The Most Famous

PHOTOGRAPHERS from Austria

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This page contains a list of the greatest Austrian Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 148 Photographers, 4 of which were born in Austria. This makes Austria the birth place of the 6th most number of Photographers behind United Kingdom, and Czechia.

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Austrian Photographers of all time. This list of famous Austrian Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Inge Morath (1923 - 2002)

With an HPI of 53.20, Inge Morath is the most famous Austrian Photographer.  Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

Ingeborg Hermine Morath (German: [ˈɪŋəbɔrk ˈmoːraːt] ; 27 May 1923 – 30 January 2002) was an Austrian photographer. In 1953, she joined the Magnum Photos Agency, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with the agency in 1955. Morath was the third wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller; their daughter is screenwriter/director Rebecca Miller.

Photo of Lisette Model

2. Lisette Model (1901 - 1983)

With an HPI of 47.30, Lisette Model is the 2nd most famous Austrian Photographer.  Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Lisette Model (born Elise Amelie Felicie Stern; November 10, 1901 – March 30, 1983) was an Austrian-born American photographer primarily known for the frank humanism of her street photography. A prolific photographer in the 1940s and a member of the New-York cooperative Photo League, she was published in PM's Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, and US Camera before taking up teaching in 1949 through the intermediary of Ansel Adams. She continued to photograph and taught at the New School for Social Research in New York from 1951 until her death in 1983 with many notable students, the most famous of whom was Diane Arbus. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and still resides in several permanent collections, including that of the National Gallery of Canada and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Photo of Willy Puchner

3. Willy Puchner (b. 1952)

With an HPI of 43.33, Willy Puchner is the 3rd most famous Austrian Photographer.  His biography has been translated into 24 different languages.

Willy Puchner (born March 15, 1952) is an Austrian photographer, artist, painter, and author.

People

Pantheon has 3 people classified as Austrian photographers born between 1901 and 1952. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Austrian photographers include Willy Puchner. The most famous deceased Austrian photographers include Inge Morath, and Lisette Model.

Living Austrian Photographers

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Deceased Austrian Photographers

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