Your Photographic Heroes...

[mmerig]

Stephen N. Leek

[RedGreenBlue]

Jacques Henri Lartigue may be my all-time favorite. Certainly though, there are others.

[Ulophot]

W. Eugene Smith
Lewis Hine
Strand
Adams
Walter Rosenblum

[Andrew Tymon]

I'd forgotten Paul Hill, but his influence (too strong a word) in many ways came from what I was told about his approach to the landscape before I'd seen his work, which made me feel I was going in the right direction. I've known Paul for over 25 years now. Keith Arnatt is an interesting artist he was a visiting lecturer when I hid my MA.

I missed Jem Southam from my list.

Ian

Looks like we were posting at the same time and share the same influences. I forgot John Davies and Jem Southam. Paul Hill gave a talk at Derby on his Light peak/Dark peak work. John Blakemore was teaching at that time and John Davies came and gave a masterclass, good times! We can't forget Raymond Moore can we?

[prado333]

IN no particular order
Richard Avedon
Irving Penn
Richard Misrach
Joel Sternfeld
Joel Meyerowitz
Nicholas Nixon
Emmet Gowin
ALec Soth
Paolo Pellegrin
JAmes Natchwey
Humberto Rivas
Carlos Canovas
Lee Friedlander
Todd Hido
Brigitte Lacombe
Alec Soth

[archphotofisher]

This question really got me thinking about my influences and how they affected my work, I also had to add my teachers.
Carleton Watkins
Eugene Atget
Paul Strand
Man Ray
Herbert Bayer
Irving Penn
Edward Weston
Bret Weston
Ansel Adams
Morley Baer
Bernard Freemesser
Phil Trager
George Tice
Richard Pare
William Cliff
Stephen Shore
Lewis Baltz
Teachers
Edward Halberg
Milton Halberstadt
Ezra Stoller
Peter Aaron
Michael Burns

[Randy]

This thread is going to cause me to spend hours looking up many photographers I have never heard of, and many I have heard of but forgotten about.

Two of my favorite locals:
Austin Granger and Ken Lee. I am confident that if I was flipping through a stack of 8X10s and came across a print by either one, I would immediately know who took the photograph - that's the way it is when I come across any of their images here on the forum - I know it's theirs before looking left - and I always love the image.

Alex Timmermans is another who's images just leave such an impression on me. After viewing one of his images I feel like I have watched a full length motion picture.