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Born February 4, 1902 • Mexico City • Mexico
Died October 19, 2002 (aged 100) • Mexico City • Mexico

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Roy Stryker
American government official and photographer
Helmut Newton
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Hilla Becher
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David Octavius Hill
Scottish painter
Robert Adamson
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Josiah Johnson Hawes
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John Draper
American astronomer
Curtis, Edward S.
Edward S. Curtis
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Imogen Cunningham: photograph of Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
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Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat
Iranian-born American artist
Edward Weston at Point Lobos, 1945, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Edward Weston
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Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
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Walker Evans
Walker Evans
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Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun
French writer, photographer, Surrealist, and performance artist
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Hannah Höch
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Learn about Eugene Atget's photography in a discussion by John Szarkowski
Eugène Atget
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Edward Steichen, 1960.
Edward Steichen
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Lee Miller and Frederick Laws
Lee Miller
American photographer, artist, and model
John Heartfield
German artist