contemporary portrait photographers who use cameras 5x7 and larger

[jnantz]

can anyone suggest photographers in the last 10 years
who use 5x7 and larger cameras to shoot formal portraits?

i don't mean location-work, but more like in-studio.

thanks
john

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

In France I know the work of Mélanie Gribinski
http://www.melaniegribinski.com/
She has been working with a vintage 18x24cm Lorillon camera for years.

[David Louis]

Rineke Dijkstra, Thomas Ruff.

[Walter Calahan]

My studio is the world.

[Gordon Moat]

Richard Avedon, who passed away recently, often used 8x10, though not always in a studio. Craig McDean I think has shoot some 8x10 for fashion, all studio, though also uses 4x5, and sometimes an RZ67. I don't really know if they would qualify as formal, depending upon how you define that. I tend to be more impressed by unexpected results, rather than very formal or rules following photographers.

There are also a few alt process photographers lately, such as Chuck Close working with Jerry Spagnolli. Probably a lesser known photographer would be Robert Benson (http://altpick.com/members.php?id=18079) doing wet plate collodion.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat
A G Studio (http://www.allgstudio.com)

[Ralph Barker]

Me, but I'm not very "contemporary", and you were probably thinking of someone notable. ;)

[Frank Petronio]

http://www.paoloroversi.com/

http://www.greenfield-sanders.com/

[Oren Grad]

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (http://www.greenfield-sanders.com/)

[tim atherton]

Thomas Struth

Alec Soth (section of portraits on his site and also a 20+? page section in the current W magagazine - all 8x10 I think)

[Scott Davis]

I do, but again, I'm not known much outside of this online community and APUG - I've got a bunch of my 5x7 work posted up over there.

[Struan Gray]

Albert Watson sometimes uses an 11x14 TLR.

[Monty McCutchen]

Tracy Storer runs the 20 x 24 Polaroid out west and is a wonderul portrait photographer. Incredibly generous with his time as well. I shoot portratiture with a 20 x 24 but alas so far all I get are moans from my 4 year old and 7 year old for 'having to sit so still for the big camera'. Damn their insolent lack of knowledge of my greatness!

Of lesser known fame there is a portrait photographer in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area that shoots large Wisners (maybe up to 16 x 20 my memory is a little fuzzy the actual sizes he shoots) by the name of William McEwen whose work is very nice.

Our own Kerik has a beautiful section of portraiture that shouldn't be missed on his web site in both Pt/Pd Gumovers and Wet Plate. www.Kerik.com

Thats a start. I'm looking forward to reading this thread and looking up all the suggestions as well. Thanks for posting it John.

By the way have loved the recent work you've put up.

Monty

[Jeremy Moore]

I've been known to dabble in up to 11x14 :)

[BradS]

What about the lady in NYC doing 20X24 polaroids?

[Ken Lee]

I make portraits in 5x7 - and I'm not only contemporary, I'm... contemporaneous.

[Oren Grad]

What about the lady in NYC doing 20X24 polaroids?

Boston - it's Elsa Dorfman (http://elsa.photo.net/).

[jnantz]

thank you all for the links and "shout-outs" so far ... !
worldly famous or "local" this is gonna be fun checking out the websites et.C



john

ps. thanks monty!
i'm too poor to shoot 11x14 film, and
too worried my house would go b-o-o-m! if i used collodion,
i stick to paper negatives ( for now at least ) ;)

[Oren Grad]

worldly famous or "local" this is gonna be fun checking out the websites et.C

John, Elsa Dorfman's site is a blast. Especially if you've ever ridden the MBTA. ;)

[Struan Gray]

www.dawid.nu - 8x10

[Steven Barall]

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

[Gary Miller]

www.phillipstewartcharis.com 5x7

[Hugo Zhang]

Mary Ellen Mark, Jocke Sturges, Jim Galli, Patrick Alt, Domenico Foschi, William linne and Tri Tran.

[BradS]

www.dawid.nu - 8x10


Wow! is that web site ever annoying! It uncerimoniously resizes my browser window....sheesh, talk about brash.

[Chris Strobel]

Wow! is that web site ever annoying! It uncerimoniously resizes my browser window....sheesh, talk about brash.

Yeah but boy those images of dots make it worth it :D

[Scott Davis]

Eric Taubman is another one.

[Bill_1856]

Karsh.

[Monty McCutchen]

Eric Taubman's wet plate work is outstanding!

Monty

[Struan Gray]

Wow! is that web site ever annoying! It uncerimoniously resizes my browser window....sheesh, talk about brash.

More grist to the mill: www.brucemacneil.com (8x10 also).

[BradS]

More grist to the mill: www.brucemacneil.com (8x10 also).


Well that one resizes and uses flash (two strikes) but....

WOW! I really like the work. Very inspiring.


The work is so good, I can forgive the obnoxious web behaviour.

Thanks for the link.

[BradS]

Oh, and....thank heavens for high speed internet! That site is slow at work...can't imagine what it'd be like trying to view it at home. :(

[JW Dewdney]

Yeah but boy those images of dots make it worth it :D

I thought the work was excellent. Very praise-worthy.

[Greg Miller]

http://www.gregmiller.com/

((note: the name is just a co-incidence. I believe he primarily uses 8x10).

[Kirk Keyes]

Check out Ray Bidegain http://www.raybidegain.com/

Look in the Nudes and Portrait sections. He uses 5x7 and 8x10 for his pt/pd prints.

[jnantz]

thanks for keeping those links coming!
i've gotten a chance to look through some of them
- dots, photograms, portraits, color, black and white ...

great stuff to feast on!

john

[jedrek]

Sally Mann (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=sally+mann&spell=1) shoots 8x10