Any Great Medium format photographers?
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Well, let's see.
Annie Leibovitz
Vivian Maier
Fritz Henle
Richard Avedon
Dianne Arbus
and probably a few more.
Annie Leibovitz
Vivian Maier
Fritz Henle
Richard Avedon
Dianne Arbus
and probably a few more.
A few more:
David Plowden
Edouard Boubat
Josef Hoflehner
Brett Weston (known for large format, but also used an RB67)
Some of Willy Ronis' work appears to have been square format
Barry Thornton
Faye Godwin (square format, I believe)
Charlie Waite
Larry Fink
Dale
David Plowden
Edouard Boubat
Josef Hoflehner
Brett Weston (known for large format, but also used an RB67)
Some of Willy Ronis' work appears to have been square format
Barry Thornton
Faye Godwin (square format, I believe)
Charlie Waite
Larry Fink
Dale
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin.
John Gay.
Steve.
Steve.
Bob Carlos Clarke.
Alexey Titarenko
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You will have to define "great." I'm old enough to remember when newspaper photographers got rid of their 4x5 Speed Graphics and embraced the Rolleiflex. Some of these guys (and they were mostly guys in those days) took great photos, some won the Pullet Surprise, but you may not have heard of them.
If a photog takes a great photograph in a cathedral at sunrise and nobody hears the shutter click, is it a great photograph?
If a guy didn't work for a whiz-bang huge media outlet or did not have a private line into the photo editor at Life Magazine, does that mean his photos are not great because not many people saw them? The V. Maier syndrome, methinks. How many undiscovered Maiers are there out there? What is "great" anyway. Today a "celebrity" can be someone who was on an obscure TV show in one brief episode.
You will have to define "great." I'm old enough to remember when newspaper photographers got rid of their 4x5 Speed Graphics and embraced the Rolleiflex. Some of these guys (and they were mostly guys in those days) took great photos, some won the Pullet Surprise, but you may not have heard of them.
If a photog takes a great photograph in a cathedral at sunrise and nobody hears the shutter click, is it a great photograph?
If a guy didn't work for a whiz-bang huge media outlet or did not have a private line into the photo editor at Life Magazine, does that mean his photos are not great because not many people saw them? The V. Maier syndrome, methinks. How many undiscovered Maiers are there out there? What is "great" anyway. Today a "celebrity" can be someone who was on an obscure TV show in one brief episode.
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Although Richard Avedon is best known for his 8x10 work, he was also a big user of Rolleiflex cameras. Bruce Weber is another name that comes to mind. And I just bought a book by Jock Sturges that he shot with a Rolleiflex.
Henri Cartier-Bresson also used medium format camera in the beginning of his carrier.
Bunny Yeager
BTW - not obvious at first about HCB:
Most famous photos "Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare" was taken 1932. and he got his first Leica 1933. So it was shot on medium format
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Most famous photos "Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare" was taken 1932. and he got his first Leica 1933. So it was shot on medium format
.Eve Arnold
I can accept this list, except for Mortenson, who I've never heard of. I'll find out about him. Thanks, People. Chip
Ray Mortenson is one of the few B&W photographers I enjoy who used 6x4.5. Check out the Meadowland book from 1983 (Lustrum Press). Although the credits in the book and on his website don't mention 6x4.5, the proofsheet reproduced in the book Contact Theory (Lustrum Press, 1980) was made with 6x4.5 camera.
If you like Fay Godwin Land and Lee Friedlander Factory Valleys, Meadowland could go right between them on the bookshelf.
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