Favourite Photographers

Some of my favourites are (apart from the great photographers here):

Will McBride (very controversial but his images are awesome)
Sally Mann
Cheryl Jacobs
Max Dupain
Ansel Adams
Frank Hurley
Ken Duncan
Matt Needham
Nicole Boenig-McGrade
Simone Hanckel

Some of those photographers are members of another forum I am a member of. There are many great photographers out there, many who have not come to the publics eye yet.

Heath
 
The fame here in Spain is difficult. Because the spanish always value better the external influeces: in art, in sports, in culture, in all ...

I love the humanistic photography of the 30´s, 40´s, 50´s. I prefer the europe photography over the american.

But appart the american master and europe master of photography, I want present other names of spanish photographs, maybe strangers outside Spain...

Ramon Masats

Luis Baylon

Cristina Garcia Rodero

Chema Madoz

Alberto Garcia Alix

Oriol Maspons

Xavier Miserachs

Agusti Centelles

Ricard Terre

...


You can see photos in:
Photobolsillo

Fundacion Colectania
 
Avedon, Mary Ellen Mark, Diane Arbus, Kirsten Klein (danish), Salgado, HCB, Cindy Sherman, Sally Mann, Pierre et Giles, Leni Riefenstahl, Giles Bensimon, Ellen von Unwert, Mark Tucker, the list continues and continues .... I think Ansel Adams and the other great technicians of landscape photography did a great job but I dont find the pictures very interesting
 
I like the work of lots of photographers but these always have stood out for me:

Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Walker Evans, Lisette Model, Robert Doisneau, Mark Cohen, Mary Ellen Mark.
 
Just saw Sally Mann's work for the first time. Unbelievably beautiful, powerful, unique, very very rich, dreamy, a magnification of all HCB and Ansel Adams could have hoped to be. A combination.

Her photos transcend their two dimensions. Really, I can't say much more than "wow".
 
In no order of preference
Ralph Gibson, Edward Weston, Hans George Berger, Jousef Sudek, Sebastio Salgado, Anslem Kieffer, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark, Diane Arbus, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Minor White,
Roland Neuvo, Eugene Smith, Kevin Carter, James Nachtwey, Gary Knight, Hans George Berger, Wilfred Thesiger, Eugene Richards, Sam Abell and Bruce Chatwin.
 
OK, I'll play.

As with Simon, no order of preference.

Richard Misrach
Andre Kertesz
Jan Saudek
Diane Arbus
John Gutman
Garry Winogrand
Stephen Shore
Nicholas Nixon
 
Honus said:
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ah! i forgot to add him. His desert b/w series was amazing as was his later colour shots of animals killed in the desert by army experiments.
Simon
 
Heath said:
Frank Hurley
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The Endurance what a book! this thread prompted me dig it out......
anyone mention Joel Peter Witkin? Andreas Serrano? (not sure of the correct spelling)
 
I quite like Martin Parr (http://www.martinparr.com/) and living in Australia for the last two years, I discovered Bill Henson (http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/sub/billhenson/index.html).

They are both very different photographers, but I enjoy love both of there work. Martin Parr can make you laugh, and Bill Henson, well,... he really connects with his subjects. Some of his images are haunting, some can make you sad, and others... uncomfortable.
 
The short list: Eugène Atget by a mile, André Kertész, Brassaï, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Capa, and Bernice Abbot.
 
Only had 2! Richard Avedon and Ansel Adams. Back in the 60's i had a commercial photo lab doing industrial photography. I had a 40 x 50 Brown horizontal camera with a 25' bed and of course a 40 x 50 negative capability. I always dreamed of putting this camera on the back of a flatbed and touring the country shooting landscapes with this camera. Even though it was basically for lith film i did do some product photography with and the images were incredible!
 
A small selection of my favorites - (somewhat an eclectic bunch...) Not listed elsewhere but worthy of mention (IMHO)
Don McCullin
Larry Burrows
Man Ray
Moholy-Nagy
 
OK, yeah, after some viewing and consideration, Sally Mann takes first place in my mind. Simply superhuman.
 
I see no one has mentioned me.

I'm hurt. I'm my favorite photographer.

Oh, I also like Meatyard, Rössler, Sudek, Jaromír Funke, and František Drtikol. Aside from Meatyard, I think only the Czechs had it going on. Everything else is derivative and boring.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
bmattock said:
I see no one has mentioned me.

I'm hurt. I'm my favorite photographer.

Oh, I also like Meatyard, Rössler, Sudek, Jaromír Funke, and František Drtikol. Aside from Meatyard, I think only the Czechs had it going on. Everything else is derivative and boring.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
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Bill Mattocks
 
Thank you! I'm famous! Oh, the sheer joy of it all!

Now to wait for the money to roll in.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
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