name me some photographers

RazielDoomgate

ok so i know tons of sculptures and painters like the back of my hand.. when it comes to photographers im pretty much run a blank.

part of my course is photography.. would love if any of you wonderful ppl could piont me in the direction of any famous or up and coming professional photographers that are on the art side of life

Thirdfox

Ansel Adams
Henri Cartier Bresson

ThOnda

Art? Hmmm... I really don't know. Man Ray, Alfons Mucha, Frantisek Drtikol, Josef Sudek, Brassai, Ansel Adams, ...

Search history and it'll give you some basic overview. E.g. http://www.masters-of-photography.com/index.html

thebaz

Thirdfox wrote: »

Ansel Adams
Henri Cartier Bresson

I'll second Cartier --- IMO he's the best (by a distance)

mathias

part of my course is photography

If you have to do it for the course then you have to do it , but good advice in general if your into photography is not to become a fan of any of these guys and never read what they say ..... the reason being it will conciously or unconciously affect the way you shoot , and you need to get your own eye , not someone elses ,

Its better to concentrate on composition articles than get to be a fan of any particular photographer , better to have an idea of whats a good photo , than to get an idea of whos a good photographer if you know what I mean.

RCNPhotos

W. Eugene Smith, check him out, by far my favorite of all time. He's fantastic.

magicbastarder

gregory crewdson.

ThOnda

viiphoto.com - Nachtway, Kratochvil...
Kapa, Brassai, Salgado, Newton...

Fajitas!

Jeff Wall.
Gregory Crewdson.

Calina

Ansel Adams
Robert Doisneau
Vincent Munier
Philippe Plisson
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Peter Lik
Roberto Foresti
Ric Steiniger
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These are the ones I know and like.

mathias - ultimately I disagree. I have learned a lot about photography from other photographers, particularly from those photographers who don't necessarily do the same sort of stuff that I do. It gives you a different eye.

trishw78

Annie Lebowitz
Eve Arnold
Lee Miller

Robert Capa

DadaKopf

I like
Andreas Gursky,
Thomas Ruff,
Martin Parr and expeshully
Raymond Depardon (but mainly his later colour stuff).

minikin

good advice in general if your into photography is not to become a fan of any of these guys and never read what they say

possibly the worst piece of advice you could give someone

my tuppence: mary ellen mark, bern & hilla becher (gursky's mentor), diane arbus, alfred stieglitz, william wegman - the two legged weimaraner!... there are so many

RazielDoomgate

ha.. tnx guys and gals got my work cut out for me.. a lot of responses.. going to have some fun looking at these guys

ThOnda

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographers

:-)

There are some names...

Xios

Chuck norris...

eve

Here's a guy I stumbled upon last year whose work I like http://www.philpankov.com/-/philpankov/

Hugh_C

Joel Peter Witkin

Not safe for kids or work.

Chochese

Perou
Nicolas Guerin
Joey Lawerence (he's only bloody 17!)
Dave Hill
Akif Hakan
Donald Miralle Fantastic sports photojournalist

Xios

More seriously, this artist is fairly good, but he uses photoshop a fair bit, here's his page
http://gilad.deviantart.com/

TJJP

pffff.....

You probably need to be looking at the likes of:

Richard Billingham

http://www.eyestorm.com/artists/profile/Richard_Billingham_biography.html

Martin Parr

http://www.uklandscape.net/features/MartinParr.htm

Nobuyoshi Araki

http://www.studio-international.co.uk/photo/araki.asp

Gilbert and George

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/gilbertgeorge.htm


If you can, take a trip to IMMA or the Gallery of Photography on Meeting House Square, both in Dublin.