Favourite Photographers

[sepiareverb]

Lee Friedlander- for the craziness he can pack into one frame, and Harry Callahan- for the calmness his pictures exude.

 

[iml]

Has anyone mentioned Tony Ray-Jones yet? If not, I will. A Day Off is a great book.

Ian

 

[thomasw_]

Among the many I admire, HCB and AK stand out. Patient and brilliant story-tellers!

 

[erikhaugsby]

Josef Koudelka.

 

[Bill V]

I like Galen Rowell, the landscape photographer and mountain climber who died about two years ago. He did great work with natural light and color. Included with his books on landscape photography, he would include not only great images and how he took those images but also why and in some cases why he didn't take a certain image. His books are now going up in price, but still affordable and well worth the current prices.

 

[antiquark]

Stephen Shore.

 

[sebastel]

did i mention herbert list already?

 

[Bingley]

Ned Westover

Sam Abell

HCB

Ansel Adams

 

[jimmygcreative]

I like contemporary artist photographers like: James Fee, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Peter Beard, Lucas Samaras, Robert Frank.

 

[Samsam]

Joel Meyerowitz
HCB
Winogrand

 

[Cale Arthur]

Ihee Kimura, Shomei Tomatsu, and Ken Domon..

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[Photoshadow]

I'm catching up with this one a little late...but yes, Shomei Tomatsu is fantastic, as is Daido Moriyama. Also, keep an eye out for new Chinese documentary photographers: Jiang Jian, Gu Zheng, Wang Zheng.

Other favorites: Alex Webb, William Eggleston, Josef koudelka, Brassai, Bill Brandt.....

 

[manfromh]

My recent favourites are Rodney Smith (Link) and Toomas Kalve (Link, more categories on the left under Toomas Kalve name)

 

[Tom Harrell]

George Lepp.

Tom

 

[Dogman]

Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, HCB, Ralph Gibson, Sally Mann, Robert Doisneau, Andre Kertesz, Emmett Gowin, William Eggleston, Elliott Erwitt, Richard Avedon, Jean-Loup Sieff, Harry Callahan, Edward Weston, Robert Capa, Stephen Shore, Atget, Cindy Sherman, Bill Brandt....

...and I'm sure several dozen others.

 

[Cale Arthur]

Aaron Siskind has been a pretty big influence, as well... his abstracts are brilliant.

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[Lol999]

McCullin, his book "Homecoming" is one I hope to own one day. Moyra Peralta for her work with the homeless.

 

[mrb]

One of my favorites, Scout Tufankjian, is currently covering the Obama campaign here in the US. Her work is mostly from the US and the Middle East. I especially like the Isreal railroad pictures on her v. cool website:

http://www.scouttufankjian.com/main.php

(PS: I just tacked this post onto the end of a dormant thread, don't know what the right protocol is around here...)

 

[danphillipsphoto]

Eugene Richard's work is fantastic, and he seems to have won every award for magazine photography that exists. He's most famous for uncompromising pictures of inner city America but I love his essays less gritty subjects just as much

 

[tom_f77]

Since I bought his new book "The Sadness of Men" the other day, my new favourite is Philip Perkis. They have it in Barnes and Noble if you want to have a look.

Tom