httpwww.photo.netbarry Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 This arose out of the "Can it still be called a photograph" thread. I'm just curious to see what different people here like, specifically types or genres of photos and particular photographers. You can expound on what, whom and why, or just list them. I always find new photographers to look at when these threads happen so don't be shy. Just for openers: Robert Franks Avedon Newton Arbus Eugene Smith Irving Penn La Chappele Shore Winograd Lee Frielander Walker Evans Atget Moriyama Opie Fukose Arakis and a bunch more, but just for a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim Ghantous Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 I've been influenced by The Image Bank more than anything else. I'm also a fan of some of the photographers you listed above. I would add Alfred Eisenstaedt, Mary Ellen Mark, Cartier-Bresson, Olive Cotton, Andreas Feininger, Horst, Cecil Beaton, Bill Henson, Thorsten Overgaard. I'd add Bill Cunningham, not because his photos are great, but because of his personality, his approach, his dedication and his extraordinary archive. I would also add many photographers I follow on social media, who shoot documentary, urban, street, cars, and portraiture. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Karsh is missing from the list. As are Bill Brandt, Dorothea Lange, Francis Sutcliffe and a few hundred others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_gallimore1 Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 A few more: David Douglas Duncan Robert Doisneau Robert Capa Reza John Kippin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Starting in high school in California, I was heavily influenced by Monterey Peninsula photographers Ansdel Adams, Edward and Brett Weston, Wynn Bullock, etc. Later, in the 70's, I even attended Adams' week long photography workshop in Yosemite (the only workshop that I have ever attended). I really enjoy more modern photographers, but I keep going back to my photographic roots for inspiration. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Never heard of John Kippin before, but I like what I see in his gallery. Thanks Steve! And I can't even imagine the stench he withstood to picture that mountain of rotting crayfish. I'll add Fay Godwin to my list of 'influential' photographers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels - NHSN Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Took a look at my photobook shelf and here are some of my favourites not mentioned already: Alec Soth Hiroshi Sugimoto Andre Kertesz Bernd & Hilda Becher Sally Mann Vivian Maier Paul Strand Keld Helmer Petersen Garry Johansson Jacob Riis Christer Strömholm 1 Niels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 My tastes are catholic (small c), and I can mostly appreciate photographers whose work I don't really like. I'm generally "easy". But just as there is just one camera that I really dislike (old-timers here will know that this is the Kodak 35), there is one photographer -- and his ilk -- whose work makes me embarrassed for him: William Mortensen. (example at William Mortensen: photographic master at the monster’s ball) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Josef Sudek Imogen Cunningham Harry Callahan Ryan McGinley Eikoh Hosoe Sebastião Salgado Peter Hujar Tina Modotti Lewis Hine Cindy Sherman Nan Goldin Herb Ritts Joel Meyerowitz Brassaï added to many already mentioned ... 2 "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 William Mortensen. (example at William Mortensen: photographic master at the monster’s ball) Cringe-worthy, or simply following in an age-old tradition of using allegory, religious or mythological motifs as an excuse to show the naked female form? I sometimes can't view much-revered religious works by the likes of Reubens without having a good snigger at their ridiculous content. Don't care how impeccable their painterly technique was. But I think sidetracking this thread with what we don't like could prove highly controversial and self-destructive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conrad_hoffman Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 There are only a handful listed above that I haven't been exposed to over the years. Still, my favorite has always been W. Eugene Smith. I like to bring him up when people talk about digital manipulations, as he was doing that way before digital. His photos often aren't truth in the absolute photographic record sense, but they're truth in the telling the most powerful story possible. FWIW, I'm far too much of a wuss to take the kinds of photos that most impress me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_gallimore1 Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 FWIW, I'm far too much of a wuss to take the kinds of photos that most impress me. You're not alone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_bowring Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 I would add Disfarmer and August Sander and Mary Ellen Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 sidetracking this thread with what we don't like could prove highly controversial and self-destructive. I will have to grant you the high ground on this one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 While we're on the subject of dislike, Martin Parr is one I often hear negative reactions to but whose photos I like looking at. 1 "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Seaman Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 I've always admired the extraordinary night time railway photographs of O. Winston Link. Also Bert Hardy's very human and sympathetic work. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcelRomviel Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Avendon Newton Lindtbergh Ed van der Elsken And more 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_ Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 there are dozens, but 3 stand out : Robert Adams, Henry Wessel Jr., and Malick Sidibe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim Ghantous Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 How could I have forgotten Cindy Sherman! Cheers, Sam. Edit: David Lynch is hit-and-miss sometimes, but he has taken photos I absolutely love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Helmke Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Linda Eastman had incredible access to 60’s musicians, being married to one, and produced some excellent work at the only time it could have been done. Gene Smith and Vivian Maier were very good if flawed in many ways. Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Adams, Avedon, it’s a long list. Rick H. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Melia Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Jay Maisel; for celebration of the joy of seeing, and for the craft of expressing it. It's always a better world after browsing a few. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Don McCullin, for his unflinching war pictures and for his gritty landscapes and gentle social documentary. Heather Angel for her promotion of natural history photography and concern for ecology. The thousands of nameless photographers working before I was born that have left an insight into times, people and places long gone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
httpwww.photo.netbarry Posted November 2, 2020 Author Share Posted November 2, 2020 I'd have add Harry Callahan, Larry Trowell for his great family photos, most of the Magnum photographers, incl. Parr, earlier work by Bruce Gilden, especially his Yakusa series, Pinkhassov, especially his book "Sight Walk", Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, David Alan Harvey, and how can I forget about William Eggleston and Larry Sultan. Dang, there's just too many. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjmurray Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) After high school in the late 60's I started with 35mm photographing people in everyday situations. I think I was most influenced by the documentary photography seen in both Life and Look magazines. I don't even know who the photographers were. I just liked the natural look, unposed, real. I still use that style after all these years! Edited November 2, 2020 by sjmurray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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