The greatest photographer of our time!

[PistonReg]

Right. I've no idea who they are - I'm fairly new to photography and keen to se some of the best photos so it got me wondering who are the greatest photographers in each of the fields; landscape and then journalism photographers.

Ideas please...

[stigmundfreud]

reveered photographers are usually so so just getting smoke blown up their arse by the art world

greatest in our time, me.

[john185k]

I'm Spartacus!

[Simpo Two]

There are so many styles that I think it's like asking who's the greatest singer of all time.

I'm not sure whether it's better to copy someone else, or just pick up a camera and 'use the force'.

[andy-xr]

stigmundfreud said:

greatest in our time, me.

I was going to nominate you for Most Modest as well

[stigmundfreud]

andy-xr said:

stigmundfreud said:

greatest in our time, me.

I was going to nominate you for Most Modest as well

I'd considered it but modesty is for amateurs/wedding togs tbh

[curtisl]

I have always quite like Alfred Eisenstaedt since getting a book on Life photographers. He is credited for taking one of the most famous WWII pics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Eisenstaedt

[Fabric 2.2]

Dr Harold Edgerton






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Edgerton

[VxDuncan]

Sebastião Salgado - take a look at his "workers" series...

[Scho]

stigmundfreud said:

modesty is for amateurs/wedding togs tbh

whilst these might not be the 'greatest' images in isolation i think these two photographers put some first class projects together:


richard misrach






martin parr

Edited by Scho on Tuesday 2nd December 10:27

[AndyKH]

I don't 'get' those scho, they just look like average holiday snaps to me. Am i missing something ?

[Simpo Two]

I'm definitely going to buy a giant version of this on canvas:




Not.

At the risk of being branded a pleb by those here who did a degree in photography, WTF?

[stigmundfreud]

missing nothing, I think thats the point. My old tutor would have laughed me out of the lecture room for putting that stuff up to crit but the point they would be missing is just how much £££££ those guys make. It isnt always about art but context and I think thats what scho is on about

I'd toss them all in the bin too

[Simpo Two]

stigmundfreud said:

the point they would be missing is just how much £££££ those guys make. It isnt always about art but context

Ah yes, like Damien Hurst being able to put a turd in a box and sell it for £1,000,000 just because he did it and not me.

[stigmundfreud]

Simpo Two said:

stigmundfreud said:

the point they would be missing is just how much £££££ those guys make. It isnt always about art but context

Ah yes, like Damien Hurst being able to put a turd in a box and sell it for £1,000,000 just because he did it and not me.

yep, I have a list of all the women I have shagged, if I put their names over a tent I'd be done for crimes to art and some sexual discrimination/humiliation stuff too. I watched some old toff explain Emin as it all being from the soul and thats why its worth so much, that if any other mere mortal had done it then it just wouldnt work.

[Simpo Two]

stigmundfreud said:

I watched some old toff explain Emin

'Toffs' are usually far more sensible than that, preferring a nice Rembrandt or similar.

[SamHH]

Simpo Two said:

'Toffs' are usually far more sensible than that, preferring a nice Rembrandt or similar.

The same thing applies: you could paint a painting equal in quality to those of Rembrandt, but it wouldn't be worth the same. At that level, it's not about art, it's about memorabilia. That's fine by me, it's just silly when people pretend it is about art.

[Scho]

what do you want?

photo's of dead soldiers?

a nice picture of windamere?

post it up!

[Simpo Two]

SamHH said:

The same thing applies: you could paint a painting equal in quality to those of Rembrandt, but it wouldn't be worth the same.

Absolutely, but the likes of Rembrandt could actually paint - they had immense skill, so people are at least buying a real work of art, and not a gimmick.


Anyway, back to the plot. On my walls I have a number of prints and paintings including a Louis Wain watercolour. There are four photographs, one a signed print by Norman Parkinson, the other three by Lord Simpo

Edited by Simpo Two on Tuesday 2nd December 12:41

[Jenx]

I nominate www.stevecarter.com and www.mattwatkinson.com as contenders.