- Eleanor Callahan
- Harry Callahan
- Sophie Calle
- Jo Ann Callis
- Italo Calvino
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- Naomi Campbell
- Albert Camus
- Cornell Capa
- Robert Capa
- Paul Caponigro
- Elinor Carcucci
- George Carlin
- Jane Welsh Carlyle
- Lewis Carroll
- Keith Carter
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Raymond Carver
- James Casebere
- Fidel Castro
- Maurizio Cattelan
- Stanley Cavell
- Blaise Cendrars
- Paul Cezanne
- Walter Chappell
- Teilhard De Chardin
- Sarah Charlesworth
- Jean-François Chevrier
- Christo
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Larry Clark
- William Claxton
- Chuck Close
- Alvin Langdon Coburn
- Jean Cocteau
- Van Deren Coke
- Stephen Colbert
- Ernest Cole
- Teju Cole
- A.D. Coleman
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Robert Coles
- Will Connell
- Linda Connor
- Peter Conrad
- Anderson Cooper
- John Coplans
- Anton Corbijn
- Tee Corinne
- Julio Cortázar
- Charlotte Cotton
- Douglas Coupland
- Eileen Cowin
- Hart Crane
- Crazy Horse
- Gregory Crewdson
- Douglas Crimp
- R. Crumb
- Sammy Cucher
- E.E. Cummings
- Bill Cunningham
- Imogen Cunningham
- John Currin
- Edward Curtis
Peter Conrad
[Critic, b. 1948, Hobart, Tasmania, lives in Oxford, England.]
The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and prised open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again.