photographers by focal length...

[ghost]

...for the most part.

william eggleston - 50mm
helen levitt - 50mm
robert frank - 50mm
garry winogrand - 28mm
lee friedlander - 35mm and 21mm-e
nan goldin - 35mm and 28mm
lise sarfati - 28mm
elliott erwitt - 50mm
henri cartier-bresson - 50mm

 

[rxmd]

Martin Munkácsi - 150 mm?

 

[Bosk]

Interesting topic!

I wish I could contribute something but my knowledge of Photographic history is limited.

It does seem noteworthy that many photographers have chosen 50mm as their favourite focal length.

 

[dazedgonebye]

...and I STILL can't warm up to 50mm!

 

[ray_g]

sam abell - 28 and 90
DAH (pre-digital) - 28/2, 35/1.4, 50/1.4
Nachtwey - 16-35
moriyama - 28

 

[SDK]

See: Geoff Winningham 28mm

 

[IGMeanwell]

Elliott Erwitt - 35mm, 50mm, 90mm

 

[jonasv]

william klein - 28mm

 

[ddutchison]

Richard Avedon: 120mm Medical Nikkor (a highly corrected, extremely sharp macro lens with integral ring flash - designed for documenting surgery). Avedon used this lens for some of the portraits in In The American West.

Not that I'd really associate Avedon with this lens in the way I associate Cartier-Bresson with the 50, It's just such a strange tool for a creative photographer to pick up and use, and especially so for a portraitist.

 

[Nachkebia]

What a great topic!!! requests are allowed?

 

[telenous]

Salgado - 28 f2.8, 35 f2, and 50 f1.4 or 60 f2.8

http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=002lPd&tag=

http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00B2kH

 

[telenous]

Nachkebia - 25mm, 50mm

😉 :angel: 🙂

 

[Nachkebia]

🙄 🙄 🙄 😀 😀 😀

 

[J. Borger]

Nachkebia - 25mm, 50mm

😉 :angel: 🙂

If this is true he is in good company:

Koudelka: 25mm

 

[lubitel]

what about André Kertész? what did he use?

 

[J. Borger]

what about André Kertész? what did he use?

Mostly around 50mm ... (His first leica lens was 55mm i guess)

 

[Pherdinand]

Robert Capa - 50 mm.
[And 75mm on rolleiflexes.]

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

Koudelka - for Gypsy 25 ... he is now 35/1.4

Nachtwey - Canon 16-35, 50, 35, 28 ... Leica 35

Doisneau - 75/80 on rollies

Depardon - 50

Jeanloup Sieff - 21 (large part), one of the first to combine 21 with fashion work and environmental portraiture

Beniliam (David) - 50

Todd Hanz - anything that works, which in his hands, is pretty much any focal length

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

x-ray (Don) - also anything that works ... check out his gallery