Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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!
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
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.
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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...
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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.
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
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!
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).
That reminds me, I should add Orson Welles to my list – he’d be #12.
Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers
August Sander
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Man Ray
Salgado
Elliot Erwitt
Sugimoto
Sara Moon
Jerry Uelsmann
Albert Watson
Irving Penn