Your Favorite Photographer?

Alexandr Rodchenko, for perspectives that are still captivating (and much copied by his contemporaries).
Margaret Bourke-White, for a career-long series of memorable and well-executed images in a variety of styles. Ditto for Edward Steichen.
 
it's hard to narrow the list

it's hard to narrow the list

but Most Of All, I like Lee Friedlander
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Friedlander

Charlie Waite mostly his black and white book called "In My Mind's Eye"

Rene Pena
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Peña
there are several photographers on this page that you may find interesting; I own a work by Jose Figueroa

Miyako Isiuchi my brother brought her book back from Japan for me; our mother had died shortly before he made a trip there to visit a friend and he bought the book titled "Mother's 2000-2005; Traces of the Future" because Miyako had spent five years photographing her mother's "things."

William Christenberry who is thought to have started Eggleston thinking about color photography

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5613101

Heidi Specker I especially like her digitally manipulated images.

I'd say that these photographers are currently the ones most influencing my work.
 
I'll have to add Jeff Wall to my previous list. Can't believe I forgot him as he's probably number 1 in my ranking. I also like Gregory Crewdson's early work.
 
Small format: Robert Capa, Larry Burrows and Henri Huet (every exposure spot-on, unbelievable).

Large format: Sally Mann and Frank Petronio.
 
Photography as art: Friedlander is my favourite. I also like Callahan.

Art as photography: Jeff Wall and Thomas Struth.

Photography as 'Hey! Let's open our eyes and our brains': Allan Sekula

Walker Evans, in general.
 
If we are talking about the living, then I like Gregory Crewdson, Ralph Gibson, Sally Mann, Jill Greenberg, Andrej Dragen, Robert Heinecken, Larry Clark, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Nenad Bojic and many others whose names I cannot call up right now.

As for the dead, I like almost all of them.
 
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A very incomplete list, and in no particular order:
Robert Capa, Larry Burrows, Boris Spremo, Steve McCurry, Eddie Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Joe Rosenthal, Barbara Bender, David Leung, Eugene Smith, Steve Maisel, Dorthea Lange, James Nachtwey, Arthur Fellig.
 
What a great question! There are so many great photographers listed here. If I were to pick one, it would be Lee Friedlander. His work contains some powerful graphic compositions created often with common and mundane objects that we walk by everyday often unseen. Common objects take on new meaning and new relationships in his images.

There are so many others photographers as well; Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Cartier Bresson, Robert Frank, Gary Winnogrand, William Eggleston and it goes on.
 
I still have to list Andre Kertesz first, lately Edward Weston has regained some of my respect that had dissipated over the years, Eudora Welty is a recent discovery. Add all the usual suspects except Robert Frank, whom I just don't "get."
 
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