OC Photography Program/The Masters

The masters
Yahoo and Google are good places to search for these names; you can find a lot about these photographers there.

Early Pioneers

 * Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833)
 * Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
 * David Octavius Hill (1802-1870)
 * Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
 * Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) (1820–1910)
 * Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
 * Jacob Riis (1849-1914)
 * Roger Fenton (1819-1869)
 * Mathew_Brady (1823-96)
 * Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882)
 * Eugène Atget (1857-1927)

Modern Classics

 * Lewis Hine (1874-1940)
 * Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
 * Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
 * Edward Weston (1886-1958)
 * Man Ray (1890-1976)
 * Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956)
 * Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)
 * André Kertész (1894-1985)
 * Wegee (Arthur H. Fellig) (1899-1968)
 * Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
 * Frederick Sommers (1905-1999)
 * August Sander (1876-1964)
 * Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932)
 * Horst P. Horst (1906-1999)
 * Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
 * Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002)
 * Robert Doisneau (1912-1994)
 * Robert Capa (1913-1954)
 * W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)
 * The Farm Security Administration photographers (Listed on the Wikipedia Farm Security Administration page)
 * Walker Evans (1903-1975)
 * Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
 * Minor White (1908-1976)
 * Vivian Maier (1926-2009)

Contemporary Masters

 * Richard Avedon (1923-2004)
 * William Klein (1928-)
 * Ralph Gibson (1939)
 * Josef Koudelka (1938-)
 * Sebastião Salgado (1944-)
 * Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
 * Michael Kenna (1953-)
 * Helmut Newton (1920-2004)
 * Diane Arbus(1923-1971)
 * Robert Frank (1924-)
 * Robert Heinecken (1931-2006)
 * Duane Michals (1932-)
 * Franco Fontana (1933-)
 * David Hockney (1937-)
 * William Eggleston(1939-)
 * Joel-Peter Witkin (1939-)
 * William Wegman (1943-)
 * Jeff Wall (1946-)
 * Sandy Skoglund (1946-)
 * Stephen Shore (1947-)
 * Bernard Faucon (1950-)
 * Nan Goldin (1953-)
 * Philip-Lorca diCorcia (1953-)
 * Cindy Sherman (1954-)
 * Augusto De Luca (1955-)
 * Andreas Gursky (1955-)