An interesting site for browsing the work of a number of well-known photographers the Red List’s manifesto describes the site as follows:

With more than 100,000 images, 6,000 profiles and links, arranged into more than 600 sections and categories, the Red List organizes and concentrates the wealth of images to be found online. After all, what is a list if not a tool to manage infinity? So to manage the Internet’s visual infinity, the Red List is organized by genres – photography, cinema, fine art, fashion, and so on – with lists inside each genre to guide image researchers.

via The Red List.

The site has several sections, one of which is photography (the others are: Fine Arts; Film; Graphic Design; Furniture Design; Architecture; Set Design; Fashion; and Muses).

The photography section is organized (like all the other sections) by genre (17 genres in total including Pioneers; Architecture & Materials; Avant-gardism and Experimentation; Conceptual; Existentialism; Fashion; Humanism; Industrial; Landscape & Travel; Nude & Body; Outstanding; Pictorialism; Portrait; Social Documentary; Still Life; Street; War Reporting & Photojournalism. Each genre is sub-divided by photographer.

The site has a lot to see; is well-organized and attractively presented. However, the overall experience is marred by one very annoying feature: after a while a dialogue pops up asking you for your email address. If there is a way to dismiss this without entering an email address I’ve yet to find it.

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