50 contemporary photographers you should know - a volume that presents the most important international photographic artists of our time and offers an exciting journey of discovery into the inexhaustibly diverse world of contemporary photography: whether landscape, portrait, nude, or fashion photography, whether experimental, poetic, documentary, socially critical, or nearly abstract - there is hardly a style or theme that today's photographers do not engage with. Arranged chronologically by year of birth, each photographer is introduced on a double page. From David Bailey, who focuses on fashion and portrait photography and captured the "Rolling London" of the 1960s with his camera, to Richard Mosse, a young Irish photographer who achieves an unusual perspective through his alienating infrared images of the landscape and soldiers in Congo.