Originally posted by clackers don't waste the opportunity to investigate the names people have mentioned
That's what I did. Not all had a big presence on the net but did get an idea of what was going on in contemporary photography.
Anyway...
1. This one was easy for me.
Fan Ho
He knows the power and language of the image. Power with subtitly, art with the eye of a journalist.
All that and mercifully he doesn't allow his ego to get between the image and the viewer.
2.
Holly Andres
From the, apparently, mundane to the sublime, from kitsch to art? But you need to see her full collection to know where she is going with it.
Hard to articulate but she got to me. Perhaps it's that Midwestern middle America ambiance that I know so well - my own roots. Perhaps its the women's viewpoint.
Even her technique is sort of point and shot to the level of an art form. At the end of the day she spoke to me with her images and that's all that really matters.
As of yesterday morning this was all those mentioned and I checked them out as best as I could on the net:
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Obie Oberholzer
Charlie Waite
Steve McCurry *
Don McCullin
Jimmy Nelson
Clyde Butcher
Stephen Shore
Roger Ballen
Bill Brandt *
Fan Ho **
Jimmy Mcintyre
Ed van der Elsken
Anton Corbijn
Erwin Olaf
Peter Lik
Nan Goldin
Tim Page
Sherman Hines
Courtney Milne
Edward Hine
Lee Jeffries
Pierre Gonnord
Thomas Shahan
Eddie The Bugman
Don Komarechka
Peter Grob
Nicky Bay
David Muench
Tom Till
Jack Dykinga
Pat OHara
Willard Clay
Carr Clifton
Christopher Burkett
Brooks Jenson
Obie Oberholzer
Galen Rowell
Abelardo Morell
William Wegman
Martin Schoeller
Bernhard Edmaier
Holly Andres *
Timothy Hogan
Tim Flach
Peter Lik
Trent Parke
Bill Brandt
Elliot Erwitt
Max Dupain
Helmut Newton
Larry Clark
Gary Chalker
Stephen Shore
Michael Kenna