Hi, Last week I went to a talk and slide show given by Elliott Erwitt. Somebody asked him who were the main influences on his photography. "All the usual suspects" was his reply.
The same reply applies to this question. There are too many to be able to single out one photograph. For me it's almost anything by Erwitt, Hank, Irving Penn (esp. from "Worlds in a Small Room"), Jones Griffiths, the rest of the Magnum photographers, Salgado, Kazuyoshi Nomachi, Raymond Depardon... Impossible to choose. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's all a crap shoot" --Elliott Erwitt Thursday, November 01, 2001, 12:16:29 AM, you wrote: > Hi, > Here's a question for the list. > What's your favorite photo of all time, it could be by a famous > photographer, it could be one of yours or could even be by another list > member. Why is this your favorite shot? > To get it started mine is: > "The Seats Opposite" by Henri Carter-Bresson, its a shot of couple asleep on > a train seat sitting opposite Bresson, with the women laying across the man. > From memory it was shot in Romania, some one can correct me if I'm wrong. > The couple look so peaceful and comfortable together, its a simple shot, yet > it totally draws me in and makes me think about the people, the time, the > place and Bressons role as a photographer for this image. Its also a > situation you would quite commonly see on a train, but it somehow just seems > wonderful in this image. Its actually hard to ascertain the era of image > was taken in from the just seeing the image, but I think it was the 70's. > Paul Jones > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
