& Weegee (Arthur Fellig) A photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography. Weegee worked in Manhattan, New York City's Lower East Side as a press photographer during the 1930s and '40s, and he developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity. Weegee (Arthur Fellig) Gary Winogrand Gary Winograd was a street photographer from the Bronx, New York, known for his portrayal of American life, and its social issues, in the mid-20th century. Though he photographed in Los Angeles and elsewhere, Winogrand was essentially a New York photographer Gary Winogrand Gordon Parks Parks, born in 1912, was the first African-American photographer hired at Life and Vogue magazines. Focusing on race relations, civil rights, poverty and urban life, his body of work documented controversial aspects of American culture from the early 1940s until his death in 2006. He was a self- taught artist who purchased his first camera at the age of 25. Ansel Adams American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park Ansel Adams Manuel Álvarez Bravo Often cited as Mexico's most celebrated fine art photographer, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, whose life almost spanned the entire 20th century, relentlessly captured the history of the country's evolving social and geopolitical atmosphere. His early work was based on European influences, but he was soon influenced by the Mexican muralism movement and the general cultural and political push at the time to redefine Mexican identity. Lola Álvarez Bravo Lola Álvarez Bravo was one of Mexico’s most important photographers. Like other women artists linked with famous male counterparts, her work has often been overshadowed by that of her husband. Stubbornly independent, her camera became both her livelihood and her means of portraying what she explained as “the life I found before me.” Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake, and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally, and continues to inform the art of photography. Irving Penn Richard Avedon Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century" Richard Avedon Nan Goldin Nan Goldin is an American photographer known for her deeply personal and candid portraiture. Goldin’s images act as a visual autobiography documenting herself and those closest to her, especially in the LGBTQ community. Her opus The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1980–1986) is a slideshow of snapshots set to music that chronicled her life within the subcultures of New York during the 1980s Robert Mapplethorpe An American photographer, known for his sometimes controversial large-scale, highly stylized black and white photography. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits and still-life images of flowers. The homoeroticism of this work fueled a national debate over the public funding of controversial artwork. Robert Mapplethorpe Diane Arbus Diane Arbus was an American photographer and writer noted for photographs of marginalised people —dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers—and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal. Diane Arbus Asger Carlsen Danish photographer Asger Carlsen began his career at 16 when he sold a photo he took of the police yelling at him and his friends for burning a picket fence to the local paper. For the next ten years Asger worked as a crime photographer before moving on to shooting ads for magazines. His eerie and often humorous work makes you question what is human, and has been exhibited and published internationally. Asger Carlsen.