August Sander chose to shoot not only upper-middle class subjects but above all workers, beggars and humble labourers such as bakers and bricklayers: these are shots that we are used to seeing much more often today and that are integrated into our normal everyday life, but which at the time represented a controversial but thoughtful choice...

Personally, at the beginning of my investigation, Julia Margaret Cameron's career had told me almost nothing interesting. ‘Here's another story of a wealthy family’ I had thought....

Analysing Elliott Erwitt's career means observing how versatile the photographer was able to capture virtually anything through the charm and lightness of a spectator of life. Erwitt was able to see the comedy and tragedy of the human condition and to...

Dorothea Lange made a strong contribution to documentary photography in 20th century America and was a leading figure in showing the effects and consequences of the Great Depression on Americans...

Yousef Karsh was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of famous women and men including politicians, Hollywood stars and artists. He shot the likes of Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill and Walt Disney...

No one has had a greater influence on fashion photography in the 1990s than Richard Avedon, who practically delineated the languages and forms to which all the major fashion players aspired until before the recent developments of inclusivity. With such an extensive career...

Many of her contemporaries saw Arbus only as a photographer of monsters, disinterested, detached and without compassion, but Arbus's photography actually aimed to normalise people living on the margins of society...

Love, Cecil is a 2017 documentary about the life of Cecil Beaton, an English-born photographer and personality who left his mark on both the history of fashion and war photography in the 20th century. Seeing the documentary gave me the inspiration to write something about this author...