Photographers to review their work for the exam

About playing with light and shadows or night photography:

Andr Kertesz, Rupert Vandervell, Brassai, Alan Delaney, Todd Hido, Michael
Kenna, Winston Link and Edgar Martins

About intimate photo essays or subjective approaches to photo projects:

Rebecca Norris Webbs recovering of the loss of her brother, Graham

MacIndoes getting out of addiction, Paola Paredess coming out, Philip
Toledano's last days of his fat her, Larry Finks improvisations and Rinko
Kawauchis poetic images

About the use of different resources to tell a story:

Lee Friedlander and Andr Kertesz

Famous portrait photographers (both environmental portraits and more studio or

posed portraits):

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Annie Liebovitz, Yousuf Karsh, Irving Penn, Brian Duffy,
Pierre Gonnord, Jimmy Nelsson, Steve McCurry, Lee Jeffries, Rehahn, Eric
Lafforgue, Rehahn, Eve Arnold, David Baley and Cecil Beaton

Self-portraits:

from realistic approach such as Vivian Maier to the more expressive one,
such as Fernando Lemos

Examples of still life photography:

Roger Fenton, Edward Weston, Irving Penn, Joel Witkin, Carlos Tarrats and
Tom Baril

Examples of landscape photography:

from the classics Minor White and Ansel Adams

to contemporary landscape photographers such as Kilian Schnberger, Lars
Van de Goor, Vincent Favre, Peter Lik and Max Rive
or the urban landscapes of Charles Sheeler, Andrew Prokos, Bernd and Hilla
Becher
the oil spills series of Daniel Beltr (example of landscape photography for
documentary and critic purposes)

Examples of wildlife photography:

Laurent Baheux, David Doubilet, Frans Lanting, Nick Brandt , Antoni Kasprzak,
Stefano Unterthiner, and the Genesis series of Sebastio Salgado

Examples of famous fashion photographers:

Terry Richardson, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Mario Testino, Peter

Lindbergh, Steven Meisel and Bill Cunningham

Examples of macro photography:

David Maitland, Carlo Galliani, Thomas Shahan, Nordin Seruyan and
Vyacheslav Mishchenko
Other examples of commercial or highly staged/posed/produced photography:

Hiro, Oleg Oprisco, David LaChapelle, Kirsty Mitchell and Katerina Plotnikova

Examples of street photography:

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Vivian Maier, Alex Webb, Martin Parr, William Klein,
Anders Petersen, Eugene Atget , Josef Koudelka, Garry Winogrand, Robert
Frank and Helen Levitt

Examples of travel photography:

Steve McCurry, Werner Bischof, Rehahnm, Joel Santos, Eric Lafforgue, Lisa
Kristine, David Lazar, David Harvey and Annie Belt

Earlier examples of documentary photographers:

Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Marion Wolcott, Russell Lee, Paul Strand,
Lewis Hine and Robert Frank (especially the book Americans)

Examples of famous documentary photos:

Robert Capas D-Day or the death of a Spanish War fighter, Langes Migrant
Mother, Adams Murder of a Vietcong, Diane Arbuss minorities and excluded
groups from society, Kevin Carters vulture with famine girl, Larry Clarks youth
Jeff Widener's Tianenmen Square protester, Nick Ut 's Terror of Vietnam War,
Malcolm Browne's Burning Monk, Joe Rosenthals The Flag of Iwo Jima

Examples of photography focused on social critic, human rights or political

activism:

Martin Parr, Sebastio Salgado, Claude Cahun, Bob Adelman, Bruce

Davidson, Charles Moore, Ernest Withers, James Karales, Laurie Simmons, Birgit
Jrgenssen, Carrie Weems, Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie

Examples of photojournalists who used to cover wars, humanitarian issues, etc:

Matthew Brady, Robert Capa, Sebastio Salgado, Carol Guzy, Frank Fournier,
Larry Barrows, Ken Oosterbroek, Walter Astrada, Don McCullin, James
Nachtwey, Mary Ellen Mark

Examples of contemporary documentary photographers that use alternative

approaches:

Raphael Dallaporta, Alec Soth, Daniele Delaini, Cristina de Middel, Rania

Matar, Paolo Woods, Graham MacIndoe, Philip Toledano

Examples of Pictorialism (movement in the early days of photography that tried

to simulate paintings):

Edward Steichen, Miron Sherling, Jane Reece, Charles Puyo, Clarence White,
George Seeley, Robert Demachy, Anne Brigman, Leonard Missone

Examples of Surrealist photographers:

from the beginning of Surrealism in fine arts: Man Ray, Fernando Lemos, Jerry
Uelsman, Philippe Halsman, Maurice Tabard, Hans Bellmer, Dora Maar
to examples of contemporary artists exploring this style of photography: Kyle
Thompson, Erik Johansson, Christopher McKenney, Stephen Criscolo, Martin
Stranka, Ronen Goldman, Tommy Ingberg, Joel Robison, Alex Stoddard, Anka
Zhuravleva, Sarah Loreth, Brooke Shaden, Jan Saudek

Other creative approaches:

the experiments of Fabian Oefner or Daisuke Y okota

the cyanotypes of Gail Erwin
the experimental photography of Stephen Gill
the Lomography trend: www.lomography.com
the multiexposures of Edmund Kesting and Boris Mikhailov
the light work of Dean Chamberlain
the light paintings of Eric Staller, Vicki Da Silva, Patrick Rochon, Janne
Parviainen, Brian Hart, Dana Maltby, Hannu Huhtamo and LAPP-PRO

Examples of fine art/artistic photography:

Alfred Stieglitz, Andreas Gursky, William Eggleston, Gregory Crewdson,

Edgar Martins, Gerhard Richter, Ruud Van Empel, Jaan Knnap, Cindy
Sherman, Francesca Woodman, Grace Weston, Amanda Charchian,
Duane Michals, Bill Brandt, Abelardo Morell, Nick Brandt, Laurie Tmer,
Pamela Creevey, Jarret Murphy, Michael Massaia, Imogene Cunningham,
Floris Neusss, Jeff Wall, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ruth Bernhard, John Got o,
Guy Bourdin, Jan Saudek, Walter Chappell

Examples of non-western photographers:

Asia - Jiang Zhi, Wang Jinsong, Tomoko Sawada, Shikhei Goh, Ohm
Phanphiroj, Manny Librodo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Raghubir Singh, Chien-Chi
Chang, Nick Ut, Dayanita Singh, Daido Moriyama, Shomei Tomatsu, Alex
Baluyut, Oscar Motuloh, Erik Prasetya, Lu Guang, Takuma Nakahira,
Chang Tsai, Tay Kay Chin, Ho Fan, Shahidul Alam, Raghu Rai, Lu Nan, Eikoh
Hosoe, Rinko Kawauchi, Daisuke Y okota
Middle East - Lara Zankoul, Shirin Neshat , Gohar Dashti, Shadi Ghadirian,
Newsha Tavakolian, Boushra Almutawakel, Nermine Hammam
South America - Ana Casas Broda, Paola Paredes, Mauricio Lima, Daniele
Volpe
Africa Mauro Pinto, David Goldblatt, Alf Kumalo, Bob Gosani, Constance
Larrabee, Obie Oberholzer, Ernest Cole, Peter Magubane, Zanele Muholi,
Zwelethu Mthethwa