Robert Adams is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The New West (1974) and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics:Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships,a MacArthur Fellowship,the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award.
Frank Gohlke is an American landscape photographer. He has been awarded two Guggenheim fellowships,two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,and a Fulbright Scholar Grant. His work is included in numerous permanent collections,including those of Museum of Modern Art,New York;the Metropolitan Museum of Art;and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Nicholas Nixon is an American photographer,known for his work in portraiture and documentary photography,and for using the 8×10 inch view camera.
Roy Rudolph DeCarava was an American artist. DeCarava received early critical acclaim for his photography,initially engaging and imaging the lives of African Americans and jazz musicians in the communities where he lived and worked. Over a career that spanned nearly six decades,DeCarava came to be known as a founder in the field of black and white fine art photography,advocating for an approach to the medium based on the core value of an individual,subjective creative sensibility,which was separate and distinct from the "social documentary" style of many predecessors.
Henry Wessel was an American photographer and educator. He made "obdurately spare and often wry black-and-white pictures of vernacular scenes in the American West".
Linda Connor is an American photographer living in San Francisco,California. She is known for her landscape photography.
Mark Klett is an American photographer. His work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Museum of Modern Art,New York.
David Graham is an American artist photographer and professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He currently lives and works in De Pere,Wisconsin. Embracing popular forms of American photography,David Graham explores contemporary culture through the idiosyncratic nature of the American landscape. His work is in many collections,including the Museum of Modern Art,New York City;the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;the Art Institute of Chicago;the Philadelphia Museum of Art;the George Eastman House,Rochester,New York;the International Center of Photography,New York City;and the Brooklyn Museum,New York. He is represented by the Laurence Miller Gallery in New York City,Etherton Gallery in Tucson,Arizona,and the PDNB Gallery in Dallas,Texas.
Ray K. Metzker was an American photographer known chiefly for his stark,experimental Black and White cityscapes and for his large assemblages of printed film strips and single frames,known as Composites.
Peter Goin is an American photographer best known for his work within the altered landscape,specifically his photographs published in the book Nuclear Landscapes. His work has been shown in over fifty museums nationally and internationally and he is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Goin is currently a Foundation Professor of Art in Photography and Videography at the University of Nevada,Reno. He has also done extensive rephotography work in the Lake Tahoe region.
Larry Sultan was an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 1988 and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco 1989 to 2009.
Meridel Rubenstein is an American photographer and installation artist based out of New Mexico. She is known for her large-format photographs incorporating sculptures and unusual media.
Roger Laell Minick is an American photographer who has documented tourists in the National Parks of the United States. The series,called "Sightseer",has been published in numerous books and widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. Minick has worked on numerous other photo projects over the years. His books include Delta West (1969) and Hills of Home (1975),both published by Scrimshaw.
A. J. Meek is an American photographer,teacher,and writer. Meek is known for his selenium toned silver gelatin contact prints made with an 8 x 20 banquet camera of landscapes in Louisiana and the American West and for images that are a balance between the documentary tradition and the fine arts.
Anita Douthat is an American photographer. Her photograms have been included in exhibitions at the Cincinnati Art Museum;Indianapolis Art Center;Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University;and the Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts. She has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,the New England Foundation for the Arts,and the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
Joyce Neimanas is an American artist known for her unorthodox approach to photography and mixed-media works.
Jessica Todd Harper is an American fine-art photographer. She was born in Albany,New York in 1975.
Geoffrey Lea Winningham is an American photographer,journalist,and filmmaker best known for his photographs and documentary films focusing on Texas and Mexican culture. Geoff's work was first recognized in the early 1970s when he published the book Friday Night in the Coliseum,featuring his photographs of professional wrestling and recorded conversations with wrestlers and fans. The book was followed in 1972 by a 16mm,black and white documentary film of the same title.
John Samuel Margolies was an architectural critic,photographer,and author who was noted for celebrating vernacular and novelty architecture in the United States,particularly those designed as roadside attractions. Starting from the mid-1970s,he began to photograph sites during long road trips,since he was concerned these sites would be displaced by the growing modernist trend. He was credited with shaping postmodern architecture and recognizing buildings that would be added to the National Register of Historic Places through his documentary work. Starting in 2007,the Library of Congress began to acquire his photographs,and created the public domain John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive in 2016,consisting of 11,710 scans of color slides taken by Margolies.
William Clift is an American photographer known for his black-and-white imagery of landscapes and of architectural subjects. Most of his work has been made in New Mexico,including Santa Fe where he has lived and worked since 1971,and of Mont Saint Michel in France,and St. Louis,MO.
