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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
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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.
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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
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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.)
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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....)
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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.
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No order
Avedon Richard
Corjbin Anton
Sander August
Cameron Julia Margaret
Weston Brett
Brassai
Salgado
Strand Paul
Sudek Joseph
Man Ray
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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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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!")
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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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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.
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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
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Edward Curtis
Roger Fenton
Joel Peter Witkin
Michael Kenna
Robert Demachy
Edward Weston
Sally Mann
Morten Haug
Nick Brandt
Tim Flach
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Oliver Gagliani
Hunter Witherill
Morley Baer
Al Weber
Ted Orland
Ansel Adams
Brett Weston
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At the end of this someone should tally up the score and post the collective all time top 10.
Great idea-any volunteers?
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André Kertész
Sebastiao Salgado
Richard Avedon
Man Ray
Daido Moriyama
Junku Nishimura
Eduardo Masferre (the most interesting for me)
Yousuf Karsh
Dmitri Baltermants
Vivian Maier
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Atget, Sudek, Strand, Shore, Friedeman, Paul Caponigro, Walker Evans. Paul Strand is god. Specially love Steven Shore because when he was making his best work I was a small child, his subjects are lifted indirectly from my childhood and his colour pallete, that of the 1 hour print, is mine. The shag pile carpets, horrific furniture, fashionable dress, all satisfy me. All are very much people of their time. And Imogen Cunningham for her magnolia.
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Here is my short list, in no particular order and for different reasons. Seven of them I knew personally during my formative years as a photographer, perhaps unaware of their influence at the time. Looking back fifty years later, I can fully measure their influence.
Brett Weston
Edward Weston
Wynn Bullock
Ansel Adams
Imogen Cunningham
Aaron Siskind
Morley Baer
Paul Strand
Andre Kertesz
L. Moholy-Nagy
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Yeah, sure, I'll compile the list. It isn't a problem when you know things like command prompts and scripting. Basic stuff. :)
Guys, could you please use the photographer's full name? Thanks!
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Brian C. Miller
Guys, could you please use the photographer’s full name? Thanks!
And check your spelling! After all, this isn’t about grammar; it’s about photographers listing their most influential photographers. :rolleyes:
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Kirk Gittings
1) Alfred Steiglitz
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Mark Sawyer
My list...Alfred Steiglitz
Before this one gets out of control, it’s “Stieglitz” (my #11 on Wednesdays & Sundays).
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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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Originally Posted by
Kirk Gittings
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.
Imitating in the mirror until you say "oh, I get it now. That clever bastard!"
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1. Dorthea Lange (in 3rd grade while exploring an encyclopedia I saw one of her images that changed my life from that point forward)
2. Edward Curtis
3. William Clift
4. Michael Kenna
5. Richard Avedon
6. André Kertész
7. Paul Caponigro
8. Edward Steichen
9. Linda Connor
10. Nick Brandt
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Thomas Knight
Thomas Joshua Cooper
Ansel Adams
Edward Weston
Carleton E. Watkins
Peter Britt
Geir and Kate Jordahl
Wynn Bullock
Duane Michaels
The list can easily change. drop Duane, add Linda Conners, for example. The first two gents were also my teachers -- lots of influence!
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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
In no particular order...
1. Richard Avedon
2. Ansel Adams
3. Yousuf Karsh
4. Salvador Dali
5. Alfred Stieglitz
6. Josef Sudek
7. Man Ray
8. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
9. Robert Capa
10. Edward Steichen
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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
In no particular order:
Minor White
Aaron Siskind
Edward Weston
Fredrick H. Evans
Paul Caponigro
Carleton E. Watkins
Laura Gilpin
Paul Strand
Wynn Bullock
Brett Weston
While not in my top 10, some of the early pictoralists such as H.P. Robinson, Clarence H. White, or P. H. Emerson follow directly on the heals of those listed.
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I think this is about the right order...
Virgil King (great grand father)
Kathryn King (mother)
Tim Rudman
Jonathan Bailey
Emmet Gowin
Josef Sudek
Jock Sturges
Keith Carter
Carleton Watkins
Edward Weston
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Like others have said above, I think my pictures are influenced as much by things outside of photography than they are by other photographers, but with that disclaimer, here are ten photographers who move me:
Edward Weston
Ansel Adams
Walker Evans
Paul Strand
Minor White
Wynn Bullock
Brassai
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Lewis Baltz
Richard Misrach
Hard to limit it to ten; ask me again tomorrow and probably five of those would be different.
It might be interesting to do a companion thread of ten photographers that, try as you might, you just don't 'get' at all, or photographers whose work you really, really despise. On second thought, that might get a little nasty...
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Can only come up with seven, and three of them are cinematographers. In no particular order:
Nestor Almendros
Vittorio Storaro
Sven Nykvist
Jeff Wall
Irving Penn
August Sander
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Two photographers whose work is not well-known, but who made a distinct impression on me, are Aaron Rose and John Deakin. I have a book of Rose's work, but I have had very little success getting information on him. His pinhole photographs of New York are quite remarkable. He deserves to be rediscovered.
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Ansel Adams (that's how I learned technique)
Weston (for when I outgrew Adams)
Duane Michaels (for when I outgrew Weston)
James Fee (for underlining that I have no excuses)
Dürer (he would have been a photographer if he was born later)
Stanley Kubrick (a photographer early on but I'm really cheating and talking about his films)
top of my head, no doubt forgetting important entries...
--Darin
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Brett Weston
Edward Weston
Imogen Cunningham
Wynn Bullock
Berenice Abbott
Sonya Noskowiak
Aaron Siskind
Paul Outerbridge, Jr.
Margaret Bourke-White
Richard Avedon
I'm tempter to add Margreth Mather, but that would be based on only one print. However, it was one print in an exibition from Group f64 (at the CCP in Tucson) that stopped me cold, it was so perfect!
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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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Darin Boville
Stanley Kubrick (a photographer early on but I'm really cheating and talking about his films).
That reminds me, I should add Orson Welles to my list – he’d be #12.
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August Sander
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Man Ray
Salgado
Elliot Erwitt
Sugimoto
Sara Moon
Jerry Uelsmann
Albert Watson
Irving Penn
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In no order:
Edward Weston
David Bailey
Kishin Shinoyama
Nobuyoshi Araki
John Swannell
Bill Brandt
Don McCullin
Wynn Bullock
Jan Saudek
Philip Jones Griffiths
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Oh, man, I totally forgot to mention Jim Collum. (he pointed that out for me.) :D
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no order
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Richard Misrach
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
Hiroshi Watanabe
Josef Koudelka
Paul Caponigro
Alexey Titarenko
Roman Loranc
Oliver Gagliani
Irving Penn
(oh.. 11th is Robert Hall.. he'd of made top 10 but for an unfortunate omission on his part :)
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Edward Weston
Brett Weston
Ansel Adams
George Tice
Walker Evans
Aaron Siskind
Harry Callahan
Edward Steichen
Paul Strand
Larry Golsh
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My God, there's a lot of names I have never even heard about.....
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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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Originally Posted by
Darin Boville
Stanley Kubrick (a photographer early on but I'm really cheating and talking about his films)
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Heroique
That reminds me, I should add Orson Welles to my list – he’d be #12.
If we were talking about cinematography, I'd put Gordon Willis at the top of the list...
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I want to play too. In no particular order:
Robert Adams
Alfred Stieglitz
Walker Evans
Daido Moriyama
Ken Schles
Eugene Atget
Richard Avedon
Ray Metzger
Osamu Kanemura
Wim Wenders (both films and photos)
For some of them, I can think of a particular show or particular book that sent me off in a new direction or changed my perspective on the world.
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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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Darin Boville
Ansel Adams (that's how I learned technique)
Weston (for when I outgrew Adams)
Duane Michaels (for when I outgrew Weston)
James Fee (for underlining that I have no excuses)
Dürer (he would have been a photographer if he was born later)
Stanley Kubrick (a photographer early on but I'm really cheating and talking about his films)
top of my head, no doubt forgetting important entries...
--Darin
Hiroshi Sugimoto!
--Darin
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As the only person who has mentioned Jeff Wall, let me tell a little story.
Some years ago, I was on a plane, seated in business class beside a gentleman who was very much the business class archetype. For some reason, the subject of photography came up. As we got into the discussion, he told me, somewhat warily, that his son was working on set design and lighting. I asked him, "For whom?" He said, "A fellow named Jeff Wall." At the time, Wall had just won the Hasselblad award, and I said "Wow, that's pretty cool". Then he smiled, and started asking me questions about Wall and his son's work. The easiest, for me, was to explain his son's work in cinema terms. Anyway, he was taken aback that someone on a plane would know who Jeff Wall was, and might think that his kid wasn't a complete screw-up. I think that he left the plane feeling pretty good.
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Seeing Edward Burtynsky's manufactured landscapes show at the Brooklyn Museum in 2005(?) was a revelation for me, I saw what a huge beautiful color print could be and I was off on large format. Very few photographers really grab me in terms of constantly wanting to look at their work in reproduction form-- the few being O Winston Link, Winogrand, Friedlander, and maaaybe Joel Sternfeld. I really have to see Ansel Adams prints to enjoy his work.
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I am out of step with most here, mostly into color, but here it is:
Porter
Hyde
O'Hara
Clifton
Dykinda
Salgado
McCurry
Sexton
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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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johnmsanderson
Seeing Edward Burtynsky's manufactured landscapes show at the Brooklyn Museum in 2005(?) was a revelation for me, I saw what a huge beautiful color print could be and I was off on large format. Very few photographers really grab me in terms of constantly wanting to look at their work in reproduction form-- the few being O Winston Link, Winogrand, Friedlander, and maaaybe Joel Sternfeld. I really have to see Ansel Adams prints to enjoy his work.
Hey John,
We've talked about Burtynsky, and I would have included him in my own list if it was a list of important photographers rather than personal influences.
There's a very particular sense in which I might have included Robert Frank in my list. I saw the exhibit of The Americans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and purchased the catalogue; the so-called "extended" version of The Americans, including the contact sheets, etc. What Frank did in creating The Americans is a serious education in creating a coherent artistic vision. And it is all the more an education because he was vilified for it, and presumably knew, or at least suspected, that he was going to be vilified.
On my own list, Cartier-Bresson is a proxy for photographers like Frank, Capra, Davidson, Salgado, but neither Cartier-Bresson, nor any of the others in the foregoing, did anything as pointedly political as Frank.
Off topic, if you want to check out a great book about photography, get your hands on a second-hand copy (it's out of print) of Nestor Almendros's A Man with a Camera.
While people are in the mood, maybe Kirk would create a thread on 10 most influential books?
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1. eugene atget
2. walker evans
3. ansel adams
4. andre kertesz
5. josef sudek
6. paul strand
7. edward weston
8. michael kenna
9. josef koudelka
10. dorothea lange
honorable mention: roman loranc, w. eugene smith, carleton watkins
stieglitz for his ideas
bullock and baer for their california work
cartier-bresson for his timing
caponigro, barnbaum, and sexton for their prints
fredrick h. evans for the churches
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Adams (not my favorite now, but as far as influences go....)
Strand
Steichen
Avedon
Mark Klett
Gregory Crewdson
Keith Carter
Lucas Samaras
William Garnett
Len Jenshel
Wow, all guys. Not intentional, I assure you. As for the ladies:
Julia Margaret Cameron
Margaret Bourke-White
Imogen Cunningham
Berenice Abbott
Gertrude Kasebier
Mary Ellen Mark
Diane Arbus
Cindy Sherman
Sally Mann
Anne O'keefe
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In no particular order...
Andre Kertesz
Lee Friedlander
Walker Evans
Henri Cartier Bresson
Jeff Wall
Robert Adams
Ansel Adams
William Eggleston
Irving Penn
Stephen Shore
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OK, in no order:
0. Eliot Porter
1. Paul Caponigro
2. Clarence H White
3. Steichen
4. Edward Curtis
5. Steiglitz
6. Karsh
7. Hurrell
8. Walter Iooss
9. Margaret bourke white
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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Kirk Gittings
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
For me,
1. Wright Morris
2. Wynn Bullock
3. Fred Picker
4. Walker Evans
5. W. Eugene Smith
6. Edward Weston
7. Paul Caponigro
8. Cornelius Keyes
9. Eugene Atget
10. Dorothea Lange
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Ansel Adams
Edward Weston
Man Ray
Annie Leibovits
Salvador Dali (for his film work)
Robert Mapplethorpe
Yousuf Karsh
Paul Strand
Walker Evans
Helmut Newton
That's a tough list to come up with. I think for myself it would have been easer to list the 10 artists most influential on how I photograph things.
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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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Originally Posted by
Kirk Gittings
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.
as I see this thread (I'm ignorant, I know..) I don't know whether all the names dropped, are supposed to be influential to photography or to the photographer mentioning them.
Reading Kirk's first comment, I think he mean the photographers that have influenced him - not photography as a whole...
I just went to Götheborg and saw the latest Hasselblad winner... and was left even more ignorant than before... Didn't understand anything. Just mentioning this as a comment on whether a photographer is a winner - is famous, then I don't often get why - I could be influenced of it anyway, but in a sub consious way.. don't know.
"our" local Kirsten Klein has definitively influenced me more than most of the photographers mentioned in this thread. But noone seems to know her...
A couple of photographers, well known slipped my mind in my first post:
G Hurrell
R Koppitz
and then I have a lot of people stating that I am influenced a lot by JP Witkin...
Don't know - I made my "witkin" pictures long before I knew of him...
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1. Don McCullin
2. Martin Parr
3. John Davies
4. Paul Graham
5. Brian Griffin
6. Mark Power
7. Denis Thorpe
8. Bill Brandt
9. Anna Fox
10. Nick Waplington