Who are the big names now

Alec Soth

I'd like to add a few more (some of whom have already been mentioned): Richard Misrach (US) and Misha Gordin. And some who have not already been mentioned: Michael Kenna (UK/US) and Alexey Titarnko (St Petersburg, Russia).

 

Andy

Well, I've heard of three of these photographers. But then I don't read Harper's Bazaar or Vogue or GQ.

Why ask? It just perpetuates the pecking order syndrome in the art world.Kind of

like camera clubs..... Hey..If you want to emulate someone...go to the libraries and

galleries and find your own"big names" I didnt know any big names 30 years ago

when I got into photography...all I knew were the names of photographers I

discovered for myself...and some of them I have grown out of..past them...

 

Actually....become your own big name...in other words...learn your craft so well

that you become your favorite photographer...that you are the only one that

photographs the world exactly the way YOU want to experience it.And

maybe....let your influences include musicians and architects and writers and

painters.Dont fall into the hero worship thing with all the old familiar names listed

above.Easily the most interesting photographer I have seen is a woman that lives a

few miles away in the Chicago region.....she is an amature that works in color with

a Holga. Best eye I ever saw.You will never hear of her.But the photographs were

taken for the joy of it.I'm glad to have seen the work.

Good thread, hope to see more links to the websites of the great photographers.

A big name for me is someone who doesn't nauseate me with the BIGNESS of his or her name or the renown of their own work.

 

Let them be quiet with subtle talent. Show us something new, something raw, edgy, something that I don't see in this godforsaken place.

 

I am sick to death of fixed lighting, pasted makeup, lipsuctioned bodies and perfect, sculpted faces. Whomever can make me feel like not tossing my cookies these days, has my vote.