Steve - I just quickly checked the past articles index (and I can't remeber if anything was published recently), but I can't find any mention of a serious article on either Atget or Walker Evans - arguably two (among others) of the most important and influential photographers in the history of the medium - both of whom where also "large format" photographers. I seem to recall more Ansel Adam's articles than you can shake a stick at, but to my mind, not to cover this sort of ground (while avoiding becoming a tome of historical photogorpahy) seems somewhat out of balance and leads to what I think a number of people have expressed in different ways - that the outlook of View Camera can be somewhat narrow in photographic terms. (es, you have looked at say Sally Mann or Jock Sturges or Mary Ellen Mark in the past - but most of those do seem to be a while ago now and perhaps, the exception?
The influence of Atget and Evans, for example, can be seen in the work of many of todays LF photographers. Not only that, but their work is also often as fresh, incisive and new as much of the work being done today.
Again, just one example.
Oh - and in the contemporaries, another one - Ed Burtynsky
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