james_kennedy9 Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 <p>and gave you the choice to live the life of any famous photographer, who would you choose. Capa? Nah, stepped on a land mine in vietnam. HCB? Maybe, he had a good life. Playboy staff photographer? Sounds pretty good to me.</p> <p>My choice would be David Douglas Duncan. Born on Jan 23, 1916, and as far as I know, still alive. I have several of his books and what a great life. Marine during WW2, and Life magazine photographer afterwards. Iconic photos of the Korean War. Opened the world's eye to Nikon lenses, at a time when Leica was supreme.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_s Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 <p>David Bailey.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebecca_l Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 <p>I wouldn't want to live someone else's life. It'd be like watching an 80-year-long movie (or however long) that I'd already seen. Why not just wish for something to improve the one you're already living and have invested in? Oh, who am I kidding, I'd just wish for a big pile of money to roll around in.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andylynn Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 <p>Do I have to choose somebody else, or can I just choose to be famous in some way that lets me spend all my time traveling to interesting places?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigd Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 <p>I don't hate myself enough to want to be someone else.</p> <p>I wouldn't mind having a career like Sebastiao Salgado's, though.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_drawbridge Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 <p>I'd love to have the ability of two men, the first being the fabulous <strong>Ernst Hass</strong>, in my opinion the greatest maestro of light and movement that photography has known, who created images which shout "Photoshop!!", but <em>before</em> Photoshop....His photography of our natural world reigns supreme. The other would be the incredible <strong>Sam Haskins</strong>, for his amazing abilities as a printmaker in the '60's, his marvellous photography of women, (and just about everything else), and a creative output that exhausts me, just looking at it. I share a vision with these two men, but only a trace of their ability and a fraction of their achievements.</p> <p>For those unfamiliar with their work, visit:<br /> http://www.ernst-haas.com/<br /> http://www.haskins.com/</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfophotos Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 <p>I would not necessarily want to be another photographer, but I sure as heck would have liked to have known a few of them.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean_yves_mead Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Is David Mecey famous? Because I'm pretty sure I could handle having his career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex macphee Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 <p>I wouldn't want to give up my life in order to be someone else. But if I met the genie, I wouldn't let go of him till he brought back my Kodachrome.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene m Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 <p>My life has been interesting enough. I think I'll stay in this aging bag of mostly water.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 <p>Has anyone taken fictional characters? Maybe Brophy in Mel Brooks' <em>High Anxiety</em> -- photo enlargement scene.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_levine Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 <p>Hands down, I'd like to have shot alongside Annie Leibovitz. Being the shooter for the "Stones" USA tour in 1975 had to have been a hoot.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 <p>I might go for Ansel Adams, because I always wished I could play the piano.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodys Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 <p>Helmut Newton. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_the_waste Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 <p>I'd like to have had the vision of Ansel Adams. I play a piano like a donkey dances.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabor_szabo3 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 <p>I like these kinds of threads. The readers who haven't posted their "wishes" are most likely either out making good photography or stuck in some kind of neurotic cunundrum. <br> I don't know which is worse, GAS or actively seeking to emulate other artists. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_turner6 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 <p>Brandt. Nick or Bill. Beggars can't choosers.</p> <p>Mind you, Tim Page would have been interesting ...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philipward Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Austin Powers, Soooooooooooo Groovey Baby!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_layton Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 <p>Split Personality (or maybe not?)....E. Weston and S. Salgado....</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Smith Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 <p>Edward Steichen?</p> Robin Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_hutcherson Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 <p>I would like to have the skills, and more importantly live in a time and place where I could make the same sort of photographs as O. Winston Link.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glockman99 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 <li><a title="W. Eugene Smith" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Eugene_Smith">W. Eugene Smith</a> is who I would choose.</li> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_degroot Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 <p>a "well adjusted" person is satisfied with their current age and ( hopefully)<br> healthy condition. to be something or somebody else is 'way off and an aberation.<br> To Be LIKE someone else or to have greater skills like playing the piano<br> or the Violin is OK. we all wish we could do something in addition to what we<br> have or haveor not accomplished. or if our life had taken a different course<br> Some decicistions " that seemed like a good idea at the time"have made our lives<br> more difficult, Some go thru their entire lives as if they were stumbling drunkenly<br> up a flight of steep slippery stares.<br> yes it is a little sad that this is our lives, and we only travel pnce.<br> I am 75 and most of my life is behind me.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 <p>Walter,<br> <em>everybody</em>'s life is "behind them" -- at least up to now. :)<br> 10 years from now that will still be true for everybody.</p> <p>I too am among those, however, who cannot reasonably expect to live longer into the future than we have already lived.</p> <p>There have been some pretty raunchy photographers in a few (actually, many) porn films whose lives would be fun for a few weeks, perhaps.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yefei_he1 Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 <p>Diane Arbus, because I'd like to manage her wealth in a lot better way!</p> <p>Edit: Oops! I guess I meant to say Annie Leibovitz. Well, I guess subconsciously I wanted to be Diane Arbus.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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