A photographer is a person who makes photographs.
Arnold Genthe was a German-American photographer, best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and his portraits of noted people, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities.
Douglas Kirkland is a photographer based in the United States.
A film still is a photograph taken on or off the set of a movie or television program during production. These photographs are also taken in formal studio settings and venues of opportunity such as film stars' homes, film debut events, and commercial settings. The photos were taken by studio photographers for promotional purposes. Such stills consisted of posed portraits, used for public display or free fan handouts, which are sometimes autographed. They can also consist of posed or candid images taken on the set during production, and may include stars, crew members or directors at work.
Robert Hanley "Bob" Willoughby was an American photographer. Popular Photography called him "The man who virtually invented the photojournalistic motion picture still."
Mark Robert Halper is a Los Angeles photographer noted for the striking human images in his commercial and fine art photography. He has worked in a wide range of specialties including portrait, lifestyle, celebrity, architecture, still life, and fine art.
Jerry Avenaim is an American photographer best known for his fashion and celebrity images.
Michael Putland was an English music photographer who "didn’t have a day off in the seventies. At least that’s how it seemed to him at the time". He photographed thousands of artists, from ABBA to Zappa.
John Raymond Garrett is an Australian/British photo journalist whose work is mainly on fashion, reportage and photojournalism. He has covered situations and exhibited widely and is the author of many books.
Dan Winters is an American portrait photographer, illustrator, filmmaker and writer.
Richard Crump Miller was an American photographer best known for his vintage carbro prints, photos of celebrities, and work documenting the Hollywood Freeway.
Mark Shaw was an American fashion and celebrity photographer in the 1950s and 1960s. He worked for Life magazine from 1952 to 1968, during which time 27 issues of Life carried cover photos by Shaw. Shaw's work also appeared in Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, and many other publications. He is best known for his photographs of John F. Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, and their children, Caroline and John F. Kennedy, Jr. In 1964, many of these images were published in the book The John F. Kennedys: A Family Album, which became a bestseller.
Art Streiber is an American photographer known in particular for his portraits of entertainment and sports personalities. His images are widely published and range from a portrait of actor-comedian Seth Rogen as the Cary Grant character in the plane scene in the Alfred Hitchcock classic North by Northwest, which Streiber shot for Vanity Fair, to a nude group shot of the Women's U.S. Water Polo team for the cover of the 2010 "The Body Issue" of ESPN The Magazine, the cast of the ABC sitcom Modern Family for a triple cover of Entertainment Weekly, and a re-creation of a scene from The Grapes of Wrath featuring the cast of the movie Taking Woodstock, also for Vanity Fair.
John Gerald Zimmerman was an American photographer. He was among the first sports photographers to use remote controlled cameras for unique camera placements, and was "a pioneer in the use of motor-driven camera sequences, slit cameras and double-shutter designs to show athletes in motion."
Jessie Tarbox Beals was an American photographer, the first published female photojournalist in the United States and the first female night photographer.
William Connell was a self-taught American portrait and industrial photographer.
Helen Sloan, an Irish photographer who initially started her professional work taking wistful pictures of acrobatic artists in a circus company has moved into a long term assignment as a photographer filming for the American HBO’s TV series titled Game of Thrones. She is an Irish member of the Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers (SMPSP) and is the first Irish person to work from Los Angeles. She held an exhibition of her "on-set photography" in May 2016 under the auspices of AP and Nikon School in London, of her still photographs taken for the HBO’s series.
Ron Jaffe is an American photographer. He has photographed six U. S. Presidents, legislators, dignitaries and well-known celebrities in the fields of entertainment and sports.
Arthur Grace is an American photojournalist, documentary photographer, and author whose work spanning fifty years in photography is noted for its in-depth focus on Americana. The author of five books featuring his images, Grace is perhaps best known for his seminal book of black and white photographs of the 1988 U.S. Presidential election, Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race. Grace's interest in quintessentially American subjects has resulted in four additional books: Comedians, State Fair, America 101, and Robin Williams: A Singular Portrait. Grace also worked extensively covering life under communism while on assignment for Time and Newsweek behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War from 1977 to 1989. During his career in photojournalism, Grace's photographs appeared on the covers of numerous periodicals including Life, Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, and Stern. In the years since 1992, Grace led a successful career shooting advertising campaigns for motion pictures while further pursuing his documentary and personal projects.
Adolph L. "Whitey" Schafer was an American photographer known for his pin-ups and glamour photography. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Schafer grew up in California and began working in the movies in 1921. He took still photos of movie stars for several studios, including Columbia and Paramount. Schafer was killed by an explosion on a yacht in 1951.
