| Name | Lifespan | # of works |
|---|
| Abbott, Berenice | 1898 AD - 1991 AD | 57 |
| Adams, Ansel | 1902 AD - 1984 AD | 196 |
| Adams, Walton | 1842 AD - 1934 AD | 33 |
| Annan, Thomas | 1829 AD - 1887 AD | 6 |
| Atget, Eugène | 1857 AD - 1927 AD | 28 |
| Aumuller, Al | | 22 |
| Béchard, Henri | | 14 |
| Baldus, Édouard | 1813 AD - 1889 AD | 36 |
| Barnard, George | 1819 AD - 1902 AD | 13 |
| Barraud, Herbert Rose | 1845 AD - 1896 AD | 33 |
| Barry, David Frances | 1854 AD - 1934 AD | 118 |
| Beato, Felice | 1832 AD - 1909 AD | 65 |
| Beaton, Cecil | 1904 AD - 1980 AD | 6 |
| Bell, William | 1830 AD - 1910 AD | 71 |
| Bell, Charles Milton | 1848 AD - 1893 AD | 12 |
| Bennett, Henry Hamilton | 1843 AD - 1908 AD | 366 |
| Beresford, George Charles | 1864 AD - 1938 AD | 22 |
| Black, James Wallace | 1825 AD - 1896 AD | 18 |
| Blaurock, Carl | 1894 AD - 1993 AD | 71 |
| Boggiani, Guido | 1861 AD - 1902 AD | 0 |
| Bonfils, Félix | 1831 AD - 1885 AD | 32 |
| Bourne, Samuel | 1834 AD - 1912 AD | 90 |
| Brady, Matthew | 1822 AD - 1896 AD | 90 |
| Brogi, Giacomo | 1822 AD - 1881 AD | 194 |
| Brooks, Ernest | | 38 |
| Bruno, Frederik Daniel | 1882 AD - 1971 AD | 84 |
| Bubley, Esther | 1921 AD - 1998 AD | 43 |
| Buckwalter, Harry H. | 1867 AD - 1930 AD | 448 |
| Bulla, Karl | 1855 AD - 1929 AD | 38 |
| Burger, Wilhelm | 1844 AD - 1920 AD | 5 |
| Carrick, William | 1827 AD - 1878 AD | 22 |
| Chamberlain, William Gunnison | 1815 AD - 1910 AD | 100 |
| Chapelle, Dickey | 1918 AD - 1965 AD | 26 |
| Crupi, Giovanni | 1859 AD - 1925 AD | 73 |
| Curtis, Edward Sheriff | 1868 AD - 1952 AD | 895 |
| Dayal, Lala Deen | 1844 AD - 1905 AD | 50 |
| Delano, Jack | 1914 AD - 1997 AD | 180 |
| Demachy, Robert | 1859 AD - 1936 AD | 10 |
| Dixon-Scott, John | | 34 |
| Doisneau, Robert | 1912 AD - 1994 AD | 30 |
| Downey, William | 1829 AD - 1915 AD | 3 |
| Du Camp, Maxime | 1822 AD - 1894 AD | 15 |
| Easterly, Thomas Martin | 1809 AD - 1882 AD | 25 |
| Elliott, Arthur | 1870 AD - 1938 AD | 27 |
| Emerson, Peter Henry | 1856 AD - 1936 AD | 12 |
| Eugene, Frank | 1865 AD - 1936 AD | 33 |
| Evans, Walker | 1903 AD - 1975 AD | 41 |
| Farini, Lulu | 1855 AD - 1939 AD | 34 |
| Farsari, Adolfo | 1841 AD - 1898 AD | 57 |
| Fenton, Roger | 1819 AD - 1869 AD | 291 |
| Firth, Francis | 1822 AD - 1898 AD | 77 |
| Fiske, George | 1835 AD - 1918 AD | 39 |
| Ford, John Fletcher | 1862 AD - 1914 AD | 53 |
| Frank, Robert | 1924 AD - | 15 |
| Frees, Harry Whittier | 1879 AD - 1953 AD | 41 |
| Frissell, Toni | 1907 AD - 1988 AD | 36 |
| Gardner, Alexander | 1821 AD - 1882 AD | 32 |
| Genthe, Arnold | 1869 AD - 1942 AD | 91 |
| Gottlieb, William | 1917 AD - 2006 AD | 76 |
| Grabill, John C. H. | | 76 |
| Gruber, Martin A. | 1854 AD - 1941 AD | 45 |
| Grund, Horst | 1915 AD - 2001 AD | 110 |
| Gurney, Jeremiah | 1812 AD - 1886 AD | 17 |
| Harmon, Byron | 1876 AD - 1942 AD | 10 |
| Hart, Alfred A. | 1816 AD - 1908 AD | 188 |
| Hawes, Josiah Johnson | 1808 AD - 1901 AD | 47 |
| Haynes, Frank Jay | 1853 AD - 1921 AD | 89 |
| Hillers, John Karl | 1843 AD - 1925 AD | 444 |
| Hine, Lewis | 1874 AD - 1940 AD | 400 |
| Hobley, Charles William | 1867 AD - 1947 AD | 29 |
| Hoffmann, Heinrich | 1885 AD - 1957 AD | 54 |
| Holmes, J. Dearden | | 14 |
| Hooper, Willoughby Wallace | 1837 AD - 1912 AD | 16 |
| Howlett, Robert | 1831 AD - 1858 AD | 8 |
| Hurley, Frank | 1885 AD - 1962 AD | 92 |
| Incorpora, Giuseppe | 1834 AD - 1914 AD | 23 |
| Jackson, William Henry | 1843 AD - 1942 AD | 950 |
| Johnston, Frances Benjamin | 1864 AD - 1952 AD | 106 |
| Käsebier, Gertrude | 1852 AD - 1934 AD | 25 |
| Kandell, Alice S. | | 94 |
| Karsh, Yousuf | 1908 AD - 2002 AD | 20 |
| Khaldei, Yevgeny | 1917 AD - 1997 AD | 2 |
| Kimbei, Kusakabe | 1841 AD - 1934 AD | 141 |
| Klier, Philip Adolphe | 1845 AD - 1911 AD | 39 |
| Korda, Alberto | 1928 AD - 2001 AD | 44 |
| Lange, Dorothea | 1895 AD - 1965 AD | 32 |
| Le Gray, Gustave | 1820 AD - 1884 AD | 17 |
| Lee, Russell | 1903 AD - 1986 AD | 110 |
| Leffler, Warren K. | | 34 |
| Lindt, John William | 1845 AD - 1926 AD | 56 |
| Lyon, Edmund David | 1829 AD - 1891 AD | 8 |
| Mapplethorpe, Robert | 1946 AD - 1989 AD | 32 |
| Mayall, John Jabez Edwin | 1813 AD - 1901 AD | 25 |
| Mendelssohn, Hayman Seleg | 1847 AD - 1908 AD | 1 |
| Micklethwaite, Frank William | 1849 AD - 1925 AD | 74 |
| Mydans, Carl | 1907 AD - 2004 AD | 18 |
| Nègre, Charles | 1820 AD - 1880 AD | 20 |
| Nadar, Félix | 1820 AD - 1910 AD | 27 |
| Naya, Carlo | 1816 AD - 1882 AD | 85 |
| Niépce, Nicéphore | 1765 AD - 1833 AD | 2 |
| Notman, William | 1826 AD - 1891 AD | 111 |
| O'Sullivan, Timothy H. | 1840 AD - 1882 AD | 74 |
| Palmer, Alfred T. | 1906 AD - 1993 AD | 123 |
| Papazoglou, Leonidas | 1872 AD - 1918 AD | 27 |
| Plumbe Jr., John | 1809 AD - 1857 AD | 12 |
| Ponti, Carlo | 1823 AD - 1893 AD | 28 |
| Ponting, Herbert | 1870 AD - 1935 AD | 112 |
| Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mikhailovich | 1863 AD - 1944 AD | 91 |
| Rau, William Herman | 1855 AD - 1920 AD | 81 |
| Reed, Roland W. | 1864 AD - 1934 AD | 28 |
| Rider-Rider, William | 1889 AD - 1979 AD | 17 |
| Riis, Jacob | 1849 AD - 1914 AD | 101 |
| Rinehart, Frank | 1861 AD - 1928 AD | 121 |
| Robinson, Henry Peach | 1830 AD - 1901 AD | 25 |
| Roche, Thomas C. | 1826 AD - 1895 AD | 11 |
| Rothstein, Arthur | 1915 AD - 1985 AD | 116 |
| Sarony, Napoleon | 1821 AD - 1896 AD | 39 |
| Savage, Charles Roscoe | 1832 AD - 1909 AD | 84 |
| Sawyer, Lyddell | 1856 AD - 1908 AD | 4 |
| Sebah, Pascal | 1823 AD - 1886 AD | 28 |
| Sevruguin, Antoin | 1830 AD - 1933 AD | 50 |
| Smith, Huron | 1883 AD - 1933 AD | 124 |
| Sommer, Giorgio | 1834 AD - 1914 AD | 106 |
| Soule, William Stinson | 1836 AD - 1908 AD | 39 |
| Soule, John P. | 1828 AD - 1904 AD | 255 |
| Souza, Pete | 1954 AD - | 138 |
| Sowerby, Arthur de Carle | 1885 AD - 1954 AD | 41 |
| Spelterini, Eduard | 1852 AD - 1931 AD | 47 |
| Stieglitz, Alfred | 1864 AD - 1946 AD | 36 |
| Talbot, William Fox | 1800 AD - 1877 AD | 30 |
| Taunt, Henry | 1842 AD - 1922 AD | 58 |
| Thomson, John | 1837 AD - 1921 AD | 53 |
| Throssel, Richard | 1882 AD - 1933 AD | 69 |
| Valentine, James | 1815 AD - 1880 AD | 64 |
| van Kinsbergen, Isidore | 1821 AD - 1905 AD | 12 |
| van Manen, Bertien | 1935 AD - | 11 |
| Van Vechten, Carl | 1880 AD - 1964 AD | 94 |
| Wallenberg, Berit | 1902 AD - 1995 AD | 32 |
| Watkins, Carleton | 1829 AD - 1916 AD | 134 |
| Weed, Charles Leander | 1824 AD - 1903 AD | 5 |
| Wilse, Anders Beer | 1865 AD - 1949 AD | 151 |
| Wilson, George Washington | 1823 AD - 1893 AD | 22 |
| Wolcott, Marion Post | 1910 AD - 1990 AD | 31 |
