Favourite Photographers

Funny thing, I see work all the time that is wonderful, inspirational and above the fray. I see it here (on this forum), there and everywhere. So anyone capable of illiciting a laugh, reflection etc is my fav, known or unknown. Should I name some favs or just drop names though? Some of those worth studying (for me):

Erwitt
Friedlander
Uzzle
Frank
Eggleston
Claxton
Porter
Smith
Evans
Marshall
Freed
Gedney
HBC
Gibson
I could go on...
 
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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.
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I agree - one of the best photo books ever...

Some other faves:

Sebastiao Salgado, James Nachtwey, Anton Corbijn, Andre Kertesz, Bill Brandt, Ansel Adams, Mary Ellen Mark, and a quite a few more...

Roman
 
Harry Callahan
Andre Kertesz
Louis Faurer
Edouard Boubat

If i had to pick one book that completely blew me away it is "The New West" by Robert Adams. I'm not a fan of all of his work however.
 
favorite photographers?

favorite photographers?

I would have to say my favorite photographer is Sante D'Orazio. hands down. His work inspired me to begin in lots of ways, and it drives me to improve. He is the reddest of cherries in the world of celebrity portraiture. I steal that term from his own book. "A Very Red Cherry" as he was called in that book, for which I have forgotten the title.

He is a fashion photographer by category, but exists in his own realm and works on a separate plane in that industry. He is the Nabokov of photography.
 
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Elliott Erwitt, anyone? I love his ironic yet humane vision of life.
 
My favourite photographers are Lewis Hine & Alexander Rodchenko, I really like those photographs with early 20th century workers, especially the ones with children by Hine are very strong. And I really like the extreme angles Rodchenko uses in his photographs.

Joris Bens :cool:
 
James Nachtwey (probably the most singularly disciplined photographer out there)
Salgado
Chien-Chi Chang
Raymond Depardon
HCB


By the way, Ami Vitale (who I agree is an excellent photographer with an exceptional eye) is an American who happens to live in Kashmir for her latest self-assignment (she likes to totally immerse herself in the culture she shoots), she is not an Indian photographer per se. There is an interview and article of her at www.digitaljournalist.org . Very good read.
 
Time to join here as well , my main favorite is Guy Bourdin, not excactly street photography, but he has a special feeling, he has something that David Lynch has as well.

Others are Josef Koudelia, Sokolsky, Peter Beard, Alex Majoli and Steve McCurry.

vha.
 
I'm feeling a little self concious with this thread - I feel like I am being Vox Populi

Ansel Adams - yeah, well...
Bradford Washburn - NO ONE does black and white Alaska like Washburn - they glow.
Allison Shaw - Loca-lish newspaper person turned everything photographer - B&W is best
Vittorio Sella - Himalaya from plates - heavy, impressive, vintage
Galen Rowell - Not his overfiltered color stuff but his mountainwork and surprisingly stark portrait work of locals on expeditions
Yuri Bonder - Has anyone checked out his stuff on Photo.net? Interesting, innovative, and just plain cool I think

See - told you! Though I guess it's obvious I dig the mountainscapes!
 
Someone I would like to add is Alvin Langdon Coburn. I love Coburn's images of New York City.
 
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kbg: those coburn images are fabulous.

i also love erwitt, walker evans, and the "ladies" -- mary ellen, margaret bourke-white and diane arbus. i also love the magical photo-storytelling of julia margaret cameron.

i have to say that i've been most inspired by the wonderful photographers who post here on RFF and the photobloggers on the internet.

here's a quick list of links from my favorite photobloggers. i believe that these are the cream of the crop of photobloggers. they try to post daily or weekly. some shoot digital but they all seem to experiment both in terms of subject and capture medium and often stray into MF, film and "toy cameras":

heather champ
jimbus
lala/supercapacity
luminescent
yvette fevurly
do you see what i see
c-41
carte blanche
gayla
low resolution
tony cifani
 
Good to remind me of him, Joris, how could I have forgotten Alexander Rodchenko, I love his tilted angles and graphic compositions, too!

Roman
 
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