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| Jason Salavon | Composites |
| Sebastião Salgado | Photo essays |
| August Sander (1876-1964) | Portraits, including Citizens of the Twentieth Century |
| Norman Sarachek | Chemigrams |
| Jörg Sasse | Formalism |
| Tokihiro Sato | Painting with light |
| Jan Saudek | Nudes |
| Lawrence Schiller | 60s |
| Victor Schrager | Still lifes |
| Bill Schwab | Landscapes |
| Shelley Seccombe | NYC, portraits, stairways |
| Graham Seidman | Photomontage |
| John Sexton | Landscapes |
| David Seymour (Chim) (1911-1956) | Photojournalism |
| Ben Shahn (1898-1969) | Depression |
| John Shaw | Nature |
| John Shay | Chicago |
| Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) | Beauty of industry, painter as well |
| Cindy Sherman | Self-portraits in which she plays characters, see Untitled Film Stills |
| Stephen Shore | 1970s color |
| Julius Shulman | Modernist architecture |
| Malick Sidibé | Portraiture in Africa |
| Chip Simons | Uses flash with color filters & high synch speeds |
| Art Sinsabaugh (1924-1983) | Uses a 12 x 20 banquet camera for landscapes & architecture |
| Aaron Siskind | Chicago & more |
| Sandy Skoglund | Sets |
| W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) | Photo essays |
| Melvin Sokolsky | Fashion |
| Rosalind Solomon | People |
| Camille Solyagua | Wings, jellyfish, & more |
| Frederick Sommer | Southwest |
| Wang Qing Song | Mixes traditional conventions of Chinese art with digital |
| Alec Soth | Large-format landscapes |
| Ralph Steiner | Cities, skies |
| Louis Stettner | NYC & more |
| Starn Studio | Assemblages |
| Edward Steichen | Classic |
| Joel Sternfeld | Landscapes, portraits |
| Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) | Classic |
| Paul Strand (1890-1976) | Early modernist |
| Roy Stryker | Director of photographic projects: Farm Security Administration, Standard Oil Co., & Jones & Laughlin Steel |
| Josef Sudek (1896–1976) | Prague |
| Hiroshi Sugimoto | Movie theaters, using films as the light source, minimalist seascapes |
| Patrick Sundqvist | Ordinary places |
| Joseph Szabo | Almost Grown & Teenage |