Besides Ansel Adams, what are some other well known photographers of that time?

[NedM]

I'm always hearing about Ansel Adams but I never hear of any other well known photographers of his time. :thumbup:

 

[gsgary]

Eve Arnold, Bill Brant, Robert Doisneau, Horst, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Helmut Newton, Bruno Barbey, Werner Bischof, Rene Burri, Cornell Capa, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Elliot Erwitt, Phillip Jone Griffith, Phillippe Halsman, Karsh, Erich Lessing, George Rogers, David 'Chim' Seymour, W. Eugene Smith

There's a few to be going on with

 

[table1349]

This ought to keep you busy for an hour or so. Famous Photographers | List, Biography and Photos

 

[71M]

I'm always hearing about Ansel Adams but I never hear of any other well known photographers of his time. :thumbup:

Any genre? Man Ray. A bit younger: Winogrand, Frank, Arbus - Google offers related suggestions.

 

[runnah]

Eve Arnold, Bill Brant, Robert Doisneau, Horst, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Helmut Newton, Bruno Barbey, Werner Bischof, Rene Burri, Cornell Capa, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Elliot Erwitt, Phillip Jone Griffith, Phillippe Halsman, Karsh, Erich Lessing, George Rogers, David 'Chim' Seymour, W. Eugene Smith There's a few to be going on with

Yeah they were all pretty good despite the fact that they all shot film and not one used HDR.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Eve Arnold, Bill Brant, Robert Doisneau, Horst, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Helmut Newton, Bruno Barbey, Werner Bischof, Rene Burri, Cornell Capa, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Elliot Erwitt, Phillip Jone Griffith, Phillippe Halsman, Karsh, Erich Lessing, George Rogers, David 'Chim' Seymour, W. Eugene Smith There's a few to be going on with

Yeah they were all pretty good despite the fact that they all shot film and not one used HDR.

+1

nor "selective coloring"

 

[gsgary]

Yeah they were all pretty good despite the fact that they all shot film and not one used HDR.

Ansel adams didn't

 

[runnah]

Ansel adams didn't

Polaroids right?

 

[2WheelPhoto]

and he broke the rules with his large format gigs

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
-Ansel Adams

 

[minicoop1985]

Ansel adams didn't

Polaroids right?

Joking or not, you know who did? Andy Warhol. He used a Big Shot. Ugliest damn camera I've ever had.

 

[limr]

Vivian Maier, Gerda Taro, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus.

Figures you men would not mention them first.

 

[Gavjenks]

Eve Arnold, Bill Brant, Robert Doisneau, Horst, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Helmut Newton, Bruno Barbey, Werner Bischof, Rene Burri, Cornell Capa, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Elliot Erwitt, Phillip Jone Griffith, Phillippe Halsman, Karsh, Erich Lessing, George Rogers, David 'Chim' Seymour, W. Eugene Smith There's a few to be going on with

Yeah they were all pretty good despite the fact that they all shot film and not one used HDR.

Almost all if not literally all of those people used HDR. Or tonemapping, depending on your specific definitions of each.

Print paper generally has very low lightness range. Thus, almost any professional film photographer would have either routinely or at least at some point compressed tones from film into the range of a print paper, via burning the highlights and dodging the shadows until neither was clipped in the print, thus introducing a higher dynamic range than the medium's native capacity. I would call this HDR for sure. One may disagree on semantics, but at the very least, it is unambiguously an example of tonemapping.

And in fact many photographers then would have even bracketed shots in a completely direct and unambiguous comparison to what we normally think of as HDR today.

 

[gsgary]

Almost all if not literally all of those people used HDR. Or tonemapping, depending on your specific definitions of each.

Print paper generally has very low lightness range. Thus, almost any professional film photographer would have either routinely or at least at some point compressed tones from film into the range of a print paper, via burning the highlights and dodging the shadows until neither was clipped in the print, thus introducing a higher dynamic range than the medium's native capacity. I would call this HDR for sure. One may disagree on semantics, but at the very least, it is unambiguously an example of tonemapping.

And in fact many photographers then would have even bracketed shots in a completely direct and unambiguous comparison to what we normally think of as HDR today.

I wouldnt call it HDR it is just the usual developement you woukd do in the darkroom

 

[Gavjenks]

Almost all if not literally all of those people used HDR. Or tonemapping, depending on your specific definitions of each.

Print paper generally has very low lightness range. Thus, almost any professional film photographer would have either routinely or at least at some point compressed tones from film into the range of a print paper, via burning the highlights and dodging the shadows until neither was clipped in the print, thus introducing a higher dynamic range than the medium's native capacity. I would call this HDR for sure. One may disagree on semantics, but at the very least, it is unambiguously an example of tonemapping.

And in fact many photographers then would have even bracketed shots in a completely direct and unambiguous comparison to what we normally think of as HDR today.

I wouldnt call it HDR it is just the usual developement you woukd do in the darkroom

So? That doesn't mean it's not HDR. All that means is that HDR was more common in film days. It is the exact same concept performed for the same reasons.

 

[Rick58]

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