Famous Photographers

[elcud35rc]

Which famous photographers used rangefinders. 😕 I know that Diane Arbus used a Leica. I took a photo history class and I learned several others used it, but forgot their names.
Please add your knowlege about this subject.
Thanks.

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

Me--- Contax

Ansel Adams----Contax

Robert Capa--------Contax.


Wayne

 

[captainslack]

Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Leica

 

[naturephoto1]

Certainly can not forget Eisie- Alfred Eisenstadt, the father of modern photojournalism used Leica M cameras (though I think he also at times used Nikon F SLRs, but best known for the Leicas). I am not sure but how about Brassai.

Ralph Gibson also uses Leica M Series.

 

[xayraa33]

in the 20th century, a better question would be, which photographer didn't use a rangefinder cameras, and by rangefinder I take it that you mean 35mm rangefinder cameras, not rangefinder 4x5 speed graphics etc. the photographers that used 35mm (still) film probably all used rangefinder cameras at one time or an other,the 35mm slr did not really start to become popular until the late 1950s with the advent of instant return mirrors and auto stop down aperture on the lenses.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Dalí used a rangefinder; so did Picasso. Dalí and Picasso are not known for their photography, but they are famous. Dalí was, in my opinion, a far better photographer than Picasso tried to be. I think Dalí used a Kodak Retina (among a few others).

 

[back alley]

how famous do i, er, i mean, the photographer have to be?

joe

 

[stet]

hah! Famous as a Canon P speculator might count. But you must be able to name another famous Canon RF user too, right?

 

[naturephoto1]

Here are some more Leica RF photographers:

André Kertész
Robert Capa
Yousuf Karsh- Leica with Nikon lenses
Fred Maroon
Jim Marshall
Joe Marvullo
Sebastiao Saldago
Robert Frank
Edward Steichen- I think

 

[back alley]

what's a canon p speculator?

gene smith used one once...

 

[stet]

like the speculators who slowly buy and talk up a certain currency. Except, I guess, now that you've amassed a fortune that you've helped inflate, you've yet to unload it for an insane profit. 😉 But if the bottom falls out, man, I'm here. I'll take one off your hands. 😀

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Is this becoming a PNet thread?

 

[back alley]

like the speculators who slowly buy and talk up a certain currency. Except, I guess, now that you've amassed a fortune that you've helped inflate, you've yet to unload it for an insane profit. 😉 But if the bottom falls out, man, I'm here. I'll take one off your hands. 😀

that would be good if i could sell them but i have to fight buying more.

i just want them all, more & more & more, never enough........sorry, got a lil' carried away 😉

joe

 

[Beniliam]

Elliot Erwitt uses Leica RFs, Nikon SLR, Mamiya RF, Canon EOS

Ralph Gibson uses Leica RFs, Nikon SLR

Helmut Newton uses Rolleiflexes, Hasselblads

Robert Doisneau uses Rolleiflexes, Leica Rs

George Rodger uses Leica RFs, Nikon RFs

Rene Burri uses Leica RFs

Josef Koudelka uses Leica RFs

Ferdinando Scianna uses Leica RFs

Marie Ellen Mark uses Hasselblads

Bernard Plossu uses different types of cameras (toy cameras...) 😛

Picasso uses the Zorki (he havent got money for one Leica 😀 )

Andy Warholl uses the Minox cameras

Joel Peter Witkin uses Hasselblads

David Seymour ´Chim´ uses Leica RFs

Eugene Smith uses Leicas RFs, Nikon RFs/Slr, Olympus Pens...
...

 

[aizan]

diane arbus didn't use a leica. she borrowed one when she started, but got a nikon f and 50/1.4. then she got a rolleiwide and mamiya c330. she borrowed and was very excited by the pentax 67 a little while before she killed herself.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

What type of pen and ink did Shakespeare use?

 

[aizan]

how about an easier question? what type of brushes and paint did van gogh prefer?

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Now, if I had that stuff...

My work would be as good as them...

 

[Traut]

This reminds me of Adam Sandler's song about the whole world being Jewish.

I used to work with Yoshi Okomoto(OAK) at Life. He was Pres. Johnson's Whitehouse photg before joining Life. He only shot Nikon RF. He was extraordinarilly protective about light shinning on his shutters. He was an excellent photographer and phiosopher.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

He sold one picture while living.

Maybe he chose the wrong sort of brush.

Maybe not.