Masters of Photography

[ConsAreLiars]

There are lots of them, with all kinds of styles, and many websites displaying some of their work, so I thought it might be instructive for folks here to post links to some of the Teachers. When looking at their work, it is a good exercise to imaging what the image might have been if the photographer had positioned the camera a step to one side or higher or lower, or had aimed it a bit left-right-up-or-down, or changed any of the other elements under the camera operator's control.

[ConsAreLiars]

1. Ansel Adams

One of the masters of Black&White and the American Landscape:
http://www.atara.net/ansel/#

[ET Awful]

2. James Nachtwey

One of, if not THE best war/conflict photographers of all time

http://www.jamesnachtwey.com/

[intheflow]

3. Robert Capa was another amazing war photographer.

Best known for his WWII and Spanish Civil War photos. After WWII he went to work for LIFE, and photographed many famous people. But he had become addicted to shooting in war zones, and he died in 1954, when he stepped on a landmine while on patrol with American soldiers in Vietnam.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/capa/photo1.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/pop-ups/capa.shtml

Capa's skill inspired both my photography and my commitment to work for peace.

[peacebuzzard]

4. Ansel is my favorite, Salgado, Leibowitz, Arbus, Capa for human conditions

I have always preferred his meticulous landscapes.

[ConsAreLiars]

7. Any sites that are especially good for those photographers?

I've looked around for Salgado, surely one of the best ever, but the exhibition sites I found never seemed to do justice to his work.

[peacebuzzard]

8. I found one for Salgado that has some of his stuff.

http://www.terra.com.br/sebastiaosalgado/inicio.htm

[ConsAreLiars]

10. Another good collection is at this link, but none of them do justice

to his work: http://www.nytimes.com/specials/salgado/home/
Hard to navigate, hit the tiny images to get less tiny ones and then category links to move through the gallery.

But so much of the power of his work is in the incredible detail. He can capture a "mass" of people and yet show the individuality of each person. The look in the eyes, the wrinkles, the strain in the muscles. The small images I've seen on the web just get nowhere near the power of the originals. I think my first encounter was in some magazine like Life, or maybe National Geographic, that showed gold miners laboring to haul ore from a pit mine. The web images I have seen are just a hint.

Edit to add: the best site may be Kodak's, which yields somewhat larger images if you click on the medium sized ones. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/features/legendsV3Q5/gallery03_08.shtml

[peacebuzzard]

11. Nice link.

[Fovea]

5. Edward Weston

Diane Arbus

Two of my favorites.

[kliljedahl]

6. A personal friend of mine

Monique Stauder

http://www.moniquestauder.com


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[bvar22]

9. Great Thread.

There is already enough here to keep me busy for a loooooong time.
Thanks. Wonderful Idea.
Kinda like a communal library.