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Also Known As Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado
Born February 8, 1944 (age 80) • 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
Arthur Siegel
American photographer
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
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W. Eugene Smith
American photographer
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange
American photographer
The artist and her tool
Diane Arbus
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Mark, Mary Ellen
Mary Ellen Mark
American photojournalist
Stefan Lorant
American journalist
Weegee
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Thérèse Bonney
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Beals, Jessie Tarbox
Jessie Tarbox Beals
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James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey
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Erich Salomon
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Andreas Feininger
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Ernst Haas, photograph by Erich Hartmann.
Ernst Haas
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David Seymour.
David Seymour
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