The Most Famous
PHOTOGRAPHERS from Latvia
This page contains a list of the greatest Latvian Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 148 Photographers, 1 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 17th most number of Photographers behind Cuba, and India.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Photographers of all time. This list of famous Latvian Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Philippe Halsman (1906 - 1979)
With an HPI of 55.28, Philippe Halsman is the most famous Latvian Photographer. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Philippe Halsman (Latvian: Filips Halsmans; German: Philipp Halsmann; 2 May 1906 – 25 June 1979) was an American portrait photographer. He was born in Riga in the part of the Russian Empire which later became Latvia, and died in New York City.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Latvian photographers born between 1906 and 1906. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Latvian photographers include Philippe Halsman.
