Interesting Landscape Photographers

[GWT]

Hi, I am hoping someone could help me out with some advice? I'd like to have a serous go at landscape/urban-scape photography. My only attempt at this style of work has been mainly holiday snapshots. Until now I've resisted landscape photo's in the fear I'd just end up taking pictures of bluebells in spring, but now I'd like to try to really understand and appreciate the medium.

Is there any photographers you guys can suggest I should look at who approach this style of photography in a unique way?

 

[shimokita]

"If you don’t have anything to say, your photographs are not going to say much."
- Josef Sudek

March 1896 - September 1976 was a Czech photographer best known for his photographs of Prague. - Wikipedia

I very much enjoyed the pace of the following video... I had a chance to look thru a couple of his photo books the other day... he created some beautiful images, using large format... For examples of his work take a look at the following books: "Saint Vitus’s Cathedral" (Praha, Czech Republic) and "Mionsi [primeval] Forest" at Jablunkov, in the Beskid Mountains.

"Fotograf v zahrade" (2000), documentary on Josef Sudek at the following link (length 24min):

http://vimeo.com/35846067

Casey

 

[ferider]

I was just reading "A Day to Remember in the Ansel Adams Wilderness", by Peter Essick. Great stuff and very inspiring if you feel all landscapes have been shot already.

Roland.

 

[GWT]

Guys thanks so much for taking the time to replay.

Casey, 'Josef Sudek' was just the type of photographer I was looking for!! Brilliant work - I'd never heard of him. Great video, thanks for adding this also.

"If you don’t have anything to say, your photographs are not going to say much."
- Josef Sudek

March 1896 - September 1976 was a Czech photographer best known for his photographs of Prague. - Wikipedia

I very much enjoyed the pace of the following video... I had a chance to look thru a couple of his photo books the other day... he created some beautiful images, using large format... For examples of his work take a look at the following books: "Saint Vitus’s Cathedral" (Praha, Czech Republic) and "Mionsi [primeval] Forest" at Jablunkov, in the Beskid Mountains.

"Fotograf v zahrade" (2000), documentary on Josef Sudek at the following link (length 24min):

http://vimeo.com/35846067


Casey

Roland, I will look out for that book - Adams produced such amazing landscapes - incredible as he had to hike carrying his large format with him... Thank you.

I was just reading "A Day to Remember in the Ansel Adams Wilderness", by Peter Essick. Great stuff and very inspiring if you feel all landscapes have been shot already.

Roland.

 

[tomtofa]

A different style, but one I've enjoyed - Paul Caponigro.

 

[TXForester]

Galen Rowell who was also an adventure photographer as he mixed mountain climbing with landscape work.

David Muench

 

[GWT]

Wow! Paul Caponigro images are hypnotic!!!

Many thanks for introducing me to his work.

A different style, but one I've enjoyed - Paul Caponigro.

 

[GWT]

Galen Rowell has certainly been to some fantastic spots!!!

Galen Rowell who was also an adventure photographer as he mixed mountain climbing with landscape work.

David Muench

 

[moreorless]

In a similar vein to Adams I would recommend Bruce Barnbaum, Robert Werling and John Sexton.

Personally my favourite "mountaineer" photographer would be Shiro Shirahata, very simple striking compositions really in love with the forms of rock and ice, probably 90% of his Himalaya and Karakorum books have nothing else but that and the sky in the composition.

 

[rumbliegeos]

If you like black and white photography, check out Michael Kenna's work. Also, Colin Baxter's panoramic views of the Scottish Highlands for color. Two extremely different approaches.

 

[ferider]

Roland, I will look out for that book - Adams produced such amazing landscapes - incredible as he had to hike carrying his large format with him... Thank you.

Hi GWT,

I like Adams. But just to clarify: the photos in the book I referred to are from Nat Geo photographer Peter Essick. Thanks,

Roland.

 

[GWT]

Lucky you told me that Roland, I did think that Peter Essick had wriiten a book on Adams 😱

I have now checked out Essick's work - it's sort of other worldly...

It looks like he's been all over the universe rather than just earth!

Hi GWT,

I like Adams. But just to clarify: the photos in the book I referred to are from Nat Geo photographer Peter Essick. Thanks,

Roland.

 

[Mcary]

I find the work of Cyde Butcher to be very inspiring as its helped to me broaden my view of what landscape photography is. So rather then spending/wasting my time looking for the traditional southwestern landscapes which don't exist around here I've learned open my eyes to the possibilities around me.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Atget, without doubt. Willy Ronis, though I suppose he's more people than landscape.

Cheers,

R.

 

[airfrogusmc]

Michael Johnson especially his midwest landscapes.
http://www.michaeljohnsonphotography.com/

 

[kuzano]

Not the noterioty, but a friend of mine (Central Oregon)

Not the noterioty, but a friend of mine (Central Oregon)

Bruce Jackson.....

http://brucejackson.com/

Friend and client. I do his computers. He tells an interesting Bio.

Spend some time here as he tells a story of each image and how he came to capture it. Shoots large format. Finally bought a DSLR which he plays with occasionally.

 

[Vince Lupo]

Michael Johnson especially his midwest landscapes.
http://www.michaeljohnsonphotography.com/

His NM work is interesting (of course Allen you know I'd be interested in that!).

Funny thing about New Mexico -- when you look at photos like his, you think those dramatic skies can't really be like that, but in reality they are!

 

[airfrogusmc]

His NM work is interesting (of course Allen you know I'd be interested in that!).

Funny thing about New Mexico -- when you look at photos like his, you think those dramatic skies can't really be like that, but in reality they are!

Oh yeah. And the light. Oh man the light. I like his NM stuff to.

I think because he lives here in western Illinois his midwest landscapes are in my opinion his most powerful. The rolling hills of the Galena area are far less photographed by others and he does it SO WELL.

I love New Mexico as I know you do. Expecially Northern NM. Santa Fe and north to Colorado and your work is some of my favorite from that area.

 

[Rangefinder 35]

Check out Jack Dykinga's Southwest images, and Robert Glen Ketchum, especially from Hudson Valley period. Some of it touches on Impressionism.
Dykinga got Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism before he switched to landscape photography...

 

[Lauffray]

I'm not too much into landscapes, but the only photographer whose work I enjoy in that department is Michael Kenna