Well, I'll put in a mention of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Sebastio Salgado
Martin Parr
Karsh of Ottawa
Karsh was a superb portrait-photographer who seemed to get the character of his subject time and time again
Parr and Salgado are excellent at long-term projects
'H C-B' and 'Eisie' were working at a time when pro-photographers generally were seen as using large cameras so they had the freedom of working with 'miniature' Leicas which people probably didn't take too seriously and, of course, the general public were far less 'precious' about having a camera pointed at them than they are nowadays! Nevertheless, they managed to capture some of the best-known photos of the 20th century
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