to all the rf people :name your top 5 photgraphers

[Dogman]

Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Sally Mann and tied for fifth place: Paul Strand, Edward Weston, William Eggleston, Elliott Erwitt, HCB, Garry Winogrand. Robert Doisneau, Ralph Gibson, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon. Robert Capa, Andre Kertesz, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Jeanloupe Sieff....

 

[John Robertson]

1.Willy Ronis
2.Eugene Atget
3.Andre Kertesz
4.Edward Chambre-Hardman**
5.Doisneau


** Probably not too well known outside UK see:-
http://www.ntprints.com/pics_3377/E...ml?PHPSESSID=1a87dcc1ddf5b9f801b46e9cfe116483

 

[dannynono]

in no particular order:
Walker Evans
Eugene Atget
Dorothy Lange
HCB
Avedon

 

[panos]

the truth is that yeah i also like Robert Frank , William Klein , August Sanders ,
Stephen Shore , Martin Parr , Jeanloup Sief , Wolfang Tillmans , Guy Bourdin ,
Steven Klein , Camilla Akrans , Willy Vandepre , Inez & Vinoodh , Mert & Marcus ,
Lucas Samaras , and many more but i think for this period my favourite five are the people i mentioned in the beggining.

i like this response because i have learnt some photographers that i did not know.
at least to me this is more interesting than talking about cameras and whether M8 needs a full frame sensor or not.

what do you think?

ok ok dont kill me ok it was only a suggestion

thanks
panos

 

[maggieo]

David Goldes
Gilles Peress
Edward Weston
Minor White
Cindy Sherman

The list will be different in ten minutes. Well, not the one I just wrote, but the one in my head.

 

[Ororaro]

Doisneau, Salgado, Sieff, Arthus-Bertrand, this fifth place is ever changing.

 

[mccurleyphoto]

Elliott Erwitt
HCB
Larry Towell
Trent Parke
Ragnar Axelson
Roman Loranc
Sally Mann
Bill Steber

Ok...so there's more than 5

 

[bmattock]

Me
Me
Me
Brassai
Meatyard

 

[pesphoto]

harry callahan
Walker evans
KErtesz
Atget
Brassai

 

[gumanow]

Winogrand
Friedlander
Erwitt
Shore
Eggleston

 

[peterm1]

In no special order:

Robert Capa
HCB
Alfred Eisenstadt
Lee Miller
Ansell Adams

Its funny but looking at this list makes me realise that number 1,3 and 4 I have included as much because I admire them as people as much as what they achieved as photographers. The others are just brilliant and ground breaking and virtually created their own style.

 

[FallisPhoto]

What, no Weegee fans here?

Apparently no Uelsmann or Potter fans either.

 

[richiedcruz]

At this moment and in no particular order

Leonard McCombe
Alfred Eisenstadt
Irving Penn
HCB
Eli Reed

 

[nightfly]

Daido Moriyama
William Klein
Mario Giacomelli
Joseph Koudelka
Ralph Gibson

Pretty much in that order.

 

[RdEoSg]

Robert Mapplethorpe
Andre Kertesz
Richard Avedon
David hume kennerley
Michael Fatali

Pretty much in that order

 

[Rick Waldroup]

HCB
Gary Winogrand
Donna Ferrato
Eugene Richards
Fred Askew
Salgado

 

[nrb]

Araki, Gibson, HCB, Jonvelle, Newton. In alphabetical order.

 

[Aziz]

Off the top of my head:

Kertesz
William Klein
Winogrand
Doisneau
HCB

Lots of unknown present-day photographers strike my fancy as well.
Ex.) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkomo/

 

[simonclivehughe]

W. Eugene Smith
Jeanloup Sieff
Sante D'Orazio
Doisneau
Michel Comte

 

[cameramanic]

5 of the best

5 of the best

Philip Jones Griffiths
Roger Mayne http://www.rogermayne.com/work.html
H.C.B
Walker Evans
W. Eugene Smith

Harry Thompson (my Grandfather)