favorite photographer

hoosier40000 · May 3, 2006

so i was looking online today at some more well know photographers and couldnt help feeling overwelmed at all the genius involved im many of these artists. Do any of you have a photographer that helped mold them or someone that they have modeled their work after? it could even also be just a favorite photographer. My favorite and the most inspiring photographer for me is Ansel Adams...no contest. i look forward to hearing everyone else's opinions...

castrol · May 3, 2006

Heh... I am pretty amazed at some of the stuff I see right here on this website.

Dang.

2framesbelowzero · May 3, 2006

i can't offer an absolute favourite.
gritty social stuff of contemporary operators interests me mostly.

i regularly browse http://lightstalkers.org .. as massive networking of insprirational photographers on there.

http://www.artcoup.com is a regular bookmark. but there
are many such photosites that are equally consistently good.

a new picture everyday or every couple of days keeps my interest,
thats why i really like Boogie's site. if a websites folio expands less frequently i seem to forget about going back to it.

KevinR · May 3, 2006

Paul Strand is one of my favorites. Very unique eye for composition.

Oldfireguy · May 3, 2006

Ernie Pyle or Tim Page. When I was a photographer in the Army I studied their work a lot. Both were really good combat photographers. Glad I never had to find out how good I was.

Torus34 · May 3, 2006

Each photographer who has managed to make prints impressed with his/her own 'signature' should be appreciated for him/herself. It is something that has been achieved by only a very few.

danalec99 · May 3, 2006

I can list a whole bunch of names who have influenced me one way or the other. But if I were to really narrow 'em down, I'd end up with these two names.

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Jeff Ascough

JohnMF · May 3, 2006

i have shied away from becoming too familiar with any particular photographers work. I remember photographs, but never who took them

Jeepnut28 · May 4, 2006

http://benchrisman.com/main.php

ksmattfish · May 4, 2006

It changes all the time, but right now I am really taken with Nick Brandt's African animal portraits.

http://www.nickbrandt.com/

2framesbelowzero · May 4, 2006

yes - thats amazing

ksmattfish said:
It changes all the time, but right now I am really taken with Nick Brandt's African animal portraits.

http://www.nickbrandt.com/

slickhare · May 4, 2006

gordon parks

i try not to get too into names and such. i'm trying to develop my own style right now.

markc · May 4, 2006

Several of my favorites are really well known, like Gene Smith and Robert Frank, but Teru Kuwayama, who set up Lightstalkers, is someone I met and had a more personal impact on me. There's also Keith Carter, who has some shots that blow me away.

A few others that I think are worth checking out are Ian MacEachern, Monika Brand, and Daniel Bayer.

craig · May 7, 2006

Irving Penn. And the incomparable Jay Maisel. I was lucky enough to have Jay shoot down my portfolio last year. None the less he visits Jackson twice a year (for Photography on the Summit) and I always go to his lectures.

spiky_simon · May 8, 2006

Too many to name, but for a different view of the world, artcistic and sometimes very powerful and moving images, I'm going to go with Yann Arthus-Bertrand