Photographers linked to a specific place.

[Duane Polcou]

Certain photographers, both expired and living, have created bodies of work and opened galleries focusing on a specific geographic region. For instance, Ansel = Yosemite. Clyde Butcher showcases Florida. Michael Fatali showcases the Colorado Plateau. Phil Kember has a gallery in Lone Pine exhibiting his work of Death Valley. Does anyone know of other photographers whose work centers on, by intent, a specific region, and/or who has a gallery exhibiting this work? Primarily LF landscape/environmental , although other formats or okay, I suppose... Thanks.

[Louie Powell]

Tillman Crane = Scotland
Mark Citret = San Francisco
George Tice = New Jersey
Carl Weese = Rt. 30

[Bill_1856]

Um, Edward Weston = Point Lobos and Carmel. In galleries all over the world.
It's interesting that many of those photographers associated with one place have made their most famous images elsewhere (AA, Moonrise in New Mexico, etc).

[David Karp]

Weston and Mexico as well.

[Michael Gordon]

Phil Kember has a gallery in Lone Pine exhibiting his work of Death Valley.

Not any longer (unless he moved it; to where I don't know).

[Daniel Otranto]

I think martin parr is the quintesential England photographer

[Vaughn]

Vaughn Hutchins -- Redwoods

[Michael Alpert]

I think the list would include almost all well-known art photographers, living or dead, worldwide. Street photographers are usually associated with specific cities. Photographers like Sudek are also associated with specific places. Some photographers move around and have multiple places, but they become known for those specific places. It's the nature of photography to be In Place. Photo-journalists and people who work on assignments can have, of course, a different mind-set. Why are you asking?

[paulr]

these are all photographers whose life work is centered on a particular place ...

atget--paris
sudek--prague
o'sullivan--the wide wide west
robert adams--the wide wide west
berenice abbott--nyc (she did many other things, but her portrait of the city was her
big lifetime project)

[Bruce Watson]

Does anyone know of other photographers whose work centers on, by intent, a specific region, and/or who has a gallery exhibiting this work?

This is, I suspect, the norm for photographers. Either they are tied to a region by a day job, or they are tied to a region by being poor starving artists. Travel costs either way -- one needs time, and the other needs cash.

This is part of the difference between photography and other arts like painting. To do the photography, it's not just desirable to be there. It's a requirement. Thus, regionalism is the rule.