Passage is the unassuming title of a recently published collection of work by Irving Penn, one of America's foremost photographers.

He is one of the foremost Confederate photographers, thanks to his recording of the gradual destruction of Charleston, and Fort Sumter, by enemy action.

His mother was Katherine, daughter of Dr Cosmo Innes, one of Scotland's foremost amateur photographers.

Although Meserve searched the entire country, he found his greatest treasure in a New Jersey warehouse: seven glass negatives of Lincoln taken by the era's foremost photographer, Mathew Brady.

Somewhere between Canterbury and Chicago, the camera beckoned, and today Mr. Pare is one of the foremost photographers of architecture.

However it was her sister Anna Riwkin, Sweden's foremost photographer, who was to be her closest friend throughout her lifetime.

Marilyn: A Biography by Norman Mailer and the world's foremost photographers.

In the catalog for the Newark (Ohio) Photography Salon, she was called "the foremost professional photographer in the United States."

This year's winners - considered the nation's foremost photographers, and among its highest-paid - include Jay Maisel, photographer of the year.

He was the foremost photographer of prewar Eastern European Jewish life.