Inspirational Photographers- B&W

[kenneth]

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I have recently purchased books by the following truly inspirational Black and White photographers. Please add your favourites to this thread

 

Wynn Bullock

 

Barry Thornton

 

Ruth Bernhard

 

Edward Weston

 

Pat Booth

 

Jean Loup Sieff

 

 

In all cases copies of these books are available at incredibly reasonable prices through Amazon by typing in the photographers name

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Hallo,

Look here: Interesting Leica gear

[cocker]

Willy Ronis, Eduard Boubat & Robert Doisneau

[timd.]

lee friedlander

[tomasis7]

Christer Strömholm, Anders Petersen (swedish photographers)

 

Lee Friedlander, Walker Evans, Francesca Woodman, Koudelka, Robert Frank, Andre Kertesz, Brassai, Stieglitz, Noholy-Nagy, Rodchenko..

 

 

I admire Lee Friedlander mostly. But other are pretty good.

[msweeney]

Garry Winogrand, Nubar Alexanian, Larry Towell, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Sebastiao Salgado are some of my favorites.

[nickdando]

James Ravilious

Ansel Adams

Paul Strand

Richard Avedon

[Guest wls.shanghai]

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Hallo,

Look here: Interesting Leica gear

[Marquinius]

Dorothea Lange

Brassaï

[stunsworth]

Willy Ronis, Eduard Boubat & Robert Doisneau

 

Certainly they're three of my favourites. I love the French humanist style. People focus too much on Doisneau's 'Kiss', he's got a huge body of excellent photography behind him. Boubat I came across by accident while speaking to another French photographer whose name I forget,

 

Also add Don McCullin, HCB, Salgado,

Edited September 16, 2009 by stunsworth

[dave_d]

Roy DeCarava, Dianne Arbus, Roger Ballen, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Robert ParkeHarrison, Bruce Davidson. The list goes on and on.....

Edited September 16, 2009 by dave_d

[frko]

Salgado, Larry Towell, Bruce Gilden, Elliot Erwitt, James Nachtwey, Helmut Newton

 

Great topic by the way..

[pipeclayed]

Trent Parke. Saw a video and it looks like he's a Leica man too.

[ndjambrose]

Gianni Berengo Gardin

Ragnar Axelsson

Robert Frank

[metalphil]

Martine Franck ( married to HCB ) Bradford Washburn amazing mountain photography

 

Phil Birmingham UK

[JE]

Helen Levitt. William Klein from the 50's and 60's. Lee Balterman. Dennis Hopper. And the surrealist photographers.

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Hallo,

Look here: Interesting Leica gear

[rubenkok]

A few of my favorites:

Ralph Gibson - YouTube - LM 100 presents

The Inge Morath Foundation (1923 – 2002)

Jeanloup Sieff - Site officiel (1933 – 2000)

Barbara Klemm: Die Fotografin Barbara Klemm: "Schwarzweiß ist Farbe genug" | Kultur | hr

via http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-kundenforum/87709-meine-homage-barbara-klemm.html#post918591

 

- Dutch photographers:

Maarten Corbijn photos and films by corb!no

Ed van der Elsken (1925 – 1990)

Eva Besnyö (1910 – 2003)

Philip Mechanicus (1936 - 2005)

Cas Oorthuys (1908 - 1975)

[Marquinius]

Is anyone going to put this in a single table?

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[alun]

Marc Riboud; Renee Burri (especially his book, THE ITALIANS -- wonderful); Herbert List; Ferdinando Scianna (even his 'fashion reportage'!); early Constantine Manos (THE BOSTONIANS; GREEK PORTFOLIO); Nikos Economopulous (especially IN THE BALKANS); David Douglas Duncan (any and all of his Picasso pictures)... And the list goes on, as another has said...

[dodger]

Don McCullin, Robert Capa, Richard Avedon, Alfred Eisenstadt, Ilse Bing, Elliot Erwitt

[Rolo]

John Blakemore, Michael Kenna, John Sexton, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe and of course Ansel Adams.