- Charles Babbage
- Eve Babitz
- Miriam Bäckström
- Francis Bacon
- Francis Bacon
- Kevin Bacon
- David Bailey
- John Baldessari
- Hugo Ball
- J.G. Ballard
- Roger Ballen
- James Balog
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Lewis Baltz
- Honoré de Balzac
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Olivo Barbieri
- Brigitte Bardot
- Matthew Barney
- Tina Barney
- John Barrymore
- Uta Barth
- Roland Barthes
- Lillian Bassman
- George Bataille
- Geoffrey Batchen
- Charles Baudelaire
- Jean Baudrillard
- Hippolyte Bayard
- Herbert Bayer
- André Bazin
- Peter Beard
- Cecil Beaton
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Bernd Becher
- Hilla Becher
- Samuel Beckett
- Max Beckman
- Hans Bellmer
- Walter Benjamin
- Max Bense
- Harry Benson
- John Berger
- Ruth Bernhard
- Alphonse Bertillon
- Walead Beshty
- Dawoud Bey
- Ambrose Bierce
- Albert Bierstadt
- Ilse Bing
- Howard Bingham
- Werner Bischof
- Gus Blaisdell
- William Blake
- Karl Blossfeldt
- Erwin Blumenfeld
- Mel Bochner
- Christian Boltanski
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Pierre Bonnard
- Daniel Boorstin
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Edouard Boubat
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Matthew Brady
- Stan Brakhage
- Constantin Brâncuşi
- Bill Brandt
- Brassaï
- Lola Alvarez Bravo
- Manuel Álvarez Bravo
- Bertolt Brecht
- André Breton
- Susie Bright
- Alexey Brodovitch
- Peter Brook
- Malcolm Browne
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Francis Bruguière
- Charles Bukowski
- Angela Bulloch
- Wynn Bullock
- Peter Bunnell
- Chris Burden
- Victor Burgin
- David Burnett
- René Burri
- William Burroughs
- Larry Burrows
- Nancy Burson
- George W. Bush
- Jean-Marc Bustamante
- Judith Butler
- Samuel Butler
- David Byrne
Angela Bulloch
[Artist, b. 1966, Fort Francis, Ontario, Canada, lives in London.]
The works often continue to evolve after they have been realized, simply by the fact that they are concerned with an element of change, or an inherent potential for some kind of shift to occur.