Painter, sculptor, fashion photographer and filmmaker, Klein dismantled and reinvented almost every medium he attempted throughout his 60 year career without a technical understanding of any of them. Klein’s innate sense of artistic expression permanently changed street photography and brought humanity to some of the most untouchable celebrities like Muhammad Ali.

Cindy Sherman’s personal use of disguise and transformation to photograph herself has been a powerful means of social critique for decades. However, how has it adapted to a landscape in which digitally cataloguing photos of oneself is expected?

Bourdin’s relationship to narrative in his “live paintings” dominated 70’s fashion photography. However, does his predilection to confront the obscene in his work demean his subject?

Avedon’s stark portraits provided unbiased and humanising glimpses of the most influential sociopolitical figures of the 20th century. But can work based around such figures be as non-political as Avedon claims it to be?

Arbus’ unflinching look at the social “underworld” of 50’s and 60’s America balances between the exploitative and the revelatory, giving a platform to queer and disabled people at a time where it didn’t exist anywhere else.

Moriyama’s nomadic, isolated lifestyle is reflected in his work as of one of the most influential street photographers of all time. He has documented the over-stimulation and anonymity of living in one of the largest cities in a world for over 50 years.