Howard Bond
Ray McSavaney
Bruce Barnbaum
John Sexton
They all helped me develop my approach rather than just showing me pictures
Howard Bond
Ray McSavaney
Bruce Barnbaum
John Sexton
They all helped me develop my approach rather than just showing me pictures
Sorry to bring a necro-thread back to life... But here are some of mine:
Arthur Tress
Oliver Gagliani
Mark Kauffman
Richard Misrach
Paul Strand
Margaret Bourke- White
Charles Sheeler
Frantisek Drtikol
George Hurrell
Yousuf Karsh
Bob Carlos Clarke
1. Dawoud Bey
2. Gordon Parks
3. Robert Frank
4. Stephen Shore
5. W. Eugene Smith
6. Alec Soth
7. Alex Webb
8. Garry Winogrand
9. Walker Evans
10. Diane Arbus
Interesting for me to note that had I done this exercise when this thread started, different names would have been there, such as Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston, Robert Capa and Josef Koudelka.
In no particular order:
Ralph Barker
Ansel Adams
John Sexton
Merg Ross
André Kertész
Roman Loranc
Eugène Atget
Bradford Washburn
Jim Galli
and many, many more!
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
Wright Morris
Eugene Atget
Walker Evans
Ansel Adams
Edward Weston
David Plowden
Austin Granger
Berenice Abbot
Dorothea Lange
Imogen Cunningham
I have lived so long I can't reduce my list to 10, but I did the best I could.
Those who I know, or knew:
Al Weber
Ray McSavaney
Cole Weston
Ansel Adams
Imogen Cunningham
Morley Baer
Suda House
Pirkle Jones
Those I wish I had known:
Clarence White
Paul Strand
William Mortensen
Brett Weston, Edward Weston, Michael Smith, Ansel Adams, Tom Daniel, Sally Mann, Michael Miley, Catherine Leroy, W. Eugene Smith, Walker Evans. I would certainly add Wynn Bullock, and a few more with more space.
Edward Weston
Ansel Adams
Man Ray
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Roberto Rosselini
Lionel Rogosin
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Rodin
Dostoevsky
Nietzsche
Van Gogh
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In no particular order .......
Edward Weston
Wynn Bullock
Paul Strand
Irving Penn
Alfred Stieglitz
Ansel Adams (for exposure & development control)
Weegee
Imogen Cunningham
Emmet Gowin
Mark Cohen (my Professor for Photography 101 in college)
Harry Callahan
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