Stephen Shore
Ask HN: Which photographers do you admire?
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#12Daniel Sanwald to me is one of the most innovative contemporaries. I’ve only met him once but seemed lovely too. Portraits and fashion.
Jamie Hawksworth has a keen eye and delivers warmth in his traditional process. He shoots landscape and fashion.
Nick Night and Craig Mcdean for pushing the boundaries of fashion photography.
Rankin for his work ethic. I could watch him working from my desk for about a year, he worked 12hour days 6 days a week. If he didn’t have a professional job, he always had a side project. Portraits and fashion.
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#13Ken Rockwell just for the pedagogy
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#14Andreas Gursky is doing amazing things. Go to an exhibition and look at the big pictures.
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#15Yann Arthus-Berthrand and Peter Menzel. They capture nature and human life like I've never seen before
"The earth from above": https://search.brave.com/images?q=yann+arthus-bertrand+the+w...
The Human (Musics) film is special: https://youtu.be/uog4eCZTUX4
Fascinating portraits of human lives all over the planet: https://www.menzelphoto.com/portfolio/G0000GPaxwfSZQ0Q
"What the world eats": https://time.com/8515/what-the-world-eats-hungry-planet/
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#16Alan Schaller - Monochrome street photography.
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#17Sean Tucker, Craig Whitehead (sixstreetunder), Joshua Jackson, Alan Schaller. They all mostly shoot street. Sean Tucker has a popular YouTube channel about Photography.
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#18Personally I find the documentary and travel genre most interesting. I think it's quite a hard genre to get right, though. When one thinks travel photography the mind immediately goes to the saturated, contrasty, increasingly dark (for some reason, what is this trend?) photos that are popular on Instagram, but the genre can be so much more interesting.
One photographer I really like is Mitchell Kanashkevich who photographs mostly people on his travels. He really has a way of developing relationships with them to allow him to take photos you don't often see.
https://www.mitchellk-photos.com/
Another fun photographer who is mostly taking aerials is George Steinmetz who photographs for National Geographic. His assignments and projects are mostly related to global problems such as feeding the world population and climate change. He has some beautiful photos, and his Instagram is also quite fun with each post being two halfs of an aerial for that panoramic feel.
https://www.georgesteinmetz.com/
Honestly, a lot of the National Geographic photographers take amazing photos.
Personally, I try to incorporate a bit of both's style in my own photography, but of course it takes years of practice. I do mostly travel, documentary and landscapes. You can check out my work below.
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#19Sean Tucker, Craig Whitehead (sixstreetunder), Joshua Jackson, Alan Schaller. They all mostly shoot street. Sean Tucker has a popular YouTube channel about Photography.
I used to watch Sean's videos all the time! I find street a bit hard as a genre because I feel that most photos I see are basically just random snapshots without any real story or anything that makes it special. Of course there are some talented street photographers.
Vivian Maier took some excellent photos and was basically unknown until someone found a bunch of her film canisters at a yard sale and developed them.
Henri Cartier-Bresson also took some AMAZING photos in his time. Some of them you really wonder how he got somewhere at just the right time.
https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/henri-cartier-bres...
A lot of Magnum photographers are very skilled street photographers, I think.