Photographers

Lately I've started looking at more Atget photos, particularly those of window displays.

newer: David Perry (hot rod/pinup/etc. photographer from California, two v. good books), Sally Mann (What Remains is grebt), Eugene Richards

Yeah, Walker Evans, Uta Barth, Eggleston, Tillmans, Nader

Revive.

I'm currently scanning several hundred slides of American photography at work. Name me some people to look out for as I go.

And GIMME SOME IMAGES, I can't believe a thread called "Photographers" has no images.

Just saw a fantastic exhibit on August Sander (and the Bechers) - not American though, obviously. http://www.corcoran.org/collection/images/1977.57.jpg

No one on this thread has mentioned Stephen Shore, a perennial fav. I've been meaning to look into James Welling more. Others I like: David Levinthal, Gregory Crewdson, Todd Hido, James Casebere, An-My Le.

Leonard Freed

http://www.garrisonartcenter.org/Artists/Freed1.jpg

narelle autio
http://www.in-public.com/NarelleAutio/

http://www.in-public.com/store/image/file/1617/december.jpg

http://www.in-public.com/store/image/file/1929/AUTI_jpg72_01CL01.jpg

peter baker

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3020/2607794020_85a74c9ae2.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/2584570780_6deaffaafa.jpg

hans van der meer

trent parke

I like Charles Conlon.

-- Otis Wheeler, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

9/11 changed everything :(

There was an interesting story on Jacob Riis today on NPR.

Love me some William Klein

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/full/klein/klein_boy_pointing_gun.jpg

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/full/klein/klein_macys.jpg

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/full/klein/klein_st_patricks2.jpg

the first narelle autio pic I posted in here is stunning; I could look at it all day long

olivia arthur

http://www.oliviaarthur.com/images/mdtest/md16.jpg

http://www.oliviaarthur.com/images/mdtest/md30.jpg

http://www.oliviaarthur.com/images/mdtest/md22.jpg

http://img.skitch.com/20080711-f24hkbywkq6dxr2p2amjkxtwuw.jpg

http://www.oliviaarthur.com/images/ramnami1.jpg

http://www.oliviaarthur.com/images/iran04.jpg

ume kayo

http://www.1101.com/umekayo/amahisa/images/p_aji_038.jpg

http://www.1101.com/umekayo/amahisa/images/p_aji_038_6.jpg

that's some fucking tiger style shit.

http://www.1101.com/umekayo/amahisa/images/p_ume_akanbe.jpg

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g11/booyakers/Tom_Waits_c_Anton_Corbijn.jpg

Anton Corbijn is my favorite celebrity photographer.

http://www.landweber.com/AmericanRoads/sternfeld.jpg

Lee Miller,
Joel Peter Witkin,
Lee Friedlander,
Emmet Gowin,
Gerhard Richter- I know, not strictly a photographer. Where do you draw the line between "photography" and "mixed media"?
Cindy Sherman,
Mariko Mori

James Nachtwey

http://www.pdngallery.com/20years/photojournalism/images/12_james_nachtwey.jpg

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_113308_124988_james-nachtwey.jpg

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/shattered/opener.jpg

stet, have you seen war photopgrapher

james nachtwey is incredible; seems a very solemn and steely dude, tho I imagine that's what continually being surrounded by grief will do to a dude

having said that i was quite astounded by these early 90s photographs of russian food lines:

http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/cityshadows_pix/city_pict3a.jpg

http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/port_cityshadows.html

Those are very beautiful.

bruce gilden: look at this sociopath

"don't smile; keep walking"

it's almost an assault what he's up to

"the energy, the stress, the anxiety"

seems like the city would be a tiny bit less stressful without that guy!

The photos are kinda cool but I have a real problem with this invasive type of photography.

i would very much like to do it myself but 1 i have very little time to enroll in a course and 2 i feel extremely inadequate as photography is very technical (so it seems).

Photography is easy to learn, especially digital photography. Buy yourself a good book, and you can learn the fundamentals in a day. The main obstacle to photography is not its difficulty, but rather its expense. Buying a decent digital SLR kit and accessories will cost dearly.

I love photography. I wish I still did it, but my motivation is just not there anymore. Not sure why.

I used to do a lot of street photographs and I learned to shoot from the chest. It was pretty subtle.

I love photographs, but I would never feel the impulse to actually take one. I use photography for my art work sometimes, but those are usually planned, right down to checking sunup or sunset times in advance. Photographing isn't an impulse for me, is what I mean.

the Hiroshi Sugimoto retrospective I saw a year or so back was amazing

http://paulturounetblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/sugimoto3.jpg
http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/files/34f4b14f963601230a4d5edfb13c3c65.large.jpg

those things make no sense on a computer screen, the ones that are basically black are incredible.

Starn twins & Christian Boltanski are two or my faves. Maybe I'll get around to posting some JPEGs sooner or later..

Starns (note: their style was cultivated pre-photoshop, and their work employs actual textures in its exhibited form - i.e. wood, metal etc.)

http://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/StarnTwins/StarnTwinsJPGs/StarnTwins1D.jpg http://www.wdog.com/sarah/images/art/not_mine/triplechrist.jpg

http://fancypantsy.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/4c14efb8.jpg

Boltanski:

http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/collection/europeanamerican/boltanski.jpg

http://www.nga.gov.au/international/Catalogue/Images/LRG/4024.jpg

http://mallorcaphotoblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/christian_boltanski.jpg

I always find it odd to have Boltanksi classified as photography, it feels to me much more like sculpture or installation because of the lights and boxes that feature so prominently. I suppose Jeff Wall uses just as much non photography devices, or even Nan Goldin's slideshows as another example, but still....

these days, who's to tell where one thing stops and the other begins..

czn: no, thanks!

Incidentally I was gong to post Boltanski stuff in the visual artists thread, but didn't, and starting thinking about this exactly. I once had a high school photography class, even, where he was an option to choose from for a study project. Either way, (and this is especially after a recent trip to a Holocaust museum, which spurred a much deeper appreciation of his work) it's become kind of evident to me that the display is perhaps as important as the image itself, and he really should not be reduced to photography (cf. the way he does the same things with clothes for instance). Just sayin'.

And ugh, Uta Barth's stuff, especially the one's posted above are just gorgeous! One of the people I find beautiful in the sea of bile that is contemporary photography.

That being said. . .

A favourite photo of mine. Elger Esser.

http://www.albrightknox.org/acquisitions/acq_2002/images/Esser.jpg

That's beautiful, Hiroshi Sugimoto's as well! It somewhat reminds me of one of my favorite photo's:

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_114305_400856_philipp-lachenmann.jpg

'Grey Study', by Philipp Lachenmann

I have never heard of this guy! Cool, must check out.

Edward Steichen - great portraits, wonderful lines in his advertisements.

http://starr-art.com/artists/edward_steichen/empire_state.jpg

http://www.elysee.ch/typo3temp/pics/a2d6e86833.jpg

http://www.elysee.ch/uploads/tx_exposition/Steichen_Garbo2_modifie-1.jpg

The wonderfully playful Shoji Ueda

http://www.guiarte.com/archivoimg/general/2246.jpg

http://img.imageloop.com/slideshow/f6d2bd0b-f753-12c7-b3ce-0015c5fcf7da/content/19eae782-be9a-1379-b05f-0015c5fcf7da_1192217323592,rw506h380/image.jpg

http://parismages.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/ueda-blog.jpg

Has anyone seen the Steichen family of man thing in Luxembourg ever? Or the original Moma show for that matter (more distinguished ILXORS)?

I saw a big thing in Madrid about a month ago. Early photographs are luminous but advertising stuff wins.

is anyone going to the arles photo festival or even heard of it?

more narelle autio

http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/artists/autio/img/water_02.jpg

i might be, phil-two

Sorry, but I just have to ask. What do the lot of you see in Wolfgang Tillmans' work? He's never struck me (okay, his recent abstractions are beautiful, as are the photos of stuff lying on tables and the like), but, uh, help me out here, I don't really see it.

i might be, phil-two

if you go, could you help me out a bit? i guess im part of a group exhibition there put on by colette for street fashion photos, but the press shots they got of course didn't include my little frame/section. its really small and not a huge deal i dont think, but would be nice to have for my archives/vanity/etc... is this a big fair, or something?

Oh, sure, if we go I'll try and get some nice stuff

incredible, obv
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Nguyen.jpg

v. prosaic when watched in video (not for squeamish nor safe for work)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8pSbTeme8s

also eddie adams discussing the photo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv11KilBpHQ

big profile of pieter hugo in the observer today

for those not familiar, his "hyena & other men" series is amazing:

http://www.pieterhugo.com/nigeria/images/8.jpg

http://www.pieterhugo.com/nigeria/images/17.jpg

THAT IS A MOTHERFUCKING HEYENA

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0711/neil.leifer.baseball.book/images/017057963.jpg

I was flipping through this at the Taschen store in SoHo and it's really beautiful. His boxing stuff I've found to be really limited outside of his Ali content.

http://www.kottke.org/08/07/the-most-beautiful-suicide

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/2422898984_708898dc85.jpg

^ up-the-arse corner?

I saw one of those hyena pics in the RA summer exhibition, giant size and in vibrant colour, it stopped me dead. Unbelievable.

just got the new edition of Robert Frank's The Americans in the mail - stunning. I thought my old copy was fine, but the reproductions in this one are top notch. (Relatively cheap too)

Also an Uta Barth book from Phaidon but I haven't gotten to look through it yet

http://www.melanieschiff.net/images/3.cases.jpg

http://www.melanieschiff.net/images/11.emergency.jpg

http://www.melanieschiff.net/images/16.bonesandcassettes.jpg

Melanie Schiff, brilliant.

In case you can't read it, the middle one is called Emergency because that's what's scrawled on the JD bottle

Real random one here - a photographer I.D.:
I'm trying to think of the name of a guy I was reading about - a sort of outsider photographer maybe along the lines of a Diane Arbus (or maybe more Larry Clark - I think he photographed junkies, etc.).
The only thing I remember is that he had three names, and the middle name had the word "meat" in it. Like "Robert Meathook Wilson" or something like that.

ralph eugene meatyard

http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Meatyard-peanut-farmer-friend.jpg

Thanks a lot!!!

liking these by Chad Muthard

http://www.chadmuthard.com/jpgs/No%20Mistake/004.jpg
http://www.chadmuthard.com/jpgs/No%20Mistake/006.jpg
http://www.chadmuthard.com/jpgs/Lost%20In%20Thought/007.jpg
http://www.chadmuthard.com/jpgs/Lost%20In%20Thought/002.jpg

Saw this tonight at the documentary festival:

http://everybodystreet.com/image/47750172530

Like so much of what I see/hear these days, someone's attempt to capture something slipping away. The director and Jill Freedman spoke afterwards--if you ever get see it, Freedman is all that she is in the film and more. It wasn't until halfway through that I realized she was sitting right in front of me, beside the director (I was aware of her). At first I thought she was the director's mother, and was wondering how much nerve I'd need to summon to ask the director to ask her mother to stop whispering during the movie.

That looks great-- lots of the well-known NYC street photogs in it.

The Lightbox had Robert Frank's Me and My Brother tonight. Nice scene of Ginsberg walking across a field singing, looking like he could be in the Band. Christopher Walken's in one scene, Roscoe Lee Browne's in a few, and there was a beautiful actress I felt I should have recognized but didn't. In once scene, Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Corso sit around the kitchen table looking at psychiatric reports on Orlovsky's brother; an old Columbia album drops onto a portable record player, you suspect it's going to be Dylan (he's already been heard once), and sure enough it's "Like a Rolling Stone." But it plays at low volume, and nobody takes any notice of it as Ginsberg reads from the reports. Very strange--it's inconceivable that "Like a Rolling Stone" would be used in a film today and not dwarf everything around it. I found a lot of the film tedious, but it may be something of an extension to Warrendale and Titicut Follies.

Volunteering at the Stratford Film Festival, got to see Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere this morning. Embarrassed to say I'd never heard of him--what a career!

https://www.steveschapiro.com/index

good lord, those Andy/Velvets pics are incredible

With Warhol rarely smiling in photographs, he said this was his favourite.

https://i.postimg.cc/j2XR3j8t/andy.jpg

A variable trevor trove (thanks Nigel Tufnel)