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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 | 20823 |
| 2 | Fischli & Weiss | CH | Zurich | 1952 | Zurich | photography | 16659 |
| 3 | Thomas Ruff | DE | Düsseldorf | 1958 | Zell | photography | 16222 |
| 4 | Wolfgang Tillmans | DE | London | 1968 | Remscheid | photography | 14717 |
| 5 | Jeff Wall | CA | Vancouver | 1946 | Vancouver | photography | 14041 |
| 6 | Gilbert & George | GB | London | 1942 | San Martino | photography | 13114 |
| 7 | Thomas Struth | DE | Düsseldorf | 1954 | Geldern | photography | 12894 |
| 8 | Andreas Gursky | DE | Düsseldorf | 1955 | Leipzig | photography | 12822 |
| 9 | Man Ray | US | Paris | 1890 | Philadelphia | photography | 11805 |
| 10 | Thomas Demand | DE | Berlin | 1964 | Munich | photography | 11711 |
| 11 | Robert Mapplethorpe | US | New York | 1946 | photography | 11174 | |
| 12 | Hiroshi Sugimoto | JP | New York | 1948 | Tokyo | photography | 10914 |
| 13 | Candida Höfer | DE | Cologne | 1944 | Eberswalde | photography | 10672 |
| 14 | Barbara Kruger | US | Los Angeles | 1945 | Newark | photography | 10503 |
| 15 | Nan Goldin | US | New York | 1953 | Washington | photography | 10427 |
| 16 | Alfredo Jaar | CL | New York | 1956 | Santiago de Chile | photography | 9804 |
| 17 | Bernd & Hilla Becher | DE | Düsseldorf | 0 | photography | 9605 | |
| 18 | Rineke Dijkstra | NL | Amsterdam | 1959 | Sittard | photography | 9513 |
| 19 | Doug Aitken | US | New York | 1968 | Redondo Beach | photography | 9053 |
| 20 | Diane Arbus | US | New York | 1923 | photography | 8654 | |
| 21 | Louise Lawler | US | New York | 1947 | Bronxville | photography | 8580 |
| 22 | Henri Cartier-Bresson | FR | Paris | 1908 | Chanteloup | photography | 8097 |
| 23 | Sophie Calle | FR | Paris | 1953 | Paris | photography | 7913 |
| 24 | William Eggleston | US | Memphis | 1939 | Memphis | photography | 7799 |
| 25 | Walker Evans | US | New York | 1903 | photography | 7692 | |
| 26 | Taryn Simon | US | New York | 1975 | New York | photography | 7677 |
| 27 | Boris Mikhailov | UA | Berlin | 1938 | Kharkov | photography | 7633 |
| 28 | Christopher Williams | US | Los Angelos | 1956 | Los Angelos | photography | 7603 |
| 29 | Shirin Neshat | IR | New York | 1957 | Kaswin | photography | 7575 |
| 30 | Phil Collins | GB | Glasgow | 1970 | Runcorn | photography | 7359 |
