Your favourite photographers or images

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This thread has been created from a private group conversation that was getting unwieldy - you are invited to share the work of photographers you admire or even single images that have had an impact on you. Anything you like - I'll kick things off -

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A late picture - you can tell, it's in colour - by Helmut Newton - German/Australian fashion photographer. I think his work is desperately unfashionable these days but I have always admired his pictures. Some regard them as the worst sort of 70's and 80's misogyny but I couldn't disagree more. His models are always the ones in charge in his images. His wife Alice - was his art director throughout his career. Yes - his work is glamorous and - at times erotic - but as the lead photographer for French Vogue, what else would you expect? This is one of my favourite pictures by him. It's gorgeous in every respect. - I.

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I like Helmut Newton a lot. Once saw an exhibition of gigantic blowups of his photos at the Museum of Photography in Berlin. They had also re-created his living room and it was so well done it appeared that he had just stepped out to grab a pack of Camels. There were a bunch of his old cameras laying, too. Didn't know he was such a fan of the legendary Brownie Hawkeye.

As an aside, Berlin is a fine city with lots of art things to do. If the health insurance there wasn't so prohibitively expensive I'd have my fat ass and my Instamatic there in a New York heartbeat.
 
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Two pictures inspired by @Blackmass - R.'s post

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Two pictures by Arthur Fellig - better known by his nick-name 'Weegee.' A freelance crime and news photographer in New York - his best work was done in the 30's and 40's. Shot with quarter plate - large format - Speed Graphic cameras. His nick-name is a corruption of 'ouija' - as in board. From his apparently uncanny ability to be first on the scene at any major incident. Nothing supernatural about it - he had a police frequency radio in his car that he bought from a bent cop. I particularly identify with his work - all these years apart - because I'm a freelance news photographer and our subject material has several cross-over points. Two things occur to me - he had access that is inconceivable today - in our world of PR and media handling, also the graphic nature of the pictures he sold would not happen now. These two selected are among the tamer of his work. Historic documents - I.
 
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Two pictures inspired by @Blackmass - R.'s post

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Two pictures by Arthur Fellig - better known by his nick-name 'Weegee.' A freelance crime and news photographer in New York - his best work was done in the 30's and 40's. Shot with quarter plate - large format - Speed Graphic cameras. His nick-name is a corruption of 'ouija' - as in board. From his apparently uncanny ability to be first on the scene at any major incident. Nothing supernatural about it - he had a police frequency radio in his car that he bought from a bent cop. I particularly identify with his work - all these years apart - because I'm a freelance news photographer and our subject material has several cross-over points. Two things occur to me - he had access that is inconceivable today - in our world of PR and media handling, also the graphic nature of the pictures he sold would not happen now. These two selected are among the tamer of his work. Historic documents - I.
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Great shots you have there Iain and the irony of the second one in particular is amazing.
Thanks for sharing.
 
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