WHO would you choose...

[back alley]

or is that whom...


(if you could) to evaluate your portfolio and get some critical feedback?

 

[mark-b]

Stieglitz. But i would need a time machine.

 

[back alley]

i would choose bill pierce.

 

[photogdave]

Ken Rockwell.

 

[GoneSavage]

Ken Rockwell.

"Not bad, but you should have used this bad boy:

The legendary 43-86 is a must have in any photographers bag. Don't have a Nikon system? Better grab a d40 and take advantage of that awesome crop! Actually, I constructed my own F-mount to Leica M mount adapter, so I could use this lens on my hammertone Waffen-SS MP!"

 

[nikon_sam]

When I'm ready...Walker Evans...(if I could)

 

[jky]

harvey, webb, erwitt.
Then after they thrash it... my wife... for some uplifting comments

 

[DougFord]

[FONT=&quot]Stevie Wonder.....[/FONT]
(rim shot)

 

[xxloverxx]

HCB &/or Ansel Adams

 

[Johann Espiritu]

John Szarkowski or Edward Steichen

 

[rya]

mr. winogrand.

 

[Sparrow]

Alan Jones, my 6th form art master

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

John Szarkowski. He was the kingmaker back in the 60's and 70's. He liked your stuff, you were a made man, or woman. Winogrand, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and several others owed their careers entirely to Szarkowski's patronage at the Museum of Modern Art.

I'd love to talk to A.D. Coleman, love his writings, but I don't know that he would like my work. Lately, he seems to like really esoteric conceptual art rather than straightforward work like I do. But I admire him.

 

[Jaans]

Second Chris's suggestion with John Szarkowski. He certainly possessed an uncanny ability to tap into movements and photographers before the movement had gained momentum, or before the photographer knew he/she was going to become influential.

 

[Keith]

Katherine Zeta Jones ... she probably knows squat about photography but that's OK!

 

[pvdhaar]

.. get some critical feedback?

Umm.. for me that would be my wife.. She's plenty critical of what I shoot..

 

[Mcary]

Edward Weston or Helmut Newton

 

[wlewisiii]

Hmm... Interesting question. So much of my work is terribly derivative that I'm not sure that any serious critique would be much fun. That said, out of the older school, Stieglitz or Adams would be good - Adams was supposed to be a very good instructor.

Of those working now, I'd treasure a nice long discussion with either David Plowden or David Burnett.

William