Who's your favorite photographer?

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...assuming you *have* a favorite. It can be anyone in any field: photojournalism, celebrity, landscape, abstraction, nature, porn, social commentary, whatever.

What with musings on Eggleston, Gursky and Bill Owens, *Cultural Artifacts of the Moment* is on a photography kick this week, so I'm curious to know to what degree you folks care about this occasionally-maligned medium.

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like Juergen Teller and Hiromix. Mapplethorpe on occasions.

― Omar, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm looking at Andreas Feininger's 'Hudson River Waterfront, New York, 1942' as I type, I like it's grainyness or maybe it's a bad print.

There's a book of rave photography with swirly, stroby FX in our local library that led me last year to do B+W photos of local bands,crowds - using different speeds, moving the camera etc - like those chancers in 'The Wire' do - Have a go people ! ....Ross Halfin for the 'Kerrang' stuff.

Anyone in Britain remember 'The Late Show'- it featured some Parisian early '60's stuff I loved but I don't know whodidit

Once saw an exhibition of David Byrne's hotel bogroll-holders photos in Edinburgh - bollocks - probably the worst stuff I've seen next to those babies dressed as flowers on greetinggs cards.

― Geordie went to IKEA, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm afraid I know even less about individual photographers than architects, and I know very little about architects. But of the ones who I know that I'm looking at (it may be that I really like some photographer on the basis of his or her work, without knowing that the same photographer is behind the pictures), probably William Gottlieb, for his jazz photography. For the most part, I choose Gottlieb because of his subject matter - I'm not familiar enough with photography as an art form to be aware of who are considered technical innovators or compositionally inspired. (I imagine that a lot of the ways of thinking I have from painting could carry over, if I were to start learning more about photography.)

― Josh, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Larry Clark, Boris Mikhailov; Gilbert & George

― Guy, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, Mapplethorpe, Sherman,...

― my fool name, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oh yes, I forgot to add: the pictures in Magnet are really dreadful. The other month Elliot Smith was on the cover. He looked even more aweful than usual.

― my fool name, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oh I forgot Corinne Day, her photographs of Kate Moss are brilliant.

― Omar, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Absolutely no question about this at *all* in my mind -- Pierre et Gilles. God, what freakin' geniuses they are.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Walker Evans and Alfred Eisenstaedt.

― Joseph Wasko, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Avedon and Suze Randall.

― JM, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Joel-Peter Witkin Diane Arbus

don't know much about photography, but those certainly stuck out in memory.

― badger, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Man Ray, followed closely by Ken Miller who is a Walker Evans for our time.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Can I restrict myselfm to rock photographers?

Anton Corbijn is magnificent and virtually the only music press smudge to have his own style - Van Vliet in the desert was just beautiful.

― Venga, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

who's that guy,Richard somebody, english guy, took those pics of his alcoholic dad & there's that one of the cat flying thru the air 'cause the old alcy geezer threw it...? that guy is awesome.

― duane zarakov, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Whoever took that picture of the editor of Papercuts. Just divine. It gives folk Nancy Mitford thoughts.

― the pinefox, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Thinking about this a lot recently, the relationship between photography and music. Most recently the photos of Dan Holdsworth (part of the Beck’s Futures 2 exhibition at the ICA). He captures the non-places in the urban landscape, like empty shopping centres, car parks, pylons, the marginalized spaces between the city and the country. Familiar places, that seem unsettlingly abstract, yet realistic. The images are stark, beautiful, and void of humanity, visual echoes of electronica. Both are passive observers, there's little in either to figure out or understand, neither make specific comment on what they are describing, beyond a suggestion that it's beautiful. Almost purely representational. Other artists have been tapping this vein for decades - Julian Opie's reduction of places to simple lines, Andreas Gursky's (unexploded) diagrams and displays, even Jeff Wall's cross- sections of life, but I think Holdsworth's closer than anything I've seen.
I should mention that I had a some ideas about social commentary, the blues and Walker Evans, but nothing cohesive, and I'm out of my depth.

― K-reg, Monday, 14 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two months pass...

Originally arriving here on 'A Quest' for original photos of the great 'Nancy Mitford'... I have my answer/selection for one of the great photographers of all time, this being 'LENI SINCLAIR', whom not only captured the very essence and spirit of a myraid of individual personalities in the music scene in general, but also defined the very soul of the Motor-City in the 60's and 70's by virtue of her incrediable portfolio of masterful photos ! ~ Michael Saint Thomas

― Michael Saint Thomas, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bryan Adams fancies himself to be a photographer now. Did you know? And so far, his photos are far better than his songs.

― Kim, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

...only proves that celebrity can be a dangerous thing. I love Nan Goldin, but I also have this guilty pleasure of pouring over Lapachelle's photos. They are such pop-porno. His stuff lately isn't as great - but when he sets a scene (Bowie with androidal- androgynes, for example), I am blown away...

― Jason, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Starn Twins, Arthur S. Aubry, trust me on Arthur, look him up on a search, worth it!

― HH, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

MINOR WHITE

― anthony, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

As well as these photographs

Egglestans photos of Memphis form the 1970s. Their tropical sense of color . Now though its all artifical
Westens nudes for thier cold elegance
Pierre et Gilles kitschy icons
Steiglitzss O'Keefes - So intense in their mutual obsessiveness
Arbuses masks in the mental hospital
Steve Misels photos of Gwynnie
Rodechkos buildings
Bruce leBruces non porn pics
Mappelthorpes Fauns Avedons photo of Candy Darling , with the monroe hair, the harlowe tits and the vestigal cock. Our last great screen blonde
Muybridges anayltical wrestlers becuase we know movewment
Cameornas meloncholy edwardians
The man ray potriats of kiki and marcel
Weegee the street prophet

― anthony, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

Vanessa Beecroft -- her performance art has large groups of nude or barely clothed women who stand mute for hours in a gallery or museum, occasionally shifting to stretch/ sprawl, but mostly impassive -- with photographer/ video crews then documenting it. Pictures of maybe most recent set up were at the Guggenheim last time I was -- December maybe. Objectifying women, unclothed uncomfortable vs. obviously clothed audience. I guess this performance art doesn't exactly fit, but ... well does it?

― divya noguchi (divya), Monday, 17 March 2003 08:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wolfgang Tillmanns

― russ t, Monday, 17 March 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Calum Robert

― dave q, Monday, 17 March 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

i love Elliot Smith but i Want to Kill myself!
how And when should i do it

― Zero Meckley, Thursday, 1 September 2005 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Michelle Gienow!

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 1 September 2005 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Weegee and Andreas Gursky.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 1 September 2005 06:44 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

http://gothamist.com/2010/03/24/jim_marshall.php

the greatest of the rock photogs...

― iago g., Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link

there's an obituary by someone who used to print his images over at TOP:

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/03/artists-aint-saints-jim-marshall-19362010.html

― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Friday, 26 March 2010 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link

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