• Arnulf Rainer
• Ayn Rand
• Rankin
• Robert Rauschenberg
• Man Ray
• Ronald Reagan
• Lou Reed
• Elaine Reichek
• Ad Reinhardt
• Oscar Rejlander
• Albert Renger-Patzsch
• Jean Renoir
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Joshua Reynolds
• Bettina Rheims
• Marc Riboud
• Adrienne Rich
• Eugene Richards
• Bob Richardson
• Terry Richardson
• Gerhard Richter
• Hans Richter
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Jacob Riis
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Pipilotti Rist
• Sophie Ristelhueber
• Fred Ritchin
• Herb Ritts
• Henry Peach Robinson
• Aleksander Rodchenko
• George Rodger
• Auguste Rodin
• Theodore Roethke
• Thomas Roma
• Willy Ronis
• Wilhelm Röntgen
• Walter Rosenblum
• Joe Rosenthal
• Martha Rosler
• Roberto Rossellini
• Dieter Roth
• Arthur Rothstein
• Paolo Roversi
• Eva Rubinstein
• Thomas Ruff
• Rumi
• Donald Rumsfeld
• Ed Ruscha
• Salman Rushdie
• John Ruskin
• Bertrand Russell

Gerhard Richter
[Artist, b. 1932, Dresden, lives in Düsseldorf.]

 [Photographs] being painted no longer tell of a specific situation, and the representation becomes absurd.