Photographers
Pioneers
William Henry Fox Talbot
Joseph Niepce
Roger Fenton (crimean War)
Anna Atkins
Hippolyte Bayard
Henry Peach Robinson (Multiple Prints - Comps)
Oscar Reijlander
Louis Daguerre
julia Margaret Cameron
Camille Silvy (Multiple Prints)
Jean-Baptiste Tournasound (1st world war - colour)
Mervyn O’Gormon (Autochrome - Daughter on the Beach)
Art / Montage
Lola du Pre
Pierre Et Gilles
Gilbert and George
Man Ray
David Hockney
Martha Rosler
John Stezaker
Richard Hamilton
John Heartfield
Alberto Seveso
Gilles Bensimon (Flowers in water)
Justin Quinell - Pinhole mouth photography
Brock Davis - Minitures & Food (quirky)
Idris Kahn
Dora Maar - Cameraless + Montage + Multi print
Jason shulman - Idris Kahn with Films (compressed Time)
Fine Art / Documentary
Richard Billingham (Ray's a Laugh)
William Eggleston (america 70’s - colour pioneer)
Martin Parr (The Last Resort, The Cost of Living, Small World)
Harry Gruyaert (Ostende, Beaches)
Nick Waplington - (Living Room and Weddings, Parties, Anything, Safety in Numbers)
Bill Owens - Suburbia (East Bay Domestic Scenes)
Diane Arbus "deviant and marginal people or people whose normality seem ugly or surreal"
Henri Cartier Bresson
Fan Ho (Hong Kong - Similar to HCB)
Vivian Maier - (Streets Chicago)
Simon Roberts (Pierdom, We English, The Hudna)
Tom Wood (Life in the North East England)
Sean Hakey ( Silver Miners)
Walker Evans ( American Life )
Alfred Stieglitz
Lee Friedlander (Jazz / Social Landscape)
Garry Winogrand (American Life in the early 60's- Coney Island Aquarium & Bronx Zoo)
Andre Kertesz
Dorothea Lange - Effects of (US Depression on Farming Community)
Sebastião Salgado ( Ship Breakers & Mining in South America)
Zed Nelson (Gun Nation)
Albrecht Tubke (Street Portraits)
Philip-Lorca diCorcia (Documentary photography mixed with the fictional world of cinema and advertising)
Paul Graham (Troubled Land, A1-The Great North Road, American Night)
jocelyn allen - self portraits
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Brock Davis ( Broccoli tree house )
Seth Taras - know where you stand ( Locations from the past combined with today)
Marina Amaral - Hand Coloured b&W pics from the past
Bert Danckaert - Urban combined with colour - shapes
Brassai
Stephen Gill - Trolley Portraits (street portrait)
tim Cornbill - Past and present (photos in the past in the present)
Chris Engman (Multiple Exposures + Mirrors in Landscape)
Simon Menner (snipers in hides - Landscape)
ian Kirby - I Wish I could Paint (painterly, Blurriness)
Lindokuhle sobekwa - South africa Townships + white Population
Jason Shulman - Film compression in to one frame
Tish Murtha - North East Documentary (Newcastle) B&W
Khalid Allah - NYC Nocturnal Portraits -Harlem
Documentary (News + War)
Eddie Adams
Nick Ut
Robert Capa
Joe Rosenthal
Don McCullin
Tom Stoddart
Tim Hetherington
Philip Jones Griffiths (Vietnam + Wales)
Fashion & Beauty
Nick Knight
Corinne Day (Kate Moss/ early Face & ID Mag)
Paolo Roversi (Polaroids 10"x8")*
Herb Ritts
David LaChapelle
Mario Testino
Tim Walker
Steven Klein
Patrick Demarchelier
Mario Sorreti
Steven Meisel
Jurgen Teller
Rankin
Terry Richardson
Helmet Newton
Richard Avedon
Ellen von Unwerth
Yulia Gorbachenko
Claire Harrison
Jayesh Pankhania
Bruce Weber
Albert Watson
Irving Penn
Horst P Horst*
Cecil Beaton
Norman Parkinson
Jeanloup Sieff
Guy Bourdin
Diver & Aguilar
Irwin Olaf*
Cathleen Naundorf ( Colour & B&W Polaroid)*
federico cabrero
Phebe Schmidt
Peter Lindbergh
Tim Walker - Wonderful Things
Joshua Woods - street Fashion
Denis Gutierrez-Ogrinc - Street Fashion
Landscape
Ansel Adams
Edward Weston
John Davies - B&W Landscapes (North East 1960’s to present)
Murray Fredericks (B&W & Colour Clouds, Ice sheets)
PORTRAIT
Anton Corbijn
Ellis Parinder
Kevin Westernberg
Annie Leibovitz
Robert Wilson
maxine helfman (historical correction)
Pieter Hugo
Albrecht Tubke
Stephen Gill
Dana Lixenberg
Alec Soth
Joel Sternfeld
yousef Karsh
Kasia Wosniak (wet collodion - Portraits)
George Hurrell (Hollywood Portraits)
Clarence Sinclair Bull ( Hollywood Portraits)
Ruth Harriet Louise (Early Hollywood Portraits)
Angus McBean ( Portraits + Surrealism)
Special Effects
Eadweard Muybridge (multiple exposure - HIGH SPEED)
Corr White (water droplets)
Fabian Oefner (paint & bubbles)
Carli Davidson (dogs head shake)
Heinz Maier (water droplets)
Marina Amaral (Hand coloured prints- PS)
Hand de Kort (Collodion Process)
Still Life
Karl Blossfeldt - (B&W fauna)*
Barry Rosenthal - (Colour fauna)
Carol Sharp (Flowers)
Edward Weston (Shells & Peppers)
Imogen Cunningham (Plants-Algave)
Gertrudes Altschul (Plants + Photomontage)