1908–2004) * Vivian Cherry (1920–2019 * Mark Cohen (1943–) *

Joan Colom Joan Colom i Altemir (April 1921 – 3 September 2017) was a Spanish photographer renowned for his portraits of Barcelona's underworld and working class, especially in the infamous neighbourhood of Raval. Colom was born in Barcelona. He was a s ...

(1921–2017) * Martha Cooper (1943–) *

Ted Croner Ted Croner (December 5, 1922 – August 15, 2005) was an American photographer, described as an influential member of the New York school of photography during the 1940s and 1950s. His images are said to represent the best example of this movement. ...

(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), profes ...

(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 ...

(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
here
on the MoMA website. Accessed 12 February 2019. * Bruce Davidson (1933–) * Peter Dench (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 began ...

(1942–) Sean O'Hagan,
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 (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 (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 (1971–) * Nikos Economopoulos (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 (1898–1995) * Martin Elkort (1929–2016) *

Ed van der Elsken Eduard van der Elsken (10 March 1925 – 28 December 1990) was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker. His imagery provides quotidian, intimate and autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist spanning the period of the Second World War in ...

(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 Fugit ...

(1918–2005) * Elliott Erwitt (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 (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 Armet Francis (born 29 January 1945) is a Jamaican-born photographer and publisher who has lived in London since the 1950s. He has been documenting and chronicling the lives of people of the African diaspora for more than 40 years and his assignm ...

(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 (1939–2019) * Lee Friedlander (1934–) Sean O'Hagan,
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 (1949-) * William Gedney (1932–1989) *

George Georgiou George Georgiou (born 1961) is a freelance British photographer and photojournalist best known for his work in eastern Europe, particularly Turkey. Career in photography Born in London to Greek Cypriot parents, Georgiou graduated in photograph ...

(1961–) * David Gibson (1957–) * Bruce Gilden (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 Visu ...

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 ...

(1913–1955) * Ara Güler (1928–2018) * John Gutmann (1905–1998) * George Hallett (1942–2020) * Hiroshi Hamaya (1915–1999) *

Siegfried Hansen Siegfried Hansen (March 29, 1912 – June 28, 2002) was an American electrical engineer and inventor notable for his development of the early Mark I space suit., a role that earned him appellations of "Space Suit Father" and "Space Suit Pioneer". ...

(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 Thomas Hoepker (German: ''Thomas Höpker''; born 10 June 1936) is a German photographer and member of Magnum Photos. He is known for stylish color photo features. He also documented the 9/11 World Trade Center destruction. Hoepker originally made ...

(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-day ...

(1921–2012) * Walter Joseph (1922–2003) * James Jowers (1939–2009) * Richard Kalvar (1944–) *

Osamu Kanemura is a Japanese photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. ...

(1964–) *

Peter Kayafas Peter Kayafas (born 1971) is an American photographer, publisher, and educator based in New York City. He creates black and white photographs that are "simple and spare, yet quietly overpowering with their evocation of a history on a scale beyond t ...

(1971–) *

Neil Kenlock Neil Emile Elias Kenlock (born 1950) is a Jamaican-born photographer and media professional who has lived in London since the 1960s. During the 1960s and 1970s, Kenlock was the official photographer of the British Black Panthers, and he has be ...

(1950–) * André Kertész (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 pursu ...

(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 when ...

(1901–1974) *

Keizō Kitajima is a Japanese photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. ...

(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 Austral ...

(1971–) * Josef Koudelka (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 movies ...

(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 i ...

(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 (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 (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 to ...

(1918–2014) * Saul Leiter (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 Si ...

(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 least ...

(1913–2009) *

Feng Li Feng Li (, born 1971) is a Chinese photographer, based in Chengdu. He is a street photographer and (more recently) a fashion photographer, as well as working a day job as a photographer for the Sichuan provincial department of communication. Fen ...

(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 David Lurie (born 1951) is a South African photographer, living and working in Cape Town."About"
, David L ...

(1951–) * Markéta Luskačová (1944–) * Jon Luvelli (1979-) *

Danny Lyon Danny Lyon (born March 16, 1942) is an American photographer and filmmaker. All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, meaning that the photographer has become immersed in with, and is a participant of, the doc ...

(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 pursuing ...

(1926–2009) *

Jesse Marlow Jesse Marlow (1978) is an Australian street photographer, editorial and commercial photographer who lives and works in Melbourne. Marlow's personal work has been published in three books of his own, and in various books with others; it has been e ...

(1978–) * Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) * Roger Mayne (1929–2014) * Paul McDonough (born 1941) *

* Susan Meiselas (1948–) *

Jeff Mermelstein Jeff Mermelstein (born 1957) is an American photojournalist and street photographer, known for his work in New York City. Life and work Mermelstein lives in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, New York. Using the camera on an iPhone, he made a series ...

(1957–) *

Joel Meyerowitz Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea ...

(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 (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 (magazine), Provoke''. Moriyama’s rough, unfettered photographic style makes use of sharply t ...

(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 (1820–1880) Sean O'Hagan,
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 (1921–1985) *

Graham Ovenden Graham Stuart Ovenden (born 11 February 1943) is an English painter, Fine art photography, fine art photographer and writer. Some of Ovenden's art has been investigated as possible child pornography by US and UK authorities and in 2009, he was ...

(1943–) *

Homer Page Homer Page (1918–1985) was an American documentary photographer whose most famous photographs were taken in New York City in 1949–1950, after he received a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. Page was born in Oakland, California, and ...

(1918–1985) * Trent Parke (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 (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 ...

(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 ...

(1910–2009) * Paul Russell (1966–) * Edward Linley Sambourne (1844–1910) * Richard Sandler (born 1946) * Boris Savelev (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 Allan Sekula (January 15, 1951 – August 10, 2013) was an American photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic. From 1985 until his death in 2013, he taught at California Institute of the Arts. His work frequently focused on large economi ...

(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.ljworld ...

(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 County Cricket Club, Leicestershire. Only Ewart Astill and George Geary have taken more wickets for Leicestersh ...

(1918–2009) *

Chris Steele-Perkins Christopher Horace Steele-Perkins (born 28 July 1947) is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his depictions of Africa, Afghanistan, England, Northern Ireland, and Japan. Life and career Steele-Perkins was born in ...

(1947–) *

Fred Stein children "Peter Stein, Ruth Marion Gutierrez (Mimi)" Fred Stein (July 3, 1909 – September 27, 1967) was a street photographer in Paris and New York after he was forced to flee his native Germany by the Nazi threat in the early 1930s. He explor ...

(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 (1957–) *

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 Thomas Struth (born 11 October 1954) is a German photographer who is best known for his ''Museum Photographs'' series, family portraits and black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s. Struth lives ...

(1954–) * Issei Suda (1940–2019) *

Wolfgang Suschitzky Wolfgang Suschitzky, BSC (29 August 1912 – 7 October 2016), was an Austrian-born British documentary photographer, as well as a cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s and his work on Mike Hodges' ...

(1912–2016) *

Michael Ernest Sweet Michael Ernest Sweet (born 1979) is a Canadian photographer, writer, and educator. He is the author of two books of street photography, ''The Human Fragment'' and ''Michael Sweet's Coney Island.'' Teaching Sweet was born and raised on his famil ...

(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."Chron ...

(1935–) *

Takeyoshi Tanuma was a Japanese photographer. In 2019, the Japanese government honoured him with the Order of Culture The is a Japanese order, established on February 11, 1937. The order has one class only, and may be awarded to men and women for contribut ...

(1929–2022) * Sam Tata (1911–2005) *

Elsa Thiemann Elsa Thiemann (''née'' Franke, 7 February 1910 – 15 November 1981) was a German photographer and former Bauhaus student. She also designed wallpaper based on photograms. Personal life and education Elsa Thiemann was born in Toruń, West Pru ...

(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.Tomo ...

(1928–2019) * Lars Tunbjörk (1956–2015) *

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

(1955–) * Nick Turpin (1969–) *

Stephan Vanfleteren Stephan Vanfleteren (born 1969) is a Belgian photographer, best known for his portraits in black and white and his depictions of Belgium and abroad. Biography Stephan Vanfleteren was born in Kortrijk in 1969, * Dougie Wallace (1953-) * Munem Wasif (1983–) * Alex Webb (photographer), Alex Webb (1952–) * Weegee (1899–1968) * Henry Wessel Jr., Henry Wessel (1942–2018) * William Whiffin (1878–1957) * Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) * Ernest Withers (1922–2007) * Michael Wolf (photographer), Michael Wolf (1954–2019) * Tom Wood (photographer), Tom Wood (1951–) * Michio Yamauchi (1950–) * Nakaji Yasui (1903–1942) * Yau Leung (1941–1997) * Bernard Pierre Wolff (1930–1985) * Max Yavno (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; ). "[Zille] roamed the streets of Berlin, rarely venturing beyond his local neighborhood of Charlottenburg, snapping images that exude spontaneity."

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