Great photographers

Photographs are legacies passed onto future generations. FInd out who the 21 most iconic and famous photographers are that paved the way for others. #famous #photographers #photography #history

Street photography captures the beauty of the everyday. There's a special improvisatory skill that street photographers need. It's a way of seeing the world.

A comprehensive new exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris shows off the street photographer's little-known surrealist shots – and reveals his radical politics, writes Sean O'Hagan

Ansel Adams (1902-1984) a very well know master of photography and arguably the most influential landscape photographer in American history. He was a lifelong conservationist who encouraged understanding of, and respect for, the natural environment. Born in a suburb of coastal San Francisco in 1902, Adams was the only

Sometimes, in order to move more confidently into your own future, you must delve into the past. So this list of 12 famous portrait photographers in history will help you get started on your journey. There is much to learn from these masters, you just have to look!

Piergiorgio Branzi is an Italian photographer raised in Florence. He started photography in the fifties and combines a flair for poetry with love of detail.

If you love street photography than you will want to study these famous street photographers who influenced the genre as we know it today.

richard avedon photographs sophia loren, new york, 1966.

Over the weekend, I visited an Ansel Adams exhibition in London. Having found his work even more breathtaking in print, I purchased a documentary about the man himself. It was an effort to learn more about the artist I admired.

Weegee self portrait