Well we have to start somewhere (Possibly R18 - be careful)

[doxx]

hmmm... somehow my last post got lost.
I was recommending the book
'Bystander' A History of Street Photography

a great read and visual inspiration including
many many famous and non-famous street
photogs including Brassai...

 

[chroix]

Man Ray, Doisneau, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (I'm a bauhaus fanatic), Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Mapplethorpe, and I'm going to add Salgado after checking out the link from above...

I've always liked looking at Ansel Adams work, but I've heard a lot of people talk about some of his works having been shot by his assistants.. if this is true I guess I l ike the works by Ansel Adams assistants...

 

[Hertz van Rental]

If you like Bauhaus you should have come across Herbert Bayer.
As an aside, I recently read an article on Moholy-Nagy (but I'm damned if I can find it now) that casts some doubt on wether his work was all his own. His wife apparently did his printing, possibly produced some of his photograms, and now they are questioning if she had any input on his photographs...