3. Edward Weston: Edward Weston was born in Illinois in March of 1886 but made his home in California after a holiday there in 1906.With a camera that his father gave him when he was 9, Weston created avant-garde and simple creations. Mostly of household and very simple objects like food and landscapes. Weston had stretched his photography landscapes from around the world. From the Gobi Desert to the Yucatan he took multiple pictures until dying later on in 1958 of a blood-borne illness.

4. Micheal Kenna: Often refereed to as a "Guru in Black and White Photography." Born in 1953 Kenna is known for his monochromatic landscapes. He describes black and white photography as "Mysteriously comforting." as what we see in life is color and when we see something in black and white either it be a movie or photo humans generally find it mysterious.

5. Robert Mapplethorpe: In 1972 Mapplethorpe took his first photos of acquaintances and friends who were socialites, composers and artists. In the 80s he began photographing nude women. And near the end of his life and generally why he is most famous was his flowers. By manipulating shadow. and using black & white lens he created glorious, surreal photos. Until his relatively short life of 1989 only living to 42.

6. Man Ray: Ray first started his modern photography career in Paris. This is where he generally took pictures of naked women preferably his wife. He was also known for making avant-garde films. Such as "Les Mystères du Château de Dé" In 1929. But he is also known for his photography. Due to World War II Ray had to move from Paris to the United States where he retired from photography for a short time until his last 4 years in 1972 where he made multiple exhibitions and died of a lung infection in 1976.

 

7. Eve Arnold: Arnold was born in 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1946 her love for photography sparked when photographing a plant in 1946 in New York. Arnold had photoed many famous moments throughout her long life and photoed different Celebrities like Malcolm X, Queen Elizabeth II and Joan Crawford. In the 1960s Arnold had moved to the United States. Other trips include Russia, China, South Africa, Afghanistan and Egypt. She took pictures of objects that reflected society like oil rigs, government officials, celebrities and musical icon.

8. Anne Geddes:One of the world's most renounced and well known photographers, Geddes creates images that are iconic. Her photos generally captures purity, innocence of human life generally babies. Babies are probably innocent things ever, because they don't know the world so they would generally have no opinion on anything, making them innocent. Geddes was born in Queensland, Australia. Geddes began her career in Hong Kong in 1983with a basic camera she began to photograph her children, neighbors and friends in Hong Kong. Her photos where mainly based on the innocence of life such as babies in odd scenarios each having a message behind it. Anne is now doing a project on the effects of  global warming and one about Meningococcal disease.

10.Andy Warhol The leading personality in the visual art movement, known as Pop Art. He lived from 1928 until 1987. Warhol after college, Warhol started to work in visual arts, becoming famous throughout the 1960s. His photography was based around pop culture. Warhol was also known as an artist in painting. In later years he promoted that he would be taking photos based around more gruesome or eerie subjects like nuclear war, car crashes, electric chairs and suicides. Since Warhol was a child he had been always interested in celebrities was known for his portrayal such as  Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and even Mao Zedong, the dictator of China of that time. Warhol then died in 1987 at the downfall of his career. Today he is known for being one of the biggest inspirations to pop and modern artists.