Helmut Newton was a German-Australian photographer. The New York Times described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."
Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects.
Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography.
Nicholas David Gordon Knight OBE is a British fashion photographer and founder and director of SHOWstudio.com. He is an honorary professor at University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the same university. He has produced books of his work including retrospectives Nicknight (1994) and Nick Knight (2009). In 2016, Knight's 1992 campaign photograph for fashion brand Jil Sander was sold by Phillips auction house at the record-breaking price of HKD 2,360,000.
Norman Parkinson, was an English portrait and fashion photographer. His work revolutionised British fashion photography, as he moved his subjects out of the studio and used outdoor settings. While serving as a Royal Air Force photographer in World War II, he started with Vogue magazine, discovering several famous models. He became an official royal photographer in 1969, taking photographs for Princess Anne's 19th birthday and the Investiture portrait of King Charles III as Prince of Wales. Many other royal portraits included official portraits of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother for her 75th birthday. He was known for using elements of humour in his photographs. Parkinson received many honours during his life including the Royal Photographic Society's Progress Medal, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society of Magazine Photographers, a Google Doodle and a British postage stamp.
Martin Munkácsi was a Hungarian photographer who worked in Germany (1928–1934) and the United States, where he was based in New York City.
Hugo Erfurth was a German photographer known for his portraits of celebrities and cultural figures of the early twentieth century.
R. Ian Lloyd is an Australian photographer who was born in Canada in 1953 and studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Brooks Institute of Photography in the United States before coming to Australia in 1975. He worked in television and as a photographer for guide books before establishing his own photography and publishing company in Singapore in 1983. Ian has undertaken commissions for magazines such as National Geographic, Fortune and Time, and has won numerous awards for his work. He has photographed 36 books on countries and regions around Asia including large format books on Kathmandu, Bali and Singapore and a four volume series on Australian wine regions. His photographs have been widely exhibited around the world. In 2000 a retrospective book and exhibition of his work, Spirit of Asia, toured six Asian cities under the sponsorship of the National Geographic Channel. In 2007 he produced a book, DVD and travelling exhibition entitled STUDIO: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity.
Marianne Breslauer was a German photographer, photojournalist and pioneer of street photography during the Weimar Republic.
Emil Otto Hoppé was a German-born British portrait, travel, and topographic photographer active between 1907 and 1945. Born to a wealthy family in Munich, he moved to London in 1900 to train as a financier, but took up photography and rapidly achieved great success.
Miles Aldridge is a British fashion photographer and artist.
Mario von Bucovich was also known as Marius von Bucovich. He was born at Pula in the Istrian region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and held the title of Baron. His father, August, Freiherr von Bucovich (1852–1913), was a former Corvette Captain in the Austro-Hungarian navy and later an entrepreneur in the railroad concession sector. His mother was Greek.
Trude Fleischmann was an Austrian-born American photographer. After becoming a notable society photographer in Vienna in the 1920s, she re-established her business in New York in 1940.
Sasha Stone, born Aleksander Steinsapir was a Russian artist. A stateless photographer, he and his first wife, Cami Stone, were successful photographers during the 1920s and 1930s. One of his most known work is the cover of Walter Benjamin's book Einbahnstraße published in 1928.
Yva was the professional pseudonym of Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon who was a German Jewish photographer renowned for her dreamlike, multiple exposed images. She became a leading photographer in Berlin during the Weimar Republic.
Roger Schall was a French photographer and photojournalist who practiced from the end of the 1920s until the 1970s. During World War II, Schall secretly documented the Nazi occupation of Paris. The studio he opened in Montmartre with his brother in 1931 worked as an agency, distributing images in numerous magazines: Vu, Vogue Paris, L'Illustration, Life, Paris Match… 150 covers and 10,000 photos published. Roger Schall produced fashion photography for the fetish clothing company Diana Slip. He photographed many celebrities of his time including Gabrielle Chanel, Colette and Marlène Dietrich.
Imre Szántó, worked professionally as Imre von Santho, was a Hungarian fashion photographer and illustrator, based in Berlin and Vienna between the wars.
Liselotte Strelow was a German photographer.
Hans Robertson was a German photographer and photojournalist of the Weimar Republic. He had a studio in Berlin focused on photography of dance, theatre, and portraits of its people including Harald Kreutzberg, Vera Skoronel and Mary Wigman, and of other public figures such as Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Mann, Gustav Stresemann and Max Schmeling.
Auguste Lilly Marga Baruch was a German photographer who worked and lived in Berlin in the 1920s.
