pacorosso Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 I am collecting information about the sources of what we know aboutphotography, and this week I am interested in "masters of light".Please. at your consideration �Who and why can be considered mastersof photographic light? I am not interested in the photographer with a high skill in lighting,but the photographers who made the trends, that who teached and createthe concepts we use nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_hutchins Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 I'd have thought that edward weston merits inclusion in your list. His lighting, sometimes of extremely mundane objects, is astounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Among contemporary commercial editorial and fine art photogrphers a couple of names stand out: Annie Leibowitz / Mark Seliger Dan Winters Chris Callis Hiro Irving Penn Gregory Crewsdon Gregory Heisler past masters: Richard Avedon Gjon Mili Yosef Karsh George Hurrell Arnold Newman Ben Rose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhyche Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Thomas Edison...:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrea_ingram Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Look no further than Leonard Misonne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_hopkins Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 One book I picked up was "Lighting" by Andreas Feninger (sp?). His command of the topics in the book are amazing and he breaks the complex down very well. His photos, extremely good. Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas_sullivan Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Canon has a page called <a href="http://www.photoworkshop.com/canon/explorers/lobby.html"><u>Explorers of Light Gallery</u></a> which may be of interest to you. Some of Ellis's picks above are also good answers. But, I would also include the following as masters of light.......Sebastiao Salgado, Antonin Kratochvil, Diado Moriyama, Ferdinando Scianna, Michael Ackerman, Philip Lorca diCorcia, Christina Garcia Rodero, Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe, Masahisa Fukase, Miguel Rio Branco....and at least a dozen more I can't just pull off the top of my head......Brassai, Paul Strand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igord Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Patrick Demarchelier and let's face the truth - Steven Meisel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronald_olsen Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 O. Winston Link. Every person since who has made photographs of the railway environment at night has studied his monumental work on the Norfolk & Western in the 1950's. I have read that he is the only American photographer to have a major museum devoted entirely to his work (don't know if this is true). Truly a MAster Of Light if there ever was one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 There is a profound difference between a mastery of found light and mastery of controlled lighting; I made my list by the latter criteria becasue I assume that is what Paco was askign about. I left off Albert Watson & Steven Meisel by accident. Ithinkl meisel is self important fraud but he does know his technique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
35mmdelux Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 SKREBNESKI George Hurrell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
35mmdelux Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 Steven Meisel Is that Jr or Sr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electrolens Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Names that come to mind. Phillip Charis, Andreas Fieninger, William McIntosh, Yousef Karsh, Hurrell, Lange, Irving Penn, Ansel Adams. These are just some of the people that I consider to have or have had the eye. Each photographer controls the light, the situation in their own way. Their balance, the control of what is in the highlight and how much is able to be seen in the shadow. Their content. Their way of looking at the world and knowing enough about thier field to evoke a reaction from the world. Anyone that was around to experience "Life" magazine photography in its heyday, as well as "National Geographic" was observing journalistic photography in some really impossible locations. Each method shares something and passes its effects on to other artists. I hope this helps. Good Luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacorosso Posted November 17, 2007 Author Share Posted November 17, 2007 Thanks to all, I go on in the looking for the names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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