What photographers do you like ??

Daryl said:
Bob Carlos-Clarke
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And in the same vein Helmut Newton, who was the pioneer of what I have heard called sexual fashion.
 
Musicman said:
I could probably go with most of the names on that list. Walker Evans and William Eggleston have had particular impacts on the way I take photographs; I should say in the way I observe the world and make photographs of those observations.

There is a line of continuity between the two that passes via Robert Frank. Without Walker Evans' American Photographs we wouldn't have Frank's The Americans, which directly inspired Eggleston's early work.

What ties them all together (along with other photographers like Stephen Shore and many other names on Ed's list) in their relation to what I do, is their concern with finding ways of photographing the ordinary and everyday. It is perhaps an antidote to obsessions with technique, glamorous subjects and locations and finding the 'perfect light'.

In a similar vein, I make no secret of my admiration of Eugène Atget - I put a thread up a while back exploring one aspect of my response to his work.

https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/urban-trees.639282/

Edit: It must be said that Walker Evans became obsessed with Atget's views of Paris in 1929, and drew upon Atget's work when developing his own photography through the 1930s, so the line I described can be further extended backward.
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I think what many of these photographers have in common, is soemthing we could all do, a curated body of work, I'm currently pulling together images from 30 years of working in music magazines. These are images I liked at the time, not ones that ended up in a magazine. As a test I compiled around 24 of them into a glossy photobook, a small thing A5 hrizonatl, cost me €30. Now when I go to gigs I can show the bands what i do and they appreciate it's a bit more stylised than what you'd see by scrolling images on a smart phone, Curate your work , apprecaite it as a consistent body of work.
 
More so him than his work (which is good) but Sean Tucker. Fantastic human
 
Damien Lovegrove is amazing, that's true.
 
Why emulate what others have done? surely it is better to develope your own style and be unique. I alway refer back to the famous painters of the past or even Banksie in the present day. Those that copy are never heard of .
 
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wow a blast from the past, FWIW David Bailey for me as he influenced my first camera buy, the good old ME Super
 
For portrait photography Snowdon is my number one, anyone who can make Princess Anne look attractive has got to be good.:). For reportage type portrait photography Jane Bown stands head and shoulders above the rest. She did have the advantage of access to one of the best printers in the country at the time, but she produced images that appeared to be looking into the subject soul.
 
realspeed said:
Why emulate what others have done? surely it is better to develope your own style and be unique. I alway refer back to the famous painters of the past or even Banksie in the present day. Those that copy are never heard of .
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For me emulating others was never the aim, it was learning from their undoubted talent.
 
Tipptoggy said:
I think what many of these photographers have in common, is soemthing we could all do, a curated body of work, I'm currently pulling together images from 30 years of working in music magazines. These are images I liked at the time, not ones that ended up in a magazine. As a test I compiled around 24 of them into a glossy photobook, a small thing A5 hrizonatl, cost me €30. Now when I go to gigs I can show the bands what i do and they appreciate it's a bit more stylised than what you'd see by scrolling images on a smart phone, Curate your work , apprecaite it as a consistent body of work.
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Holy thread revival
Would it have made more sense to just start a new one?
 
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