best natural light portraitists?

[pierods]

Hello,

can you name a few masters of natural light portraiture for me to admire? Maybe in b/w?

thanks

piero

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

I'd say look at Sally Mann and Jock Sturges for folks who do portraits in natural light - they're not exactly conventional portraits, but they certainly qualify.

 

[Pinholemaster]

Scott Davis!

Surely not me! Dead Link Removed

Grin.

 

[keithwms]

Available light shooters tend also to fall into the impromptu/street, rangefinder or press camera mode of shooting. A few come to mind.... Weegee. Winogrand. Kertesz.

A prime recent example would be Ragnar Axelsson, whose understanding of the (challenging) available light of the north is clearly evident in his informal portraits in Faces of the North, which I described (there was a url link here which no longer exists). "Rax" is the man when it comes to available light environmental portraiture, in my opinion. Though you may be looking for more formal compositions.

 

[Stoo Batchelor]

You would have to include Jane Bown

http://89.234.0.17/collections/search/person.php?search=sa&sText=Jane+Bown&LinkID=mp07814&role=art

I own a wonderful book by her called 'FACES' The creative process behind great portraits, in which she includes a little of the thought process and tech detail on each photograph.

Best

Stoo

 

[Chazzy]

You would have to include Jane Bown

http://89.234.0.17/collections/search/person.php?search=sa&sText=Jane+Bown&LinkID=mp07814&role=art

That link gets me a mostly blank page, although it could be a problem with my browser.

 

[naeroscatu]

Charles, the link works, I was able to get in. Quite an impressive body of work, many famous people there.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Rembrandt, Vermeer.

Of course the nineteenth-century portraitists generally used natural light. Nadar understood light--

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/N/nadar/nadar_georges_sand_full.html

 

[Chazzy]

Charles, the link works, I was able to get in. Quite an impressive body of work, many famous people there.

It worked for me when I tried a second time. If at first you don't succeed …

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Oh, don't forget Alexander Gardner, Matthew Brady, and those millions of otherwise unknown wet plate portraitists whose work most of us have in family albums stashed away in some dusty corner of the attic somewhere.

 

[vdonovan]

Don't be forgettin' my man August Sander!

 

[rorye]

Snowden

 

[Chazzy]

Don't be forgettin' my man August Sander!

Thanks for the link. There's a Sander book that I've been wanting for some time, but it always goes for too much on eBay.

 

[pierods]

thank you all so much.

 

[Rob Skeoch]

I've always liked Arnold Newman.

 

[Schlapp]

Tina Modotti http://www.modotti.com/

 

[Morry Katz]

Let's not forget Edward Weston, Imogene Cunningham. Dorothea Lange, Walter Evans et al.

Morry Katz

 

[eddym]

W. Eugene Smith; Manuel Alvarez Bravo; Sebastiao Salgado

 

[AlanC]

1. Irving Penn. Worlds in a small room...
2. Frank Meadow Sutcliffe. Victorian photographs of Whitby fishermen

Alan Clark

 

[eddym]

Oh, I forgot... Antonin Kratochvil!

 

[keithwms]

Oh yes, do check out Cheryl Jacobs' latest offerings in the galleries!

 

[BobNewYork]

Snowdon

Bob H.

 

[rorye]

Ah yes, my typo

Rory E

 

[Ann M]

How about Eve Arnold?

 

[Anton Lukoszevieze]

Harry Callahan