Here's some Great ones Richard AVEDON,CINDY SHERMAN,ROBERT Mapplethorphe,Helmet NEWTON, DIANE ARBUS, ANNIE LIEBOVITZ. I Also love David LA CHAPELLE.By the way these are PRICEY... Here's someone to Read The BELLE JAR..SYLVIA PLATH.... Oh MS PLATH... And of Course well Dorothy Parker and well for Erotica go for ANIS NIN. You will Enjoy my Picks if you are the HIGHBROW TYPE.

Robert Mapplethorpe, Erwin Olaf, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, Lalli, Pierre and Gilles, Rick Castro.

Yes true on Weber and Testino. Great work.

Roy Decarava:

oeps, great pic Byron
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David LaChappelle - he has this amazing ability 2 make the everyday and mundane look glamerous and surreal. It's hyper realism gone mad basically:















Oh, and did I mention that he's gay and gorgeous?

"People say photographs don't lie, mine do."
-David LaChapelle
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'nana !

Erwin Olaf Thnx dawntreader





I like his realistic photo's








Erwin Olaf himself...

AndGodCreatedMe said:

That's damned clever!
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what or who?

Thnx nana

Nan Goldin




Cindy Sherman




WeeGee




Ernst Haas

Dean Chamberlain www.deanchamberlain.com

Chamberlain not only creates truly extraordinary representations of reality, but has invented his own technique. Working with his subjects in complete darkness, he moves through the composition illuminating each individual element, not so much photographing a moment but painting it with light through time and space.





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Jean Baptiste Mondino!



I think that Warhol has never received any proper recognition for his photography. People tend to focus on the mechanics of how he mass-produced rather than the fact that he actually had to frame the image within a camera lens beforehand. I'm talking about his portraits - Minnelli, Jagger, etc...

Patricia Steur

senik said:

...Thank yew, senik... (Add Peter Berger to that list, definitely.. )

What I love about Decarava's photos is that it's rarely, if ever, staged...
he just naturally sees his surroundings as compositions, and finds the perfect moments to capture and turn into art...

BinaryJustin said:

That's shit!

VinaBlue said:

WOW! EXACTLY what I like. Im gonna go check this out - thanx 4 the heads-up!

bananacologne said:

Cool! If you're familiar with Arcadia, he did most of their photography and that's where I heard about him first. He then went on to direct a video for Arcadia, that was like stop motion with these kinds of lighted images and he also did All She Wants Is by Duran Duran. Otherwise you might be familiar with Madonna's Something to Remember cd, which he did.

my favourite photographers? it's got to be those bastards paparazzi from the
NEWS OF THE WORLD! u got to fucking love them for their dedication to their art

VinaBlue said:

Wow - it really looks amazing

I have to try that too! Just need a model with a lot of patience...
Anyone.....?

It's All So Beautiful. Especially the one with Prince from LOVESEXY...Erwin Olaf seems to have nice work.
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Andreas H. Bitesnich
http://www.bitesnich.at

...the Herb Ritts from my hometown, Vienna/Austria.






Noone posted a nature photographer... I love Art Wolve:
http://www.artwolfe.com

Peter said:

I posted recently that I am a patient person but that patient but the pic looks great

http://www.gabina.net/ Gabina a photographer from the Czech Republic.

http://www.thomassauerwei.../home.html Thomas Sauerwein

David Vance very nice

Herb Ritts wow


Andreas H. Bitesnich is exactly what I like thanks Peter

Bruce Weber, very nice thank U Dawntreader

And Vina I love this one and the weddingdress one, but don't really like the others.

These are not all my favorites, just some examples of what I like.
I love a lot of black and white photography. I like nudes (not pornografic).

I ones made a list, but I can't find it right now.
Ones I do, I'll post it.

I say Byron