Your 10 Most Influential Photographers

[SW Rick]

Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art, will be speaking in Phoenix next Wednesday night (Feb. 22nd), on "The Ten Most Exciting Photographers I Learned About the Last Year".

Phoenix Art Museum, 7pm Wednesday, Feb 22. Free admission/voluntary donation every Wednesday, 3-9pm

[seabee1999]

In no particular order:
Ansel Adams
John Sexton
Edward Weston
Galen Rowell
David and Cissy Spindler - University Instructors
Greg Cook - Close, personal friend
John Shaw
Michael Keena
Steve McCurry
Dewitt Jones


David

[paulr]

Not in order

Stieglitz
Strand
Weston
Walker Evans
Robert Adams
Timothy O'Sullivan
Atget
Friedlander
Steven Shore
Kertesz
Eggleston

I'm annoyed that the youngest blood on my list had its heyday in the '70s ... confirms that I need to get out more.

I'm going to come back and pick through some of your lists that have younger photographers, including unfamiliar ones (mortensen's list, edtog's David R. Munson's...)

[Acheron Photography]

Following the thread on 100 Most Influential photographers, here's a chance to start your own list.

Hmmm, 'influential' is an interesting word. Someone who inspires you to make images not at all like them; someone whose images inspire intense dislike: they can be influential. But I don't want to be mean, so here are my ten influential-because-I-liked-them in no particular order

William Eggleston
Andreas Gursky
Elger Esser
Jeff Wall
Thomas Ruff
Bernt and Hilla Becher
Philip-Lorcia diCorcia
Joel Sternfeld
Rut Blees Luxemburg
Rineke Dijkstra

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Steve Shore, Lewis Baltz and Ed Burtynsky nearly made it too.

Interesting thread this, thank you.

David.

[SamReeves]

• Edward Weston
• Ansel Adams
• AJ Russell
• Timothy O' Sullivan
• Richard Steinheimer
• O Winston Link
• Dorthea Lange
• Helmut Newton
• Joe Rosenthal
• David Plowden

[Vaughn]

My most influenital photographers have been mentors, teachers and fellow photographers, so most of my list would not be known to most people.

[John Conway]

Bill Brandt
Ralph Gibson
Sally Mann
Robert Demachy
Yousuf Karsh
Julia Margaret Cameron
Ansel Adams
Clarence Sinclair Bull
Herbert Bayer
Clarence H. White

[lenser]

Adams
Steiglitz
Hurrell
Julia Margaret Cameron
Tim O'sullivan
William Henry Jackson
Edward Sherrif Curtis
Steichen
Arnold Newman
Karsh

[Oren Grad]

David Vestal

William Clift
Carl Weese

that's all

[zoneVIII]

Ansel Adams
John Sexton
Brett Weston
Howard Bond
Chip Forelli
Alan Ross
Henry Gilpin
Stu Levy
Bruce Barnbaum
Salgado