John Pfahl was an American photographer.
Brian Ulrich is an American photographer known for his photographic exploration of consumer culture.
The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) was founded in 1976 by Columbia College Chicago as the successor to the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography. The museum houses a permanent collection as well as the Midwest Photographers Project (MPP), which contains portfolios of photographers and artists' work who reside in the Midwestern United States. The Museum of Contemporary Photography began collecting in the early 1980s and has since grown its collection to include more than 15,000 objects by over 1,500 artists. The MoCP is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
M. W. Burns is an American sound artist. His audio installations explore how sound can transform one's sense of place. Much of his work has focused on public address and the evolving proliferation of spoken message systems where voices are deployed as behavior management devices, operating as a kind of "disembodied sonic superego". One of his earliest public works took place in 1983 in a Philadelphia park, repeating short phrases over a PA system.
Linda Connor is an American photographer living in San Francisco, California. She is known for her landscape photography.
Ryan Zoghlin is an artist and photographer.
Jane Fulton Alt is an American photographer who explores issues of love, loss, and spirituality in her work. Alt was the recipient of the 2007 Illinois Art Council Fellowship Award and the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Ragdale Fellowship Award.
Sze Tsung Leong is an American and British photographer and artist interested in urban studies.
Catherine Chalmers, is an American artist and photographer. She lives and works in New York City.
Kelli Connell is an American contemporary photographer. Connell is known for creating portraits, which may appear as self-portraits. Her work is held in the collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Joyce Neimanas is an American artist known for her unorthodox approach to photography and mixed-media works.
Charles H. Traub is an American photographer and educator, known for his ironic real world witness color photography. He was chair of the photography department at Columbia College Chicago, where he established its Museum of Contemporary Photography (MOCP) in 1976, and became a director of New York's Light Gallery in 1977. Traub founded the MFA program in Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1987, which was the first program of its kind to fully embrace digital photographic practice. He has been Chairperson of the program since. Traub has published many books of his photographs and writings on photography and media.
Susan Rankaitis is an American multimedia artist working primarily in painting, photography and drawing. Rankaitis began her career in the 1970s as an abstract painter. Visiting the Art Institute of Chicago while in graduate school, she had a transformative encounter with the photograms of the artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), whose abstract works of the 1920s and 1940s she saw as "both painting and photography." Rankaitis began to develop her own experimental methods for producing abstract and conceptual artworks related both to painting and photography.
Jin Lee is a photographer and educator who has exhibited throughout the United States. Her work is engaged in "the sensuous experience of a place. Her photographs are in part a highly personal investigation of the city where she lives and the surrounding natural environments."
Ruth Thorne-Thomsen is an American photographer who resides in Philadelphia. Important collections of her work are held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She was married to the photographer Ray K. Metzker until his death in 2014.
Deborah Bright is a 20th-century American photographer and artist, writer, and educator. She is particularly noted for her imagery and scholarship on queer desire and politics, as well as on the ideologies of American landscape photography. Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Bright's photographic projects have been exhibited internationally.
Susan Crocker is an American photographer. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago holds a collection of her photographs documenting the construction in the Chicago Loop from 1985 to 1987.
Jeanne Dunning is an American photographer whose work is centered around corporeality and human physicality in abstract forms.
Laura Volkerding (1939–1996) was an American photographer.
Lucas Foglia is an American photographer, living in San Francisco. "His work is concerned mainly with documenting people and their relationship to nature", for which he has travelled extensively making landscape photography and portraiture.
