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Okay I'll put this one out there, what is your favourite image taken by another photographer? The photographer doesn't have to be world famous and neither does the image. My favourite is a close battle between:

http://stevemccurry.com/galleries/portraits
(First image) Steve Mccurry, Mumbai


http://james.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Last-of-the-Sea-Nomads/G0000ElUZXeibDLU/I0000lP5pWXbApDo
James Morgan, Indonesia

Two completely different images I know but the colours in the Steve Mccurry image make that portrait very special for me and then interaction between nature and humans in the James Morgan image really ticks the box for me. :thumbs:
 
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While I personally don't see the harm in posting images for education and discussion if they credit the author if it's not for your own personal gain, and giving them publicity..... you'll find most on here will jump on you for posting images that are not yours.... just because it's a rule.

You'll be told to remove them in a minute.... and asked to put a link up instead.
 
Pookeyhead said:
While I personally don't see the harm in posting images for education and discussion if they credit the author if it's not for your own personal gain, and giving them publicity..... you'll find most on here will jump on you for posting images that are not yours.... just because it's a rule.

You'll be told to remove them in a minute.... and asked to put a link up instead.
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Fair enough, ill happily link to the images if mods need that, thought the credit would sort that...anyway whilst I grab links anybody have any favourite shots?
 
No way could I link to one image, or even a few... there;s just too many.

Artists I admire is a massive list too, but here's a few.

Giocomo Brunelli
http://www.giacomobrunelli.com/

Ruven Afanador
http://www.ruvenafanador.com/
Let the flash intro play... then click on fashion... his commercial and editorial is not a patch on his fashion work.

David LaChapelle
http://www.davidlachapelle.com/

Duane Michals
http://duanemichals.tumblr.com/

Seba Kurtis
http://www.sebakurtis.com/

Joel Meyerowitz
http://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/

Nadav Kander
http://www.nadavkander.com/

Julian Germain
http://www.juliangermain.com/

Anders Petersen
http://www.anderspetersen.se/petersen/

J. H. Engström
http://www.jhengstrom.com/

That'll do for now.. seriously I could keep this up all night.. I'll drip feed :)
 
Pookeyhead said:
No way could I link to one image, or even a few... there;s just too many.

Artists I admire is a massive list too, but here's a few.

Giocomo Brunelli
http://www.giacomobrunelli.com/

Ruven Afanador
http://www.ruvenafanador.com/
Let the flash intro play... then click on fashion... his commercial and editorial is not a patch on his fashion work.

David LaChapelle
http://www.davidlachapelle.com/

Duane Michals
http://duanemichals.tumblr.com/

Seba Kurtis
http://www.sebakurtis.com/

Joel Meyerowitz
http://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/

Nadav Kander
http://www.nadavkander.com/

Julian Germain
http://www.juliangermain.com/

Anders Petersen
http://www.anderspetersen.se/petersen/

J. H. Engström
http://www.jhengstrom.com/

That'll do for now.. seriously I could keep this up all night.. I'll drip feed :)
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Great list there David! You must have one or two images that stand out to you.They don't have to be the best, it could even be one of the first images that ignited your passion for photography...
 
So many to chose from as has been said, and across so many genres.

I suppose one of the first pictures I can remember that had an impact on me was this one of a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire in protest during the Vietnam war whilst passers-by looked on.

NSFW

http://www.vietnampix.com/fire1.htm
 
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Bill Anders' "earthrise" shot taken during Apollo 8.

The "pale blue dot" image of earth in a sunbeam taken by Voyager 1.

Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
 
So many great pictures I've looked at over the years, but only recently did I realise that the Sunday Times Magazine inspired me when I was a teenager. Maybe even before I picked up a camera. certainly before I began looking at photography.

These two photos lodged in my visual memory at the time and stayed there without me knowing who took them until a few years later.

Eugene Smith:
http://weinstein-gallery.com/press/smith_minimata.jpg

Bill Brandt:
http://graememitchell.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/brandt_bacon.jpg

Later I came to love André Kértesz's photos:
http://fansinaflashbulb.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/kertesz_andre_915_1986.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1o3595bTo1qhqfw3o1_1280.jpg

More recently Martin Parr:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/images/parr.jpg

Keith Arnatt:
http://seenandbeen.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/keitg-arnatt.jpg?w=480&h=475

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxnf8ecOhk1qaey9eo1_1280.jpg

And recently Niall McDairmid:
http://www.crossing-paths.co.uk/

Among many, many others.
 
One photographer who's work I love is:

Gary Randall

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rowdey/7555244052/

A genuine nice guy who I regularly converse with..

Others there are a lot of photographers that I admire and activly follow including a few from this very forum, a lot of what I follow tends to be within my own area of interest so night photography mainly :thumbs:
 
Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry. Almost 30 years on and it's still captivating.
 
ZoneV said:
So many to chose from as has been said, and across so many genres.

I suppose one of the first pictures I can remember that had an impact on me was this one of a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire in protest during the Vietnam war whilst passers-by looked on.

NSFW

http://www.vietnampix.com/fire1.htm
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yes... that had a huge impact on me when I first saw it too.

Also the one of that naked Vietnamese girl running away after having clothes burned off by napalm.

Bearing in mind another thread...that would probably result in the photographer being branded a P**** in 2013 by those FB morons.
 
Steve said:
yes... that had a huge impact on me when I first saw it too.

Also the one of that naked Vietnamese girl running away after having clothes burned off by napalm.

Bearing in mind another thread...that would probably result in the photographer being branded a P**** in 2013 by those FB morons.
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The Nick Ut napalm girl is a very very powerful image
 
jacob12_1993 said:
A very powerful image and probably one of the most recognisable portraits in documentary photography history but I genuinely believe he has much better portraits in his portfolio
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Very probably (on all counts!) However, I'm not that familiar with his other work and that one is the only photo that really sticks in my mind even after all the years have passed since I first saw it (on the cover of the NG) apart from the equally memorable (albeit for different reasons!) Tennis Girl by Martin Elliott which I may have had on my wall 35 years ago!
 
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This image is right up my street, the image has so many stories and subplots that I could stare at it for hours :thumbs:
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It's often ignored. You don't have to be involved in that culture to see how much of an impact that photo has, glad you like
 
There are many haunting images for me but the one which is totally heart breaking was taken many years ago in Africa - an emaciated starving child near death, digging in the dried up soil trying to find anything at all to eat, with a vulture just behind her, sitting on the ground and waiting....

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/vulture-stalking-a-child/

"In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan, where he took now iconic photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated Sudanese toddler near the village of Ayod. Carter said he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn’t. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. (The parents of the girl were busy taking food from the same UN plane Carter took to Ayod).

The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993 as ‘metaphor for Africa’s despair’. Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run an unusual special editor’s note saying the girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate was unknown. Journalists in the Sudan were told not to touch the famine victims, because of the risk of transmitting disease, but Carter came under criticism for not helping the girl. ”The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene,” read one editorial.

Carter eventually won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo, but he couldn’t enjoy it. “I’m really, really sorry I didn’t pick the child up,” he confided in a friend. Consumed with the violence he’d witnessed, and haunted by the questions as to the little girl’s fate, he committed suicide three months later."
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petersmart said:
There are many haunting images for me but the one which is totally heart breaking was taken many years ago in Africa - an emaciated starving child near death, digging in the dried up soil trying to find anything at all to eat, with a vulture just behind her, sitting on the ground and waiting....

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/vulture-stalking-a-child/

"In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan, where he took now iconic photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated Sudanese toddler near the village of Ayod. Carter said he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn’t. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. (The parents of the girl were busy taking food from the same UN plane Carter took to Ayod).

The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993 as ‘metaphor for Africa’s despair’. Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run an unusual special editor’s note saying the girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate was unknown. Journalists in the Sudan were told not to touch the famine victims, because of the risk of transmitting disease, but Carter came under criticism for not helping the girl. ”The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene,” read one editorial.

Carter eventually won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo, but he couldn’t enjoy it. “I’m really, really sorry I didn’t pick the child up,” he confided in a friend. Consumed with the violence he’d witnessed, and haunted by the questions as to the little girl’s fate, he committed suicide three months later."
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I recommend you watch the film The Bang Bang Club, if you haven't already, its a film about Carter and his fellow S African photographers during Apartheid

Lights out said:
Sorry to keep the depressing tone but this is the only photo that has ever made me cry

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...p99UfixH4OL0AXF7oCQCA&ved=0CDUQ9QEwAA&dur=277
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Very powerful image, again this is another photo that has so many sub-stories running through it. Definitely not an easy image to look at though
 
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