Talent or Headstart because parent's a photographer too?

[lance_lee4]

<p>Hi everyone,<br>

just curious, among the famous and successful photographers that we know (internationally), how many got into photographer because their parents were photographers too.</p>

<p>In the movie business, it's common for sons and daughters especially to inherit their fathers' passions. example, Sofia Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola.</p>

<p>Not necessarily a famous father (or mother) that grooms a successful photographer child, it could be just a poor struggling dad with a son who took over the passion and did better, career-wise.</p>

<p>Does anyone know of any examples?</p>

[john tonai]

<p>Not really sure if they are famous enough: the Westons ;^)</p>

[lance_lee4]

the westons are famous enough, yes.

 

any more examples?

[john_a5]

<p>Not sure I have run across too many. I love Paul Caponigro's work, not so much John Paul's and other than the Weston's, none come to mind.</p>

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[hugh_j.]

<p>Sam Abell got his start with his father who was an amateur photographer and a schoolteacher. William Eggleston, likewise, except his father figure was his maternal grandfather, a judge and amateur photographer, who took over raising the boy after the father died during WWII. I'm sure there are many others but those two spring to my mind.</p>

[scott bulger]

<p>Arbus.</p>