50 TOP PHOTOGRAPHERS OF ALL TIME

His landscapes are stunning, his prints immaculate.

Achieved a rare, high level of succes in his 20's; portrait style was inventive and monumental; served as staff photographer for 45 years for "Harper's Bazaar" and "Vogue"; photographed members of the civil rights movement; first staff photographer for "The New Yorker"; retrospectives include exhibitions of his works at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek/Denmark, Milan, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and San Francisco.

Founding member of the Photo Secession, New York; colonel in the American Expeditionary Forces-Director of aerial photography in western Europe; head photographer of Conde Nast, Vanity Fiar, Vogue; director of Naval Photographic Institute; director Dept of Photography, Museum of Modern Art.

Best Photographer of all times

Worked for Resettlement Administration (Farm Security Administration); published "An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion"; awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship; photographed US citizens of Japanese origin who had been interned; worked for the Office of War Information.

his words. "When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice." my words: yes yes

Amazing photographer from NYC.

Made color photography respectable in artistic circles.

Initially a fashion photographer; began freelance work at age 32; focused on the human image; in only 13 years, produced a body of work that is among the most consistent and compelling of the 20th century.

Broke last remaining taboos surrounding photographing the male nude; photographed stagings of S&M and bondage; most compelling of all were his self-portraits; published photographs of African American males; published "Certain People: A Book of People"; photographed Jan Fabre's performance "The Power of Theatrical Madness" in Antwerp; published "A Season of Hell: Rimbaud, Mapplethorpe"; photographed numerous portraits for Richard Marshall's book "50 New York Artists.

Belong in the top 10 photographer of all time

Underrated legend of NYC photography.

This is an obvious addition

Greatest photographer after the original master, Atget.

The landscape photographer extraordinaire!

kick ass pictures!

Great Portrait photographer

Photographed the whole "Swinging London" in the 60s and still works today as one of the worlds most renowed portrait photographers

He is considered a profoundly influential figure in contemporary Mexican and Latin American Photography, and his work is widely published around the world.