Favourite photograph

[cliveh]

What do you consider your favourite photograph by an individual photographer to be?

 

[horacekenneth]

It's difficult to pick out a single photograph, as if I understood photos in groups and not as individuals. And speaking of which, I'd also like to know your favorite photograph by a group photographer.

 

[Sirius Glass]

It is hard to pick out any one photograph. Even selecting a few photographs can be hard because the subject matter, the composition and moods are so different.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

"Boulevard du Temple", Daguerre, 1838

"Dali Atomicus", Halsman, 1948

 

[Bill Burk]

My favorite changes day to day. But here's one that always draws me in...

U.S.S.R. Robert Capa Magnum, Ladies' home Journal

 

[CropDusterMan]

I always loved the one Cartier-Bresson did of the boy with the magnum of wine..."Rue-Mouffetard".....
Such a cheeky young fellow! ;O)

 

[MattKing]

This is one that I come back to regularly:

Samuel Beckett, photographed by Jane Bown.

Which immediately brings rise to blansky's musings about photographs of famous people.

 

[pdeeh]

I like that one by that bloke - you know, the one everyone likes

 

[Vaughn]

Easy choice for me...AA -- Tenaya Creek, Dogwoods, Rain

http://www.afterimagegallery.com/adamsportf3tenaya.htm

 

[cliveh]

It's difficult to pick out a single photograph, as if I understood photos in groups and not as individuals. And speaking of which, I'd also like to know your favorite photograph by a group photographer.

What do you mean by a group photographer?

 

[Vaughn]

Not bad

I remember sitting on the floor of the Weston Gallery, looking at this print -- my first 'real' Ansel Adams photograph I had ever seen. Everything about the image clicked with what I was working with in my images in my local Redwoods...and showed me that I still had a ways to go. From the tonality of the rocks along the creek, to having the sky be rock cliffs, and the highlights that are the dogwood flowers -- perfect.

 

[Peter Rockstroh01]

Sunflower - Paul Caponigro

 

[Peltigera]

There are just far too many.

 

[cliveh]

Why don't you tell us what yours is, unless it is a secret. You mean favourite by a specific photographer, not favourite image in general, right?

OK, well I think I have mentioned this shot before, but I think this is superb. I can open a magazine or newspaper and recognise an HCB image within 2 or 3 seconds.

This one:-

http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/apr/24/henri-cartier-bresson-moscow-1954

took me a little longer, the reason being he has made a compromise in composition for the timing and content of the shot. Life is about compromise and so is photography and here we have HCB at his very best. A perfect moment that tells a story, but still asks questions. The brilliance of this shot is highlighted by the fine line between the young women’s profile on the right and the woman behind, who is either standing or walking. That line is not Photoshop, but absolute perfection in timing.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Migrant mother by Dorothea Lange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Owens_Thompson
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/fts/kansascity_201307F03.html
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/windows/southeast/dorothea_lange.html​

 

[Sirius Glass]

"The Man" by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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[Valerie]

Windowsill Daydreaming by Minor White

 

[Ian Leake]

Irving Penn

 

[megzdad81]

+1 for 'Migrant Mother" -- it instantly came to mind because it raises such emotion inside. (Although I DO have a couple of AAs on the wall, but mostly BSs>).

 

[SuzanneR]

Though it often changes, and I've been looking at a lot of color photography lately, I have to say, Sally Mann's Blowing Bubbles has been a long time favorite.

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/sally-mann-blowing-bubbles-1987-5236005-details.aspx

 

[Bob Carnie]

three come immediately to mind

Five people sitting on bench by Winograd.

Man with Bricks on shoulder by Sanders.

Children walking in woods by Eugene Smith.


Contemporary- work

Ed Burtynsky - China Series pick one.

Jesper Sorensen - Scarface - coming to a museum near you soon I hope.

 

[4season]

One of my favorites is surely this photo of Jacques Tati by Robert Doisneau:

 

[cliveh]

One of my favorites is surely this photo of Jacques Tati by Robert Doisneau:

I have never seen that before. Brilliant.

 

[swittmann]

Children walking in woods by Eugene Smith.

This.

 

[naaldvoerder]

The falling Spanish soldier by Robert Capa, meanly because of the intrigue..