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Also Known As Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado
Born February 8, 1944 (age 81) • Brazil
Awards And Honors Praemium Imperiale (2021)
Notable Works “Other Americas” • “Sahel: Man in Distress” • “Terra: Struggle of the Landless” • “Workers”

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Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Brazilian architect
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French photographer
Self-portrait by André Kertész, 1927.
André Kertész
Hungarian-born American photographer
Aïda Muluneh
Ethiopian photographer, educator, and entrepreneur
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White
American photographer
W. Eugene Smith
American photographer
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange
American photographer
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus
American photographer
Mark, Mary Ellen
Mary Ellen Mark
American photojournalist
Weegee
American photographer
Stefan Lorant
American journalist
Thérèse Bonney
American photographer
Beals, Jessie Tarbox
Jessie Tarbox Beals
American photographer
James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey
American photojournalist
Arthur Siegel
American photographer
Erich Salomon
German photographer
Andreas Feininger
American photographer
Ernst Haas, photograph by Erich Hartmann.
Ernst Haas
Austrian photographer
David Seymour.
David Seymour
American photographer