Your favourite photographers?

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