100 Most Influential Photogs of all Time

[sanchi heuser]

The stupidity of this poll is intended!
It's just a cheap PR trick to create attention.

Who would talk about a list that is halfway true ?

[pdmoylan]

How many photographers have had millions of acres of land set aside as national parks, theoretically preserved in perpetuity, both in their name and as a result of their commitment to use their images to influence a nation? This is a remarkable achievement whether or not you consider his work "fodder for the unsophisticated". If by sophisticated one means selling your images to a hedge fund manager for $1MN to be held in a private gallery and or sold at auction at Sotheby's, I dare say the range of "influence" is inconseqential. Perhaps Mr Jones would like to include Peter Lik to this list with his sale of "One" for a cold $1MN (purportedly).

I suspect Leni Reifenstahl had tremendous influence as part of the propaganda machine of the Third Reich, but I have no way of quantifying that influence.

McCurry gets my nod as a living photograher having the most influence on readership of National Geographic. His name is not well known, but some of his images from Afghanistan and India to this day continue to be recognized around the world.

[K. Praslowicz]

6. Henri Cartier-Bresson French 1908-2004
The creator of ‘The decisive moment’. He never cropped his images and only shot in black & white.

Yup. Never. http://www.galerielux.com/?p=429

[Kirk Gittings]

I started a thread ofr your own personal list. http://www.largeformatphotography.in...737#post817737

[willwilson]

The best part about these types of threads is discovering amazing new photographers! I won't add any names here, but I do have a list on my website that has been going since 2002, willwilson.com/thelist.html. I haven't updated it in a while, but there are definitely some interesting photogs on the list, links too.

Original Photo.net thread: http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetc...&msg_id=003mcr
Original LF thread: http://www.largeformatphotography.in...-Photographers

Great idea Kirk!

[Ari]

After a cursory look at the 100 on the list, I agree that Avedon deserved at least top-3 mention.
Nick Knight would be number one on a "Born-After-1955" list.
I would have also put Leni Riefenstahl closer to the top; her work in the 1936 Olympics was monumentally influential.
She's more remembered for the Nuremburg rally, but the Olympics work was amazing.
I'll leave it to others to decide if she was some kind of monster or innocent bystander.