Hi, I sent an email yesterday about Cartier-Bresson being inspired by Munkacsi's photo of the boys running into the surf. I got to thinking about the photo which first made me aware of photography, and the first photographer whose name I actively sought out and remembered.
In the early 1970s I was at boarding school, where we had the newspapers delivered every day. I remember seeing this photograph in, I think, the Sunday Times. I made a deliberate effort to memorise the photographer's name, and started to look out for more of his photographs: http://tinyurl.com/cn2sr. It made me aware that photography could be something beyond the prosaic. I still find this photograph very interesting, mysterious and inspiring. What photographs and photographers were your first inspiration? -- Cheers, Bob
