The Postal Service issued twenty 37-cent Masters of American Photography commemorative stamps on June 13, 2002, in San Diego, California. The pane of twenty stamps designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, went on nationwide June 14, 2002. The Masters of American Photography Issue honors twenty of our country's most important and influential photographers and includes examples of portrait, documentary, landscape, and fine art photography. Many of the major themes and events in US history, immigration, the Great Depression, and World War II, are captured in these compelling black-and-white stamp art images. Photographers featured: Albert Sands Southworth, Josiah Johnson Hawes, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Carleton E. Watkins, William Henry Jackson, Gertrude Ksebier, Lewis Wickes Hine, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edward (Edouard) Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz , Man Ray, Edward Weston, James VanDerZee, Dorthea Lange, Walker Evans, W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Andr Kertsz, Garry Winogrand, Minor White