Your favourite photographers or images

Barry Giddens said:
As a bleeding heart liberal, I was always attracted to social realism. I know there are always issues around authenticity but this photo by Dorothea Lange haunted me when I was a teenager and reading SteinbeckView attachment 27063
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@Barry Giddens

I am a bleeding heart liberal too. Probably the reason I ended up being a photojournalist/news photographer for a living was due to seeing Don McCullin's pictures in the Sunday Times as a child. My parents bought the paper every week. I don't remember the words but the images are seared into my mind. Before Andrew Neil took over as editor and turned it into a leisure supplement. A harbinger of the Thatcher years. Biafra - 1968 - albino child - famine. I.

“Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” - Don McCullin

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Digimonkey said:
@Barry Giddens

I am a bleeding heart liberal too. Probably the reason I ended up being a photojournalist/news photographer for a living was due to seeing Don McCullin's pictures in the Sunday Times as a child. My parents bought the paper every week. I don't remember the words but the images are seared into my mind. Before Andrew Neil took over as editor and turned it into a leisure supplement. A harbinger of the Thatcher years. Biafra - 1968 - albino child - famine. I.

“Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” - Don McCullin

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I'm familiar with this image Iain, but I haven't seen it for some time. It's still so powerful. We know what Kurtz would have said.
 
Digimonkey said:
@Barry Giddens

I am a bleeding heart liberal too. Probably the reason I ended up being a photojournalist/news photographer for a living was due to seeing Don McCullin's pictures in the Sunday Times as a child. My parents bought the paper every week. I don't remember the words but the images are seared into my mind. Before Andrew Neil took over as editor and turned it into a leisure supplement. A harbinger of the Thatcher years. Biafra - 1968 - albino child - famine. I.

“Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” - Don McCullin

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By the way. How on earth can Andrew Neil ever be wheeled out as some sort of 'finger on the pulse' political commentator? There is much to admire about the BBC but.......
 
For portraits - Helmut Newton as well:
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For street - Henri Cartier-Bresson:
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For nature and landscapes - Sebastiao Salgado:
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Image by Tim Page - 'The Universal Soldier.' Vietnam. Following on from Don McCullin - he was a major influence on my photography. Page is generally understood to have been the inspiration of Dennis Hopper's character in 'Apocalypse Now.' Certainly - the cameras used and the amount of drugs taken are entirely consistent with Page at the time. I.
 
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