2. Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore is an American photographer known for his images of banal scenes and objects in
the United States, and for his pioneering use of colour in art photography. His books include
Uncommon Places and American Surfaces, photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in
the 1970s. Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty-five
years. He was the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, forty years earlier. More than 25 books have been
published of Stephen Shore's photographs including Uncommon Places: The Complete Works;
American Surfaces; Stephen Shore, a retrospective monograph in Phaidon's Contemporary Artists
series; Stephen Shore: Survey and most recently, Factory: Andy Warhol and Stephen Shore: Selected
Works, 1973-1981
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4. Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen was a Luxembourg-born American artist and gallerist who was a key figure in the
development of photography. Steichen notably served as The Museum of Modern Art’s director of
photography from 1945 until 1962. In his own photographs, such as The Flatiron (1904), the artist
experimented with colouring techniques developed by the French Lumière Brothers. “Photography
is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly
difficult" he once explained.. Steichen was the most frequently shown photographer in Alfred
Stieglitz' ground breaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917.
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6. Masahisa Fukase
Masahisa Fukase was a Japanese photographer, celebrated for his work depicting his domestic life
with his wife Yōko Wanibe and his regular visits to his parents' small-town photo studio in
Hokkaido. He is best known for his 1986 book Karasu (Ravens or The Solitude of Ravens), which in
2010 was selected by the British Journal of Photography as the best photobook published between
1986 and 2009. Since his death in 2012 there has been a revival of interest in Fukase's photography,
with new books and exhibitions appearing that emphasize the breadth and originality of his art.
