landscape photographers

[Paul Jenkin]

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.

Yes....those three are also right up there with the best. I was looking at "Here, Far Away" the other night and it is astonishingly beautiful. I also visited Munich in March to see Michael Kenna's retrospective at the Bernheimer Gallery on Briennerstrasse and was transfixed with some of his work.

We're blessed there has been a lot of great landscapist photographers down the years.

 

[TXForester]

Clyde Butcher. Got to admire a guy with a large format camera, standing chest deep in a cottonmouth infested swamp. 🙂

 

[DCB]

Clyde Butcher. Got to admire a guy with a large format camera, standing chest deep in a cottonmouth infested swamp. 🙂

How true that is!

Peace

 

[aizan]

i'm not really into landscape photography, so this is as close as i can get:

atget
sudek
koudelka
goldblatt
eggleston
meyerowitz
simon norfolk
carleton watkins
minor white
christopher burkett
scott b. davis

 

[Jamie Pillers]

Fay Godwin is far and away my favourite.

Ditto. Godwin was the first landscape photographer who's photographs said to me that there's ways of seeing beyond Ansel Adams, et. al.. Found many more since: Robert Adams, John Gossage, William Clift, Frank Gohlke, Lewis Baltz, Henry Wessel, Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, … on and on.

 

[Ned]

Landscape Photographers

Landscape Photographers

I studied & used Ansel Adams' Zone System for determining exposures and used it more or less constantly in conjunction with my Weston Light Meter.

Quite like Joe Cornish's work, he gets a lot of coverage in British Magazines.
Checkout these on-line UK mags: - http://www.onlandscape.co.uk/
http://www.uklandscape.net/

"Get Off the Beaten Track"
Ned

 

[rpsawin]

Unfortunately we just lost a great one. Ray McSaveney passed away earlier this month. Here is a link to his website: http://www.raymcsavaneyphotography.com If you have not seen his work please take a moment and look at his images. John Sexton and he were close and wrote a great tribute to him on his website.

 

[Turtle]

For those who like McKenna, you may also like Josef Hofflehner.

There are so many... Koudelka has produced incredible landscape work with a strong graphical and abstract quality (Chaos is one amazing body of work). I love Brett Weston and some of Edward Weston's work, some of Paul Caponigro's work, while less obvious than most, can have a sublime quality. Salgado's genesis contains many wonderful landscapes, Sexton, Alan Ross, Huntingdon Witherill and Ansel Adams all have stunning work....

I'm less interested in images without people or signs of people these days, so tend towards the documentary landscape thing. While I loved and still enjoy the classic work of Sexton, Ross and Co, I find they all kinda merge together now. I looked up Ray McSaveney's work and, lovely as it is, some of the shots look like they were from the same tripod holes as Sexton or Adams. Its perhaps good than things have moved on, but I am not sure there has been anything quite as significant in the last ten years as in preceding decades.

 

[Harry S.]

Alec Soth

I feel he really conveys a sense of place...not just what a good exposure or a pretty sunset is.