What Photographer(s) inspire you

[Merg Ross]

My friend, and mentor, Brett Weston.

Merg Ross

http://mergross.com/

[semeuse]

J. Borodina link
Chris Marker
Eugene Atget
Roger Fenton

[IloveTLRs]

No one who's still alive

[Kiron Kid]

My friend, and mentor, Brett Weston.

Merg Ross

http://mergross.com/

I spent an evening with Brett, in southern California. We drank Guinness, talked photography and looked at his new prints. Quite an enjoyable evening.

Kiron Kid

[sun of sand]

I like minor white, sexton and I like ray K metzker and steve szabo, porter, ketchum
who can't like ansel?
a guy on pbase I found arnoldas jurgaitis, doug mcfarland for his work locally ..nice to see photos you've taken with the same compositions as someone else whose photos you like lol
george fiske
seen here http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/th....html#page_vii
and scattered throughout here on this great site for classic photographshttp://www.carlmautz.com/index.php?m...ort=20a&page=1 are many of those as well as others by him yet reproduced nicely
really looks to have been a true master ..especially with snow.
Isaiah Tabor ..Just found this guy on the same site.
callahan
Been looking at this modern aerial guy http://www.subhankarbanerjee.org/pho...ncaribou2.html

[IOS]

Ansel Easton Adams

[Uhner]

Just to name a few:

Sally Mann
Christer Strömholm
Edward Weston
Robert Mapplethorpe
Ralph Gibson
Helmut Newton
Clemens Kalischer
Jiri Havran

And, of course, several on this site

[William Biderbost]

The Institute of Design group (1950-1980) Callahan, Siskind, Siegel, and my true inspiration and teacher, Art Sinsabaugh. After these I would have to
say Meatyard, Penn, and Arnold Newman. I note with interest and surprise an earlier entry by Helen B for Raymond Moore. I discovered his work 15 years
ago in London and along with it, his incredible and sensitive eye for landscape and quality black & white prints. Very nice to find such an obscure name
on the list.

[bruce terry]

In my late-fifty college days I took nothing seriously excepting certain regularly-appearing photographs in Newsweek magazine. Back then it was a big, fat wonderful weekly full of creative stuff, not the digitally-compromised, toilet-wipe-sized rag of today. It was also far more interesting than staid-ish Time.

The photographer was a young, talented guy from Lithuania name of Vitas Valaitis. His stuff was always a bit different and always – dramatically – on the money. His pictures won prize after prize through several publications over just a few short years, and I said to myself I said, 'This is the niche for me – floating like a butterfly through the business world without being part of it'.

By graduation my sensible side had me back in-hand: 'Vitas has done it all, it doesn't get any better. Forget it kid, get a real job'. And I did.

He was killed in a tragic 1965 accident at the ripe young age of 34, but he remains to this day my sentimental, all-time-favorite inspiration in the world of still photography.

I often wonder – had he lived – how he would have eventually fit-in with his peers, say the Erwitts of the world. We'll never know.

[dperez]

Here is my small list of influential photographers in no particular order:

Ansel Adams
Judy Dater
Dorothea Lange
Sam Abell
John Davies
Frans Lanting
Shelby Lee Adams
Jack Delano
Mary Ellen Mark
William Albert Allard
Nikos Economopoulos
Joel Meyerowitz
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Elliot Erwitt
Cindy Sherman
Duan Michaels
Diane Arbus
Patrick Faigenbaum
Steve McCurry
Jane Evelyn Atwood
Donna Ferrato
Marion Post Walcott
John Baldessari
Larry Fink
Sebastião Salgado
Bruno Barbey
Stuart Franklin
Pentti Sammallahti
Bruce Barnbaum
Burt Glinn
Stephen Shore
John Humble
Richard Billingham
David Goldblatt
Frederick Sommer
Werner Bishof
Harry Gruyart
Chris Steele-Perkins
David Burnet
Philippe Halsman
Arthur Tress
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lewis Hine
Jerry Uelsmann
Raul Corrales
Teun Hocks
John Vink
Martin Chambi
Mitsuaki Iwago
Jeff Wall
William Christenberry
Ruchard Kalvar
Li Xiao-Ming