Famous Photographers

[sandro9mm]

hey whats up? :D

okay, so I have a blog, and I'm running a category about Famous photographers
(http://www.sandrophoto.com/category/famous-photographers/) ...

I've covered creators of candid photography, portrait master, and a photojournalist. I don't have any art degree, so I have no idea if I'm on the right track. So please share names of the great and famous :)

Thanks in advance.
Looking at the old masters is a refreshing journey into past!

http://www.sandrophoto.com/category/famous-photographers/

[Mike]

I think there was a post a few months ago asking about famous photogs, if you do a search you may find it.

*EDIT* I found it here (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=409336).

[slappy sam]

Ansel Adams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams) - landscape photographer... lol

Dorothea Lange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange) - mostly famous for her photos documenting the depression

Edward Muybridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Muybridge) - first to capture motion with multiple cameras to settle a bet whether or not all of a horse's feet leave the ground when it trots

And that person who did photos of child labor, ahh cant think of the name right now though.

[Curtis N]

Henri Cartier Bresson

[Wilt]

Alfred Eisenstaedt, called "the father of photojournalism," but you already have him in that link.

Robert Capa, an acclaimed 20th century combat photographer who covered five different wars

Yusef Karsh, portraitist, but you already have him in that link

Leonnart Nillson, life photographer, first made famous with his photos of living fetus in the womb published, among other places, in Life Magazine about 40 years ago

WeeGee, candid news photographer known for shots documenting street life in New York City, and whose book inspired the movie The Naked City

Edward Steichen, photographed the most expensive photo ever sold, $2.9M, by a photographer (deceased) -- surpassed by a living photographer

[Robert16]

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre ( the Daguerreotype )
Julia Margaret Cameron
Alfred Steiglitz
Man Ray
Edward Weston
Bill Brandt
Cindy Sherman (not an old master)
Robert Mapplethorpe

[Mike-DT6]

Ansel Adams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams) - landscape photographer... lol


Ansel Adams? I didn't know he was a photographer. I thought he was a professional quote writer. At least that's how it comes across on here.

Mike

[Robert16]

Ansel Adams? I didn't know he was a photographer. I thought he was a professional quote writer. At least that's how it comes across on here.

Mike
LOL

[AB8ND]

Andreas Feininger
One of the great staff photographers for Life magazine


Jack

[airfrogusmc]

Ansel Adams? I didn't know he was a photographer. I thought he was a professional quote writer. At least that's how it comes across on here.

Mike

He was a great photographer with a philosophy that ran through all of his images. He also wrote and was interviewed allot because of his talent and his precise ideas about photography as an art form. You can learn a great deal photography from the way a great photographer writes about it and we're all richer becasue of his images and words. Heres a great book if you're interested in learning more about a great American photographer.
http://www.amazon.com/Ansel-Adams-Autobiography/dp/0821222414/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199989921&sr=1-9

[Mike-DT6]

AirFrogUSMC, I was being ironic!

Mike

:-)

[airfrogusmc]

Actually I saw it as sarcastic. Yeah he is quoted ALOT :lol: but I have never seen any images from Yosemite that come close to his. Yosemite and the Range of Light is one of the finest landscape projects I've ever seen.

[airfrogusmc]

Heres another one of my favorites
http://www.art-dept.com/artists/davidson/

[Robert16]

AirFrogUSMC, I was being ironic!

Mike

:-)
I read it as ironic FWIW. I am certain Mike's comments were aimed at members of this forum and not at Ansel Adam's awesome talent

[Mike-DT6]

Bang-on, Robert. :-D

Maybe my sense of humour doesn't travel too well! :lol:

Mike

[cazray]

patrick eagar - sports well mainly cricket actually sorry bias love cricket!!

[Mike-DT6]

Martin Parr.

:-D

[sandro9mm]

Alfred Eisenstaedt, called "the father of photojournalism," but you already have him in that link.

Robert Capa, an acclaimed 20th century combat photographer who covered five different wars

Yusef Karsh, portraitist, but you already have him in that link

Leonnart Nillson, life photographer, first made famous with his photos of living fetus in the womb published, among other places, in Life Magazine about 40 years ago

WeeGee, candid news photographer known for shots documenting street life in New York City, and whose book inspired the movie The Naked City

Edward Steichen, photographed the most expensive photo ever sold, $2.9M, by a photographer (deceased) -- surpassed by a living photographer
thanks, thats a nice list... and great suggestions!

[FlyingPhotog]

Russel Munson
Paul Bower
CJ "Heater" Heatly
George Hall (RIP)
Mike Fizer
Victor Archer

Six of the (IMNSHO) finest aviation photographers ever...

[tkoutdoor]

Henri Cartier BressonYep, he brought us "The Decisive Moment".

[sandro9mm]

http://www.sandrophoto.com/2008/01/10/edward-steichen/
Edward steichen included now...

[andrewhuxman]

He was a great photographer with a philosophy that ran through all of his images. He also wrote and was interviewed allot because of his talent and his precise ideas about photography as an art form. You can learn a great deal photography from the way a great photographer writes about it and we're all richer becasue of his images and words. Heres a great book if you're interested in learning more about a great American photographer.
http://www.amazon.com/Ansel-Adams-Autobiography/dp/0821222414/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199989921&sr=1-9


Dunno if people know this about Ansel Adams was that he was a very accomplished Pianist and he almost chose that as opposed to photography. My mother and Grandmother had the privledge of dining with him at the Awahnee Hotel ( not spelled right) in Yosemite and had quite an evening with him in 1979 or 80 he played and spoke of his love for the piano. Just a little historical fact for you.

[airfrogusmc]

Dunno if people know this about Ansel Adams was that he was a very accomplished Pianist and he almost chose that as opposed to photography. My mother and Grandmother had the privledge of dining with him at the Awahnee Hotel ( not spelled right) in Yosemite and had quite an evening with him in 1979 or 80 he played and spoke of his love for the piano. Just a little historical fact for you.

He used his knowledge of music to to help him come up with values for grays like notes on a page have tone values. The zone system..
What a great story your mom and Granmother have. What an experience that must have been.

[Michael1116]

Baron Wolman - Rolling Stone Magazine's first photographer.

http://www.fotobaron.com

[Radtech1]

Ray Atkeson - at least for outdoors.

There is a fantastic book called "Ski and Snow Country: The Golden Years of Skiing in the West, 1930s - 1950s" featuring his ski photographs. Remember 30s to 50s - before lifts and before 35mm. (Don't yell, I KNOW they HAD 35mm then, but not as a professional quality medium.)

He hiked up mountains CARRYING his skis and 4x5 Speed Graphic Camera with tripod. That is a nearly square aspect ratio which makes composing very difficult. What he does with it is nothing short of amazing.

Rad

Take a look:

http://www.skiinghistory.org/Kruck1.html


Rad

[sandro9mm]

anything else? I think I've included most of the suggestions :)

[René Damkot]

This (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=27178) might help...

I posted a few in there ;)

[Canonswhitelensesrule]

Art Wolfe - Nature Photography
John Shaw - Nature Photography
B. Moose Peterson - Nature Photography
Joe & Mary McDonald - Nature Photography
Frans Lanting - Nature Photography
Thomas Kitchin & Victoria Hurst - Nature Photography
Arthur Morris - Bird Photography
Walter Iooss Jr. - Sports Photography (and other types)
Neil Leifer - Sports Photography (and other types)
John Iacono - Sports Photography (esp boxing)

Just some of the more well known photographers in their field of "expertise"

[yogestee]

Ansel Adams? I didn't know he was a photographer. I thought he was a professional quote writer. At least that's how it comes across on here.

Mike

Mike,,,Ansel Adams did for photography what Einstein did for physics..Do a Google search on the Zone System..

[yogestee]

Tim Page - Vietnam War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Page

[dman726749]

And that person who did photos of child labor, ahh cant think of the name right now though.

Louis Hine ;)

[slappy sam]

Louis Hine ;)
Ah yes, of course. Thanks :)

Couldn't quite remember.

[munroe2469]

I'd say Scott Highton (http://www.auburn.edu/%7Eschaiac/Famous-photographers-using-Digital.html). he's well known for his 3d-images and 360° panorama shots.
...I think it's great how the rise of the digital cameras amplified the possibilites to be creative