What Photographer(s) inspire you

[kswatapug]

In alpha order...

Dan Burkholder
Charles Cramer
Andrew Goldsworthy
Mark Klett
William Neill
Pat Ohara
John Sexton
Jim Stimson
Jerry Uelsman

[galyons]

In varying order, (based on my mood today):
Paul Caponigro
Ansel Adams
George Tice
Imogen Cunningham
Per Volquartz
Weston Family

There are a many others because I enjoy most eveyone's work!
Cheers,
Geary

[Daniel Grenier]

OK.... here's my list:

Walker Evans
Paul Strand
George Tice
David Plowden
Brett Weston
Elliot Porter (in B&W)
Eugene Atget
Berenice Abbott
Wright Morris

Subject to change over time...(and geeeezzzz... they're all dead but two!)

[Ara Ghajanian]

Helmut Newton.

Most other photographers I've seen generally bore me. I think what happened was after I saw Newton's work for the first time, everything else paled in comparison. I mean, I can appreciate quite a few photographers and respect what they do and how they do it, but I simply enjoy just looking at Newton's photos. I can't get enough of his work. I was lucky enough to see his last show at the ICP in NYC. If I lived in NYC, I would have gone every day to study each image carefully. The "Big Women" series really is 1000 times more impactual at life size than on the printed page. If anyone has any links of website with his work, I would greatly appreciate them letting me know. I think his personality and his life are inspiring also. If you haven't seen the documentary "Frames from the Edge", then you're missing out. He is literally the reason I still do photography, otherwise I would have been bored with it years ago.

[Helen B]

Raymond Moore's work opened my eyes to the unusual power of straight photography, and he's largely responsible for me becoming a photographer.

Other strong influences:

John Hilliard
Victor Burgin
Paul Hill
Thomas Joshua Cooper
John Berger
Hamish Fulton

There are many other photographers whose work I like very much, but those people spring to mind as having altered my perception of photography. I wonder if anyone else on the forum holds them with the same regard?

Best,
Helen

[livemoa]

There are many photographers who inspire me
Strand, Avedon, Weston etc to name a few

But more importantly, the ones who have influenced me are:
Michael Smith and Paula Chamlee, the time I spent with them helped me move forward more than they can ever know
Laurence Aberhardt (NZ)
Ben Cauchi (NZ)
Weston, after seeing my first vintage contact print when in England of all places
Henson (Australian)

[Ole]

At the moment, Josef Sudek is at the top of my list. And the more I contact print, the higher he climbs...

[dr bob]

Two local photographers have probably had the greatest influence on my personal approach as a primarily landscape photographer. A. Aubry Bodine of Baltimore and Marion Warren of Annapolis. Bodine is lately deceased and Warren is living in retirement in Annapolis. Photographs of each grace my family room (Mate has only “real art” (watercolor and oil) in living room –boo!), and I have collected books from each. As a child of 12, I remember being very much influenced by images in Life magazine and National – you know. I never paid much attention to the artists then but later I recognized and remembered Eugene Smith and Halsman. I am still looking for the producer of the image “Duchamp Descending Staircase” made with multiple strobe, circa 1950(s).

[Donald Miller]

Brett Weston, Edward Weston, Paula Chamlee, Michael Smith

[unohuu]

let us not forget Gordon Parks