Here is a list of famous photographers:
- Ansel Adams
- Diane Arbus
- Eugène Atget
- Richard Avedon
- Amos Badertscher
- David Bailey
- Lewis Baltz
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- Ernest Bellocq
- James Bidgood
- Karl Blossfeldt
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Jane Bown
- Brassaï
- Manuel Alvarez Bravo
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- Robert Capa
- Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Martín Chambi
- Alvin Langdon Coburn
- Gregory Crewdson
- Imogen Cunningham
- Adolphe de Meyer
- Rineke Dijkstra
- Robert Doisneau
- Terence Donovan
- David Douglas Duncan
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
- Elliott Erwitt
- Walker Evans
- Marc Ferrez
- William Fox Talbot
- Robert Frank
- Lee Friedlander
- Mario Giacomelli
- Wilhelm von Gloeden
- David Goldblatt
- Nan Goldin
- Che Guevara (although famous for reasons other than his photography)
- David Hamilton
- Lewis Wickes Hine
- Stan Honda
- Yousuf Karsh
- André Kertész
- Alberto Korda
- William Klein
- David Lachapelle
- Inez van Lamsweerde
- Dorothea Lange
- Frans Lanting
- Jacques Henri Lartigue
- Corky Lee
- Annie Leibowitz
- Herman Leonard
- Patrick Lichfield
- Herbert List
- Willy Matheisl
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Will McBride
- Steve McCurry
- Susan Meiselas
- Lee Miller
- Tina Modotti
- Inge Morath
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Carl Mydans
- James Nachtwey
- Nadar
- Helmut Newton
- Nicéphore Niepce
- Gordon Parks
- Martin Parr
- Irving Penn
- Gilles Peress
- Guglielmo Plüschow
- Dith Pran
- Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
- José Rahola
- Man Ray
- Marc Riboud
- Herb Ritts
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Galen Rowell
- Sebastião Salgado
- Erich Salomon
- August Sander
- Francesco Scavullo
- David Seymour
- Jeanloup Sieff
- Edwin Smith
- W. Eugene Smith
- Edward Steichen
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Paul Strand
- Jock Sturges
- Josef Sudek
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Spencer Tunick
- Ellen von Unwerth
- Alex Webb
- Bruce Weber
- Weegee
- Edward Weston
- Garry Winogrand
