Lisette Model (Phaidon 55s)

Lisette Model (1906-83) began her photographic career in Europe. She moved to New York in 1938, where she embarked on a lifelong project 'to photograph America's self-portrait a million times'. From the 1950s she was an influential teacher, her most famous students being Diane Arbus and Robert Mapplethorpe. Other artists in this series include: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Boris Mikhailov, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu, Joel-Peter Witkin