PHOTOGRAPHERS YOU SHOULD LOOK AT, THINK ABOUT, AND USE FOR INSPIRATION...

PHOTOGRAPHERS YOU SHOULD LOOK AT, THINK ABOUT, AND USE FOR INSPIRATION...

Pedro Meyer – digital, what is reality?

David Rokeby – the real body versus digital forms, pixels

Chris Jordan – how we use/live with trash, digital manipulation

Erwin Wurm – one minute sculptures, absurd

Wendy McMurdo – double imaging using digital technologies

An-My Le – military bases, landscape

William Wegmen – art about pets for smart people

Gillian Wearing – Private/personal, people holding signs

Joel Sternfeld – Americana, historical sites

Yasumasu Morimura – putting self in recreations of famous photographs

Larry Sultan – suburban family

Jeff Wall – staged scenes of hinted narrative

Thomas Demand  - makes models that look like real places

Alec Soth- Mississippi River documentary, highway culture, americana

Richard Misrach- landscape, natural and human change

Letiza Battaglia- mafia, photojournalism

William Eggleston- hometown, ordinary

Billy Owens – narratives of suburbia

Joel Meyerowitz – dramatic landscape

Sebastiao Salgado – photojournalist, social documentation (Africa)

Annie Leibovitz- celebrity portraiture, setup environmental portraiture

Andreas Gursky – American consumerism, digital manipulation

Anna Gaskell – portraits of children’s fairytales gone awry

Miriam Backstrom – living in Ikea

Wolfgang Tillmans – everyday still life

Uta barth – photographic abstraction from everyday life

Richard Avedon- fashion/portrait, documentary/portraiture

Nan Goldin- portraiture, night/alternative lifestyles, mythology of romance

Gilles Peress- photojournalism

Phillip Lorca diCorcia – dramatic lighting, implied narrative

Sally Mann- environmental portraiture, landscape, early childhood, nudes

Barbara Crane- optical art

Richard Bellingham – twisted family photos

Jerry Uelsman- darkroom manipulation, landscape/body

Nikki Lee – different social stereotypes

Sam Taylor Wood – portraits, panorama, presented like religious altarpiece

Stephen Shore – americana, small towns

Joel Peter Witkin- macabre

Robert Adams- landscape, reprographic survey, man's power for ill

Shelby Lee Adams- Appalachian portraiture

Diane Arbus- documentary, portraiture

Lewis Baltz- minimalist, architectural

Larry Clark- drugs, guns, violence in media/culture

Judy Dater- oppression of domecity, alternative lifestyle

John Davies- landscape

Ger van Elk- comically staged scenes

Thomas Florschuetz- body, forensic, fragmented body

Adam Fuss- pinhole photography, techno-consumerist culture

Andres Gursky- industrial landscapes

Edward Bertinsky- industrial landscapes, altered landscapes

Teun Hocks- staged, unfathomable stories

Paul Den Hollander- social time/expectation/recollection, still life

Markus Jokela- contemporary leisure and consumerism

Nick Knight- fashion

Jerry Uelsmann – early pre digital image compositer

David Levinthal- toys that focus on heroism, struggle and catastrophe

Joel Meyerowitz- architectural counterpoints

Sophie Calle-ordinary fabric of people's lives, relationships, obsession

Nicholas Nixon- documentary portraitist

Pieere et Gilles- staged scenes, religious imagery

Bettina Rheims- nudes, people in control, invitation and sufferance

Eugene Richards- drug epidemic, poverty, low-income lifestyles

Judith Joy Ross- environmental portraiture, narratives

Paul Caponigro – Rock structures up close

Charles Sheeler – industrial factories

Sandy Skoglund- staged scenes, sculptural narratives, surreal

Chris Steele-Perkins- quirky scenes

Hiroshi Sugimoto- idealized representations, time

Patrick Tosani- look at the present, daily objects

Cindy Sherman- uses self image to comment on modern world

Duane Michals - visual narratives

Cindy Sherman - best known for self portraits, social commentary 

Carrie Mae Weems - formal and political issues, combining text with photos

Barbara Kruger - Social commentary on feminism and consumerism

Lee Friedlander – small towns, city scapes

Ralph Eugene Meatyard - haunting portraits of (almost) everyday life

Christian Boltanski - Difficult social themes, Holocaust images

Barbara Norfleet - concerned with deterioration of the landscape

Olivia Parker - Still life

Immogen Cunningham – urban landscape

Edward Burtynsky- link between industry and nature, beauty and humanity in unlikely places

Bea Nettles - printmaking/collage

Elliott Erwitt – witty (no pun intended) americana

Nancy Burson - digital imagery combining portraits

Robert Rauschenburg - Mixed media/collage/printmaking

David Hockney - Large format polaroids, and collage

Franco Fontana - Landscapes, figures and nudes

Robert Mapplethorpe - Flowers, portraits and nudes. Erotic imagery, controversial

Jan Saudek - Sexuality and the relationship between male and female

Mary Ellen Mark - Social documentation, portraits

Dorthea Lange - documented the homefront, especially among ethnic groups and workers 

uprooted by WW2

Helen Levitt - city life in E. Harlem NY during 30s and 40s

Walker Evans - documentary, great depression

Harry Callahan - landscapes, personal portraiture of his wife

Edward Weston - landscapes, nudes, sexy green peppers

Ansel Adams – landscapes with absolutely perfect exposures (maybe try HDR style)

Imogen Cunningham - landscapes, nudes, sexually charged still-lifes of flowers

Wynn Bullock - surreal landscapes, nudes

Emmit Gowin-  documents the scarred land of military test sites, pivot irrigation, gold courses, etc.

Victor Burgin – cityscapes, isolation

Paul Strand – abstract machinery

Charles Sheeler – images of massive factories

Alfred Steiglitz – pioneer in “art” photography of everyday life

Henri Carter Bresson – “the decisive moment” snapshot

Weegee – snapshots of old celebrity, newsworthy events, common scenes

Timothy O Sullivan – civil war photographs

Mathew Brady – civil war photographs

Julia Margaret Cameron – pioneer in photo portraiture

Eadweard Muybridge – pioneer in motion photography