Henri Cartier-Bresson – the founding father of photo-journalism is acclaimed by former Guardian picture editor Eamonn McCabe in this tribute.
Eve Arnold – the Philadelphia-born photographer talks about her breakthrough in documentary making.
Irving Penn – his elegant minimalism made him one of the most influential photographers of the last century, as these portraits show.
Diane Arbus – the Guardian and Observer writer on photography Sean O’Hagan asks whether Arbus was a humanist or voyeur.
Jane Bown - in a rare interview the influential Observer photographer talks about
her dazzling portraits of the Queen, Samuel Beckett and the Beatles.
René Burri – in a Guardian interview Burri tells how he got access to Che Guevara.
Helmut Newton - the famed fashion and portrait photographer says he was scared by only one woman.
Martine Franck – an obituarist notes that Franck never believed photographers were obliged to be intrusive.
David Bailey - writer Brigid Keenan worked for a spell with the seminal 60s photographer and his girlfriend Jean Shrimpton and recalls his unconventional approach.
Don McCullin - looking back at his career, McCullin says he has seen so much death he now shuns the gung-ho image of the war photographer.
