Index
Photographers
The photographers who contributed to the 1955 exhibition. Nationality is recorded per the MoMA Master Checklist's own attribution; scholarly alternatives are noted in each row's source file.
| Name | Nationality | Dates | Plates | Biography |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wynn Bullock | American | 1902–1975 | 2 | institutional |
| Nat Farbman | American | 1907–1988 | 9 | institutional |
| Harry Callahan | American | 1912–1999 | 3 | institutional |
| Pat English | American | 1 | — | |
| Eugene Harris | American | 1913–1978 | 1 | — |
| Dmitri Kessel | American | 1902–1995 | 8 | institutional |
| Ralph Morse | American | 1917–2014 | 2 | institutional |
| Robert Doisneau | French | 1912–1994 | 5 | institutional |
| Laurence Le Guay | Australian | 1917–1990 | 1 | — |
| Lou Bernstein | American | 1911–2005 | 2 | — |
| Roy DeCarava | American | 1919–2009 | 3 | — |
| Gotthard Schuh | Swiss | 1897–1969 | 2 | institutional |
| David Linton | American | 1 | — | |
| Wayne Miller | American | 1918–2013 | 12 | institutional |
| Louis Faurer | American | 1916–2001 | 3 | institutional |
| Ernst Haas | Austrian | 1921–1986 | 6 | institutional |
| Robert Capa | Hungarian-American | 1913–1954 | 5 | institutional |
| Frank Horvat | Italian | 1928–2020 | 1 | institutional |
| Hans Malmberg | Swedish | 1927–1977 | 1 | — |
| Werner Bischof | Swiss | 1916–1954 | 6 | institutional |
| Brassaï | Hungarian-French | 1899–1984 | 6 | institutional |
| David Seymour | Polish-American | 1911–1956 | 4 | institutional |
| Elliott Erwitt | French-American | 1928–2023 | 4 | institutional |
| W. Eugene Smith | American | 1918–1978 | 4 | institutional |
| Alfred Eisenstaedt | American | 1898–1995 | 7 | institutional |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson | French | 1908–2004 | 11 | institutional |
| Margaret Bourke-White | American | 1904–1971 | 6 | institutional |
| George Rodger | British | 1908–1995 | 2 | institutional |
| Dorothea Lange | American | 1895–1965 | 9 | institutional |
| Robert Frank | Swiss-American | 1924–2019 | 7 | institutional |
| Ansel Adams | American | 1902–1984 | 1 | institutional |
| Bill Brandt | British | 1904–1983 | 4 | institutional |
| Russell Lee | American | 1903–1986 | 2 | institutional |
| Ben Shahn | American | 1898–1969 | 1 | institutional |
| Carl Mydans | American | 1907–2004 | 3 | institutional |
| Esther Bubley | American | 1921–1998 | 3 | institutional |
| Homer Page | American | 1918–1985 | 10 | institutional |
| Gjon Mili | Albanian-American | 1904–1984 | 5 | institutional |
| August Sander | German | 1876–1964 | 3 | institutional |
| Andreas Feininger | American | 1906–1999 | 2 | institutional |
| Eddy Van der Elsken | Dutch | 1925–1990 | 1 | institutional |
| Hiroshi Hamaya | Japanese | 1915–1999 | 1 | institutional |
| Ihei Kimura | Japanese | 1901–1974 | 1 | institutional |
| Yosuke Yamahata | Japanese | 1917–1966 | 1 | institutional |
| Satyajit Ray | Indian | 1921–1992 | 1 | institutional |
| Herbert List | German | 1903–1975 | 1 | institutional |
| Eve Arnold | American | 1912–2012 | 1 | institutional |
| Inge Morath | Austrian | 1923–2002 | 0 | institutional |
| Marc Riboud | French | 1923–2016 | 0 | institutional |
| Yasuhiro Ishimoto | Japanese-American | 1921–2012 | 2 | institutional |
| Hideo Haga | Japanese | 1921–2022 | 1 | institutional |