The 55 Best Photographers of All Time: Nos. 20 to 16
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20 Walker Evans (1893-1975)
American documentary photographer and journalist who recorded poverty-stricken sharecropper families during the Depression era and everyday subjects in a clear, poetic style.
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19 Elliot Erwitt (born 1928)
Paris-born photographer and member of the Magnum agency, best known for his witty and ironic street pictures, shots of people in museums, and dogs.
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18 William Eggleston (born 1939)
American photographer whose 'snapshot' style elevated the everyday to the extraordinary and whose saturated 'dye-transfer' prints helped colour photography become an accepted art-form.
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17 Harold Edgerton (1903-1990)
Scientist, inventor of the first electronic flash and creator of revolutionary high-speed flash photographs, including a famous shot of a bullet passing through an apple.
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16 Brian Duffy (1933-2010)
Highly-regarded fashion, advertising and portrait photographer who shot David Bowie's iconic Aladdin Sane cover and the imaginative and surreal Benson & Hedges poster campaigns of the 1970s.
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