Great photographers

Photographs are legacies passed onto future generations. FInd out who the 21 most iconic and famous photographers are that paved the way for others. #famous #photographers #photography #history

Street photography captures the beauty of the everyday. There's a special improvisatory skill that street photographers need. It's a way of seeing the world.

A comprehensive new exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris shows off the street photographer's little-known surrealist shots – and reveals his radical politics, writes Sean O'Hagan

Ansel Adams (1902-1984) a very well know master of photography and arguably the most influential landscape photographer in American history. He was a lifelong conservationist who encouraged understanding of, and respect for, the natural environment. Born in a suburb of coastal San Francisco in 1902, Adams was the only

To move more confidently into the future, you must delve into the past. These 12 famous portrait photographers is a great place to start.

Over the weekend, I visited an Ansel Adams exhibition in London. Having found his work even more breathtaking in print, I purchased a documentary about the man himself. It was an effort to learn more about the artist I admired.

When I reached Sally Mann by phone, she asked me to wait a few minutes before we talked. “I’m in the darkroom,” she explained. This might be expected: If Mann isn’t out shooting in her mobile photography lab—a converted GMC...

richard avedon photographs sophia loren, new york, 1966.

Weegee self portrait