Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
Following the thread on 100 Most Influential photographers, here's a chance to start your own list.
This personal list is more in terms of aesthetics than format or technique i.e. I learned allot from how they see.
1) Alfred Steiglitz
2) Paul Strand
3) Wynn Bullock
4) Clarence John Laughlin
5) Edward Weston
6) Ansel Adams
7) Manuel Alvarez Bravo
8) Robert Adams
9) Richard Mizracak
10) Alec Soth
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
No particular order.
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Walker Evans
Aaron Siskind
Edward Weston
William Eggleston
Barbara Crane
Harry Callahan
Edward Steichen
Charles Sheeler
Ray Metzger
Yes, I am from Chicago. With a nod to Keith Richards, perhaps this is more about who's work you started out copying.
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
1. Ansel Adams, simply because he articulated so much about how he does things, both in art terms and in craft terms.
2. Brett Weston
3. Strand
4. Eliot Porter
5. John Sexton
6. Philip Hyde
7. Edward Weston
8. Stieglitz
9. Paul Caponigro
10. Minor White
Rick "limited by what is available to be seen" Denney
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
1-9) Claude Lorrain influences how I compose trees, water, architecture and their shadows in the rural landscape.
10) Ansel Adams (Sometimes he moves up to #9 depending on my shot. My field notes indicate he was once #7.)
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
Josef Sudek
Sally Mann
Irvin Penn
Kirsten Klein
Frantisek Drtikol
Edward Steichen
+ 4 more....
(I'm actually more influenced by artist like Rodin - Munch - Leonardo - and more....)
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
Ansel Adams - the zone system, Aperture magazine, Museum of Modern Art, workshops, Group f/64, books, lectures, videos - he's everywhere and he's influenced everyone directly or indirectly, for better or for worse, whether they know it or not.
After him it gets tougher. But in no particular order and off the top of my head I'd say Harry Callahan, Berenice Abbott, John Sexton, Edward Weston, Ralph Gibson, Walker Evans, George Tice, Eugene Atget, and Ray McSavaney. But I could probaby compile another list of nine entirely different people that would be about as valid.
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
No order
Avedon Richard
Corjbin Anton
Sander August
Cameron Julia Margaret
Weston Brett
Brassai
Salgado
Strand Paul
Sudek Joseph
Man Ray
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Kirk Gittings
This personal list is more in terms of aesthetics than format or technique i.e. I learned allot from how they see.
That's a big part of it; some will be most influenced by aesthetics, others by process or technique or format or lens choice. I suspect for a lot of us, our biggest influences aren't even photographers or visual artists. (And it would be kinda sad if they were...)
But photographers look at other photographers, and we react to something...
My list...
Josef Sudek
Alfred Steiglitz
Paul Caponegro
W. Eugene Smith
Paul Strand
Edward Weston
Sally Mann
Robert Adams
Frederick Evans
Minor White
Linda Connor
Joel Peter Witkin (even if he does make me say "eewww!")
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
Quote:
perhaps this is more about who's work you started out copying.
Learning from how someone else sees does not necessarily equate with copying (though that happens), but more IME broadening your horizons by learning how other artists make different subject matter, tonal palettes, environments, etc. visually work.
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
Ok here goes my list. At the end of this someone should tally up the score and post the collective all time top 10.
1. Edward Weston
2. Paul Strand
3. Walker Evans
4. Minor White
5. Diane Arbus
6. Bill Brandt
7. Bruce Barnbaum
8. Irving Penn
9. Robert Mapplethorpe
10. Arnold Newman