Favorite Floral/still life photographers

[elohim]

Thanks a lot !!

[D. Bryant]

Cy DeCosse.

Don Bryant

[Richard Wasserman]

I would like to suggest a relatively unknown photographer, Chatles Jones who was born in England in 1866 and lived until 1959. He was a professional gardener and photographed the fruits of his labor as it were. He used glass plates and made very simple, but eloquent photos, really some of the most powerful work in this genre that I have seen.. His work was discovered a few years ago by collector Sean Sexton who was at the Bermondsey antique market in London, and while admiring a trunk opened it to find it full of glass plate negatives. Imagine his surprise! There is not a lot on the web about him, but if you Google "Charles Jones photographer" there are a few sites with some examples. There is a book published in 1998 called "Plant Kingdoms, The Photographs of Charles Jones" with a preface by Alice Waters that is well worth searching for.

[panchro-press]

I'd suggest taking a look at some of the work of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti.

[Dick Hilker]

I'd like to share a few of my own here: http://www.photo.net/photodb/present...tion_id=288186

[Hugo Zhang]

http://tritranphotography.com/stilllife/
http://www.dfoschisite.com/html/~leaves.htm

[Mark Sawyer]

Marie Cosindas did some very lovely floral still-lifes...

[Philippe Grunchec]

Gail LeBoff in NYC (using artificial flowers).

[katie cooke]

Karl Blossfeldt for plants and flowers, hands down.

[Brian Ellis]

Among living photographers Ray McSavaney is THE MAN when it comes to floral photography. Unfortunately as Ken says, you have to see his floral photographs in person, he hasn't published them anywhere that I know of. I saw them when I attended the Southwest workshop that he and John Sexton have been putting on for years.

Anyone seriously interested in floral photography should buy the book "Floral Photographica - Masterpieces of Flower Photography from 1835 to the Present" by William A. Ewing and published by Thames & Hudson (ISBN 0-500-28348-6). Wonderful writing and commentary and a real revelation of how much more there is to floral photography than just making a nicely lit photograph of a flower. Quite a few by Karl Blossfeldt Katie and you're right, he did some incredible work.