Who Do YOU Like Better

[Nh3]

Winogrand is hyped.

He worked in the classic street photography style and was inspired by Robert Frank like all the other New York street photographers. But he took so many shots that his batting average is horrible. Anyone who takes so many pictures would definitely get a few good ones as he did. He was also turned on by photographing women and his photos of attractive women get tiresome... He clearly had an OCD for the act of photography and photographing women which puts me off from his work... I don't know why he is so popular, i guess it was his eccentricity more than anything else which has made him famous.

The only photographers worth hero worship are:

Eugene Atget
Ansel Adams
HCB
Robert Frank
Sebastiao Salgado

 

[shg005]

1- Salgado
2- Kudelka
3 - Robert Cappa, Erwitt
4- HCB (but in this list he is first)

 

[George Bonanno]

Winogrand is hyped...

Winogrand is hyped...

But he took so many shots that his batting average is horrible. Anyone who takes so many pictures would definitely get a few good ones as he did.

And... may I ask... how does that differ from any of the others mentioned in this thread ?

 

[Harry S.]

They are all hyped on that list but I like Winogrand's work the best so he got my vote. However;

Richard Kalvar
Trent Parke
Daido Moriyama
Jeff Mermelstein
Robert Frank

 

[swoop]

If Walker Evans was on the list he'd get my vote.

 

[dof]

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I like Andre Kertesz more than any of them.

 

[benlees]

I just took out HCB's The Impassioned Eye and William Eggleston In the Real World out of the library. Quite a contrast between the two films. I voted for Eggleston before I watched the movie about him; watching it just confirms my choice. I preferred the Eggleston movie because we get to see him work; to see how he goes about his business, and his life, for that matter. Very interesting. He is very earnest and is obviously just as commited to creating meaningful images as other photographers. His 'at war with the obvious' theme holds appeal for me.

The HCB film was amazing simply because the man was at so many key events at the right time while creating even more memorable images. A true giant.

 

[robbeiflex]

HCB in the lead by far at this point, and I voted for him from this list, but for me Brassaï (Gyula Halász) is missing.

 

[jsrockit]

I like all 4 of them... but Eggleston is my favorite of all of them.

 

[jsrockit]

The idea that your mother could have taken these pictures, well that’s somewhat the point, Eggleston challenges us to look at those "boring" things and think what do they all mean, this is a picture of milk bottles or a ceiling fan, or an oven, but yet it seems so much more wonderful than how I usually experience these things. In the end you walk away from an Eggleston photograph a richer person, because you are going to look at that banal piece of Americana around you with renewed appreciation.

To me, the objects may be banal, but the photographs are anything but (for the most part). Many people take pictures of things they like and try to make a good photograph of the thing (the subject)...but Eggleston just uses whatevers around to make a photograph and the photograph is the subject.