Your favourite photographers?

[dasuess]

Jill Freedman (love Ireland Ever)
Mary Ellen Mark
Graham Nash
W. Eugene Smith

 

[Nokton48]

Richard Avedon
W. Eugene Smith
Jim Marshall
Annie Leibovitz
Reinhart Wolf
Ezra Stoller
Julius Schulman
Balthazar Korab

 

[redisburning]

Nobuyoshi Araki is my favorite.

the others don't really fall in specific order: JL Sieff, Gibson, Salgado, Kenro Izu.

and I want to give special attention to our friend Bob, aka NoTraces, for whom I think the world of both his images and his character.

 

[mudride]

Martin Bogren
Hannah Modigh
Christer Strömholm
Anders Petersen
Gerry Johansson

 

[Coopersounds]

ManRay - discovered him when i was 14, blew my mind as i started discovering B&W darkroom development
Capa - same time discovery. Brave themes.
Bailey - style fantastic
Helmut Newton - Character
Trent Parke - defines Australia for me (as an Aussie)

 

[benji77]

Elliott Erwitt, Salgado, Daido!

 

[igi]

William Eggleston and Daido Moriyama for me.

 

[Carterofmars]

Winogrand, Evans, Shore, Meyerowitz... Winogrand. And, Winogrand.

 

[NY_Dan]

Hubble Telescope

 

[Mlehrman]

A belated thank you porktaco, leica m2 fan, and barnwulf.

 

[vytasn]

No one has mentioned Michael Ackerman, so I will. Geoff Dyer once aptly described looking at an Ackerman photograph is like looking inside a photographer's head. Ackerman is also a great cure for GAS … I don't think he has ever taken a sharp photo.

 

[craygc]

Incomplete and in no particular order...

• Brad Evans
• Ed Leveckis
• Emmanuel Smague
• Thomas Stanworth
• Toshihiro Okada
• Alex Webb
• Chang Chien-Chi
• Paolo Pellegrin
• Nobuyoshi Araki
• Shahidul Alam
• Li Zhensheng
• Ho Fan
• Alex Baluyut
• Bien Bautista

 

[pete hogan]

W. Eugene Smith by a considerable margin. For me he was the early and then continuing favorite.

 

[Pioneer]

Maier - An amazing story and an even more amazing sense of composition
Capa - A great attitude and the ability to take pictures when I would have peed my pants.
Lange and Evans - Their drive to communicate in images continues to inspire me.
Eggleston - I am not sure I always like his pictures but his understanding of color is awesome.
Leibovitz - Her images are terrific but I really love her continued willingness to experiment.
Sullivan - Stunning photographs of the American landscape far before Ansel was even dreamed of. And under much more difficult conditions.
Adams, Mortensen and Hicks - As much for their willingness to teach others as their photographs, which really are wonderful all on their own.

Lately I have been poring over Koudelka and Szarkowski's work.

There are so many others that I could just go on and on...but I better stop or I'll kill the thread. 🙂

 

[shortstop]

Vivian Maier
Henry Cartier Bresson
Walker Evans

 

[siracusa]

Kertesz is my favourite, and besides him Cartier-Bresson, Rodchenko and Ronis.

 

[tbhv55]

In no particular order:-

• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• William Eggleston
• Vivian Maier
• J H Lartigue
• Don McCullin
• James Ravilious
• Charlie Waite
• Matt Stuart

I like the work all of these... however, I don't like ALL of the work of any of these.🙂

 

[peot]

Vivian Myers

 

[ellisson]

Roman Vishniac
Doisneau
Erwitt
Maier

 

[williams473]

Of course I like a lot of the photographers mentioned, but I'll throw in a couple not often mentioned:

Larry Towell
Benita Keller

Both taught me to value the people over the image...