Jay Maisel 

(Photographer)

Jay Maisel was born in 1931, in New York. Jay is a famous modern photographer. His photos are simple, and he doesn’t use complex lighting or fancy cameras. He often only takes one lens on photo outings, and he enjoys taking photos of shapes and lights that he finds interesting.

Henri Cartier-Bresson 

(Photographer) 

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. Henri has a style that makes him a natural on any top ten photographer list. His style has undoubtedly influenced photography as much as anyone else’s. He was among the first to use 35mm film, and he usually shot in black and white. We are not graced by more of his work since he gave up the craft about 30 years before he passed away. It’s sad that there are fewer photographs by Cartier-Bresson to enjoy.

http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/top-10-most-famous-photographers-of-all-time/

Jerry Uelsman 

(Photographer)

Jerry Uelsman was born in 1934, in Detroit. Jerry created unique images with composite photographs. Being very talented in the darkroom, he used this skill in his composites. He never used digital cameras, since he felt that his creative process was more suited to the darkroom.

http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/top-10-most-famous-photographers-of-all-time/

Robert Capa 

(Photographer) 

Robert was a hungarian combat photographer who redefined wartime journalism by joining soldiers in the trenches and documenting their battle in grim, close-up detail. His first assignment was in the Spanish Civil War and he later went on to cover the World War II. 

http://www.biography.com/people/robert-capa-9237294

Dorothea Lange 

(Photographer) 

Dorothea Lange was born in 1895, in New Jersey. During the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets. Her photographs of migrant workers were often presented with captions featuring the words of the workers themselves. Lange’s first exhibition, held in 1934, established her reputation as a skilled documentary photographer. In 1940, she received the Guggenheim Fellowship. She was a well known documentary photographer. 

http://www.biography.com/people/dorothea-lange-9372993

Ethan Pines 

(Photographer) 

Ethan was not someone who was born with a camera in his hand, he was born with stories in his head. When he headed away to college and grad school, that's when Ethan started shooting his stories. He says that photography lets his express what he is searching for: "a world better than real life, moments that transcend the everyday and offer a glimpse of humanity's best." He has also won several awards for his work. 

Annie Leibovitz

(Photographer) 

Annie Leibovitz was born October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. She is best known as an american portrait photographer. In 1970 she took a job at Rolling Stone magazine. In 1983 she began working for the entertainment magazine Vanity Fair. During the late 1980s, Leibovitz started to work on a number of high-profile advertising campaigns. From the 1990s to the present, she has been publishing and exhibiting her work.

http://www.biography.com/people/annie-leibovitz-9542372

Jill Greenberg 

(Photographer) 

Jill has staged photographs and created characters using media of drawing, painting, sculpture, film, and photography ever since she was a little girl. Jill is known for her uniquely human animal portraits which intentionally anthropomorphize her subjects. her newest work marks a return to the postmodern feminist  theory that inspired her senior thesis, "The Female Object" addressing "the disciplinary project of femininity" and the redetermined failure of all women who attempt to "succeed" at it. 

http://clampart.com/2011/10/jill-greenberg/ 

Jennifer Silverberg 

(Photographer) 

Jennifer grew up in the suburbs just north of New York City. She got her first camera when she was 8 years old. Some of her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, AARP.org, Culture: The Word on Cheese Magazine, The Bark and Light Leaks Magazine among others. Jennifer now is a freelance photographer, continuing to do assignment work for the alt-weekly and others, working on personal projects, and exhibiting and teaching as often as possible.

http://www.jsilverberg.com/content.html?page=2

Diane Arbus 

(Photographer) 

Diane Arbus was born in New York City. She was a very artistic youth. Diane learned photography from her husband, actor Allan Arbus. Her raw, unusual images of the people she saw while living in New York created a unique and interesting portrayal of the city. Diane was best known for her distinctive portraits that showed the world how crazy (and beautiful) New Yorkers were in the 1950s and '60s. She committed suicide in 1971. 

http://www.biography.com/people/diane-arbus-9187461

Ansel Adams 

(Photographer) 

Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco in 1902. His interest in photography grew throughout his career and he often went to the mountains where he was accompanied by a mule that was named laden who carried Ansel's gear and supplies. Ansel Adams was a visionary figure in nature photography and wilderness preservation. His dedication and commitment to the Sierra Club along with his black and white photographs inspire an appreciation for natural beauty and conservation ethic. 

http://www.sierraclub.org/history/ansel-adams/

Sally Mann

(Photographer)

   Sally Mann is an American Photographer who was born in 1951. She is best known for black and white photographs. Sally's early series "Immediate Family" consisted of photographing her husband and their three children. Sally's most recent series focus on landscapes of the south, which tend to be shot with damaged lenses. Sally has won several awards for her photography some of her work even hang in museums. 

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/sally-mann