What Are Your Favourite Web Sites Showing CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE Large Format Photography?

[Stephen Vaughan]

Hi Keith - I am also based in the UK. Don't have any information on particular websites but can definetely recommend that you go to the specialist photography bookshops in London - Zwemmers is the best by far, but look also in the Photographers Gallery and Magma. All of these bookshops will have work by large format workers from Eugene Atget to Josef Sudek,Carleton Watkins to Walker Evans, Andreas Gursky to Elger Esser, and many more contemporary picture-makers. Don't leave out the 'old chestnuts' Weston and Adams, as a previous reply suggested. Their work is necessary reading I would suggest - for true knowledge of the range of work. Weston was contemporary too in his time, some might even say revolutionary, so at least make sure you see the work without prejudice. There are also lots of LF photographers in UK, covering a broad range of work from fine-art to commercial landscape and architectural photography. Try looking up people like Jem Southam, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Jim Cooke, Harry Cory-Wright, Joe Cornish etc. for a range of practitioners in landscape work. Thanks and best wishes.....

[Keith Laban]

Many thanks to you all for your responses, so much good information. Will keep me busy for a while.

All the best

Keith

[Jorge Gasteazoro]

Dan Burkholder's site www.danburholder.com check it out and see what digital can do in the hands of a true artist.

[andrey belo]

http://www.lenscraft.com/

This is an interesting example of contemporary photography with an unusual creativity and sensitivity to cultural/historical issues.I find his work also interesting for its use of form with colour,and very contemporary print format.With serious thought I believe anyone can produce work of original,content driven work that reflects "contemporary" ideas that we all have.A photograph becomes a document when it is treated as a means of relaying information,in whatever code/language that the artist invents or borrows.The translation of that code/language is the difficult part and where many fall into obscurity or enrage the "is it art?" debate.Mind you,a snapshot can relay information too,so perhaps it is rather the structured attempts by the artist to hold all that is necessary and remove all that is superfluous to the creation of an image that is able to emotionally and mentally communicate an idea/set of ideas to an audience. Photography is a very obscure subject,unlike any other media,and hence has been used by many "artists" who look at its structure rather than technology as a medium that is boundless and unique.I belive we could all do with regular doses of art history and theory whether it is photographic or not,to better understand the history of ideas which influence our lives and from which our evolution will continue."Everyone is an artist".Joseph Beuys. Thank you. A.