Which photographers inspire you?

[gho]

Plain simple question. A key experience for my decision to take pictures on black and white film was seeing the pictures William Gedney took in San Francisco around 1966 and 1967.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

David Allen Harvey, James Stanfield, Steve McCurry.

 

[glooscap]

Got to be Karsh!

 

[Vince Lupo]

Dave Heath, Andre Kertesz, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Erich Salomon, Jacques-Henri Lartigue.

 

[pesphoto]

Callahan, Kertesz, Frank

 

[usagisakana]

Most recently: Daido Moriyama, Boogie, Trent Parke, Winogrand and Friendlander. Many others over the last few years.

 

[Ted2001]

Henri Cartier Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Sebastian Salgado, Ernst Haas and all those from the FSA.

 

[35mmdelux]

Mary Ellen Mark, Salgado, Koudelka.

 

[charjohncarter]

http://www.jamesravilious.com/

 

[emraphoto]

http://www.qsakamaki.com/

http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/11/dhiraj-singh-my-name-is-dechen/

http://www.noahaddis.com/#/home//portfolio__1

pellegrin

http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive...&SP=photographers_list&l1=0&XXAPXX=SubPanel10

http://www.eugenerichards.com/

 

[wlewisiii]

Robert Capa, Ansel Adams, David Plowden, Alfred Stieglitz, David Burnett

William

 

[andredossantos]

Not famous, but first and formost my father. I would sit with him in the darkroom fascinated watching the photos appear in the trays. My father is from Portugal and as a child i loved looking through all the prints of a foreign land.

There were always a lot of art books around my house, but not many of photography. There was a book of kertesz that mesmerized me when I found it as a teen.

 

[CK Dexter Haven]

Richard Avedon / Irving Penn / Steven Meisel / Peter Lindbergh / Josef Koudelka / David Alan Harvey / Elliott Erwitt / Michael Thompson / Steve McCurry / Alfred Eisenstadt / Robert Doisneau / Ellen von Unwerth / Edouard Boubat.

 

[Al Kaplan]

I've long been an admirer of British photographer David Hamilton. I'm also intrigued by how he seems to have been influenced by an artist from a century earlier who worked in pen and ink, Franz von Bayros. They both portrayed young girls in erotic situations, and the posing and compositions are very similar.

Caution! Some people might find these photographs and drawings offensive.

I think that seeing how others influence one another can be as enlightening as seeing how others influence you. The work doesn't have to be in the same medium to see this either.

 

[not_in_good_order]

A few are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Sebastião Salgado, William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, and Lee Friedlander

To elaborate at bit on a couple of the folks named above: HCB and Frank got me fascinated with photography before I ever owned a camera, and a Friedlander traveling exhibition I saw a few months back at Cleveland Museum of Art totally blew my mind and made me completely reevaluate anything I had ever thought of in terms of what made an image work.

 

[Shac]

Paul Strand, Wilfred Thesiger, Galen Rowell, Ernst Haas

 

[selloutboy]

Joel Meyerowitz.
I share his passion in shooting color when doing street photography and I believe his Philosophy in photography.

Aside from Meyerowitz,
some few other local photographers here in the Philippines

 

[robinsonphotography]

Richard Avedon, Platon, Dan Winters, Eddie Adams, and many many more.

 

[ItsReallyDarren]

The biggest one for me? James Nachtwey. One for his photography the other for his humility.

 

[edodo]

My all time favorite and in my eye the only true genius of photography post war: DIANE ARBUS. We miss you Diane!