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03/20/2005 03:04:22 PM · #1 |
outside of here of course. One of mine would have to a an aussie by the name of ken duncan
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he is possibly the greatest landscape photogprapher i have seen, looking forward to hearing
Lisa
Why does it say null on the hyperlink??
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03/20/2005 03:07:53 PM · #2 |
i remember being introduced to this guy through a similar thread awhile ago, by dsidwell:
Brian Kosoff
i wouldn't say THE favorite, but one of them.
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03/20/2005 03:08:05 PM · #3 |
| I'm a huge fan of Martin Parr... I love subtly humorous candids. |
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03/20/2005 03:13:19 PM · #4 |
| Mary Ellen Mark is Awesome she is my favorite. |
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03/20/2005 03:14:50 PM · #5 |
| Heida is AMAZING. i wish i could ask her how to dodge and burn like that. |
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03/20/2005 03:16:53 PM · #6 |
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03/20/2005 03:17:06 PM · #7 |
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03/20/2005 03:20:04 PM · #8 |
wow, i just looked and i think they are both great! Especially Gino
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03/20/2005 03:21:38 PM · #9 |
also very nice!
thanks for sharing
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03/20/2005 03:22:14 PM · #10 |
| Mine would be Herb Ritts, his fashion photography is just amazing! |
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03/20/2005 03:25:46 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by lentil:
Why does it say null on the hyperlink?? |
When you inserted the link, you posted the addy and then didnt give it a name. You can edit your first post and where it says null, just change that word to the guy's name.
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03/20/2005 03:26:19 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by lentil:
also very nice!
thanks for sharing |
You're welcome. :-)
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03/20/2005 03:26:51 PM · #13 |
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03/20/2005 03:51:03 PM · #14 |
| Ami Vitale I just discovered her a few days ago but she beats all photographers I seen so far. Warning! not recomended for all those looking for the shiny happy cute pictures. |
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03/20/2005 03:54:12 PM · #15 |
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03/20/2005 04:02:49 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Jacko:
Barbi |
LOL you crack me up!
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03/20/2005 04:21:15 PM · #17 |
Anton Corbjin
He's a magician. He can turn the worst OOF photograph into... oh well.. into a pure WOW. I just love his style. I think he's wonderful.
Gil Pasternak is also just wonderful. But I don't know how much of his work is currently available on line. He has many displays all over Europe though.
Of course, the fact that he's my cousin has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a big fan of his :-)
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03/20/2005 04:23:26 PM · #18 |
There are always the classics: Cartier-Bresson, Man-Ray, Stieglitz, Sarah Moon and so many more. Here is where I look for the big lessons. It is also easier to see which photographs have endured as art and which have become esoteric or historical documents. Some of this work inspires a nostalgia today, which, I am sure, it did not when it was first published.
Cartier-Bresson is of special interest to me because of his preoccupation with compositional geometry which corresponds very strongly with my own aesthetic sense.
The difference between the above and contemporary work, IMHO, is that we appear to have moved away from a linear hierarchy of known work. The old men and women of photography I mentioned represented the avant-garde of an age. No avant-garde exists today. The best contemporary opus is as eclectic as ever. There is such an enormous lateral expanse of vision, manner and styles, it makes my head spin.
When we talk about such things (as style, manner and vision) I can only think of an imagery with pronounced characteristics, but I can no longer clearly distinguish their various authors. The impetus preceding the making of a photograph today, I speculate, is fundamentally different from that which spawned much of early and mid-20th century work. We no longer move and look forward, we move wherever there is room, and if that room is a 1920's boudoir, so be it.
In my mind, most photography considered classic today, was and remains absolutely modern. We have, apparently, abandoned the obsession to make such photos. Our images look like titanium toasters: slick, sharp and out-of-this-world. Our photographs have become commodities designed to satisfy a public appetite for, well, toast and waffles.
Work which does not conform to such expectations, is often merely reactive, in that it insists of showing what it is not. But the hard, dry photography of an age -or so it looks from my perch here- is so unfortunately perceived today as a nostalgia that it is challenging indeed to evolve it.
This is why I cannot come up with favourite photographer.
PS: bear_music displays a quote in his form signature, which articulates what I mean by a hard and dry photographer better than I can:
"Not form rock, not object rock, but the light that IS the rock..." — Wynn Bullock
Message edited by author 2005-03-20 16:25:09.
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03/20/2005 04:26:47 PM · #19 |
Tony Ray-Jones
Died in 1972, aged just 31. He understood the craft, and he loved people, his subject. |
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03/20/2005 05:23:41 PM · #20 |
I have a lot of "classic" faves, such as Dorothea Lange, and some "modern" faves like Anne Geddes (you naysayers try to take a baby's picture sometime and see if you think it's that easy). But I think that my all-time fave of the moment is probaby going to be Sally Mann. I really love the moods and emotions captured in her family images. She's not gotten some of the best press because of her choice of subjects, but when it's all said and done, her work moves people. Some of my favorite shots of hers are found here, here, and here. Opinions may vary but I really enjoy her work.
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03/20/2005 07:10:19 PM · #21 |
| I'm a big fan of Noah Grey. |
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03/20/2005 07:17:05 PM · #22 |
mike kamber
he's also my neighbor ^__^
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03/20/2005 07:17:45 PM · #23 |
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03/20/2005 08:47:26 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by ButterflySis:
Originally posted by lentil:
also very nice!
thanks for sharing |
You're welcome. :-) |
Francis never did enter any challenges here tho :(
Tim Flach is one of my current favs. |
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03/20/2005 09:07:23 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by Jacko:
Barbi |
LMAOOOO :))
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