jose_luis_berzal Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 The cover of Anerican Photo magazine about the 100 most important people in photography today made me curious and I bought it. Back home after two rolls shot in the Brazilian Labor day celebrations, and enjoying a beer in my favorite couch, I was a little disappointed to find that, with a few exceptions, a more approppriate title for the article would be the 100 most important people in American photography. So let me start yet another list, which non American persons would you include in a list of the most important names in photography today? As a Spaniard living in Brazil, I guess I would start with Salgado and then go to Vik Muniz or Claudio Edinger in the Brazilians and would add Cristina Garcia Rodero or Alberto Garcia Alix in the Spanish section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbiebedell Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Jose, I really like the work of Mario Algaze.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 A handful of photographers from Japan, including Daido, Tomatsu, and Araki. www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 As per my usual reaction to this annual list; it is very heavy on fashion & celebrity portrait photographers and editors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capocheny Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Jose, Thanks for the heads up... I'll have to take a peek at that issue. BTW, Is Frank Granovski and his BLOG in it? :) Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_evans4 Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 <p>If we're on family name terms, it's Moriyama, Tōmatsu and Araki. I think one of these three is hugely overrated. No surprise that Taschen, with its unerring eye for celebrity and kitsch (but not only those), is about to publish a monster book of his work. Still, all three are a lot more interesting than the recent recipients of the Kimura Ihei prize. Yesterday I bought an anthology of thirty years of prizewinners, and was disappointed to see how they've descended over the years into blandness and prettiness. Nothing bland or pretty about the work of Kurata Seiji, winner in '79. I don't know about the winners of the Domon Ken prize in general; but I'll swap Kikai Hiroo ("Hiroh Kikai", a recent recipient) for a dozen Hiromixes, etc. Is Kikai "important"? You decide. But then again, perhaps you can't: unfortunately his big collection <cite><a href="http://www.soshisha.com/books/1240.htm">Persona</a></cite> does not seem to have been distributed outside Japan, despite having first-rate English as well as Japanese text. Now it's out of print within Japan, though it's still in stock in some bookstores.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart_richardson Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Any of you guys like Tomio Seike? I am very fond of his work, but I tend to like a more pictorialist type of photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_evans4 Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 <p>Thanks for the tip. I'd never heard of Seike. He's in a completely different league from recent winners of the Kimura prize, and recently popular photographers. One recent winner is <a href="http://www.e-sawa.com/">Sawada Tomoko</a>. Another is <a href="http://d.hatena.ne.jp/keyword/HIROMIX">"Hiromix"</a>. This stuff says nothing to me. It doesn't shock me, disgust me . . . it just bores me.</p><p>Sorry he's not Japanese, but Chris Killip (who I only know of via a little Phaidon "55" paperback) isn't American either, and is good. (Is he "important"? Dunno.)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r s Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Hm, who would be 'The 20 most important Leica Forum Members'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_m__toronto_ Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 ...i made page 12 here in the 'istanbul life' magazine. half page spread with pic and write up . do i get to open a restaurant chain now or sell t shirts with my mug printed on them now? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattalofs Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 BTW, he isn't in the top 100 article but forum member Michael Hintlian is in the issue as well with a write up of his Big Dig book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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