This is an on-going list of photographers I admire, sites I find useful, blogs, etc. It’s for you and for me. (Do you know how much bookmark organization this avoids?)
Magnum Photographers:
I am working my way through a book, Magnum Stories, which features a story by each Magnum photographer along with several pages of text written by the photographer. I’ve been looking at some of the photographers for some time, others, like De Keyzer, I’m just discovering.
Henri Cartier – Bresson
Bruce Davidson
Carl De Keyzer
Elliott Erwitt
Cristina Garcia Rodero
David Hurn
Josef Koudelka
Ferdinando Scianna
W. Eugene Smith
Larry Towell
Other Photographers
Ansel Adams
Boogie (Interview with Boogie)
Thatcher Cook
Robert Frank (Book: The Americans)
Lee Friedlander
Jacob Holdt
Horst P. Horst
Carl Juste (In Haiti)
Michael Koehler
Mary Ellen Mark
James Nachtwey (Speech at TED Awards) (War Photographer)
Arnold Newman (On PDN’s Legends)
Helmut Newton
Katie Orlinsky
Gordon Parks
S. B. Ramin
Eugene Richards (Book: Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue)
Sebastiao Salgado (on MoP)
Marco Vernaschi (check out the Pulitzer Project)
Edward Weston (on MoP)
Gary Winogrand
Clarence Williams (at Iris Photo Collective)
Collectives, Photo Blogs, and Other Resources
Duckrabbit Multimedia
Eddie Adams Workshop
Iris Photo Collective
Luceo Images
Mark Hancock Blog (excellent info on resumes, etc.)
Media Storm Multimedia
National Press Photographer’s Association
The NYT Lens Blog
The NYT 1 in 8 Million Project
The Pulitzer Prize
The Visual Student (NPPA Blog)
Zreportage
Videos:
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
Contacts (clip on youtube)
James Nachtwey: War Photographer
Sebastiao Salgado-Looking Back at You (on youtube)
Books:
Technical books only: you can find books by photographers on their websites.
Ansel Adams: The Camera
David Hurn: On Being a Photographer
Gordon Parks: Voices In the Mirror
Photojournalism: The Professional’s Approach
Photography (by London, Stone, Upton)
Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only (good info; elitist)
The Zone System for 35mm Photographers (makes zone system learnable. . .)
If you have any viewing or reading materials (related to photography) I should be looking at, please let me know. I like to soak in my craft. Free is good too. I’m poor.
