Your favourite photographers?

[Leifer]

Hey guys, just wondering if you'd share with me your favourite photographers out there. Amateur or professional! I'd just like to see the kind of work that may inspire you and why it inspires you. Thanks for your time! Enjoy this lovely sunday!!

 

[Charlie Lemay]

Josef Koudelka
Ralph Gibson
Connie Imbodem

Photography as metaphor. They all create deep narratives they ask us to participate in creating with them. They show the difference between documenting a "scene," and documenting how it is "seem."

 

[rybolt]

George Tice- primarily the England years
Willy Ronis
Clarence John Laughlin
Gene Smith

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

I don't (surprise, surprise) do favourite photographers. I like some pictures and don't like others. :angel:

 

[lynnb]

a lot of photographers have produced work I include in my favourites.. too many to list here. Here's a few:
Koudelka
Ronis
HCB
Erwitt
Atget
Tarkovsky (polaroids)
Jason Eskenazi
Sudek
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Sally Mann
Steiglitz
Saul Leiter
Ernst Haas
Meyerowitz
Pentti Sammallahti
Kertesz
Steichen
August Sander
William Allard
Demarchelier

 

[lynnb]

…and I haven't mentioned quite a few people here on RFF. Problem is, if I mention some but forget others (quite likely as there are a few who haven't posted in some time, or have left RFF), it may cause embarrassment (to me). The Gallery is a great place to browse..

 

[Keith]

Arbus, Mapplethorpe, Winogrand for street by a fair margin, HCB for composition ....

... and of course lynnb for waves!

 

[Keith]

I forgot ... Jane Bown for portraits.

 

[lynnb]

LOL
and some additional characters

 

[back alley]

d.j. poe on flickr…always like looking at his stuff…
loved reading weston's 'daybooks'…
gene smith…fantastic obsessed photographer.
ralph steiner…
david vestal…

 

[mfogiel]

Look up Herb Ritts, Hortst P Horst, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Richard Avedon,David Bailey and Cristian Coigny if you like studio stuff and portraits in particular. Ah, I was forgetting, just saw that Mr Putin scored 6 goals in a hockey game, so he is certainly a great photographer too.

 

[Bill Clark]

Monte Zucker

Clay Blackmore

Rick DeLorme

Annie Leibovitz

Folks that give a seminar at our TCPPA.

Me (I'm a legend in my own mind!) Ha! Had to say dat!

 

[35photo]

In short, GarryWinogrand, Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston, and Robert Frank...So many more...Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Joel Meyerowitz, Arnold Newman, William Christenberry, Stephen Shore, David Plowden...

 

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

Several who come immediately to mind include:
Jane Bown
Mary Ellen Mark
Max Dupain
Peter Dombrovskis
Steve McCurry

 

[hellomikmik]

Lucia Moholy

 

[rpsawin]

Fan Ho
Michael Kenna
Don Kirby
Stu Levy
Kirk Gittings

To name a few...

 

[Berth]

Portrait? Annie Leibovitz, Yousuf Karsh, David Bailey

Nature/Landscape? Dewitt Jones, Art Wolfe, David Muench, Frans Lanting

Conflict/Documentary? Steve McCurry, Larry Burrows, Dorothea Lange

 

[Roger Hicks]

I don't (surprise, surprise) do favourite photographers. I like some pictures and don't like others. :angel:

Same here but some more photographers whose work I'd suggest looking at, not mentioned here so far as far as I can see, include Alexandr Rodchenko, E.O. Hoppe, Roger Fenton, A.A. Jones (Lord Snowdon), Raghubir Singh, Raghu Rai...

Cheers,

R.

 

[Steve M.]

Mine are mostly the usual suspects, but I stumbled onto Boris Mikhailov today and really like his work. His style is undefinable, but he has a great eye!

https://www.google.com/search?q=bor...t-moma-review.html%3Fpagewanted%3Dall;190;284

 

[Vics]

My current favorite this morning is RFf's own NY Dan (AKA Dan Wagner) who has an amazing Blurb book just out. Rolleiflex street photography at it's best!
http://www.blurb.com/b/5301658-come-see-come-saw
No relation to the seller...