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Here is a photografer list with the established artists worldwide who use primarily the medium of photography - ranked for attention since 2004, as measured by the Art Report method. This medium has prevailed in recent decades, more and more, because the durability is improved and the problem of unlimited multiples has become more manageable.
| ranking | artist's name | country | lives in | birth date | born in | medium | total AR-Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cindy Sherman | US | New York | 1954 | Glen Ridge | photography | 15893 |
| 2 | Thomas Ruff | DE | Düsseldorf | 1958 | Zell | photography | 13165 |
| 3 | Fischli & Weiss | CH | Zurich | 1952 | Zurich | photography | 13074 |
| 4 | Wolfgang Tillmans | DE | London | 1968 | Remscheid | photography | 11672 |
| 5 | Andreas Gursky | DE | Düsseldorf | 1955 | Leipzig | photography | 10891 |
| 6 | Jeff Wall | CA | Vancouver | 1946 | Vancouver | photography | 10342 |
| 7 | Thomas Struth | DE | Düsseldorf | 1954 | Geldern | photography | 10139 |
| 8 | Gilbert & George | GB | London | 1942 | San Martino | photography | 9915 |
| 9 | Hiroshi Sugimoto | JP | New York | 1948 | Tokyo | photography | 9500 |
| 10 | Candida Höfer | DE | Cologne | 1944 | Eberswalde | photography | 9419 |
| 11 | Man Ray | US | Paris | 1890 | Philadelphia | photography | 9274 |
| 12 | Thomas Demand | DE | Berlin | 1964 | Munich | photography | 9026 |
| 13 | Robert Mapplethorpe | US | New York | 1946 | photography | 8762 | |
| 14 | Nan Goldin | US | New York | 1953 | Washington | photography | 8606 |
| 15 | Bernd & Hilla Becher | DE | Düsseldorf | 0 | photography | 7939 | |
| 16 | Rineke Dijkstra | NL | Amsterdam | 1959 | Sittard | photography | 7752 |
| 17 | Doug Aitken | US | New York | 1968 | Redondo Beach | photography | 7745 |
| 18 | Barbara Kruger | US | Los Angeles | 1945 | Newark | photography | 7635 |
| 19 | Diane Arbus | US | New York | 1923 | photography | 7325 | |
| 20 | Henri Cartier-Bresson | FR | Paris | 1908 | Chanteloup | photography | 7173 |
| 21 | Sophie Calle | FR | Paris | 1953 | Paris | photography | 6989 |
| 22 | Louise Lawler | US | New York | 1947 | Bronxville | photography | 6977 |
| 23 | Alfredo Jaar | CL | New York | 1956 | Santiago de Chile | photography | 6526 |
| 24 | William Eggleston | US | Memphis | 1939 | Memphis | photography | 6271 |
| 25 | Nobuyoshi Araki | JP | Tokyo | 1940 | Minowa | photography | 6203 |
| 26 | Boris Mikhailov | UA | Berlin | 1938 | Kharkov | photography | 6159 |
| 27 | Christopher Williams | US | Los Angelos | 1956 | Los Angelos | photography | 5980 |
| 28 | Phil Collins | GB | Glasgow | 1970 | Runcorn | photography | 5729 |
| 29 | Sharon Lockhart | US | Los Angeles | 1964 | Norwood | photography | 5725 |
| 30 | Shirin Neshat | IR | New York | 1957 | Kaswin | photography | 5649 |
