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    Your favorite photographers and genres?

    For me Ansel, because I saw and handled so many of his original prints, was always an influence. But I love Joel Myerowitz and Micheal Kenna and Dorothea Lange. But lately Selgado is interesting, kind of just discovered him. What I never realized about Kenna is he prints only 7 1/2" prints, that's it. You think Joel is simply a street photographer until you see his 9/11 work or Cape Cod work. I'm looking for the next undiscovered BW landscape photographer however. What I have NEVER gotten is the conceptual stuff, I must be totally clueless or an imbecile. Like below, Julian Oh "The Hunt for Blue September #1" Gotta think on this one. I don't like to think that much I guess.


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    Re: Your favorite photographers and genres?

    Agree with you on AA... other favorites are Walker Evans work with the FSA and John Sexton. I have to admit that maybe I am a "shallow thinker" too 'cause "The Hunt for Blue September #1" totally eludes me!
    Joel

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    Re: Your favorite photographers and genres?

    I like fine art, architecture, and landscape photography. I like many photographers. But, two that really stand out are A. A. and Ezra Stoller.

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    Re: Your favorite photographers and genres?

    I would say my favorite is Brassai, and also O. Wintson Link. Both were pioneers. I love night photography and they inspire me!


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    Re: Your favorite photographers and genres?

    Man ray, Atget and the Starn Twins because i really enjoy their images.

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    Re: Your favorite photographers and genres?

    Thank you, I really like Stoller, never heard of him and Link's images are cool. I also always liked Elliot Erwit and Lee Friedlander (esp Friedlander). I've tried some street photography, it didn't go so well.

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    Re: Your favorite photographers and genres?

    Just to name a few...from contemporary LF photographers I like pretty much anyone from the Dusseldorf School; Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer and Axel Hutte. Similarly, there’s Toshio Shibata, Edward Burtynksy, and George Tice, and in a more meditative vein, Hiroshi Sugimoto. Also a big fan of Joel Sternfeld, Joel Meyerowitz, Frank Gholke, Richard Misrach, Steven Shore and Bill Owens. From photographers who blur the divisions between photography and other artistic realms, I like Thomas Demand, Greg Crewdson, John Divola, and Susan Fenton. And of course many many others from earlier eras, and smaller formats.

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    Mary Ellen Mark does it for me. Also Friedlander, Winogrand, Arbus, Robert Frank and Disfarmer just to name a few.

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    Wow Hal, that's a lot of photographers! I forgot about George Tice. I love his work.

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    Re: Your favorite photographers and genres?

    William Mortensen and Sally Mann

    Both weirdos that do things a bit different

    Educators that share their love of photography outside mainstream banality
    Tin Can

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