Diane Arbus was an American photographer. She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. She photographed her subjects in familiar settings: their homes, on the street, in the workplace, in the park. "She is noted for expanding notions of acceptable subject matter and violates canons of the appropriate distance between photographer and subject. By befriending, not objectifying her subjects, she was able to capture in her work a rare psychological intensity." In his 2003 New York Times Magazine article, "Arbus Reconsidered", Arthur Lubow states, "She was fascinated by people who were visibly creating their own identities—cross-dressers, nudists, sideshow performers, tattooed men, the nouveaux riches, the movie-star fans—and by those who were trapped in a uniform that no longer provided any security or comfort." Michael Kimmelman writes in his review of the exhibition Diane Arbus Revelations, that her work "transformed the art of photography ". Arbus's imagery helped to normalize marginalized groups and highlight the importance of proper representation of all people.
Mark Sheinkman is an American contemporary artist. His primary media are oil painting, drawing, and printmaking.
Judith Joy Ross is an American portrait photographer. Her books include Contemporaries (1995), Portraits (1996), Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools (2006) and Protest the War (2007), "exploring such themes as the innocence of youth, the faces of political power, and the emotional toll of war".
Hannah Wilke (born Arlene Hannah Butter; was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist. Her work is known for exploring issues of feminism, sexuality and femininity.
Laura McPhee is an American photographer known for making detailed large-format photographs of the cultural landscape. Her images raise questions about human effects on the environment and the nature of humankind's complex and contested relationship to the earth.
Linda Connor is an American photographer living in San Francisco, California. She is known for her landscape photography.
Carrie Mae Weems is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography. She achieved prominence through her early 1990s photographic project The Kitchen Table Series. Her photographs, films and videos focus on serious issues facing African Americans today, including racism, sexism, politics and personal identity.
Wilda Gerideau-Squires is an African-American fine art photographer noted for her distinctive style of photography which includes abstract images created through the interplay of fabric and light, as well as her poignant photographs of women. In 2008, Women In Photography International named Gerideau-Squires among the world's most Distinguished Women Photographers. Her photographs are included in the Peter E. Palmquist Collection at Yale University's Beinecke Library, the State House Office Building in Boston and private collections in the United States and Canada.
Alice Boughton was an early 20th-century American photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time. She was a Fellow of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession, a circle of photographers whose artistic efforts succeeded in raising photography to a fine art form.
Willie Anne Wright is an American photographer best known for her colorful cibachrome and grayscale Pinhole Photography.
Linda Lindroth is an American artist, photographer, writer, curator and educator.
Jungjin Lee is a Korean photographer and artist who currently lives and works in New York City.
Holly Roberts is an American visual artist known best for her combination of photography and paint. “Holly Roberts caused a stir in the fine art photography world of the eighties by fusing painting and photography, painting directly onto photographs”. Roberts lives and works in Corrales, New Mexico. Her work is in the permanent collection of several museums in the United States.
Angela Strassheim is an American photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York and Jerusalem. Prior to receiving her MFA from Yale in 2003, Strassheim worked as a certified forensic photographer. In this capacity she produced crime scene, evidence, and surveillance photography in Miami. Later, having moved to New York, she began to photograph autopsies as well.
Jeanne Dunning is an American photographer whose work is centered around corporeality and human physicality in abstract forms.
Ann Mandelbaum is an American artist and photographer. She has an MA in Media Studies from The New School and an MFA from Pratt Institute in Painting and Drawing. She retired in 2021 after over 40 years teaching Fine Art and Photography at Pratt Institute.
Nanette Carolyn Carter, born January 30, 1954, in Columbus, Ohio, is an African-American artist and college educator living and working in New York City, best known for her collages with paper, canvas and Mylar.
Holly Lynton is an American photographer based in Massachusetts. Her portraits of modern rural communities and agrarian laborers in America have been exhibited both nationally and abroad.
Christine Osinski is an American photographer. Osinski was born in Chicago, Illinois and was educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, and received a M.F.A. degree from Yale University. Osinski is noted for her photographs of Staten Island in the 1980s.
Esther Parada (1938–2005) was an American photographer, activist, teacher and author.
