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Favorite Photograph(er)s
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Walker Evans
Edward Weston
Marsha Burns
Sally Mann
Ansel Adams
Francesca Woodman
Minor WhiteThe hugely influential founder of Aperture strangely fell off the edge of the photography world after his death in 1976. Just read an old essay written by photo critic Andy Grundberg i 1984 that tries...
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Sarah MeadowsSarah has nothing on the internets. So a photograph of one of her photographs. This is like the most conventional image she has ever made. I like her because she makes...
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Photography BooksI love my collection. Actually a relatively inexpensive way to study with the greatest. I am always astonished by the number of people taking photographs - including those making living by it...
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Diane Arbus
Emmet GowinHeard him lecture at Portland Art Museum a couple of years ago. Really the best talk by an artist ever.
Imogene Cunningham
Judy DaterI think my class with Judy - taught with then husband Jack Welpott - may have been my last course at UCSF Extension before moving to Canada
Andre KerteszA prize possession is a print of Satiric Dancer - printing supervised by Kertesz as he couldn't abide the chemicals. I bought it with my first Alaska resident "dividend" check in maybe 1980 (?)...
Tessa BoucherotThis is my buddy who takes these wonderful still lives using her iPhone. I keep telling her she should publish them, or show them, or something. So with the help of...
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Brian McDonnellSo this is a picture of French actor Jean-Luc Boucherot, spouse of the aforementioned buddy! Brian is enormously talented -- check his BMAC website
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Helmut NewtonGuilty pleasure
Robert MapplethorpeMy mother used to buy me an expensive photography book every Christmas and birthday. So the year the big retrospective book of Mapplethorpe came out (the one with the middle section with the...
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Vivian Meier
Laura Gilpin
Bernice Abbott
Avedon vs. PennThe fashion photo gods of the 20th century (sorry Helmut!). Who was better? Who knows? But what I don't get is how critics somehow still get all exercised over Avedon's...
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