The Most Famous
PHOTOGRAPHERS from Poland
This page contains a list of the greatest Polish Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 105 Photographers, 2 of which were born in Poland. This makes Poland the birth place of the 13th most number of Photographers behind Russia and Hungary.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Polish Photographers of all time. This list of famous Polish Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Peter Lindbergh (1944 - 2019)
With an HPI of 57.36, Peter Lindbergh is the most famous Polish Photographer. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Peter Lindbergh (born Peter Brodbeck; 23 November 1944 – 3 September 2019) was a German fashion photographer and film director. He had studied arts in Berlin and Krefeld, and exhibited his works before graduation. In 1971, he turned to photography and worked for the Stern magazine. In fashion photography, he portrayed models Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patitz, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington together for the January 1990 British Vogue cover, beginning an era of supermodels. He photographed the Pirelli Calendar three times (1996, 2002, 2017), made several films, and created covers for music including Tina Turner's Foreign Affair, Sheryl Crow's The Globe Sessions and Beyoncé's I Am... Sasha Fierce. His work has been presented at international exhibitions. Lindbergh preferred black & white photography, and noted in 2014: "This should be the responsibility of photographers today to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection."
2. Lotte Jacobi (1896 - 1990)
With an HPI of 46.16, Lotte Jacobi is the 2nd most famous Polish Photographer. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as photographers born between 1896 and 1944. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased photographers include Peter Lindbergh and Lotte Jacobi. As of April 2022, 1 new photographers have been added to Pantheon including Lotte Jacobi.
