By Vivian Maier (http://www.vivianmaier.com/gallery/self-portraits/) [Vivian Dorothy Maier was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago’s North Shore, pursuing photography during her spare time.]

By Diane Arbus (https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/diane-arbus-c-v-r.html) [Diane Arbus (American, 1923–1971) is one of the most distinguished American photographers of the 20th century, known for her arresting black and white photographs of children, artists, and famous figures, as well as her portraits of those living on the margins of conventional society.

By Robert Mapplethorpe (http://www.mapplethorpe.org) [Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his sensitive yet blunt treatment of controversial subject-matter in the large-scale, highly stylized black and white medium of photography.]

By Duane Michals (http://www.dcmooregallery.com/artists/duane-michals/series/portraits) [Duane Michals is an American photographer. Michals’s work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.]

By Lee Friedlander (https://fraenkelgallery.com/portfolios/friedlander-portraits)[Lee Friedlander is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban “social landscape,” with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs.]

By Francesca Woodman [Francesca Stern Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show women, naked or clothed, blurred, merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured.]