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From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> My vote for "Best Photographer Ever" would have to go for Alfred
Stieglitz,
> snip
> Other highly influential photographers include:
> Matthew Brady (his U.S. Civil War photography making him one of the
> first "war correspondent" photographers)
> Edward Steichen (a student of Stieglitz)
> Ansel Adams (his landscapes, the Zone system [whether you buy into it
or
> not; the concept is total control] and his trilogy: The Camera, The
> Negative, and The Print).
>
> Down the list, but among the most influential photojournalists:
> Alfred Eisenstadt
> Robert Capa
> Henri Cartier-Bresson
> W. Eugene Smith
>
> -- John
No argument with those, but I would add Edward Weston - marvelous sense of
light and composition. Peppers, nudes, landscapes. . .
Gary Edwards
people, places, flight at http://members.home.com/garyetx/
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