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pachyderm
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| So, which photographers do you look to for inspiration? I think I have asked this other places, but I never get tired of learning about more. For me, I would have to say I am most influenced by: Jack Dykinga (US)
Joe Cornish (UK)
Ken Duncan (AU)
Andris Apse (NZ)
Peter Dumbrovski (AU)
David Ward (UK) I continue going back to their work for inspiration and for ideas. So, who do you look to?
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lion
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For me, they would include:
David Muench
Ansel Adams (I know he shot mostly B&W)
Edward Weston (I know he did too)
Eliot Porter
Tom Till
Rich
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gopher
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For me in no particular order:
Thomas Joshua Cooper (US/UK)
John Blakemore (UK)
Fay Godwin (UK)
Robert Adams (US)
Robert Misrach (US)
Minor White (US)
Edward Weson (US)
Ray Moore (UK)
John Gossage (US)
Joe Deal (US)
Eugene Aget (FR)
Robert Doisneau (FR)
Andrew Goldsworthy (UK)
André Kertész (FR)
Ian
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lion
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I always find these lists interesting as I learn about photographers I have never heard of before.
There is really only one photographer that has had an enduring influence on me, Edward Weston. Others come and go depending on what headspace I am currently in. Not being much of a color photographer (but that will change somewhat now that I have a good DSLR) I can't say I have spent much time with most of the photograpers mentioned to date.
The other major influence in my photography was my father, a fantastic photographer in his own right. He was even recognized by Sir Ansel. My dad got me into the darkroom when my age was still in single digits.
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lynx
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| My list changes over time. Presently the biggest influences on the documentary work/projects I'm trying to get off the ground are: Avedon; Diane Arbus; W. Eugene Smith; Mary Ellen Mark; Milton Rogovin. For another project not involving people: Minor White and Elizabeth Huston. For the figure studies I've been dabbling in: Ruth Bernhard. For B&W landscape I can't get enough of Bill Schwab. For color landscape I always return to Galen Rowell and our own Mr. Teague. I've also been looking at a lot of books of combat photographs from WWII (specifically the Pacific Theater) in an attempt to understand and find peace with my first photography teacher, my deceased father who was a Photographer's Mate 1st class during that conflict. Joe
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lynx
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I would have to say "at the moment" Edward Weston. But, viewed upside down 
When I was in the US in 2006 I was fortunate enough to visit galleries that had images by both Weston and Adams and I was simply captivated by the sense of power the images conveyed regardless of the simplicity or complexity of the subject.
To me refining an image to its minimal component parts is so | | | |