Who's your favorite forgotten Master Photographer

[Toyon]

It seems that some incredible photographers of the past no longer get the notice they deserve. Please post work by once well-known photogs you think deserve revisiting. This image, by Andreas Feininger, courtesy of www.shorpy.com. Image shot on Kodachrome in 1945.

[Walter Calahan]

I forget! Grin.

André Kertész always comes to mind. Wynn Bullock, too.

[alanps]

I chose John Blakemore, he is still alive, but gets very little if any attention here in the US. I think his work in the 70's was groundbreaking for large format - and he remains in my eyes one of the great photographers if somewhat forgotten....

[SamReeves]

It seems that some incredible photographers of the past no longer get the notice they deserve. Please post work by once well-known photogs you think deserve revisiting. This image, by Andreas Feininger, courtesy of www.shorpy.com. Image shot on Kodachrome in 1945.

Nice! I love industrial photography like that.

My forgotten master would be A.J. Russell. Nobody documented the construction of the Union Pacific railroad like he did. If I get out to the mountian west I'd love to try my hand at making this photo at Green River, WY.

[domenico Foschi]

Alen Macweeney, an Irish photographer who has made a memorable portfolio about the TInkers, some sort of Irish Gypsies.
I have been trying to get some links to show the work, but even in his website there is something wrong.
I am lucky enough to be represented by Andrew Ward, a talented Irish photographer and Fine Art Photography dealer who carries his work.
I first saw Macweeney's work in an issue of Aperture and his work blew me away.
He is best known for his commercial work but in my opinion his B/W work is one of the more honest I have seen in Ages.
http://www.alenmacweeney.com/
http://www.andrewwardgallery.com/artists.htm
http://www.stevenkasher.com/html/art...3&testing=true

[Bill_1856]

Philippe Halsman. His piece d'resistance (Dali Atomicus) which took all day with a full studio staff, a herd of angry cats, and innumberable thrown buckets of water (and cleaning up the mess over and over), could be easily done in a short time today with Photoshop.
I think his portrait of Einstein was the best ever done of him (despite that it was almost a copy of the Cameron portrait of Sir John Herschel taken eighty years earlier). I believe that his wife, Yvonne, was as responsible for the work as he was, and to the best of my knowledge she is still with us.
He shot far more covers for Life than anyone else.

[Mark Sawyer]

I would go with George Grant, though whether he is "forgotten" or "never known" is argueable... He worked in the 1920's through the 1940's as the first National Park Service photographer. Mostly 5x7, but some whole-plate work too...

His large format work is as good as any I've ever seen. Sorry for the crappy scans; they don't do the prints justice...

Muir Woods, 1936
San Ignacio Mission, Sonora Mexico, 1935
Don Juan and Dona Sada, Boquillas, Texas, 1936

[Arne Croell]

Not completely forgotten (there is one Aperture book), but for mountain photography Vittorio Sella was a top guy who is not known to many people nowadays:

http://www.panopt.com/images.php?a=10

[Greg Lockrey]

That Shorpy site is a very cool site. I peruse it at least once a week.

[Wayne R. Scott]

"Pete" Wettach of Mt. Pleasant Iowa. I love his use of the Graphic bed as a lens shade:

http://galleries.luther.edu/Archives...h/wettach.html

Wayne