• Jacques Lacan
• David LaChapelle
• Brigitte Lacombe
• Edwin Land
• Dorothea Lange
• Claude Lanzmann
• Philip Larkin
• Jacques-Henri Lartigue
• Clarence John Laughlin
• Louise Lawler
• D.H. Lawrence
• Gustave Le Gray
• Nikki S. Lee
• Annie Leibovitz
• Saul Leiter
• Zoe Leonard
• Michael Lesy
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Sherrie Levine
• Helen Levitt
• Bernard-Henri Lévy
• Sol LeWitt
• Jerome Liebling
• Michael Light
• Glenn Ligon
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ann Morrow Lindbergh
• Susie Linfield
• O. Winston Link
• Lucy Lippard
• Walter Lippmann
• El Lissitzky
• John Loengard
• Yve Lomax
• Richard Long
• Federico Garcia Lorca
• Sophia Loren
• Henry Luce
• Lucretius
• Georg Lukács
• Vera Lutter
• Loretta Lux
• George Platt Lynes
• Danny Lyon
• Nathan Lyons
• Jean-François Lyotard

Bernard-Henri Lévy
[Writer and critic, b. 1948, Béni Saf, Algeria, lives in St-Paul-de-Vence, France.]

 No one wants to see; no one wants to hear. We have to force them to see it, then. There has to be a terrorism of the gaze.