• Tom Waits
• Todd Walker
• Jeff Wall
• David Foster Wallace
• Andy Warhol
• John Waters
• Albert Watson
• Gillian Wearing
• Alex Webb
• Weegee
• Carrie Mae Weems
• William Wegman
• Ai Weiwei
• Orson Welles
• James Welling
• H.G. Wells
• Jack Welpott
• Eudora Welty
• Wim Wenders
• Henry Wessel
• Brett Weston
• Edward Weston
• Francis Wey
• James McNeill Whistler
• Clarence H. White
• E.B. White
• Minor White
• Walt Whitman
• Elie Wiesel
• Oscar Wilde
• Tennessee Williams
• William Carlos Williams
• Charis Wilson
• Garry Winogrand
• Frederick Wiseman
• Joel-Peter Witkin
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Otto Wöhler
• David Wojnarowicz
• Marion Post Wolcott
• Art Wolfe
• Tom Wolfe
• Peter Wollen
• Francesca Woodman
• William Wordsworth
• Jamie Wyeth

Ai Weiwei
[Artist, b. 1957, Beijing, lives in Beijing.]

 ...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.