contemporary portrait photographers who use cameras 5x7 and larger

[jnantz]

can anyone suggest photographers in the last 10 years
who use 5x7 and larger cameras to shoot formal portraits?

i don't mean location-work, but more like in-studio.

thanks
john

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

In France I know the work of Mélanie Gribinski
http://www.melaniegribinski.com/
She has been working with a vintage 18x24cm Lorillon camera for years.

[David Louis]

Rineke Dijkstra, Thomas Ruff.

[Walter Calahan]

My studio is the world.

[Gordon Moat]

Richard Avedon, who passed away recently, often used 8x10, though not always in a studio. Craig McDean I think has shoot some 8x10 for fashion, all studio, though also uses 4x5, and sometimes an RZ67. I don't really know if they would qualify as formal, depending upon how you define that. I tend to be more impressed by unexpected results, rather than very formal or rules following photographers.

There are also a few alt process photographers lately, such as Chuck Close working with Jerry Spagnolli. Probably a lesser known photographer would be Robert Benson doing wet plate collodion.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat
A G Studio

[Ralph Barker]

Me, but I'm not very "contemporary", and you were probably thinking of someone notable.

[Frank Petronio]

http://www.paoloroversi.com/

http://www.greenfield-sanders.com/

[Oren Grad]

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

[tim atherton]

Thomas Struth

Alec Soth (section of portraits on his site and also a 20+? page section in the current W magagazine - all 8x10 I think)

[Scott Davis]

I do, but again, I'm not known much outside of this online community and APUG - I've got a bunch of my 5x7 work posted up over there.