grant_. Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 commercial photogs def get more hits....so far we've learned that much..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 hey, don't put me in the middle of anything gasshopper! just trying to be helpful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas_sullivan Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............my vote is for NASA ;o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msitaraman Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 The answer is....nobody. We've got to wait a while before someone like that comes along. It's not just in the talent, it's also in the (historical) timing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 Avedon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakley Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 Irving Penn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 <a href="http://www.demarchelier.net/home.html">Patrick Demarchelier</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolfe_tessem Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 It is rare these days to see someone who does editorial assignments with the degree of integrity that you saw from HCB. Having said that, the world has changed and I would say David Burnett comes as close as anyone, in terms of being published in mainstream publications while maintaining a high degree of personal vision and visual integrity. Burnett has also been on top of virtually every major world event from Vietnam onward, and has managed to maintain a freshness of approach that must be very difficult. In that respect, he echos HCB. Personally, I love the way Burnett is using a Speed Graphic and a Rolleiflex on this year's political campaign to get a different kind of image than the rest of the pack with their Canon 10Ds and their resulting cookie-cutter pictures. Of course, Sebastiao Salgado also comes to mind, but he is highly focused on commissioned NGO projects and one rarely sees his work published, except in books, so I feel he is less analogous to HCB in that respect, but maybe closer in terms of pure visual esthetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awahlster Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 WOW of the fourteen or fifteen real photographers mentioned in this post up until now. I have only before this thread heard mention of one. David Douglas Duncan The others I may have read their names somewhere but not in any context to register. I have been a very very active photographer for the last 28-29 years and on the net for the last 4. So I guess none of them would hit on my scale. Funny I guess I don't need an icon to be able to take photographs weither they be snapshots, art, paid commisions, or just stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig_maxwell Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 Well it is fairly obvious to me, our one and only, the ever present and hugely talented, Mr. Al Kaplan, why he even is revered on T-shirts bearing his likeness. I have NEVER seen a Cartier-Bresson T-shirt ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_lo_..._t_o Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 As one who has just purchased her book "I'll Be Your Mirror", I'm with Nan Goldin, both as photographer and as icon. Her subject matter is not as wholesome and palatable to many people, but the imagery is brilliant (and if the public can accept the gender bending of David Bowie, and Melissa Etheridge (who is on my TV tonight singing a diet with Dolly Parton, maybe the world is ready for The Ballad of Sexual Dependency). Her work is snapshot based which I would say is one step removed from HCB, yet her composition sense is original and stunning, and her colours are not to be believed. Studio people who use assistants to help them with colour don't come up with the pallettes she does. Plus she uses Leica, has done an ad for them, in fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Me...my good friends like what I do, and friendship is more important than fame! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incitatus_rex Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Rick Solomon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy_skopar Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 David Burnette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek_stanton2 Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Richard Avedon / Irving Penn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arie Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Willi Ronis/Joseph Koudelka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_r._fulton_jr. Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 I don't believe there is a one single name. Of the names mentioned, Richard Avedon would come the closest. His work is outstanding and he's still working hard at it. He reached "fame" in his 20's like HCB and has had many beautiful books and museum shows. HCB, following in the footsteps of Kertesz, broke new ground in photo reportage, making it into an art form. Avedon did the same with his "new" portraiture. I love the work of Koudelka and Klein (and Richards) but they have not gotten close to an icon status. One last note. When I think of Avedon a virtual slide show of his images go off in my head. I can't say the same for the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean_g Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 William Eggleston is the greatest living photographer. His influence on photography is on par with Cartier-Bresson. It's surprising he's not been mentioned on this forum. He's even a "Leica man". Perhaps you meant who is the greatest living photography icon doing journalistic type photography in the style of HCB? I just read a recent article about David Burnett where he mentions that his "hybrid" approach also includes a digital camera, a 10D I think. That was omitted from the mention of his speed graphic and Rollei, above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 H C-B positively hated Martin Parr, Parr's cynical & snide view of people and how that is expressed in his photographic work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 That makes me like Martin Parr much more than I do already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 I've loved David Burnett's work for years. But "icon"? c'mon. In the vein of "photojournalism , James Nachtwey are the current active standards to aspire to.<P> <I>... than the rest of the pack with their Canon 10Ds and their resulting cookie-cutter pictures.. </I><P> Burnett isn't the first photographer to take a different technical approach from most political campaign photographers. For instance, Arthur Grace used a twin lens Rollei back in either 1988 or 1992. There are other photographers using a panoramic cameras. No matterthe camera, what distinguishes a photographer is his or her "eye' which is to say their view on life. <P> And as for the cookie cutter comment: the camera has nothing to do with that. The guilty parties are mostly the photo editors and in a distant second place in the guilt sweepstakes, (unfortunately) the photographers who don't think, and don't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_fang Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 <i>"Personally, I love the way Burnett is using a Speed Graphic and a Rolleiflex on this year's political campaign to get a different kind of image than the rest of the pack with their Canon 10Ds and their resulting cookie-cutter pictures." - Rolfe Tessem</i> <p> Using a certain kind of equipment to get a different kind of image may be briefly interesting, but has little lasting value compared to getting a different kind of image because of <i>a unique sense of vision</i>. <p>To answer the original question, definitely James Nachtwey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_neuthaler Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 A. Kaplan without a doubt. Is he still alive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_fang Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Oops, was still composing when Ellis posted. Sorry for the echo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_matsil Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 In the 13+ hours this thread has been active, nobody mentions Bruce Davidson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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