Your favourite photographers or images

Barry - funnily enough - should I ever manage to finish the research and the write up of the Atatürk pictures I mentioned - one was taken in Sirkeci station in Istanbul. Which as I am sure you will know was the end point of the Orient Express. A journey undertaken by Agatha Christie - several times. On her way to meet her then husband who was an archeologist excavating Babylonian and Sumerian remains in - what is now Iraq. I think she went missing in Istanbul for a while? Well done on knowing what the correct plural of terminus is. This might seem like pedantry - and is - but even the BBC allow their commentators to talk about stadiums these days. Stadia, not stadiums. The barbarians are at the gates. cheers - I.
They are indeed Iain. Nothing wrong with a touch of pedantry now and then. I think dear old Agatha went missing on two or three occasions. Whether as a bit of self-publicity, or to sate secret urges, who knows? I hope your Ataturk series will be with us soon.
 
@Barry Giddens - 'Stunning Iain. The photos are good too!' ha ha. Yeah I know mate. I would like to point out in fairness to myself that particular picture was flagged up to me by my partner. It came from the official Facebook feed of the city - I don't do Facebook. I turned them into black and white because I thought they looked much better that way. She understands - and indeed tolerates - the fact I have a weakness for a well turned out Spanish equestrian lady. If that's your thing I could not recommend too highly attending the horse fair in Jerez de la Fontera. Ooft. In part I am happy for her to appreciate a well turned out bombero - fireman. Long term relationships - you only have to wear a chastity belt not a blind fold. Ha ha. Yours - I.

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@Barry Giddens - 'Stunning Iain. The photos are good too!' ha ha. Yeah I know mate. I would like to point out in fairness to myself that particular picture was flagged up to me by my partner. It came from the official Facebook feed of the city - I don't do Facebook. I turned them into black and white because I thought they looked much better that way. She understands - and indeed tolerates - the fact I have a weakness for a well turned out Spanish equestrian lady. If that's your thing I could not recommend too highly attending the horse fair in Jerez de la Fontera. Ooft. In part I am happy for her to appreciate a well turned out bombero - fireman. Long term relationships - you only have to wear a chastity belt not a blind fold. Ha ha. Yours - I.

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'I have a weakness for a well turned out Spanish equestrian lady'. That did make me laugh Iain. Quite a particular weakness. Actually, there's a club just off the Holloway Road that......oh no, perhaps I best put that in a pm.
 
@Digimonkey back at you :)
Shaving during WWII, unknown photographer.
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Just discovered Robert Frank. He's my new street photography hero.
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Evening H. - in my experience - street photography doesn't get much better than Frank. 'The Americans' is his definitive book for me. I can't remember where I was - MACBA in Barcelona perhaps? There was an exhibition from the book. It was amazing to see 'real' prints of the pics - it was jaw dropping to realise that someone could be that good at it. His stuff is playful, surreal - never mean - he doesn't take the piss out of his subjects - in the same way as earlier seeing the Magnum anniversary exhibition as a 20 year old fledgling professional photographer. They both completely changed my approach to the job. All Frank's pictures were printed with the rebates showing - I think that maybe this is where I picked up the habit with my own pictures. The only other contender for me - streetwise - would be W. Eugene Smith? Good call on resurrecting this thread - yours - I.

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More Eugene Smith -

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From the Pittsburgh project. Deeply influential on Salgado anyone? Up until my work pictures went digital - about 2000 - we printed our own stuff. I used to have a nice side-line printing for other people. The top floor of our house was a darkroom. So - I know how to print black and white pictures - this one is astonishing, this would have taken hours to get it right. The burning in - the dark bits - are the simple part but I think the highlights have been - held back - still fairly simple - but it has also been treated with a dilute bleach solution - with a brush - to bring up the highlights. Salgado's printer - his wife - is a master at this technique. Smith did this himself - he was obsessional about the printing of his pictures. I think in part because he was speeding out of his tits at the time - please pardon my language. Bottom line - it's that good because - he saw the picture and would not let anyone else realise the vision. - it was taken with an old school Leica lens - you can't get them anymore unless you are prepared to sell your house. Carbon glass.

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Smith was a distinguished war photographer too,

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Him in his darkroom, printing the Pittsburgh project. Out of his face - I should imagine - looks like it. Artists are often flawed? Aren't we all in some way? It doesn't look like he put any weight on during it? No shit.

Yours - I.

@Helveticum @Blademonkey @Barry Giddens
 
More Eugene Smith -

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From the Pittsburgh project. Deeply influential on Salgado anyone? Up until my work pictures went digital - about 2000 - we printed our own stuff. I used to have a nice side-line printing for other people. The top floor of our house was a darkroom. So - I know how to print black and white pictures - this one is astonishing, this would have taken hours to get it right. The burning in - the dark bits - are the simple part but I think the highlights have been - held back - still fairly simple - but it has also been treated with a dilute bleach solution - with a brush - to bring up the highlights. Salgado's printer - his wife - is a master at this technique. Smith did this himself - he was obsessional about the printing of his pictures. I think in part because he was speeding out of his tits at the time - please pardon my language. Bottom line - it's that good because - he saw the picture and would not let anyone else realise the vision. - it was taken with an old school Leica lens - you can't get them anymore unless you are prepared to sell your house. Carbon glass.

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Smith was a distinguished war photographer too,

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Him in his darkroom, printing the Pittsburgh project. Out of his face - I should imagine - looks like it. Artists are often flawed? Aren't we all in some way? It doesn't look like he put any weight on during it? No shit.

Yours - I.

@Helveticum @Blademonkey @Barry Giddens
Some of the best art work in whatever medium was done under the influence of something or another... Flawed... Maybe,.... Even crazed but talented without a doubt. P.
 
P. - mentalist with a paint brush -

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I've seen this in real life - a detail in the Prado - that's a tiny part of the picture - astonishing - off his chump? I suppose it depends on how we interpret these things? Yours -`iw
Ha, yes Iain, off his chump as you say.
I don't know if this artist partook in any substance or this was from a "straight" mind but I suspect the use of some form of mind altering substance. :) P. if it unlocks door's in your mind and let's you see freely I can see no harm in it, musicians have done it for years and some of their best work was done when they was away with the fairy's :) P.
 
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