I am pleased to see a subject like this.
I have been letting the great photographers of all time inspire me from day one.
I also take very much advantage of all the beautiful photos uploaded on galleries on different photo fora including this great one I'm writing to at this moment.
For what i like, there won't be server space enough to go through.
It will be hard for me to limit this post but I'll give it a try.
Man Ray:
I very much admire Man Ray's ability to cross photography and other art forms.
His ability to pioneer photography of it's days.
The way he expresses feminin portraiting.
Henri Cartier-Bresson:
I get puzzled of the very moment he can frame.
Elliot Erwitt:
I like his humour.
Robert Capa:
As a war reporter, Eddie Adams and Robert Capa were the ones to capture cruelness in basic form.
John Hedgecoe:
For all his super literature on the photo subject.
He inspired me from the start to take a camera in my hand and to go in the darkroom.
Nicolas Muray:
His pictures are apparently well protected and I respect that.
His colours, his romance, portraits, his use of colour cabro processing.
Staff of national Geographic:
Phillippe Halsman:
here is the avantgarde and surrealism of photography.
Eugene Atget:
Without Atget, not many others would have been.
Chris Steele-Perkins:
I Can't seem to find photos reflecting what I like the best about him.
His freedom of the unexpected chaos in the photos.
the contrast of the everyday life.
Alexander Rodchenko:
He was a master of shadow.
In his photos I see infinity.
Niklas