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| Famous for detailed Yosemite photography and co-founded Group f/64, developing the Zone System. | Ansel Adams | 71%
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| Documented the Civil War and established photojournalism in the United States. | Mathew Brady | 71%
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| Used self-portraits and staged photography to critique media stereotypes of women. | Cindy Sherman | 57%
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| Influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her empathetic, Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) that captured the human impact of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Most known for Migrant Mother | Dorothea Lange | 57%
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| Created portable roll film and the Kodak camera, making photography accessible to the public. | George Eastman | 57%
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| Developed his namesake type, a faster photographic process using iodized silver plates and mercury. | Louis Daguerre | 57%
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| Created experimental “rayographs” and surrealist photography, rediscovering solarization techniques. | Man Ray | 57%
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| Produced portraits, still-life, and provocative homoerotic images, sparking posthumous controversy. | Robert Mapplethorpe | 57%
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| Advanced photography as an art form and founded Camera Work and the Photo-Secession movement. | Alfred Stieglitz | 29%
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| Used sequential photography to prove that racehorses lift all four feet off the ground and invented the zoopraxiscope. | Eadweard Muybridge | 29%
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| Master of candid photography and founder of Magnum Photos, known for capturing the “decisive moment.” | Henri Cartier-Bresson | 29%
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| A German‑born American photojournalist whose candid, small‑camera images for Life magazine—including the iconic V‑J Day Times Square “kiss” photograph—helped define modern photojournalism. | Alfred Eisenstaedt | 14%
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| Transitioned from pictorialism to fashion photography and directed MoMA’s photography department. | Edward Steichen | 14%
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| Invented Polaroid instant film and the first commercially viable instant camera. | Edwin Land | 14%
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| Invented heliography and created the oldest surviving photograph of a real scene. | Joseph Nicéphore Niépce | 14%
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| Captured industrial, social, and wartime subjects, including Gandhi and WWII concentration camps. | Margaret Bourke-White | 14%
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| Known for large-scale, digitally manipulated photographs of modern life that sell for record prices. | Andreas Gursky | 0%
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| Improved the cinematograph and developed the first widely used color photography process, autochrome. | Auguste & Louis Lumière | 0%
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| Pioneered high-speed photography using stroboscopic multiflash techniques. | Harold “Doc” Edgerton | 0%
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