. He produced minimalist images as long ago as 1950, as well as many other original ways of seeing photographically. In fact, Rolfe Horn made a 'graph that is an almost exact duplicate of a Callahan image of sand and sky of the same value with a dark sliver of ocean in the middle....only Horn's picture has tidier (no pun intended) sand. 
OTOH, I've long since overdosed on Yosemite, slot canyons, monument valley, and the whole west coast diet of constantly reiterated icons. This too, shall pass.
.....or we could just go take some photographs and continue to have fun.
And while we're at it, round up all those Adams, Weston, Soth, Gursky, (insert name here), etc wannabes!
Ahh... so the backlash has begun. So be it. It has been too long in coming. It actually began a while ago as the collecting world has already figured out. Kenna's work is conspicuously absent at the big expositions these days. I also have it from some dealer friends that his print sales have slowed considerably where once they could not sell them fast enough. Even some of his best prints go unsold on eBay though they are priced well below what his galleries charge. Where once he was the darling of dealers as well as their gravy train, things have changed. It is the natural course of things. What goes up, must come down. It was quite a phenomenon while it lasted. And, as I've said before, it couldn't have happened for a nicer guy.
As for me, You've (almost) all so far been very kind. Sometime I will post shots I did in the 70's and 80's... long before I heard of Kenna and his disciples. I've been true to myself all along, but It hasn't been easy with such a large shadow being cast. As deep as some people look, all you have to do is shoot square format in B&W to be a Kennabe. Hey... at least I stayed away from Japan like the rest of the herd!
As for influences Jovo, Callahan is a big one for me at least being that he was a fellow Detroiter and I gravitated toward that. His trees in the park shot as well as a little known one of a tangled thicket are perhaps some of the biggest influences on me. (burned corners and all Vinny) Other big ones for me are Karl Struss, Edward Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn among others of that time. (they burned corners too.. as did Adams, Weston, Bullock, etc.)
As for Kenna, go to Bill Brandt He's made it no secret that he is one of his big influences. Like many of the Kennabes, he too went to the places his hero shot. Even named a couple for him I think?
So it goes fellas... get to work. You too could be the next big thing.
Bill
BTW guys. Josef promotes himself here as "(there was a url link here which no longer exists)". Maybe he'll chime in on this one.
There really are a lot of people creating some beautiful stuff in the style, that is certain.
Apologies Michael. I've often heard you were. My mistake.manalishi said:
While I would have agreed with you earlier, I think there are quite a few more than that. Up until a little while ago I really didn't look that much at photography via the web. Then I started getting a lot of requests for links and such and became amazed at how much talent is out there. Today I went to one of the sites linked in this thread and thought the work quite good. Similar for sure. Then I went to his links and found many more that were fine photographers working in a similar vein. And in their links more.... pretty humbling.
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