Coffeemutt
Tele-Meister
Lots of my faves already listed, but here's a few others that I really like:
Mona Kuhn
Todd Hido
Daido Moriyama
Sam Abell
Jurgen Teller
Mona Kuhn
Todd Hido
Daido Moriyama
Sam Abell
Jurgen Teller
Favourite photographers?
- Thread starter WingedWords
- Start date
Eliot Porter.
Moriyama is one of the names I was trying to remember.
Sea Devil
Friend of Leo's
I was shocked to see how long it took for Cartier-Bresson's name to come up! A zen master of "casual perfection." He never took more than one shot of a given subject.
Let me add one: WeeGee! (Arthur Fellig)
(EDIT: misattributed photo! Sorry! Damn you, Google Image Search! And I missed an earlier mention of Cartier-Bresson. Not my day...)
Let me add one: WeeGee! (Arthur Fellig)
(EDIT: misattributed photo! Sorry! Damn you, Google Image Search! And I missed an earlier mention of Cartier-Bresson. Not my day...)
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Sea Devil
Friend of Leo's
Man Ray!
It's funny- when you post Ken's work I just think of all the folks from Contact Press, David Burnett, Annie, - my former neighbor Guy was one of the original editors there, then I think of VII, James Nachtwey their folks and it just goes on and on...
Eugene Richards
Jodi Cobb
Lucien Perkins
Tyler Hicks
Susan Meiselas
JP Laffont
The Turnleys....
And all the agencies that are no more, or a shadow of themselves Sigma, Gamma Liaison, Black Star. So sad to see what PJ has become without print and staff jobs to support it.
And photojournalism is only one small part of photography as a whole.
I loved doing magazine work - at the height of it in the 90's/00 I was shooting for Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Historic Preservation, Washington Post, NYTimes, New York Magazine, Landscape Architecture even the occasional gig for Rolling Stone. I taught at ICP for a while, nowadays I've moved into a bit of advertising, just finished a book on NYC's supertalls, and spending more time working on personal art projects and shows - the last few years have been pretty good on that front - I've had work in some museum and gallery shows here in NYC.
String Tree
Doctor of Teleocity
I'm putting a Nod for our own @Bones
Incredible Wildlife pics.
Incredible Wildlife pics.
A world that is gone. Like the woodcut industry a century before it.
I’m old enough to remember getting the telex that told you what photo slides the Concord was bringing from Paris when I worked in the Sygma New York office, in the late 80’s.
ZackyDog
Friend of Leo's
Henry Diltz
RomanS
Poster Extraordinaire
Somebody who hasn't been mentioned yet: Alexander Rodchenko - love his abstract-graphical architectural photos!
teletimetx
Doctor of Teleocity
Lots of wonderful folks already mentioned, plus
Imogene Cunningham
Minor White
Edward Weston
Linda Connor
Jerry Uelsmann
…did we mention Dorothea Lange? Robert Frank? Edward S. Curtis? Garry Winogrand?
…and our excellent colleague @Bones !
Imogene Cunningham
Minor White
Edward Weston
Linda Connor
Jerry Uelsmann
…did we mention Dorothea Lange? Robert Frank? Edward S. Curtis? Garry Winogrand?
…and our excellent colleague @Bones !
Cjteleforum
TDPRI Member
I like Weegee too. But isn't this an anonymous crime scene photo from Evidence by Luc Sante?
EDIT Yeah, I just looked at my photo books. That photo was taken by the NYPD, not Weegee.
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WingedWords
Friend of Leo's
I'd forgotten them. Another photographer of the everyday from the same sort of period was Raymond Moore.
I've recently discovered this young (to me) landscape photographer. Always entertaining videos on his YouTube channel and beautiful images. (Though after a while I find myself wishing he'd do something a bit grittier.)
Loads of new names on this thread. I've had a good few years away from photography after being very occupied with it up to the 90s and it's good to have some new leads to follow up.
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And regarding C.B.,
He always composed the shot with no cropping, insisting on the prints showing the edges of the negative. That always impressed me, that he didn't rely on cropping later to get a good composition.
Something very pure about shooting with a simple Leica, prime lens and using your feet to get in position for the best shot. In this day of photoshop and post processing effects where you can't trust the reality of what you're seeing in the image.
Attachments
Wallo Tweed
Friend of Leo's
Vivian Maier - Wikipedia
I like street photography.
Vivian Maier was unknown and unpublished, but after her death over 150,000 of her pictures were discovered. I saw a very interesting doc about her a few years ago.
Were you shooting or editing back then, either way I'm guessing we have many friends/collegues in common. I was in DC back in those days but worked for a bunch of NY based magazines.
buster poser
Poster Extraordinaire
Bill Gedney
Paul Strand
Minor White
Walker Evans
James Nachtwey
Joel Meyerowitz
Lee Friedlander
Bill Owens
Paul Strand
Minor White
Walker Evans
James Nachtwey
Joel Meyerowitz
Lee Friedlander
Bill Owens
I can only support all of the photographers mentioned, perhaps add David Bailey for fashion and inspiring a film by Antonioni......
but possibly my most influential artist is one @bdkphoto listed, Duane Michels. He doesn't just capture a moment, he often uses sequences to tell a story, and sometimes writes directly on the image. He even inspired me to buy a vintage camera like he uses, an Argus C3. It has a separate "shutter cocking" from the film advance, making it easier to make multiple exposures on the same frame of film. He also often uses camera movement and slow shutter speeds to blur his images. Very dream-like and surreal.
