Famous for her iconic celebrity portraits, she represents the classic genre of portraiture. 

 Uses self-portraiture to create characters, blending genres like performance art and photography

Known for large-scale, digitally-manipulated landscapes, representing contemporary approaches to the medium.

Created photograms by placing objects on photosensitive paper and exposing them to light. 

Known for working with digital processes and manipulating light in post-production.

Explores light in unique ways, using pinhole cameras and cameraless photography.

Master of the "decisive moment," capturing perfect timing in street photography. 

Constructs elaborate cinematic scenes, showing that photography involves planning and creation. 

Carefully framed her street photography, highlighting the artistry in everyday moments.

Selects moments from everyday life to document British culture with humor.  

Finds beauty in mundane scenes, showing how careful selection elevates the ordinary. 

Uses color and composition to make everyday objects visually compelling.

Focused on textures and patterns, turning real objects into abstract images.  

Creates abstract compositions using lighting and mirrors, heavily reliant on studio techniques

Uses focus and blur to create dreamy, abstract photographs influenced by technology.

Her powerful documentary images, like *Migrant Mother*, prove the reality of historical events. 

Used photography to highlight social issues, showing its ability to reflect reality.

Documented movement in a series of images, providing visual proof of motion.

Documented the Great Depression, but his images are interpreted differently over time. 

Rephotographed famous works, questioning the meaning of authorship and originality. 

Her personal and raw images gain different meanings in gallery contexts versus her original intent.

Pioneered high-speed photography, capturing moments like a bullet piercing an apple. 

Photographs long exposures of movie screens or seascapes, emphasizing the passage of time. 

Creates ultra-long exposures lasting years, showing time's effect on cityscapes.

Selected frames in *The Americans* to show a specific vision of 1950s America.

Used framing to create layered, painterly street scenes. 

Worked with photomontage, framing the world in entirely new ways.

Creates staged, carefully constructed photographs that look candid.

Combines negatives to create surreal, composite images in the darkroom.

Challenges the reliability of photographs through fictional documentary projects..