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05/10/2005 02:30:28 PM · #1
Besides ansal adams who is your favorite photographer.

I don't mean someone in this forum either, because I have favorites here too. I mean, who inspires you beyond this forum?

It does not have to be still photography either, it can be moving pictures.

Mine is Gregory Crewdson. His lighting, and his post editing style makes the observer really think. The emotion set that is brought forth makes each one of his pix interesting, and hard to not look at.

here are some examples
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Message edited by author 2005-05-10 14:31:02.
05/10/2005 02:31:57 PM · #2
Galen Rowell.

//www.mountainlight.com/

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05/10/2005 02:32:49 PM · #3
I'm not too familiar with other photographers....I did very much like Leonard Nimoy's (Spock) photography at:

Shekinah

05/10/2005 02:33:04 PM · #4
Originally posted by dahkota:

Galen Rowell.

//www.mountainlight.com/

d


why?
05/10/2005 02:33:55 PM · #5
Originally posted by swinging_johnson_v1:

Besides ansal adams who is your favorite photographer.

I don't mean someone in this forum either, because I have favorites here too. I mean, who inspires you beyond this forum?

It does not have to be still photography either, it can be moving pictures.

Mine is Gregory Crewdson. His lighting, and his post editing style makes the observer really think. The emotion set that is brought forth makes each one of his pix interesting, and hard to not look at.

here are some examples
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Ansel Adams ;o)

seriously...

Andre Gallant

In his landscapes he captures the light and mood of the place. My favourites are his slide montages. They look more like paintings than photographs.

Message edited by author 2005-05-10 14:41:09.
05/10/2005 02:34:43 PM · #6
Martin Parr... an expert at taking candids that make subtly barbed comments on English culture. I love his timing and humour.
05/10/2005 02:35:44 PM · #7
RAX
05/10/2005 02:35:48 PM · #8
Helmut Newton, Avedon, Steiglitz, Rudolf Koppitz, Man Ray and the guy that did Lost America.
05/10/2005 02:35:49 PM · #9
come on guys.

you can't just throw a name out. I may recognize the artist, but many may not.

tell us why they inspire you.
05/10/2005 02:40:14 PM · #10
Originally posted by swinging_johnson_v1:

Originally posted by dahkota:

Galen Rowell.

//www.mountainlight.com/

d


why?


You have to ask why? I would think that would be ovious. Galen Rowell was an incredible photographer.
05/10/2005 02:40:20 PM · #11
a few:

Margaret Bourke-White
George Hurrell
Greg Gorman
Annie Leibovitz

Dave

05/10/2005 02:41:16 PM · #12
Originally posted by swinging_johnson_v1:

Originally posted by dahkota:

Galen Rowell.

//www.mountainlight.com/

d


why?


Honestly? He worked in film and tried very hard to get the final result in camera. Extremely knowledgeable about optics and took avantage of it. Is more of a photo-journalist than a landscape photographer. Knew his locations intimately. Loved the world for what it was. Had unique vision. Climbed mountains and took a camera with him so he could share.

more?

d
05/10/2005 02:44:57 PM · #13
One of my favourite photographs ever taken by a photographer I respect very much:

//www.artnet.com/artwork/76378/richard-avedon-dovima-with-elephants-evening-dress-by-dior-cirque-dhiver-paris-france.html

You really need to see a print of this to appreciate how good it is.
Can you imagine how difficult this would have been to pull off? Wow!
05/10/2005 02:49:54 PM · #14
Another of my favourite photos of all time, taken by Arnold Newman



A fantastic portrait of a great composer that really gets behind the personality of the man and his music.

Message edited by author 2005-05-10 14:50:41.
05/10/2005 02:52:05 PM · #15
come on, don't be afraid.

tell us why, why, why, why, why, they are your favorite.

or like bobsterlobster show us why if you can not put words down.
05/10/2005 02:52:28 PM · #16
I'm kinda partial to nudes. this is one of my favorite photographers (two women actually)
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05/10/2005 02:58:53 PM · #17
Piero Ribelli is a great animal photographer but he wouldn't do too well at DPC, I'm afraid....Oh the irony!

I like his work and he has a cool book that came out a few years back called Zoo York.

Message edited by author 2005-05-10 15:05:46.
05/10/2005 03:07:31 PM · #18
Pavel Krukov

He's not famous ... yet :)

Unfortunately, I'm one of those photographers who hasn't studied the "past masters". I'm inspired by current guys who aren't very well known.
05/10/2005 03:08:52 PM · #19
I am still completely awed by O. Winston Link...one of my all time favorite pictures:

Hot Shot Eastbound

He was one of those photographers who inspired me to pick up a camera in the first place . He stuck with a subject he loved... trains, and kept at it.
05/10/2005 03:18:54 PM · #20
Dorothea Lange

I just love her stuff.
05/10/2005 03:22:00 PM · #21
Controversial or not, Sally Mann is one of my favorites. Her images of her children in and around their home in rural Virginia are beautiful, strange, poignant, and beyond all else, emotive. They captivate me and make my brain work to grasp the story, the emotion, the power of that particular moment in time. I hope someday to take pictures as memorable and as powerful as the ones she has taken.
05/10/2005 03:33:49 PM · #22
Henri Cartier-Bresson stands at the absolute pinnacle of my favorites alongside Ansel Adams and Diane Arbus, three very different photographers.

Cartier-Bresson was always in the moment, he expressed the poignant transience of life extraoridnarily well. In his work we see so much of the ordinary memorailized in a way that gives us a deeper appreciation for the astonishing purity of the moment, and by extension of al life's moments connected in the fabric of time.

Ansel Adams essentially invented the "luminous landscape" (which phrase has been co-opted by the fine website of that name), singlehandedly extricating us from the misty, romantic sense of vision that prevailed in the early aprt of the 20th century and showing us how to record the landscape crisply, cleanly, and (most of all) luminously, creating a reality that is more-than-real and has become absolutely archetypal to the way we see.

Diane Arbus created a body of work that was hugely controversial, utterly unsentimental, and forced us to confront and reconsider our own prejudices in how we view those who are, in some strange way, different-than-us. It's impossible to study her images and not return from the study a more compassioinate human being than you were when you entered it, unless you have a heart of granite and blinders six inches deep.

Richard Avedon, Arnold Newman, Dunae Michaels, Gerry Winogrand, Galen Rowell, Edward Weston, Wynn Bullock, Morely Baer, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, these are others I consider favorites.

Robt.

Message edited by author 2005-05-10 15:35:52.
05/10/2005 03:45:11 PM · #23
Greg Gorman
Robert Maplethorpe

Their use of light in portraits is awsome!!!

Message edited by author 2005-05-10 15:50:30.
05/10/2005 03:52:22 PM · #24
Originally posted by ursula:

Dorothea Lange

I just love her stuff.


Did you see what Pop Photo did to her Migrant Mother image for an April Fool's joke? Pretty funny.

Dave
05/10/2005 03:55:43 PM · #25
Originally posted by dsa157:

Originally posted by ursula:

Dorothea Lange

I just love her stuff.


Did you see what Pop Photo did to her Migrant Mother image for an April Fool's joke? Pretty funny.

Dave


Haha, looks very entertaining.
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