WBerenice Abbott, née Bernice Alice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation in the 1940s to 1960s.
WJennifer "Jennie" Boddington was an Australian film director and producer, who was first curator of photography at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (1972–1994), and researcher.
WEric Keast Burke was a New Zealand-born photographer and journalist.
WJohn Cyril "Jack" Cato, F.R.P.S. was a significant Australian portrait photographer in the Pictorialist style, operating in the first half of the twentieth century. He was the author of the first history of Australian photography; The Story of the Camera in Australia (1955)
WAllan Douglass Coleman is an independent American critic, historian, educator, and curator of photography and photo-based art, and a widely published commentator on new digital technologies. He has published 8 books and more than 2000 essays on photography and related subjects. He has lectured and taught internationally; his work has been translated into 21 languages and published in 31 countries.
WElizabeth, Lady Eastlake, born Elizabeth Rigby, was a British author, art critic and art historian, who made regular contributions for the Quarterly Review. She is known not only for her writing but also for her significant role in the London art world.
WVicki Goldberg is an American photography critic, author, and photo historian based in New Hampshire, United States. She has written books and articles on photography and its social history.
WMargaret Florence Harker, was a British photographer and historian of photography. She was the UK's first woman professor of photography, founded the country's first photography degree course, and was the first woman to be president of the Royal Photographic Society.
WRobert Meyer is a Norwegian art photographer, professor, photo historian, collector, writer and publicist. He is the son of journalist Robert Castberg Meyer and homemaker Edel Nielsen; and brother of the industrial designer Terje Meyer.
WJohn Mraz is a pioneer in the representation of history in modern media.
WCarole Naggar is a poet, photography historian, curator and painter. She is a regular contributor to Aperture, and Time Lightbox, and since 2014 she has been Series Editor for the Magnum Photos Legacy Biography series. She has written biographies of photographers George Rodger, Werner Bischof and David Seymour (photographer). She was the cofounder and Special Projects Editor of Pixelpress from 1999-2006. Born in Egypt, she currently splits her time between New York and Paris.
WNancy Wynne Newhall was an American photography critic. She is best known for writing the text to accompany photographs by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, but was also a widely published writer on photography, conservation, and American culture.
WDr. Nissan Nisso Perez is a photography historian, researcher and curator. From 1977 until 2013, Perez was senior curator of the Noel and Harriette Levine Department of Photography at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, which he conceived and founded. During his curatorial career he conceived and curated over 180 exhibitions in Israel and worldwide and published a substantial number of articles, catalogs and books.
WChristopher Pinney is an anthropologist and art historian, and Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London in the department of anthropology. He is known for his studies on the visual culture of South Asia, specifically India. He was honoured by the Government of India, in 2013, by bestowing on him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of literature.
WNaomi Rosenblum, PhD, is the author "of two landmark histories of photography, A World History of Photography (1984) and A History of Women Photographers (1994)], and dozens of seminal articles and essays"
WAaron Scharf (1922–1993) was an American-born British art historian who contributed in particular to the history of photography in which he had developed an interest while studying at the Courtauld Institute. His investigation uncovered links between painting and photography, and evidence for artists using photography for reference and other purposes, as well as the way photographers with aspirations as artists referred to painting in their work. He thus pioneered a new field of art history when Pop Art and other movements in the 1960s were reincorporating the medium of photography and reference to popular photographic images, into mainstream artistic practice. Scharf popularised his study and discoveries with publication of his profusely illustrated hardback Penguin volume 'Art and Photography' (1968) and through his work at the Open University in producing innovative thematic educational videos on the history of photography and its relation to society.
WJo Spence was a British photographer, a writer, cultural worker, and a photo therapist. She began her career in the field of commercial photography but soon started her own agency which specialised in family portraits, and wedding photos. In the 1970s, she refocused her work towards documentary photography, adopting a politicized approach to her art form, with socialist and feminist themes revisited throughout her career. Self-portraits about her own fight with breast cancer, depicting various stages of her breast cancer to subvert the notion of an idealized female form, inspired projects in 'photo therapy', a means of using the medium to work on psychological health.
WRoger Taylor, MVO born 1940, is a curator, photographic historian, and educator specialising in nineteenth century British photography and its social and cultural history. He is Professor Emeritus of Photographic History at De Montfort University.
WJohn Wood is an American poet, historian of photography, scholar and critic. Wood is Professor Emeritus of English literature and photographic history at McNeese State University, where he founded and directed its MFA in creative writing for more than twenty-five years.