Photography Couples?

[ric_kb]

couples making photos, other than bernd hilla becher. Who are they?
is it that hard to share a camera or credit?

[Gem Singer]

Michael Smith and Paula Chamlee immediately come to mind.

[Robert Oliver]

my wife questions why I use a wooden camera every time I take it out to take a picture... does that count?

[Emil Schildt]

me and my girlfriend does it..

[Steven Barall]

Allan and Diane Arbus, sort of.

[Steven Barall]

Mike and Doug Starn (twin brothers).

[BradS]

Roger and Frances

[rdenney]

Peter Gowland's wife did most of the posing--they definitely worked as a team, if that's what you are getting at.

Rick "figuring that Rick and Karla Denney are not relevant" Denney

[J D Clark]

Two additional couples come to my mind:

Don Kirby and Joan Gentry - www.donkirbyphotography.com

J.B. and Susan Harlin - www.jbhphoto.com

Both of these couples have separate artistic identities, but I don't know whether they share equipment.

John Clark
www.johndclark.com

[Philippe Grunchec]

Helmut Newton and Alice Springs, Jeanloup Sieff and Barbara Rix...

[Bill_1856]

Philippe and Yvonne(?) Halsman
Edward and Tina

[alanps]

Wynn and Edna Bullock

[Philippe Grunchec]

Pierre & Gilles

[Mark Sawyer]

Jack Welpott and Judy Dater, once upon a time...

And Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, once upon a time in Mexico...

[Jan Pedersen]

Scully & Osterman

[William McEwen]

Dorothy Norman and Alfred Stieglitz.

[sidmac]

My wife and I. I have a 30 year old Wista; she has a new Chamonix. At least the lens boards are compatible

[Brian Ellis]

John Sexton and Anne Larsen

[William McEwen]

Years ago, an interesting (to me!) idea showed up in my brainbox.

My wife (at the time) Jenny was leaving to spend a month in our home state of Michigan. I was envious -- I had to stay home + make money. Had I gotten the opportunity, I would have taken lots of film and called on many old friends all over the state. I would have made a portrait of each of them.

I got to thinking -- what if I gave Jenny my Rolleiflex, a little instruction, and a list of portrait subjects, and just had HER do it? Tell her do whateve she wishes, but try to take photos that would please me.

Jenny wasn't a photographer, but she had accompanied me on many shoots and she also kept me company now and then in the darkroom. What had she picked up during all that time?

It would have been an interesting experiment, and I would have loved to see what my wife + friends would have come up with in my honor.

(I REALLY would have liked to get her a nice little 5x7 view camera instead of a Rolleiflex, but let's not push it!)

[ric_kb]

Years ago, an interesting (to me!) idea showed up in my brainbox.

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I got to thinking -- what if I gave Jenny my Rolleiflex, a little instruction, and a list of portrait subjects, and just had HER do it? Tell her do whateve she wishes, but try to take photos that would please me.

Jenny wasn't a photographer, .....


Interesting. circa '75 at syracuse university (EXS) I gave students a similar assignment. They had to have a non photographer do their photo assignment (one of the previous 5 ) this was a first semester class.

In later semester classes I assigned the class the task of passing around a roll of "unknown" (bulk loaded) film to use to take a picture. Obviously they had to figure out the rewind, coordination , etc matters...
One group became quite good at it and a few of the people kept the process up in their personal work for a while...

richard ...

[William McEwen]

Interesting. circa '75 at syracuse university (EXS) I gave students a similar assignment. They had to have a non photographer do their photo assignment (one of the previous 5 ) this was a first semester class.

In later semester classes I assigned the class the task of passing around a roll of "unknown" (bulk loaded) film to use to take a picture. Obviously they had to figure out the rewind, coordination , etc matters...
One group became quite good at it and a few of the people kept the process up in their personal work for a while...

richard ...

Ric, it sure sounds like you were one heck of a teacher! I never received an assignment like that -- it must have been interesting.

[Vaughn]

Geir and Kate Jordahl, both incredible photographers/educators

http://www.jordahlphoto.com/

They started PhotoCentral in Hayward, CA -- a public darkroom with classes and workshops. http://www.photocentral.org/aboutus.html

[Mark Sawyer]

Edward Weston and Sonya Noskowiak.

Eddie got around...

[John Jarosz]

Harry Callahan and his wife, Eleanor Knapp

[William McEwen]

Edward Weston and Sonya Noskowiak.

Eddie got around...

Charis said Sonia was her favorite of Eddie's old flames.

[Bill_1856]

Edward and Margerette Mather

[Struan Gray]

Grace Robertson and Thurston Hopkins

[Brian Ellis]

Harry Callahan and his wife, Eleanor Knapp

I assumed that when the OP said "couples making photographs" he meant two photographers. Eleanor was a subject of course but I don't think she was ever a photographer. But they certainly were a couple and he certainly made a lot of photographs of her.

[jnantz]

man ray and lee miller

[Peter De Smidt]

John Shimon and Julie Lindemann. Their website is: ttp://www.shimonlindemann.com/

[John Ossi]

Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo

[cowanw]

Andre Ketesz and Rosa Andres
Capa and Tara
Regards
Bill

[Robbie Shymanski]

Russ & Eve Meyer (or any of his other lovely ladies)

[andy]

len jenshel and diane cook

color and black and white, respectively.


http://www.cookjenshel.com/

[Jim collum]

couples making photos, other than bernd hilla becher. Who are they?
is it that hard to share a camera or credit?

I think what's unique about this couple is that their work is produced under both of their names...

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison produces in this fashion

[Lachlan 717]

Fred and Rosemary West...

[Frank Petronio]

I've had a few photographer girlfriends but for some reason they all have been... difficult. Or bat-shit crazy. LOL it must go with the territory, right?

Are there any "popular" people who have a male partner who is "less famous" than the female?

I see the opposite situation quite often, even when the female is the more interesting photographer. I don't usually delve into feminist "I'm a victim" griping but it is so obvious in these examples.

[Mark Sawyer]

ummmm...

Do Susan Sontag and Annie Leibovitz count?

[keith schreiber]

Manuel & Lola Alvarez-Bravo

[Brian Ellis]

. . . Are there any "popular" people who have a male partner who is "less famous" than the female? . . .

Steven already mentioned Diane Arbus and her husband Allen. Allen was a photographer and certainly a lot less famous than Diane. They worked closely together doing commercial work before she became famous. He was more the drone, she was the creative one.

[William McEwen]

Steven already mentioned Diane Arbus and her husband Allen. Allen was a photographer and certainly a lot less famous than Diane. They worked closely together doing commercial work before she became famous. He was more the drone, she was the creative one.

Allen gave up photography and moved to LA to become an actor. He did well; you'll remember him as the shrink Sidney on the M*A*S*H television series.

The two operated a successful commercial studio. He was really the brains of the outfit and the main photographer.

When they split up, he typed up all his photo formulas and put them in a binder for her to refer to. And she frequently wrote to him for help with photography advice.

Yes, she's the one who became a legendary photographer, but her foundation of photographic experience and knowledge came from him.

[Philippe Grunchec]

Martine Franck and HCB, of course!

[Merg Ross]

Wynn and Edna Bullock

This is true, although Edna did not start photographing until after Wynn died. She was in her early sixties when she started her photographic career.

Another couple photographing at the same time; Pirkle Jones and his wife, Ruth Marion Baruch. Also, Dody Weston Thompson when she was married to Brett Weston.

[WalterE54]

Frank,

I've so been there, brother!

[Tracy Storer]

Elaine O'Neil and Allen Hess

[erie patsellis]

Stieglitz and O'Keefe, though across different media...