bmattock
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thejazzguy said:
Yeah, Winogrand is interesting. Don't forget the great Weegee!
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
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Yeah, Winogrand is interesting. Don't forget the great Weegee!
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
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Oldprof
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W. Eugene Smith and Robert Capa. Smith's biography is very interesting - he was a tortured soul and struggled with photo editors and his personal demons. Capa also led a fascinating and adventurous life, and was a lover of good times and women. Both men were great photographers at a time when magazines such as Life, Look, and Post featured large photo essays and had wide readership. I grew up on that stuff in the 1950s.
chenick
Nick's my name!
The other day someone sent me a link to an Indian photographer with some nice pics
http://www.amivitale.com/
As for a favourite, hmm that's a good one, I rarely remember who took what so I can't really say.
-Nick
http://www.amivitale.com/
As for a favourite, hmm that's a good one, I rarely remember who took what so I can't really say.
-Nick
back alley
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wow, she's very good!
thanks for the link nick.
i also like how the site is put together, tho the print could be a bit larger for my old eyes.
joe
thanks for the link nick.
i also like how the site is put together, tho the print could be a bit larger for my old eyes.
joe
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Peter
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modsoul said:
Hi Max,
I think you are not the only one who thinks that their environment is devoid of culture. I live in Singapore and it is not a very 'artistic' place either. What matters is yourself. The environment may not be artistically stimulating but you could cultivate yourself to be sensitive to art. Look at me, I am a nurse and I study mainly Biology but I love visual arts and classical music. What matters is yourself, you could beat the perceived boorish image of your environment by reinventing yourself. By changing, others around you will notice the change and in turn will be influenced. Here in Singapore most photogs are also engrossed in the digital format. I am the very few who still shoot exclusively with a full manual RF film camera. But I am proud to be able to capture interesting photos without AF and matrix metering. All the best to your photography adventure, if you do pass by my neighbourhood, do e-mail me?
Regards,
Peter
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Peter
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chenick said:
Very nice documentary shots! How I wish I could go to exotic places on assignments! 😛
SolaresLarrave
My M5s need red dots!
Haven't read the entire thread, so I may be repeating names here.
Gene Smith
Garry Winogrand
Robert Doisneau
Margaret Bourke-White
André Kertesz
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
And I forget the name of the last one... but he did the famous "Subway Portraits" in NY, using a hidden Contax camera in the thirties.
See ya later!
Gene Smith
Garry Winogrand
Robert Doisneau
Margaret Bourke-White
André Kertesz
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
And I forget the name of the last one... but he did the famous "Subway Portraits" in NY, using a hidden Contax camera in the thirties.
See ya later!
Wayne R. Scott
Half fast Leica User
And I forget the name of the last one... but he did the famous "Subway Portraits" in NY, using a hidden Contax camera in the thirties.
Walker Evans, maybe?
Wayne
Walker Evans, maybe?
Wayne
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wierdcollector
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John Hedgecoe for learning any techniques and tips, Galen Rowell for stunning mountain shots, Freeman Paterson for being a fellow Canuck, John Blacklock for absolutely amazing shots of the Lake Superior area, Ansel Adams for B+W, and of course, the rest of my fellow RF Forum members for keeping me reading this forum every day. (It's all your fault, lol).
SolaresLarrave
My M5s need red dots!
Yesshhh! That's 'im, that Evans man!
To think there was a time I got him mixed up with Weegee...
Thanks a lot, Wayne!
To think there was a time I got him mixed up with Weegee...
Thanks a lot, Wayne!
SolaresLarrave
My M5s need red dots!
More names that pop in my head when I'm framing or thinking of a shot (as a routine, I try to "do" their shots):
Gordon Parks
Gabriel Figueroa
About the latter... he was a Mexican film cameraman, but, since he came to it from a photographic trade, he was also the first to use color filters to shoot in black and white. This was going on in the mid-thirties, when Hollywood made double shots of all their feature movies (the graveyard shifts in the studios shot movies entirely in Spanish, with Mexican or Spanish actors, for distribution in Spanish speaking countries). I don't know if he ever shot these Spanish features, but he did cinematography work in several American movies in black & white and color. Gabriel Figueroa's work is surprisingly dramatic, and really turned the photography in some old Mexican movies into pictorial works of art. His technique of stacking filters rendered dramatic skies, which in the business came to be called "Figueroa skies." I saw stills of some of the movies he photographed and they're hauntignly beautiful, as he avoided rectilinear top shots and did a lot of takes with the camera tilted to one side.
Here's a chance to look at his haunting work in chiaroscuro, from an American movie by John Ford, "The Fugitive"
I got some of this information from an excellent documentary titled "The Bronze Screen" about Latinos in front and behind the cameras in Hollywood.
About Parks... I vividly remember his photos from the race riots in the Bronx, published by Life magazine in the sixties. Regrettably, my small stack of Life en español (purloined from my grandmother's house) was thrown in the garbage by my mom, who took it for garbage or leftover paper from my school homework.
Sorry about being this long-winded... I just hadn't visited the forum in about 2 days! 😱 Can you believe it?
There you go:
Gordon Parks
Gabriel Figueroa
About the latter... he was a Mexican film cameraman, but, since he came to it from a photographic trade, he was also the first to use color filters to shoot in black and white. This was going on in the mid-thirties, when Hollywood made double shots of all their feature movies (the graveyard shifts in the studios shot movies entirely in Spanish, with Mexican or Spanish actors, for distribution in Spanish speaking countries). I don't know if he ever shot these Spanish features, but he did cinematography work in several American movies in black & white and color. Gabriel Figueroa's work is surprisingly dramatic, and really turned the photography in some old Mexican movies into pictorial works of art. His technique of stacking filters rendered dramatic skies, which in the business came to be called "Figueroa skies." I saw stills of some of the movies he photographed and they're hauntignly beautiful, as he avoided rectilinear top shots and did a lot of takes with the camera tilted to one side.
Here's a chance to look at his haunting work in chiaroscuro, from an American movie by John Ford, "The Fugitive"
I got some of this information from an excellent documentary titled "The Bronze Screen" about Latinos in front and behind the cameras in Hollywood.
About Parks... I vividly remember his photos from the race riots in the Bronx, published by Life magazine in the sixties. Regrettably, my small stack of Life en español (purloined from my grandmother's house) was thrown in the garbage by my mom, who took it for garbage or leftover paper from my school homework.
Sorry about being this long-winded... I just hadn't visited the forum in about 2 days! 😱 Can you believe it?
There you go:
SolaresLarrave
My M5s need red dots!
The Figueroa skies!
taffer
void
Wow, still taking notes of all the names in my notepad...
But Curt has given a name that has some magic to me. It all began with a John Hedgecoe book I borrowed from my campus library some years ago. Somehow that book was with me during 2 or 3 months that semester, always in my backpack or between my hands during that train trips to Vilanova.
So I keep really good memories from that book.
I've also browsed and admired the work from Capa, Doisneau, Gene Smith, HCB, García Rodero, Salgado... and lately Winogrand as well. Recent founds to me all of them, I'm a newbie after all 🙄
Is Weegee that crime scene photog also called 'The public eye' on the movie with the same title ?
But Curt has given a name that has some magic to me. It all began with a John Hedgecoe book I borrowed from my campus library some years ago. Somehow that book was with me during 2 or 3 months that semester, always in my backpack or between my hands during that train trips to Vilanova.
So I keep really good memories from that book.
I've also browsed and admired the work from Capa, Doisneau, Gene Smith, HCB, García Rodero, Salgado... and lately Winogrand as well. Recent founds to me all of them, I'm a newbie after all 🙄
Is Weegee that crime scene photog also called 'The public eye' on the movie with the same title ?
I see so many wonderful images and don't know the photographers. I looked through the latest addition of Lens Work. Fabulous again. I love the FSA documentary photography made by so many masters...
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RML
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I'm remembering a few more names of photogs that I've read into.
Eugène Atget (I can't believe I forgot to mention his name before as he's one of the people who got me more interested in cityscapes)
Li Zhensheng, a photog from China, who wrote a book about his experiences as a photog during the Cultural Revolution. His book "Red-color news soldier" is highly recommended for it's historical, personal and photographic insights.
Anton Corbijn, whose shots of pop and movie stars are simply wonderful.
I recently read "Magna Brava", a book about the 5 (or 6?) only woman photogs who are also members of Magnum. Very interesting read.
Another photo project book that I read recently (though in a Dutch translation) is Dario Mitidieri's "Children of Bombay". Very gripping pictures of the street children in Bombay.
I'm still looking for a book on the photographic work of the movie star Dennis Hopper. He had a large (literally) exhibition a few years back here in Amsterdam. I didn't have time to see the exhibition but what I saw of it in the tv reports was very interesting.
Another field of photographic interest to me is Mongolian photography (my wife is Mongolian). The history of the country is very interesting, and I'm especially trying to get a grip on the Socialist era in which my wife grew up. One way for me to do that would be to find out about photography in that era, and to find the photogs and their photos of that era. When I've learned more I'll let you guys and gals know. 🙂
Eugène Atget (I can't believe I forgot to mention his name before as he's one of the people who got me more interested in cityscapes)
Li Zhensheng, a photog from China, who wrote a book about his experiences as a photog during the Cultural Revolution. His book "Red-color news soldier" is highly recommended for it's historical, personal and photographic insights.
Anton Corbijn, whose shots of pop and movie stars are simply wonderful.
I recently read "Magna Brava", a book about the 5 (or 6?) only woman photogs who are also members of Magnum. Very interesting read.
Another photo project book that I read recently (though in a Dutch translation) is Dario Mitidieri's "Children of Bombay". Very gripping pictures of the street children in Bombay.
I'm still looking for a book on the photographic work of the movie star Dennis Hopper. He had a large (literally) exhibition a few years back here in Amsterdam. I didn't have time to see the exhibition but what I saw of it in the tv reports was very interesting.
Another field of photographic interest to me is Mongolian photography (my wife is Mongolian). The history of the country is very interesting, and I'm especially trying to get a grip on the Socialist era in which my wife grew up. One way for me to do that would be to find out about photography in that era, and to find the photogs and their photos of that era. When I've learned more I'll let you guys and gals know. 🙂
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modsoul
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Hi RML,
I've read Dennis Hopper's works in the bookshop I worked. It's pretty good. He did painting also. A nice book to look into.
Max
I've read Dennis Hopper's works in the bookshop I worked. It's pretty good. He did painting also. A nice book to look into.
Max
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modsoul
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RML,
He did a Portrait of Morrissey. Very stylish. He also did some street portraits and some abstract pics.
Max
He did a Portrait of Morrissey. Very stylish. He also did some street portraits and some abstract pics.
Max
the sloth
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Gary Winogrand
Alex Webb www.magnumphotos.com
Eugene Richards www.magnumphotos.com
Alec Soth www.alecsoth.com
Lee Freidlander
Renike Dijkstra
Harry Callahan
Emmit Gowin
Alex Webb www.magnumphotos.com
Eugene Richards www.magnumphotos.com
Alec Soth www.alecsoth.com
Lee Freidlander
Renike Dijkstra
Harry Callahan
Emmit Gowin
Allen Gilman
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Hey Max, I'm a Christopher Doyle fan myself - more of his cinematography though. Gotta like the way he and Wong Kar-Wai work together - shooting and then putting the story together in the editing stages. Takes balls to do that and the right chemistry too. You can see how it gives a kind of transient feel to the movies (along with the subject matter of course).
Biggles
My cup runneth amok.
Oh, boy.
Richard Avedon, for getting me into portrait photography. A girlfriend's brother owned a copy of In The American West. I flipped through it one evening at the kitchen table, and damned near lost my mind.
Karsh, for his classicism.
Herb Ritts, for his clean, clean style.
David Vestal, for his small, thoughtful pictures, and for his writings on photography. My absolute favorite art writer in any discipline. "Give the picture a chance", he once said. I do that, now.
Bill Brandt. For his shadows. And for Lambeth Walk, my favoritest street picture of all.
Harry Callahan, for his street and urban work.
Margaret Bourke-White, for just about every picture of hers I've seen.
Edward Weston, for teaching me how to appreciate pictures I don't necessarily like.
Mark Seliger, for his color work for Rolling Stone magazine.
Dr Sam Tata, for his pictures, and for giving me a damned good enlarging lens.
László Moholy-Nagy, for daring to make some very weird pictures.
August Sander and Lewis Hine, for daring to take pictures of very mundane people.
Cindy Sherman, not for stretching the envelope, but for tearing it up, throwing it to the floor, pissing all over it, and using a discarded cigarette package instead. I hate her stuff so much that I like it.
There are others, but those named above came immediately to mind.
Richard Avedon, for getting me into portrait photography. A girlfriend's brother owned a copy of In The American West. I flipped through it one evening at the kitchen table, and damned near lost my mind.
Karsh, for his classicism.
Herb Ritts, for his clean, clean style.
David Vestal, for his small, thoughtful pictures, and for his writings on photography. My absolute favorite art writer in any discipline. "Give the picture a chance", he once said. I do that, now.
Bill Brandt. For his shadows. And for Lambeth Walk, my favoritest street picture of all.
Harry Callahan, for his street and urban work.
Margaret Bourke-White, for just about every picture of hers I've seen.
Edward Weston, for teaching me how to appreciate pictures I don't necessarily like.
Mark Seliger, for his color work for Rolling Stone magazine.
Dr Sam Tata, for his pictures, and for giving me a damned good enlarging lens.
László Moholy-Nagy, for daring to make some very weird pictures.
August Sander and Lewis Hine, for daring to take pictures of very mundane people.
Cindy Sherman, not for stretching the envelope, but for tearing it up, throwing it to the floor, pissing all over it, and using a discarded cigarette package instead. I hate her stuff so much that I like it.
There are others, but those named above came immediately to mind.