Any Great Medium format photographers?

[snusmumriken]

Peter Mitchell not been mentioned yet.

Why?

I understand that both girls were models that he hired.

I don’t think hiring models was Bert Hardy’s style. According to his autobiography, he had accepted a challenge for Picture Post to shoot photos in Blackpool using a Box Brownie. “After a four-mile walk, we still had no shots of pretty girls. There was a rehearsal of the pier show going on, and we asked a couple of the girls to pose for us.”

 

[bluechromis]

I've read that Ralph Eugene Meatyard primarily used a Rolleiflex.

 

[AnselMortensen]

Arthur Tress.

 

[bluechromis]

According to Wiki, Gerry Uelsmann mostly used a medium format Broncia.

 

[bluechromis]

Yeah, Salgado was travelling extensively for his Genesis photos. His films started to suffer from x-ray burn, so he switched to Canon 5D Mk2/3 instead. (Famously, Canon modded the screens to only show B&W.)

But since then he has actually stated that using a digital negative to print halide prints actually gives him better images than he got with 6x7 Tri-X.

Salgado is actualky featured in the promotions of both Canon 5D and DXO Optics film plugins.

So he's no longer a top advocate for MF film, but I am sure his photos are an inspiration to many.

His Genesis exhibition is actually on in my home town at the moment so I'll go and see the actual prints any day now. I'm looking forward to that. The book is beautiful but the prints should be so much better.

Salgado benefitted from working with skilled darkroom printers and digital editors. His transition to digital might not have gone so well if his editor/printers had not been able to translate his analog look to the digital realm. He still gets full credit as he exercised authorial control of both methods even if he did not do the printing or digital post-production himself.

 

[David Reynolds]

Lisette Model used a Rolleiflex TLR early in her career. Possibly magazine work (Harpers etc) required it. When I studied with her at The New School she stressed it did not matter what camera or format one used . At the time she was featured in Warhol's Interview mag (c. 1980) and she told me she was fascinated by some of the multi imaged works I was doing at the time, outside of conventional photography.

 

[Axelwik]

Lee Marmon used mostly a Rolleiflex, but also Hasselblads. He owned a Mamiya 7 late in his career, which I helped him sell a few years before he passed away.

 

[Philippe-Georges]

Although Margaret Bourke-White had a TLR, she mainly shot LF.

But, I wonder why she considered a (small-) gas pipe wrench and pliers as being a part of her photographic equipment (look in the middle of the lenses)...
To remove stuck filters?

PS: I found this picture on the web (instagram), but it is copyrighted by Alfred Eisenstaedt

 

[MattKing]

But, I wonder why she considered a (small-) gas pipe wrench and pliers as being a part of her photographic equipment (look in the middle of the lenses)...
To remove stuck filters?

I sometimes carry similar tools for use with tripods, flash holders, accessory grips, light stands and other similar items.

 

[gordrob]

Roloff Beny - Canadian/Italian photographer from the 60s and 70s. Did a lot of his work with a TLR

 

[Philippe-Georges]

I sometimes carry similar tools for use with tripods, flash holders, accessory grips, light stands and other similar items.

Yes, that is what I did for years for the same reason, when going on site for shooting I took a whole flightcase loaded with all kinds of tools and stuff for 'bricolage', but in that picture there aren't any really 'non camera items', and the wrench isn't that large...

But it isn't really important, it's just interesting to see that she must been loaded as a mule when leaving on assignment!
I was too, and it ruined my back...

 

[logan2z]

I haven't seen Graciela Iturbide mentioned in this thread. She uses a Mamiya 6 and a Rolleiflex.

 

[MTGseattle]

Keith Carter? There's a photo of him and an 8x10 in his website, but his early work looked like 6x6. I could be wrong; he may just crop into square from another format.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Although Margaret Bourke-White had a TLR, she mainly shot LF.

But, I wonder why she considered a (small-) gas pipe wrench and pliers as being a part of her photographic equipment (look in the middle of the lenses)...
To remove stuck filters?

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PS: I found this picture on the web (instagram), but it is copyrighted by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Some small parts are hard to get a good grip on them.

 

[MattKing]

n that picture there aren't any really 'non camera items', and the wrench isn't that large...

I had a custom made attachment that allowed me to mount a Metz 60CT flash to my Mamiya C330 left hand trigger grip. It required regularly tightening with a wrench .

 

[GregY]

Adam Jahiel

The Last Cowboy

www.adamjahiel.com

www.adamjahiel.com

 

[eli griggs]

Ansel Adams used a Hasselblad and there are a few photographs from medium format in his Negitive, Darkroom, Camera, etc series.

 

[etn]

Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna is one of my favorite photographers!

Peter Lindbergh also used MF (Pentax 67). Not sure whether he was already mentioned, I did not read all 7 pages of this thread

 

[rulnacco]

Loads of great photographers mentioned here, including several whose work I'll have to check out. Some others--great to very, very good--I like who haven't been mentioned (or at least I didn't notice):

Seydou Keïta - one of the true greats
Carl De Keyzer
Gregory Heisler (well known for his LF portraits, but occasionally uses an RZ67)
Gordon Parks
Malick Sidibe
Fay Godwin (one of her books was mentioned, but not the fact that most of her work was shot on Hasselblad)
George Dureau

 

[Pioneer]

Loads of great photographers mentioned here, including several whose work I'll have to check out. Some others--great to very, very good--I like who haven't been mentioned (or at least I didn't notice):

Seydou Keïta - one of the true greats
Carl De Keyzer
Gregory Heisler (well known for his LF portraits, but occasionally uses an RZ67)
Gordon Parks
Malick Sidibe
Fay Godwin (one of her books was mentioned, but not the fact that most of her work was shot on Hasselblad)
George Dureau

Thank you. I knew about a couple but several of these are really good.

 

[dave olson]

A fella by the name of Ansel Adams used a Hasselblad, Imogene Cunningham used a Rolleiflex, that's just two.

 

[Pieter12]

Did anyone mention Bret Weston?

 

[anthonym3]

define

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.

Did they cook the pullet or let it mature to egg laying age?

 

[Pieter12]

If a photog takes a great photograph in a cathedral at sunrise and nobody hears the shutter click, is it a great photograph?

Not if there isn't film in the camera, or it is somehow mishandled (exposure, development, etc). Of course it isn't a great photograph if it's poorly printed. There are exceptions, of course. Like Robert Capa's D-Day photos.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Don't believe Leon Levinstein has been mentioned yet. Roamed the streets with a Rolleiflex.