Your Favorite Photographer?

James Ravilious.

He documented life in a rural English community just as that life was on the cusp of changing forever with the mechanical farming methods and huge 'industrial' farms replacing the small holdings that had eeked out an existence for centuries.

No exciting images of war, gritty street shots or junkie friends getting groovy with each other. However his images made me realise that you can combine exquisite beauty with decisive moments to make a true document of life with tenderness and understanding.

http://www.jamesravilious.com/gallery.asp

Plus Jocelyn Bain-Hogg for his excellent work on 'The Firm,' and the fact he's a cracking guy.

plus the usual suspects headed up by Elliot Erwitt for me.
 
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OurManInTangier said:
James Ravilious.

He documented life in a rural English community just as that life was on the cusp of changing forever with the mechanical farming methods and huge 'industrial' farms replacing the small holdings that had eeked out an existence for centuries.

No exciting images of war, gritty street shots or junkie friends getting groovy with each other. However his images made me realise that you can combine exquisite beauty with decisive moments to make a true document of life with tenderness and understanding.

http://www.jamesravilious.com/gallery.asp

Remarkable, very impressive,- Thanks for the link!
Best Wolfhard
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I second Edward Burtynsky. The only time I have every played hookie from work to go see art was when he had a show at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Powerful on multiple levels.
 
no one mentioned and i forgot the best of all:

Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

Nothing touches his work imo. It's sublime.
 
This is one of those impossible questions to answer. At this very moment, I'd have to lean in the direction of Shomei Tomatsu.

Other contendors are Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe, Daido Moriyama, Jock Sturges, Sam Abell, James Fee, Bill Henson, etc. Many photographers whose work just blows my mind, and it's nearly impossible to choose between them.
 
I really admire James Ravilious. Also (for different reasons) Lee Friedlander, and Sam Abell.

But what really blows me away is the talent closer to home. Check out the RFF Galeries and flickr sites of:

Bud Green
Tuna
RayPA
Beniliam
Telenous
Nico

And many others...
 
"The Usual Suspects" plus --- Frantisek Drtikol, Alfons Mucha, Josef Sudek, SEMO (Senya Flechine), and probably a few more I cannot spell.

Regards, John
 
DRabbit said:
I'm enjoying reading about and then looking at the work of all your favorites :)
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SEMO is a tough one, he photographed the ballet in Paris and NY, his books are pretty limited editions, the first one hand bound, the last one was in Spanish, SEMO Fotografo, by Emma Krinsky, but has an English translation, mostly photos though.

I was trying to track down Irina Baranova as he photographed her in the 1940's, but she died a few months before I located her. A photograph of his is on the cover of her biography.

He cataloged and donated his negatives and prints to a museum in Mexico. SEMO is the name he used for his studio, a combination of Senya and Mollie. His name in English is Senya Fleshin.

I find that YouTube has some interesting posts on a number of photographers, quick reference regardless.

Regards, John
 
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