Who are your favorite photographers?

[limr]

I like folks on here because it's more personal and I can learn from them and interact. I can't exactly make dick jokes to some fancy celebrity photographer.
Limr (even though film)

I give another vote to Kertesz and agree that his composition is brilliant. I got a book of his Polaroids that he shot in last years of his life, and they are outstanding, both in composition and use of color.

Vivian Meier for street. And I don't care if it's a cliche, I still love Cartier-Bresson.

I'm sure there are others, and there are a bunch of talented folks here whose threads I always open, even if it's a genre that I generally am not interested in, but my head hurts and I'm starving, so rather than pull names from my head, I'm going to go find some food

 

[TheBromad]

Who are your favorite photographers? Who inspires you? Whose work do you look up to, or just greatly admire... and why?

I've been thinking about something lately, that I don't want to dive into just yet, because I don't' want to skew the answers given... but tell me who your favorites are. Doesn't have to be just one, and it doesn't have to be anyone famous. It can be someone you know, someone local to your area... or hell it could be someone famous. There's no limit.

Tell me their name, leave a link to their work, and if you're able to link to individual photos, link to a few of your favorite photos from their work and tell me why you love them.

I'm not big into portraits, but Lee Jeffries work is unreal. Les photos d'art de Lee Jeffries, photographe - YellowKorner

 

[DanOstergren]

Michael Thompson, Lara Jade, Irving Penn, Mario Testino, Bruce Weber, Mario Sorrenti, and Steven Meisel.

 

[FotosbyMike]

Karl Taylor, Rob Grimm, Tony Rosland

 

[Forkie]

Aaron Nace: Aaron Nace Photo
Daniel Sutka: DANIEL SUTKA | Photographer
"Sam": Modèles studio - PORTRAITSBYSAM

 

[Tailgunner]

Peter Lik....probably a little cliche but I really like his work.

 

[amitbhatt]

Ansel Adams, hands down ... I love his treatment of nature in black & white. I've used his work as inspiration for a number of my projects.

 

[RG16]

As I'm new to photography im still finding out who I really like and draw inspiration from but I really love Joe Mcnally's work, he has had some great behind the scenes opportunities in his career and the photos because of it are just awesome.

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[cauzimme]

I'm pretty much an advocate of the ugly, I like to find beauty everywhere, in the ugly, in the unconventionnal, unusual or even banal. I love the marginalised, they are my people. So I'm naturaly attracted to these photographer;

Number 1 - Nan Goldin, no doubt about it.
Her slide show exhibition\Artist Book; The Ballad of Sexual dependency is a masterpiece of contemporary photography and she's my biggest influence and inspiration.
Number 2 - Diane Arbus, her sensibility is out of this world. I love her work with the circus freaks, queers, transgender, midget, giants, nudist.

Number 3 - Larry Clark, his works; Tulsa is very provocative but no one can deny is talent, his black and white photography are shocking but yet very intimate, real and beautiful. He's also a very talented director photo, Kids, Bully, Ken Park, worth seeing. But yeah he's disturbing.

Number 4 - Philip Lorca diCorcia, what to not like about his works. Mixed between the banality, kinda documentary with a cinematographic touch, very baroque, very staged.
Number 5 - Not someone well known but yet, her works did inspire me, Digital Diary of Natasha Merrit, where is the line between erotism and porn ? How far can we go? Sexuality is beautiful.

Oh and I'm also a big fan of Sophie Calle, that woman is C-R-A-Z-Y! It's not about her photography but the artistic process. If you don't know her, you're totally missing something!

 

[pip_dog]

Herbert List's images have a starkness to them that, I feel, have been influencing the way I look at what I shoot. One of the best second-hand book finds I've had was a book of his work. Especially like his earlier stuff.

Herbert List

 

[D-B-J]

Ray Collins: Oil - Ray Collins Photo

 

[limr]

I'm pretty much an advocate of the ugly, I like to find beauty everywhere, in the ugly, in the unconventionnal, unusual or even banal. I love the marginalised, they are my people. So I'm naturaly attracted to these photographer;

Number 1 - Nan Goldin, no doubt about it.
Her slide show exhibition\Artist Book; The Ballad of Sexual dependency is a masterpiece of contemporary photography and she's my biggest influence and inspiration.

Number 2 - Diane Arbus, her sensibility is out of this world. I love her work with the circus freaks, queers, transgender, midget, giants, nudist.

Number 3 - Larry Clark, his works; Tulsa is very provocative but no one can deny is talent, his black and white photography are shocking but yet very intimate, real and beautiful. He's also a very talented director photo, Kids, Bully, Ken Park, worth seeing. But yeah he's disturbing.

Number 4 - Philip Lorca diCorcia, what to not like about his works. Mixed between the banality, kinda documentary with a cinematographic touch, very baroque, very staged.

Number 5 - Not someone well known but yet, her works did inspire me, Digital Diary of Natasha Merrit, where is the line between erotism and porn ? How far can we go? Sexuality is beautiful.

Oh and I'm also a big fan of Sophie Calle, that woman is C-R-A-Z-Y! It's not about her photography but the artistic process. If you don't know her, you're totally missing something!

Just FYI, if you do not own the copyright of a photograph, do not post it on this website. You should link to it instead.

 

[PJoneil]

My favorite photographer is Joel Robison. I am not sure how famous he is, but his work is amazing. His work is very imaginative, but I still consider it photography. His images involve a lot of post processing, but you can look at them and still see the hard work and skills he has to make his thoughts a reality. I know there are photographers on here who are "purist" photographers and do not believe that some post processed images are still photography. Like I say though "to each his own". But anyway I think this guy is amazing, every image of his I look at just takes my mind to amazing places. Here is a link to his flickr. He has too many awesome images to pick a favorite.

 

[JacaRanda]

Curious to what Ms. E. Rose will do with this info.

 

[Mr. Innuendo]

My favorite photographer is a guy in Chattanooga, TN. His name is Holt Webb. He had a project going for a while called "Vanishing America". Sadly, the project ran out of money, but the images he produced during it are pretty stirring.