Photographers

What lands on a date

• 01-01 Alfred Stieglitz · American photographer and champion of modern art. source
• 01-14 Garry Winogrand · American street photographer of the 1960s and 1970s. source
• 01-15 Andreas Gursky · German photographer of large-scale contemporary worlds. source
• 01-19 Cindy Sherman · American photographer of staged identity portraits. source
• 02-02 André Kertész · Hungarian photographer of lyrical street scenes. source
• 02-08 Sebastião Salgado · Brazilian photojournalist of labour and environment. source
• 02-11 William Henry Fox Talbot · English inventor of the calotype process. source
• 02-20 Ansel Adams · American landscape photographer of the American West. source
• 02-23 Hiroshi Sugimoto · Japanese photographer of time and abstraction. source
• 03-07 Nicéphore Niépce · French inventor of the earliest surviving photograph. source
• 03-14 Diane Arbus · American photographer of marginal and ordinary lives. source
• 03-24 Edward Weston · American photographer of precise natural forms. source
• 03-27 Edward Steichen · American photographer and curator. source
• 04-06 Nadar · French photographer and caricaturist of Parisian life. source
• 04-09 Eadweard Muybridge · English photographer and pioneer of motion studies. source
• 04-12 Imogen Cunningham · American photographer of plants, nudes, and portraits. source
• 04-23 Steve McCurry · American photographer known for global portraiture. source
• 05-01 Sally Mann · American photographer of family and Southern landscape. source
• 05-03 Jacob Riis · Danish-American photographer and social reformer. source
• 05-15 Richard Avedon · American fashion and portrait photographer. source
• 05-18 Mathew Brady · American photographer of the Civil War. source
• 05-26 Dorothea Lange · American documentary photographer of the Great Depression. source
• 06-11 Julia Margaret Cameron · British portrait photographer of the Victorian era. source
• 06-14 Margaret Bourke-White · American photojournalist and industrial photographer. source
• 06-16 Irving Penn · American fashion and still-life photographer. source
• 07-09 Minor White · American photographer and teacher of spiritual seeing. source
• 07-14 Lee Friedlander · American photographer of urban visual complexity. source
• 07-17 Berenice Abbott · American photographer of New York architecture. source
• 07-20 László Moholy-Nagy · Hungarian Bauhaus artist and photographer. source
• 07-27 William Eggleston · American photographer who legitimised colour art photography. source
• 08-01 Gerda Taro · German war photographer and Capa's partner. source
• 08-22 Henri Cartier-Bresson · French photographer and master of the decisive moment. source
• 08-27 Man Ray · American Dada and Surrealist photographer. source
• 09-09 Brassaï · Hungarian-French photographer of nocturnal Paris. source
• 09-12 Nan Goldin · American photographer of intimate counterculture life. source
• 10-02 Annie Leibovitz · American portrait photographer of celebrity culture. source
• 10-06 Thomas Struth · German photographer of museums and city streets. source
• 10-16 Paul Strand · American modernist photographer and filmmaker. source
• 10-22 Robert Capa · Hungarian war photographer and co-founder of Magnum. source
• 10-31 Helmut Newton · German-Australian fashion photographer. source

+ 5 more day-precise entries in the corpus.

The year rail

Some lives are known by year, not by day. Those entries are kept on a rail — never placed on a fabricated date.