aimpic Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 I would not want to spend any time with a dead photographer. They could be in bad physical condition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgelfand Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 Richard Avedon. Why? To learn how to take pictures of people. For modern darkroom technique Tim Rudman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennycoots Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 MICHAEL ZAGARIS the 49ers photographer.he is truly great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j. salty Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 Edward Steichen or William Mortensen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert x Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 Robert Capa would be extremely hard to beat. Maybe he could bring along Ingrid Bergman too ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janc Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 No one will like to be with Cartier Bresson? OK, I will spent a day with him. I think I am lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francisco_degrossi Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Minor White perhaps. For the mystery of his photographs. David Bailey could very well capture the atmosphere of swinging London. For Helmut newton fans ( am one of them) we have a nice Helmut Newton Museum in Berlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcpopper Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 Jose is right. We should all spend a day with Cartier-Bresson. Do us good. Also Ansel Adams, a genius and a great teacher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johncrosley Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Cartier-Bressson, without a doubt, just to watch him work. He was famous for his diatribes against the work of others who presented him their portfolios, so I wouldn't attempt to show him my work. He was adamantine in his hatred of his own color work to the point where he not only scolded loudly in a fancy Parisian restaurant the editor of French 'Photo' (an erstwhile friend) who brought him some of his older color work to consider, to the point where he tried to rip it up, then went around to all the other diners to let them know his opinion of that editor and the 'sin' he had committed in resurrecting what he considered his failed 'art'. Obviously a man of great conviction and passion in everyhthing, a Communist/socialist sympathizer for much of his life because he (wrongly) thought it would make the world better, a surrealist because he knew, just knew, that life is indeed surreal, and a man with an unerring knack for following history around, probably just to experience it himself. (He seemingly lost interest in photography when that part of his life was over, and he turned to painting/drawing. Did his legs give out? Had he seen everything?) I'd like to have followed him around, probably without talking, just to see how he approached his subjects, how long he waited for those shots called 'waiters', how he dealt with irate subjects (did the farmer really chase him with a shovel?), the tons of tricks he must have accumulated over a lifetime for concealing his photography from the unknowing subjects (famously including hiding his Leica under a napkin --serviettte-- in restaurants, etc.), and in general to see how that man's mind worked in creating compositions where most would see none, and mainly to have watched him interact with his subjects, camera in hand, while following him in his peregrinations. And finally to find out if what a fellow PN member told me is true, that he was capable of (and filmed) shoving parade spectators out of his way in NYC so he could get 'that shot'. (I don't shove, but truly a man after my heart; you're not much of a photogtrapher if you can't get that photograph). Alive: Elliott Erwitt, a great photographer with a vast, full lifetime of experience and a tremendous body of work; also a man of great humor. John (Crosley) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeffe Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 You've described HCB as a sort of sportsman. Somehow it is not natural or comfortable to think of a still photo as the culmination of a moving interaction or dance bt'ween the 'stalker and the prey', but if you substitute the pre-visualized photo in the mind as the prey you've got a good analogy. Viewing contact sheets as reverse-storyboards can be enlightening about my specific behaviors and approaches to getting the shot I wanted?...expected?...settled for? A friend of mine on the Boston Globe photo staff tells young aspirants to shoot as much sports action as they can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovcom_photo Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Diane Arbus...I heard she was permiscuous... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 "A friend of mine on the Boston Globe photo staff tells young aspirants to shoot as much sports action as they can." Pinball is also surprisingly good training especailly on a machine like the old classic Bally Fireball where you can have up to 3 balls in play at a time and the grooved spinning disk in the center of the playing field adds quite a bit of randomness to the action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericophotography Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Richard Avedon Gordon Parks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billysyk Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Margaret Bourke White. Because she knew what was the right proportion of truth between human greatness and human evil in creation. She seemed to know what she was doing although being in (many) times of trouble, and she had an inner strength to share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fldawson Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Without a doubt, Erich Salomon, who essentially invented candid photography and managed to crash just about every international diplomatic conference of his era, 1920s-30s. He is also credited with taking the only shot of the US Supreme Court in Session. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Myself,when i'm dead. Would be an interesting experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antoniobassiphotography Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 For me is Henri Cartier-Bresson. His timing was almost magical, the way he could catch unique moments and people's feeling without them posing for him was just unbeatable. His eye for composition was also just astonishing. Just a reminder of his work: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb1 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I was reading and reading, and wanted to say - hey, did you forget Henri Cartier-Bresson :) the best is left for the end :) Always and forever - Henri Cartier-Bresson - and I would spend my day with a Serbian photographer, unfortunatelly dead in 2003 - Branibor Debeljkovic :) please look at his photographs at : http://www.digital.nbs.bg.ac.yu/eng/fotodokumenta.php? Thank you :) All the best to today`s Photographers, alive ones : ) Biliana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aginbyte Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Weegee ... and Stieglitz, because then I could also hang out with Georgia O'Keefe ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pascalagneray Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Robert Doisneau. It would be like traveling back in time to discover the alter ego of the old France, the true French spirit that no one alive today knows (because they were not born yet or way too young)<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rana1 Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 August Sander and Jan Saudek But also.. Walker Evans Rineke Dijkstra Sally Mann ... and so many others that I'm discovering every day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don_e Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Why anyone would want to spend a day with any photographer eludes me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myattphotoandfotoart39 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Ruth Harriet Louise 1903-1940 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alones Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 I think I would love to spend a day with "Sally Mann" . Her b&w work are amazing , I love the way she deal with the subject , A unique approach full with emotion . her family old work are one of the best in the world of photography . Even the way she deals with Death I find fascinating , It's a subject that not many photographers will ever dear to work with . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josoiii Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 It would be Neil Armstrong, not that he was known a great photographer, but the ride and risk he took to bring it back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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