Your favorite film Photographers

[axis90x]

weird why nobody include the top 40 shooter in clubsnap HAHAHAHA ! :bsmilie:

 

[sim4nee]

It's funny nobody mention local photographers that conquered the commercial photgraphy world during the 80,s like Mun & Wong, Sebastian Tan of Shooting Gallery(still 1 of the best in Asia), Teo Chai Guan etc. They won award like CLEO, some award in Cannes etc.These are my true heroes.

 

[Terrence]

My favourite photographers are :

1. Josef Koudelka
2. Helen Lewitt

3. HCB
4. Sebastiao Salgado
5. William Klien
6. Eugene Smith
7. Joel Meyerowitz
8. Emanuel Smague
9. Paul Swee

 

[parperdumer]

Trente Parke & Paolo Pellegrin

 

[Leika]

Eugene Atget

 

[Royale With Cheese]

weird why nobody include the top 40 shooter in clubsnap HAHAHAHA ! :bsmilie:

wa lau, kena arrow.........

My pictures are not up to standard la! Still learning stage

 

[artspraken]

Royale with Cheese is top 40 shooter?

cs got ranking meh

 

[axis90x]

Royale with Cheese is top 40 shooter?

cs got ranking meh

i never point arrow also what -.-
nobody know is who too -.-

 

[artspraken]

CS ranking is quite good idea leh.

the mods should start a thread for people to nominate best photographers in CS, after that, start a poll for people to vote.

liddat got top 40 ranking in cs will be quite fun

For eg. in dpreview.com got "challenges" which is same idea

 

[axis90x]

CS ranking is quite good idea leh.

the mods should start a thread for people to nominate best photographers in CS, after that, start a poll for people to vote.

liddat got top 40 ranking in cs will be quite fun

For eg. in dpreview.com got "challenges" which is same idea

you should suggest it to the mods lor ~

 

[Royale With Cheese]

I'm top 40 shooter from behind la :bsmilie:

Long story on that name

 

[krishna91]

1. Henri Cartier-Bresson
2. Kevin Carter/Greg Marinovich/Joao Silva - The Bang Bang Club
3. James Nachtwey
4. Ernst Haas
5. W. Eugene Smith - "What use is depth of field when there is no depth of feeling?"
6. Robert Capa - "If your pictures aren't good enough you aren't close enough"
7. Steve McCurry
8. Sebastiao Salgado
9. Maddy Bowen (fictional character )
10. GALEN ROWELL!

 

[nordleadx]

Guys,

Please share your personal favorites and why.

1. HCB - Don't think I need to say much about this guy. His photos will speak for itself. I love his wartime photos

2. Sabestiao Salgado - His protraits of third world countries like Africa, South America are fantatics!!! Rich tone and great compositions. If you've not checked out his photo book - Africa, you must. Very good quality prints! Salgado is mainly a R6 users with 3 lenses - 28, 35 n 60. He also uses M6 with 3 lenses setup

3. Jim Marshall - Rock n Roll Photographer. He had documentated the rise of Rock n Roll from the Early Days. He will be missed. He combined two of my favorite hobbies. Rock n Roll & Blues music and photography.

Bro, did HCB take war time pics??? dont think so?

 

[ZoomP]

Bro, did HCB take war time pics??? dont think so?

Chinese civil war? His photos on the Gestapo Informer? Of course, he is not exactly known as a war photographer.

 

[clubgrit]

Nice choices ...

So many for me however, I just love all kinds of art .... hard to explain, let their works do the talking ...

But it's all subjective obviously, like Leica icon Bresson is not exactly a major favorite of mine, nor is Ansel Adams . And even Bresson had words about Adams work - "French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was saying, “The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks!” In his response to such criticism, Weston spoke for Adams as well as himself. “It seems so utterly naïve that landscape—not that of the pictorial school—is not considered of ‘social significance' when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of any locale than excrescences called cities. By landscapes, I mean every physical aspect of a region—weather, soil, wildflowers, mountain peaks—and its effect on the psyche and physical appearance of the people.”

Anyway, some favorites, and it's just the microtip of the iceberg ...

W. Eugene Smith - http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&...esult_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQsAQwAA

Helmut Newton - http://www.google.com/images?um=1&h...lmut+newton&aq=f&aqi=g5g-m2&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Herb Ritts - http://www.google.com/images?um=1&h...=herb+ritts&aq=f&aqi=g4g-m2&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Dorothea Lange - http://www.google.com/images?um=1&h...=dorothea+lange&aq=f&aqi=g9&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Annie Leibovitz - http://www.google.com/images?um=1&h...nnie+leibovitz&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Robert Doisneau - http://www.google.com/images?um=1&h...zBQ&ved=0CCEQvwUoAQ&q=robert+doisneau&spell=1


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[nordleadx]

Nice choices ...

So many for me however, I just love all kinds of art .... hard to explain, let their works do the talking ...

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To me its was u , Boochap & noelleon that makes me join clubsnap and want to visit clubsnap. Sad to say u three has not been very active nowdays. U guys shown me there's more than just bokeh and more soul in the pictures.

 

[artspraken]

Bro, did HCB take war time pics??? dont think so?

Yes. HCB did take wartime photos. Both WWII and Spanish Civil War.

Service in World War II

When World War II broke out in September 1939, he joined the French Army as a Corporal in the Film and Photo unit. During the Battle of France, in June 1940 at St. Dié in the Vosges Mountains, he was captured by German soldiers and spent 35 months in prisoner-of-war camps doing forced labor under the Nazis. As Cartier-Bresson put it, he was forced to perform "thirty-two different kinds of hard manual labor."[citation needed] He worked "as slowly and as poorly as possible."[citation needed] He twice tried and failed to escape from the prison camp, and was punished by solitary confinement. His third escape was successful and he hid on a farm in Touraine before getting false papers that allowed him to travel in France. In France, he worked for the underground, aiding other escapees and working secretly with other photographers to cover the Occupation and then the Liberation of France. In 1943, he dug up his beloved Leica camera, which he had buried in farmland near Vosges. At the end of the war he was asked by the American Office of War Information to make a documentary, Le Retour (The Return) about returning French prisoners and displaced persons.

Toward the end of the War, rumors had reached America that Cartier-Bresson had been killed. His film on returning war refugees (released in the United States in 1947) spurred a retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) instead of the posthumous show that MoMA had been preparing. The show debuted in 1947 together with the publication of his first book, The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Lincoln Kirstein and Beaumont Newhall wrote the book's text.

 

[The Dry Box]

Trente Parke & Paolo Pellegrin

:thumbsup::thumbsup: Two very different styles, with pictures much to talk about.

 

[wheresmycheese]

Horst and irving penn are some of my favorites

 

[mmmel]

RWC is top 10 no longer top 40..