Favorite photographers?

[hannahthiem]

Who are your 3 favorite most influential photographers?

[evan_goulet]

<p>Henry Horenstein, Andrew Murphy, Diane Arbus.</p>

[mattwelsh]

<p>Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Capa</p>

[CharlesBecker-Toronto]

<p>Henri Cartier- Bresson, Ansel Adams, and Pete Turner. cb</p>

[maury_cohen]

<p>Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Josuf Karsh.</p>

[JDMvW]

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<ul>

<li>Dorothea Lange</li>

<li>Esther Bubley</li>

<li>Marion Post Wolcott</li>

<li>Marjorie Collins</li>

<li>Gordon Parks</li>

<li>Walker Evans</li>

<li>Russell Lee</li>

<li>Jack Delano</li>

<li>John Vachon</li>

<li>Arthur Rothstein</li>

<li>John Collier</li>

</ul>

[dan_south]

Galen Rowell, Dave Black, David Muench, Cliff Mautner, Tim Holte, Scott Ferris, and lots of other folks whose work I

have seen but whose names I'll probably never know.

[KenPapai]

<p>Galen Rowell, Graham Watson (pro bike racing), and Ansel Adams are my top three, most influential to me, besides my dad (his nickname was of a '60s comic strip character ace photog).</p>

<p>I could list fifteen from Photo.net alone too...</p>

[starvy]

<p>Cartier-Bresson, Richard Avedon and Duffy out of times gone by.</p>

[KenPapai]

<p>To follow-up:</p>

<p><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Wahooroper.jpg">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Wahooroper.jpg</a></p>

<p><strong>Steve Roper</strong> -- that was often my dad's nickname back in the '60s. My mom called him that every time he pulled out his rangefinder camera.</p>

[Charles_Webster]

<p>Ansel Adams - photos and books, Henri Cartier-Bresson - who I wanted to be, and Imogen Cunningham with whom I studied in the early 70s.<br>

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[tholte]

<p>Sebastiao Salgado, W. Eugene Smith and Roy DeCarava</p>

[Norma Desmond]

<p>They all play a pretty equal role, even the ones I don't like that much. I love looking at photographs and watching films. Those two things, and my musical experiences, have really affected me. </p>

[steve_levine]

<p>O.Winston Link, for being a true mechanical, technical and artistic "genius". The man that invented Photojournalism: Mathew Brady, and the woman that perfected it , Margaret Bourke-White.</p>

[joemikel1]

<p>Gregory Colbert is my favorite: <a href="http://www.ashesandsnow.org">www.ashesandsnow.org</a></p>

[fate_faith_change_chains]

<p>I don't like to be too much "creatively influenced" or too intentional but :</p>

<p>Eugène Atget, Lee Friedlander, Ralph Gibson...</p>

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[tom_cheshire]

<p>Andreas Feininger, Man Ray, Weegee (also Dorothea Lange and M. B. White).</p>

[shawngibson]

<p>Paolo Roversi<br>

Sally Mann<br>

Ansel Adams technically, does that count? If not:<br>

Ellen von Unwerth or more probably Irving Penn<br>

...hard to knock it down to 3</p>

<p>But my REAL photographic infuences are:</p>

<p>Rembrandt<br>

Lucien Freud<br>

Tony Schermann<br>

Atilla Lucacs<br>

etc.</p>

[john_elder1]

<p>Andre Kertesz, Robert Frank, + Aaron Siskind</p>

[crappystuffs]

<p>Atget, Evans, and Winogrand. The last name barely a personal favourite, but his photographs inform my style nevertheless.</p>

[rossb]

<p>Ansel Adams, Arturo Mari and a lot of others are tied for the third spot. Dorothy Lang, Diane Arbus, Sabastio Salgado (pre digital), and Many of the National Geographic photographers (pre digital).</p>

[hjoseph7]

<p>Bryan Peterson, Jim Zuckerman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, John Shaw, Peter Henry Emerson, Jim Steinhardt, Charles "Teenie" Harris, Alfred Steiglitz.</p>

[gary_mayo1]

<p>Sally Mann? Really?</p>

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[steve_t.1]

<p>Justin Serpico for landscape/nature, Javier Gutierrez for people/street, and because I very recently saw his museum exhibition and bought the exhibition book, Alec Soth, who I'm studying up on for his take on Americana, http://alecsoth.com/photography/342/ And Soth is a local, he's based in my area. (Justin would probably dig this guy's shooting style, too. Nearly everything he does is 8x10 view camera. Very slow and deliberate.)</p>

[James G. Dainis]

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, <BR>Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre,<BR> William Henry Fox Talbot