Favourite photographers?

pikachucheeks

Two of mine so far are La Chapelle and Gavin Bond!

pippatee

http://www.stevemccurry.com

Overblood

Steve Bloom:

http://www.stevebloom.com/pages/projects.html

af_thefragile

I don't know many so i'll say Man Ray and Joel-peter Witkin.
Basically anything surreal!

AnCatDubh

for portrait; Annabel Williams - see interview here. Scroll down to see some samples of what I like about her work.

I'm open to many styles and in contrast to Ms. Williams work linked above, I also love magnum stuff - Only got into them recently after a book was bought for me - Too many greats in there to single out one. I think the magnum agency work which i've viewed yet again draws me a new way of appreciating the art of photography - beyond technical perfection and deeper into mood, composition, and the importance of telling a visual moment. It is great stuff.

leinsterman

Hmmnn ... there are so many... but here are a few recommended for google -

I like to shoot boring landscapes for my sins so Ansel Adams was my orignal inspiration and while it is unfashoinable to like him ... I do, and to hell with the bedgrdgers!

Magum Photographers - Robert Capa & Henri Cartier Breson

Documentary - Martin Parr, Robert Frank & Hans Van Der Meer

... and many more ...

nilhg

I've said this here before, but James Ravilous presses a lot of buttons for me, whether that's just cause of my background I don't know, but I think the appeal of his work should be much wider than that.

Here's a BBC documentary well worth a look if you have a spare half hour.

I was thinking the other day that Ravilous is a bit like an early version (30 years ago) of our Barry (thebaz) capturing people and an environment that they like and that they fear is slowly disappearing.

leinsterman

Thanks for the Ravilious Video link ...

If you want to get an introduction to lots of different phtographers from the time of Fox Talbot and Daguerre right up to today, then I'd recommend watching BBC series - The Genius of Photography ... or get the book that went with it.

Calina

Ansel Adams from a very early age.

Robert Doisneau.

Yesterday I was at an exhibition of photography by Philippe Plisson, Charlie Waite and Art Wolfe. Plisson has been my favourite photographer for the last 15 years or so. Art Wolfe was new to me. I've latterly come across some of the work that Guillaume Plisson does as well - I am starting to think (based on yesterday) that he may well be a better photographer than his dad.

I also love Peter Lik and Ric Steiniger. In Irish terms I really liked Liam Blake and Peter Zoller.

There's another French guy called Vincent Munier who is a fantastic wildlife photographer.

Kitewise, Roberto Foresti is very, very hard to beat.

yoshytoshy

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