Black and white film landscape photographer - Who other than Ansel?

An earlier post mentioned Group F64. I don't know if Minor White was a member of this group or not, but he's a great one to check out for inspiration. His landscapes were quite different from the norm at the time he was active. He used infrared film a lot. Also a lot of work around the California and Oregon ocean front. He was a poet and a Buddhist so you can see he might be a little more quirky than the average.
Edward Weston was an F64 member. His stuff and his son Brett's landscapes are also decidely different than Ansel's.
A good current source is a periodical called "LensWork". Specialty magazine shops sometimes carry it.
Ansel Adam's comes in these days for a lot of criticism but his contemporaries respected him highly. If you want to do good landscapes, you can't do better than reading about his technique, largely written about in his book The Negative. If you ever get a chance to see actual prints of his (or any of the other masters), do it, it is a totally different experience than seeing a reproduction. A visit to one of his shows at the end of his life certainly inspired me.
 
Some of my favorites: Bradford Washburn, John Sexton, Alan Ross, Roman Loranc, Ray McSavaney, Paul Kozal, Michael Kenna, William Clift, Don Worth, Morley Baer, Brett Weston, Clyde Butcher, George Tice, Henry Gilpin, Robert Adams, Richard Garrod, John Wimberley, Huntington Witherill (film, printed digitally), Craig Varjabedian, Bruce Barnbaum, Mark Citret, Tom Zetterstrom, Chip Hooper, William Scott, Bob Kolbrener, and Jeffrey Conley.

Some of these have been mentioned above, but I think all are worth taking a look at.
 
Let me suggest... Clyde Butcher as an excellent original landscape artisit, Brett Weston, I see as better and more focused than his father. Chip Hopper a less know modern landscape shooter. Also Edward Riddell, George Tice, Roman Lornac, Alan Ross,Andreas Feininger, and of course...Wynn Bullock. Each of these is original artistic concept and none are imitating or modern "clones" Ansel Adams or part of the F64 school concept.
 
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behhl said:
william eggleston ... election eve .... something off left in the field ;-)
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In B&W ???????

Anyway, try Thomas Joshua Cooper, Raymond Moore, Brett Weston, John Davies, Emmet Gowin and Paul Hart who are some of my favourites that I don't think have been mentioned already. Even Josef Koudelka has done a few landscapes but you'd not automatically put him in the genre.


Steve
 
250swb said:
In B&W ???????

Anyway, try Thomas Joshua Cooper, Raymond Moore, Brett Weston, John Davies, Emmet Gowin and Paul Hart who are some of my favourites that I don't think have been mentioned already. Even Josef Koudelka has done a few landscapes but you'd not automatically put him in the genre.


Steve
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haha! sorry, was reading landscape ... slipped up on the B&W ... my bad.

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there's the old man himself timothy o'sullivan then ... !!!
 
fixbones said:
i was wondering if you guys know of any photographers out there whose works i can see and study to give me some inspiration.
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I love Ansel Adam’s black & white landscape work.

However, I find Lawrence Parent’s color landscape work very inspiring.
 
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