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Born March 23, 1899 • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Died March 10, 1998 (aged 98) • New York City • New York
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Garry Winogrand
American photographer
Self-portrait by André Kertész
André Kertész
Hungarian-born American photographer
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans
German photographer
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Lee Friedlander
American photographer
Diane Arbus sits at a table holding a large vintage camera, looking to the side, in a black and white portrait taken in a New York Automat around 1968.
Diane Arbus
American photographer
Promenade des Anglais, 1934
Lisette Model
Austrian photographer
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Lotte Jacobi
American photographer
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Ruth Orkin
American photographer and filmmaker
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Roy Stryker
American government official and photographer
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John Draper
American astronomer
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Hilla Becher
German photographer
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Albert Sands Southworth
American photographer
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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
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
Dada exhibit
Hannah Höch
German artist
Lee Miller and Frederick Laws
Lee Miller
American photographer, artist, and model