Out of the Top 50 Photographers, These Are My Favorites

Bruce Weber


(born March 29, 1946 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania) is an American fashion photographer and occasional filmmaker. He is most widely known for his ad campaigns for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Pirelli, Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon, and Gianni Versace, as well as his work for Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone magazines. eber's photographs are occasionally in color, however most are in black and white or toned shades. They are gathered in limited edition print books, including A House is Not a Home and Bear Pond, an early work which featured, among other models, Eric Nies from MTV's The Real World series.

Films

▪                Beauty Brothers (1987, 12:26 min, b&w/color)

▪                Broken Noses (1987, 75 min, b&w/color)

▪                Let's Get Lost (1988, 1:59:25 min, b&w)

▪                Backyard Movie (1991, 8:55 min, b&w)

▪                Gentle Giants (1994, 14:35 min, b&w/color)

▪                The Teddy Boys of the Edwardian Drape Society (1996, 3:45 min, b&w)

▪                Chop Suey (2000, 94 min, b&w/color)

▪                A Letter to True (2004, 78 min, b&w/color)

▪                Wine and Cupcakes (2007, 12:10 min, color)

Music videos

▪                Pet Shop Boys: "Being Boring" (1990)

▪                Chris Isaak: "Blue Spanish Sky" (1991)

▪                Pet Shop Boys: "Se a vida é (That's the way life is)" (1996)

Pet Shop Boys: "I Get Along" (2002)

         

David Hilliard


(born May 15, 1942) is a member of the Black Panther Party. He was Chief of Staff in the party. He is currently a visiting instructor at the University of New Mexico.

Hilliard was convicted on two counts of assault with a deadly weapon for his part in a 1968 ambush of the Oakland Police in retribution for the assassination of Martin Luther King. The April 6th ambush also resulted in the death of panther Bobby Hutton and the arrest of Panther Eldridge Cleaver who masterminded the botched operation. In July 1971, he was sentenced to one to ten years and incarcerated at in Vacaville. In January 1973 while serving a sentence of six months to 10 years, he was denied parole.

In his autobiography Revolutionary Suicide, Huey P. Newton claimed that the district attorney of Alameda County was attempting to send Hilliard to prison on "trumped up charges". With Fredrika Newton, Hilliard formed the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation.

   

David Hockney


(born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London.

An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.

David Hockney has also worked with photography, or, more precisely, photocollage. Using varying numbers of small Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. One of his first photomontages was of his mother. Because these photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, which was one of Hockney's major aims—discussing the way human vision works.

      

Lewis Hine


September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.

He became a teacher in New York City at the Ethical Culture School, where he encouraged his students to use photography as an educational medium.

In 1936, Hine was selected as the photographer for the National Research Project of the Works Projects Administration, but his work there was never completed.

Notable photographs

▪                Child Labor: Girls in Factory (1908)

▪                Breaker Boys (1910)

▪                Steam Fitter (1920)

Workers, Empire State Building (1931)

  

Robert and Shana Parkeharrison


Robert ParkeHarrison (born 1968) is a photographer, best known for his work (with wife Shana ParkeHarrison) in the area of fine art photography.

The photographs of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison have been displayed in 18 solo exhibitions and over 30 group shows worldwide. Their work can also be found in over 20 collections, including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and the George Eastman House.

Their book, The Architect’s Brother was named as one of 'the Ten Best Photography Books of the Year' of 2000 by the New York Times.

“My photographs tell stories of loss, human struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use…. strive to metaphorically and poetically link laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience.”

--Robert ParkeHarrison

ParkeHarrison's work is stylistically similar to that of Teun Hocks.

    

Stephen Shore


(born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography.

Books of his photographs include Uncommon Places: 50 Unpublished Photographs; Essex County; The Gardens at Giverny; Stephen Shore: Photographs 1973 - 1993; and The Velvet Years, Andy Warhol's Factory, 1965 - 1967. In 1998, Johns Hopkins University Press published The Nature of Photographs, a book Shore wrote about how photographs function (reprinted in an expanded edition by Phaidon Press). Most recently, Aperture has published Uncommon Places: The Complete Work, and Phaidon has published American Surfaces.

Currently Shore is the director of the photography department at Bard College, a position he has held since 1982.

    

Mario Sorrenti


(born 24 October 1971) is a photographer and director best known for his spreads of nude models in the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

Sorrenti was born in Naples, Italy, but moved to New York City at the age of ten where he is still based. He is the son of New York based advertiser, Francesca Sorrenti. He has had exhibitions in London (Victoria and Albert Museum), Paris, Monaco and New York (Museum of Modern Art). He has undertaken campaigns and directed commercials for Calvin Klein, and has shot Kate Moss for the Calvin Klein Obsession ads. He has also worked for Lancôme, Paco Rabanne and Benetton. He is currently signed exclusively with the agency Art Partner.

Additionally, Sorrenti is responsible for the photographs on several music releases, most notably Shakira's Oral Fixation Vol. 1, as well as R&B artist Maxwell's album Embrya and a solo album by John Taylor of Duran Duran. His first musical project was the photography for rock group Del Amitri's 1995 album, Twisted, and its associated single releases.