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Who are your favorite landscape photographers?

I've been drawn to landscape photography lately. I'm particularly interested in Michael Kenna and his work.

I'm not so fond of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and "Group f/64)", but probably because they set the standard...
 
In response, I would include photographers of the urban or "built" landscape, as well as photographers of the "natural" landscape. So my list includes:

Stephen Shore
Robert Adams
early Ansel Adams
James Ravilious
Eliot Porter
Walker Evans
Joel Meyerowitz (not usually thought of as a landscape photographer, but he's done a number of books of landscape photos if you include the built environment)

The other weekend I saw the Joseph Koudelka exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Koudelka's recent work features panoramic black and white landscapes, some of which I quite liked.
 
Ansel Adams, Edward Weston did some beautiful landscapes and seascapes, Cole and Brett Weston, Elliot Porter and David Munch. Actually each of the different members of the Munch family have done superb work. I'd also add John Sexton, Carleton Watkins and Timothy O'Sullivan.
 
Don Kirby Stu Levy Kirk Gittings Joe Cornish Alan Briot Joe Brady And check out the photographers on this site (all film/large format): http://esc4p.org Really fine work. Many great photographers have already been mention so you have a lot to absorb. Good luck and happy shooting.
 
Ansel Adams of course, but generally I just like what I like, and tend not to remember the name of the photographer.

In a funny sort of way, the better a landscape photo is, for me, the more I care about where it is, if it still looks like that now, and whether I should go to see it, the photographer that took it is only of slight interest to me. It's not that I don't appreciate what the photographer has done, it's that I like it so much that I'm focused on the result and not him or her.
 
I'm planning to go to the dual exhibition of Ansel Adams and Edward Burtynsky at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, ON, north of Toronto. The pairing of the high Sierra, Yosemite, etc. with "Mining, Railcuts, Homesteads, Tailings, and Oil" as the promo reads, is something I want to see. Burtynsky's work is spectacular IMHO, though I wonder what Ansel Adams would say. The exhibit is on until September 29 for anyone planning to visit Toronto or Southern Ontario before then.

link: http://www.mcmichael.com/adams-burtynsky/
 
Edwin Smith (UK)
José Miguel Ferreira (Portugal)
+2 David Plowden
Tony Worobiec
Bruce Barnbaum
+1 Clyde Butcher
 
In my opinion, Kenna is great, but his work of last 5 years is a bit "tired", he needs new ideas. Greatest landscape photographers today? For my taste:
Sebastiao Salgado
Pentti Sammalahti
Ragnar Axelsson

I am nauseated with sea piers in a milky mist, blurry waterfalls and a wide-angled crooked bush in forefront of a desert. I miss some modern version of a Mario Giacomelli style.
 
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