ThompsonPhotography wrote:

Ralph Gibson http://www.ralphgibson.com/gallery/
Duane Michaels http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographe … duane.html
Art Kane http://www.artkane.com/
Matt Mahurin _ sorry no link

Above are my additions to the excellent selections throughout this post but don't get me started on Illustrators...

bill thompson, photographer.

Oh, you mean guys like Booth, Kley, Rackham, Coll, Flagg, Pyle, Wyeth, Holland, etc., etc.,?

Wolf189 wrote:
Here are bunch of names for you:

https://www.modelmayhem.com/posts.php?thread_id=66016

Thank You!

Especially for this one:

Irving Penn
http://www.artnet.com/artist/13298/irving-penn.html

DHayes Photography wrote:
Norman Seef.

Checked him out. Great portraits!

RBDesign wrote:
Jeanloup Sieff

Interesting ... I shared his name with some of my friends, including photographers and there was even something negative.

For example:" he shoots everything in the same manner", or "his landscapes and even his nudes are cold", etc etc

I am personally having hard time trying to understand how one cannot like this work.
Yes, there is something a bit cold in there but I think this is what makes his work so elegant and beautiful. Besides B&W always gives this effect... Besides some of it is that particular photographic style which was so popular in 70's (?) 80's (?) 

In spite of landscapes or human bodies do not look "hot hot" in his pictures, they look so refined, so beautiful. Landscapes are endless, a bit mysterious. But they do not make you scared or willing to run away... They actually attract, make you  wanting to step right there into a picture.

Christopher Bush wrote:
i love these threads.  my answers change slightly each time:

daido moriyama
juergen teller
nobuyoshi araki
ralph gibson
helmut newton
terry richardson
roxanne lowit

on the surface, these all have some similarities, but they really are almost as disparate as you can get.

i like guy bourdin as well, but he doesn't really fit the list neatly.

Ahhh, the cold, unflinching, air-your-dirty-laundry-out kinda eyes... Except for Moriyama, who I honestly am not familiar with, I like or love all of these, but I like to temper these with more romantic types as well. Photographers who like to use their cameras to "make love" to their subjects as well as to "examine" them, which all on the list above tend to do. Well, Ralph Gibson's a 'tweener in that regard.

TroisCouleurs wrote:

For example:" he shoots everything in the same manner", or "his landscapes and even his nudes are cold", etc etc

I am personally having hard time trying to understand how one cannot like this work.
Yes, there is something a bit cold in there but I think this is what makes his work so elegant and beautiful. Besides B&W always gives this effect... Besides some of it is that particular photographic style which was so popular in 70's (?) 80's (?)

i understand what they mean.  i love a lot of his work, but there is some (this is also true of guy bourdin) in which the photo itself is kind of like it's own subject.  it almost borders on gimmicky, but he does it very well, so it's still interesting to look at.

Marko Cecic-Karuzic wrote:
Ahhh, the cold, unflinching, air-your-dirty-laundry-out kinda eyes... Except for Moriyama, who I honestly am not familiar with, I like or love all of these, but I like to temper these with more romantic types as well. Photographers who like to use their cameras to "make love" to their subjects as well as to "examine" them, which all on the list above tend to do. Well, Ralph Gibson's a 'tweener in that regard.

Yes, please more comments like that ...

This is what makes us more curious to actually go and check it out.

Christopher Bush wrote:
i understand what they mean.  i love a lot of his work, but there is some (this is also true of guy bourdin) in which the photo itself is kind of like it's own subject.  it almost borders on gimmicky, but he does it very well, so it's still interesting to look at.

Agree. I enjoy his work. There are lots of others that I enjoy more. Newton had an extensive book collection, including probably every Sieff book ever printed in practically every edition, it seemed.

Marko Cecic-Karuzic wrote:

Ahhh, the cold, unflinching, air-your-dirty-laundry-out kinda eyes... Except for Moriyama, who I honestly am not familiar with, I like or love all of these, but I like to temper these with more romantic types as well.

moriyama is like a japanese gibson - as you say, a tweener.  probably leaning a little more towards the sentimental (but towards more unfamiliar objects, unlike juergen teller).  he's used the theme of a stray dog to sort of define himself - apparently this is rather weighty in japanese (overtones of ostracism and social incongruity).   he's kind of an anti-araki, although they're good friends and have published books together.

Marko Cecic-Karuzic wrote:
Newton had an extensive book collection, including probably every Sieff book ever printed in practically every edition, it seemed.

not surprising at all. 

i have a nico record with cover shot by sieff.  it's probably my favorite picture of her.

Christopher Bush wrote:

moriyama is like a japanese gibson - as you say, a tweener.  probably leaning a little more towards the sentimental (but towards more unfamiliar objects, unlike juergen teller).  he's used the theme of a stray dog to sort of define himself - apparently this is rather weighty in japanese (overtones of ostracism and social incongruity).   he's kind of an anti-araki, although they're good friends and have published books together.

Ahhh, I MUST check him out! Cool! (I love Araki, by the way.... And Gibson. And... everybody you listed, actually.)

Caroline Ann Martin wrote:
My searches for both have led me nowhere

I tried to google for it and didn't find anything either

Christopher Bush wrote:
i have a nico record with cover shot by sieff.  it's probably my favorite picture of her.

Probably because he was the first photographer to shoot her, before she got famous and full of herself.

Sarah Ellis wrote:
Probably because he was the first photographer to shoot her, before she got famous and full of herself.

you mean full of heroin?   (that probably isn't smiley-face-appropriate)

still, one of my favorite singers of all time.

Christopher Bush wrote:
you mean full of heroin?   (that probably isn't smiley-face-appropriate)

still, one of my favorite singers of all time.

I though heroin made you more photogenic.

Mine too

darkfotoart wrote:
the best photographer on earth is    steve mccurry    .   no need to post any of his work he took the most famous and reconized  photo in the history of the world.    (   indian woman  , cover of national geographic  )

Afghan woman (or girl, she was 12).

TroisCouleurs wrote:

Yes! I already noticed him from the other thread. True artist

Wow! So my posts do get noticed...

GLB Graphics wrote:
Wow! So my posts do get noticed...

I say it to myself sometimes too

Marko Cecic-Karuzic wrote:
I love Araki, by the way....

Thanks to everyone of you for the links and references. I am now taking every free minute to check new (for me!) names.

Just went through one abt Araki. Yes, his work is something ...
And I thought this comment was saying it all too:

"One of his photographic obsessions is clearly women, and he has worked extensively photographing prostitutes and bar girls at work as well as publishing more personal documents such as a record of his honeymoon. His work has brought him into conflict with the Japanese censors."

Collin J. Rae wrote:
Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Another one who's work I fall in love with  ....