Your 10 Most Influential Photographers

[Taija71A]

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~~ Pour moi ~~

(*In 'Alphabetical' Order)...


Ansel Adams
Tom Baril
Edward Burtynsky
Harry Callahan
Dean Collins
V. Tony Hauser
Joel Meyerowitz
Fred Picker
Stephen Shore

and

Philip Trager.

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[Moopheus]

I'll give it a go: Weegee, Arbus, Frank, Anonymous, Atget, Jan Tschichold (okay, a designer, not a photographer, but almost certainly the single most significant influence of my whole visual sensibility--I'd have to count Paul Rand along those lines as well), Evans (but who is not?), Hines.

[Ari]

I'll give it a go: Weegee, Arbus, Frank, Anonymous, Atget, Jan Tschichold (okay, a designer, not a photographer, but almost certainly the single most significant influence of my whole visual sensibility--I'd have to count Paul Rand along those lines as well), Evans (but who is not?), Hines.

Who's Anonymous? Never heard of him.

[Taija71A]

Who's Anonymous? Never heard of him.

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Ari, if you got out 'More Often'... You Would Know!
(*Just joking of course!).
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[mike rosenlof]

in no particular order.

Edward Weston
Ansel Adams
Imogen Cunningham
HCB
Robert Frank
Walker Evans
William Egleston
Dave Rosenlof My dad. Not notable as a photographer, but a major source of my original interest.

only nine, enough for now. or add Bruce Davidson and Minor White.

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I posted this without reading the 13 pages before me, now that I have there are a whole bunch of "oh yeah, I forgot..."

[Jody_S]

I've been thinking about this for a couple of years... I grew up in a small, French-speaking town in rural Quebec. There was a library, but nothing on photography (except for a single volume on basic B&W darkroom technique). There were no art galleries. The newstands had the usual gearhead mags from the '70s, but nothing at all with images- with 2 exceptions: National Geographic, and the French (Paris) mag Photo. So I bought Photo, through the early '80s. My influences were:

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Robert Doisneau
Brassai
Helmut Newton
Annie Leibovitz
Robert Mapplethorpe
Weston (Brett)
David Hamilton (!)
Roswell Angier
Rene Magritte
Jeanloup Sieff
Bettina Rheims

There are a few others whose names escape me at the moment, specifically regarding war reporting and use of color (Guy Bourdin et al).

[Robert H]

Michael Kenna /
Gregory Colbert /
Eikoh Hosoe /
Aurelio Amendola /
Hiroshi Sugimoto /
Josef Sudek /
Eugene Atget /
Josef Koudelka

[Greg Y]

Vittorio Sella -
Bradford Washburn
Paul Strand
Edward Weston - for his elegant simplicity & purity of vision
Jay Dusard
Richard Avedon - above all for the 'In The American West'

[Kevin J. Kolosky]

I don't know that I admire photographers so much as I must admit that I am jealous of them for all of the places they got to go and the things and people they got to see and photograph. Would have loved to been able to ride around with Adams and Weston and Paul Strand on a few of their trips.

[alavergh]

Alan Curtis, thank you for mentioning Clyde Butcher! He's my favorite. I got tired of seeing all of the "old masters" of photography in my classes. Stieglitz, frank, etc. Bleh. I mean, good, but I got tired of it. There's something about they way they photographed people that's difficult to do today. People are much more aware of cameras and don't tend to be themselves.