Chusseau Flaviens
This is the best thread ever. Since all my favorites have been covered...I'll go with this (he's really more 70s but this sneaks in at 1969):
Nadar
all these guys suck... they dont shoot in HD... its all about HD guys!
Phillip Hyde
Robert Capa
Lucien Clergue
Don McCullin
Brassai
Josef Koudelka... still one of my absolute fav's
Malik Sidibe. My girlfriend just bought a print from him
Henry Fox Talbot
Karl_Blossfeldt
Weege
arnold newman
imogen cunningham
Duane Michals
Izis
Werner Bischof
R. Mapplethorpe
bernd und hilla becher
Ramón Massats
Man Ray
Larry Fink
Garry Winogrand