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Born June 22, 1908 • Lynn • Massachusetts
Died February 26, 1993 (aged 84) • Santa Fe • New Mexico
Founder “Aperture”
Notable Family Members spouse Nancy Newhall
Subjects Of Study photography
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Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
American museum curator
Szarkowski, John
John Szarkowski
American photographer and curator
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Albert Sands Southworth
American photographer
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Roy Stryker
American government official and photographer
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John Draper
American astronomer
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Josiah Johnson Hawes
American photographer
Curtis, Edward S.
Edward S. Curtis
American photographer
Imogen Cunningham: photograph of Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
American photographer
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Lonnie G. Bunch III
American museum director
Edward Weston at Point Lobos, 1945, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Edward Weston
American photographer
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
American photographer
Walker Evans
Walker Evans
American photographer
Kevin Young
Kevin Young
American poet, essayist, and editor
Lee Miller and Frederick Laws
Lee Miller
American photographer, artist, and model
Edward Steichen, 1960.
Edward Steichen
American photographer
Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey
American photographer, writer, and educator
Deana Lawson
Deana Lawson
American photographer
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson
American multimedia artist
A person in glasses examines a strip of film in a darkroom. Overlaid text reads
Garry Winogrand
American photographer