• Charles Babbage
• Eve Babitz
• Miriam Bäckström
• Francis Bacon
• Francis Bacon
• Kevin Bacon
• David Bailey
• John Baldessari
• Hugo Ball
• J.G. Ballard
• Roger Ballen
• James Balog
• Dmitri Baltermants
• Lewis Baltz
• Honoré de Balzac
• Tallulah Bankhead
• Olivo Barbieri
• Brigitte Bardot
• Matthew Barney
• Tina Barney
• John Barrymore
• Uta Barth
• Roland Barthes
• Lillian Bassman
• George Bataille
• Geoffrey Batchen
• Charles Baudelaire
• Jean Baudrillard
• Hippolyte Bayard
• Herbert Bayer
• André Bazin
• Peter Beard
• Cecil Beaton
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Bernd Becher
• Hilla Becher
• Samuel Beckett
• Max Beckman
• Hans Bellmer
• Walter Benjamin
• Max Bense
• Harry Benson
• John Berger
• Ruth Bernhard
• Alphonse Bertillon
• Walead Beshty
• Dawoud Bey
• Ambrose Bierce
• Albert Bierstadt
• Ilse Bing
• Howard Bingham
• Werner Bischof
• Gus Blaisdell
• William Blake
• Karl Blossfeldt
• Erwin Blumenfeld
• Mel Bochner
• Christian Boltanski
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Pierre Bonnard
• Daniel Boorstin
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Edouard Boubat
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Margaret Bourke-White
• Elizabeth Bowen
• Matthew Brady
• Stan Brakhage
• Constantin Brâncuşi
• Bill Brandt
• Brassaï
• Lola Alvarez Bravo
• Manuel Álvarez Bravo
• Bertolt Brecht
• André Breton
• Susie Bright
• Alexey Brodovitch
• Peter Brook
• Malcolm Browne
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Francis Bruguière
• Charles Bukowski
• Angela Bulloch
• Wynn Bullock
• Peter Bunnell
• Chris Burden
• Victor Burgin
• David Burnett
• René Burri
• William Burroughs
• Larry Burrows
• Nancy Burson
• George W. Bush
• Jean-Marc Bustamante
• Judith Butler
• Samuel Butler
• David Byrne

Max Bense
[Philosopher and theoretician, b. 1910, Strasbourg, France, d. 1990, Stuttgart.]

 Painting reveals itself more strongly as “source” art, and photography more strongly as a “channel” art. 

 The esthetic process in painting is directed toward creation: the esthetic process of photography has to do with transmission.