Inspirational Photographers- B&W

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Toso Dabac (actually Tošo)

Marija Braut

 

from Croatia

[Stealth3kpl]

Currently enjoying two books, Don McCullin

Nice article and film here:

Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin | Photography review | Art and design | The Observer

Pete

Edited April 11, 2010 by Stealth3kpl

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[jofe]

Vanessa Winship

 

look at http://www.vanessawinship.com

Edited April 20, 2010 by jofe

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Sune Jonsson

 

Sune Jonsson

[KevinA]

James Ravilious

Ansel Adams

Paul Strand

Richard Avedon

 

I'll second James Ravilious, he did what he did beautifully and not surrounded by any hype.

 

Kevin.

[KevinA]

..... and Sally Mann.

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Andreas Feininger

[Artorius]

Most of the names I know, a few I don't, but will. One name I see didn't listed here is Darius Kinsey. Here in the Pacific Northwest he is known for his old pics of Loggers. My Grandfather befriended him in the early 1900's. He was a logger at the time and is in a couple of his photos during his Snoqualmie, and Sedro-Woolly period. Worked with large format mostly.

Edited July 21, 2010 by Artorius

[steve kessel]

Louis Faurer

[mono]

Josef Hoflehner

http://www.josefhoflehner.com/

Edited July 31, 2010 by mono

[NickB]

No-one has mentioned Paul Caponigro or Brett Weston.

[250swb]

..... and Sally Mann.

 

Absolutely Sally Mann! Fantastic work. And for other large format work I'd like to see more Minor White, its almost like his photographs have disappeared from exhibitions and publishing.

 

But the one I keep coming back to as a key figure is Joseph Koudelka.

 

Steve

[Steve_F]

Patrick Demarchelier, Norman Parkinson, Don McCullin, Lee Miller & Jim Rakete.

 

Steve.

[Paul Glendell]

Did W Eugene Smith use Leicas ? not sure, but I think he did and although I haven't read every entry on this list he can't possibly be left off. Typed as I look at my Memorial Exhibiton poster of his work, shown just after he died.

 

Paul Glendell

www.glendell.co.uk

[storybrown]

Unless I've missed them somewhere, four particularly important -- influential and inspirational -- B&W photographers have been overlooked in this enormous & enormously rich list, a couple of whom (one in particular), without being at all arty (qua Man Ray) prolly did as much to establish "photography" as in every sense a modern "art" form as anyone one might name.

 

Leni Riefenstahl, self-described "ardent" Leica devotee & photographic impresario of the first water (LTMs, Ms, and one of her finest later books, maybe her finest, used SLmots, I think) - my favorites are People of Kau, Last of the Nuba, and (although it's now a little Nat'l Geo-ish) the underwater Coral Gardens, but these are not B&W - for B&W see, e.g., Riefenstahl Olympia (and the movie), which more or less invented sports photography as we know it. She's prolly as important a photographic figure as anyone, B&W or color, moving or still, Leica or anything else.

 

Gisele Fruend, renowned portraitist who sometimes used Leicas - e.g., Gesele Freund: Photographs, Three Days with (James) Joyce, etc. . . .

 

Didier Lefevre, altogether a Leica M, whose "embedded" B&W war photojournalism gives ineluctable dignity & seriousness to both these often merely glib terms - see the postumous tour de force by Emmanuel Guibert, The Photographer [=Lefevre]: Into War Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders (the war in question is the Soviet occupation of that country, not the currant US/NATO occupation).

 

Erwin E Smith, (real) cowboy (real) photographer who had studied art & whose B&W "documentary" work is monumental - sort of provides everything Garry Winogrand's Stock Photographs as it were omits or suppresses or otherwise loses - e.g., Life on the Texas Range, J Evetts Haley & Erwin Smith, and Cowboy with a Camera: Erwin E Smith Cowboy Photographer, D Worcester & Erwin Smith . . .

 

Finally, we naturally want to include Man Ray, celebrated minor surrealist, dadaist, et al - see Man Ray Photo, and Lee Miller, just named above by Steve, surrealist, portraitist, and woman combat photojournalist (maybe the only one in the West, it is said; anyway, the Allied West) in WWII Europe - see Lee Miller's War, Anthony Penrose, ed., all B&W, and, generally, the archive: Lee Miller Archive - 20th Century photography and Surrealism . . . She may have used some Leicas.

 

Apologies if I've overlooked prior mention of these . . .

Edited September 3, 2010 by storybrown

[nhabedi]

Did W Eugene Smith use Leicas?

 

Yep.

[dickgrafixstop]

portraits by karsh

[MPerson]

Claudine Doury born in Blois and living in Paris. She received the Leica Oskar Barnack award in 1999, the World Press in 2000 and the Prix Niepce for her entire work in 2004.

[nhabedi]

Speaking of the Oskar Barnack Award, there's also Andy Spyra from Germany.

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[nhabedi]

And Bill Franson.