Post your three desert island photographs

logan2z · Jun 4, 2020

I thought it would be fun to see everyone's picks for their three desert island photographs - the three photographs you would absolutely have to have with you if you were stuck on a desert island and had access to no other photographs.

Note: The photos should be ones taken by photographers other than yourself

I'll kick it off...

Robert Frank
'Butte Montana' (1956)

Lee Friedlander
R.O. Blechman, New York City (1968)

William Klein
Harlem, 1955

Vaughn · Jun 4, 2020

Photos by someone who prints really big on canvas so I can make a tent.

logan2z · Jun 4, 2020

Vaughn said:
Photos by someone who prints really big on canvas so I can make a tent.

Two birds...

Vaughn · Jun 4, 2020

Yep, but it did not answer your question. I like your choices -- especially if I wanted to be reminded of life off the island. The first image that did come to mind was of the running albino deer. The image has enough mystery to keep me occupied on the island for awhile. Perhaps the image of the nude in the box by Ruth B. It might drive me nuts eventually, but it sort of speaks to being isolated. And third...probably a photo of a President holding some sort of religious symbol...to remind me why I am on a deserted island in the first place.

logan2z · Jun 4, 2020

What could have been an interesting thread seems to have died on the vine, yet the Bath Ducks thread is up to two pages long. What is happening to Photrio?

Vaughn · Jun 4, 2020

logan2z said:
What could have been an interesting thread seems to have died on the vine, yet the Bath Ducks thread is up to two pages long. What is happening to Photrio?

Bath Ducks has been going for over two weeks. But perhaps desert islands are not all what they quack up to be.

foc · Jun 4, 2020

Henry Cartier-Bresson,
Hyères, France, 1932

Philippe Halsman jump photo

logan2z · Jun 4, 2020

foc said:
Henry Cartier-Bresson,
Hyères, France, 1932

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Philippe Halsman jump photo
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Good choices. I almost picked that HCB photo as well.

logan2z · Jun 4, 2020

Vaughn said:
Bath Ducks has been going for over two weeks.

That's ducked up.

DonJ · Jun 9, 2020

Stephen Shore - Holden Street, North Adams, Mass.

Brett Weston - Mendenhall Glacier

Neil Leifer - Ali vs. Liston II

logan2z · Jun 9, 2020

DonJ said:
Stephen Shore - Holden Street, North Adams, Mass.

Brett Weston - Mendenhall Glacier
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Neil Leifer - Ali vs. Liston II
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Nice choices. I'm a Stephen Shore fan as well.

Daniela · Jun 10, 2020

Another vote for HCB's Hyères, France, 1932, and:
Ana Mendieta, Creek, 1974

and I'll have to think of a 3rd one

jp498 · Jun 10, 2020

https://www.wikiart.org/en/george-seeley/firefly-1907
There are no good online presentation of this photo since the camera work media doesn't work so nice on a copy stand or scanner, but it's stunning in person.. I like pictorialism. I like the composition, the imagination that makes the firefly, and George Seeley was an awesome photographer. I bought one of these.

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/120704/gloucester-53a
If on an island, I like to think the material around me are all I need to see compositions. That's what I do now, and that's what Aaron Siskind did. I live near and explore and photograph a granite shoreline, so this reminds me of home, even though Gloucester is in another state. I look for compositions in nature in ways Siskind and Eliot Porter both would do. If I were on an island, it would remind me of home.

Not sure what for #3.. Maybe an Edward S Curtis portrait
or one of Lartigue's photo of a racing car with the bent wheel from the slow focal plane shutter, since I could hoon vicariously.

Maris · Jun 10, 2020

This is the first "really good" photograph I ever saw. That was nearly sixty years ago but it set me on my photographic journey.

Wynn Bullock "Log and Horsetails, 1957"

First "stunning" portrait.

Edward Weston "Rose Roland de Covarrubia, 1926"

First "drop dead gorgeous" landscape.

Ansel Adams "Tenaya Creek, Dogwood, Rain"
In the years that followed these original inspirations I have acquired only one of these photographs. It is "Tenaya Creek" which
hangs on the wall just above the computer where I type this. It remains an absolute joy to look at.

logan2z · Jun 10, 2020

Maris said:
This is the first "really good" photograph I ever saw. That was nearly sixty years ago but it set me on my photographic journey.

Wynn Bullock "Log and Horsetails, 1957"

First "stunning" portrait.

Edward Weston "Rose Roland de Covarrubia, 1926"

First "drop dead gorgeous" landscape.

Ansel Adams "Tenaya Creek, Dogwood, Rain"
In the years that followed these original inspirations I have acquired only one of these photographs. It is "Tenaya Creek" which
hangs on the wall just above the computer where I type this. It remains an absolute joy to look at.

Thanks for sharing, I wasn't familiar with any of these. I'm not typically an Ansel Adams fan but I really like 'Tenaya Creek'. Beautiful shot.

removed account4 · Jun 11, 2020

The Enigma of Isadore Ducasse, The kiss, Dust Rising ( Man Ray ). They can be crappy ink jet prints too doesnt matter to me.

AnselMortensen · Nov 4, 2020

Flatiron Building, by Steichen
Faithful Unto Death, by Bob Carlos Clarke
The Steerage, by Stieglitz.

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