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Born December 6, 1898 • Poland
Died August 23, 1995 (aged 96) • Massachusetts

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Andreas Feininger
American photographer
Self-portrait by André Kertész, 1927.
André Kertész
Hungarian-born American photographer
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White
American photographer
W. Eugene Smith
American photographer
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange
American photographer
James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey
American photojournalist
Ernst Haas, photograph by Erich Hartmann.
Ernst Haas
Austrian photographer
Capa, self-portrait photograph
Robert Capa
American photographer
Werner Bischof
Swiss photographer
Erich Salomon
German photographer
Imogen Cunningham: photograph of Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
American photographer
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French photographer
Aïda Muluneh
Ethiopian photographer, educator, and entrepreneur
Minor White
Minor White
American photographer
Mario Testino
Peruvian photographer
The artist and her tool
Diane Arbus
American photographer
Stefan Lorant
American journalist
Weegee
American photographer
Henry Luce and Clare Boothe Luce
Henry Luce
American publisher
Sherwood, photograph by Yousuf Karsh
Robert E. Sherwood
American playwright