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list your influences
It's always interesting to see who or what inspires and influences people to produce the images that they do. I've been thinking about this over the last few days because a friend compared me to another photographer, whom I've always liked...but wouldn't have seen the similarity myself. So take a few minutes to think about it and list your top 10 artistic influences and inspirations (keep in mind, they don't have to be people necessarily) mine: Herb Ritts Sante D'Orazio Patrick Demarchelier William Eggleston Duane Michals Edward Weston (photographers) Godfrey Reggio (filmmaker) Philip Glass Brian Eno (musicians/composers) Carl Sagan (physicist, author) All of these people produced work that made me look at the world a little differently, or notice something I was overlooking- Jul 03 05 06:21 pm Link Artists Kandinsky Rosenquist Alexander Liberman Photogs. Helmut Newton Ansel Adams Film: David Lynch Quintin Tarrintino (more specifically KB series) Jul 03 05 10:05 pm Link mapplethorpe skrebneski avedon ritts demarchier liebovitz gorman weston jock sturges bruce surtees (clint eastwood's cinematographer) I'm sure I'm missing loads Jul 03 05 11:11 pm Link Patrick Nagel (as if you couldn't tell! ha!) Frank Wartenberg Jim Lee Frank Miller David Lachappelle Naomi Campbell That one guy Davide here on MM has some cool stuff Leonardo DaVinci Fheng Zhu RON FRENZ!!!!!!! Todd McFarlane Did I already mention Patrick Nagel? Katsuhiro Otomo Noemie Lenior Hajime Sorayama Craig Mullens everybody I new when I was writing graffitti the animators at Disney that taught me how to draw Everybody at EA games that I work with Marjan Hormozi.. okay I'll shutup now... I can seriously go on for like hours - I have like over 500 books about my favorite artists... And I've been to 2 different colleges to study design and stuff... And I still am hungry for more!!!!!!!!!!! Jul 04 05 12:30 am Link Philippe Halsman Frida Kahlo Stanley Kubrick TS Eliot Albert Einstein The Music Man (the Robert Preston version) W Michael Thompson Edward Weston Karin Yngvesdotter Jul 04 05 01:10 am Link Sondheim Patricia Briggs Ayn Rand Polish Movie Posters there ar emore I just can't think of them off hand Jul 04 05 01:10 am Link Lithium Picnic (Philip Warner) Helmut Newton Jul 04 05 04:09 pm Link Jack Daniels (artist) Jim Beam (make-up artist) Hugh Hefner (lifestyle consultant) Martha Stewart (investment advisor) Pete (the guy who brews Pete's Wicked Ale) Jose Cuervo Juan Valdez GWC! Jul 04 05 04:17 pm Link Hmmmm... photographers: Ralph Gibson Edward Weston Robert Mapplethorpe George Tice writers: Albert Camus Edgar Allen Poe John Cowper Powys the Tao Te Ching Andre Breton John Lane other: punk travel ... at least this week; who knows what waits around the next corner  Jul 04 05 04:23 pm Link Richard Wagner Maurice Ravel Charlie Parker Miles Davis Salvador Dali Alfred Stieglitz Jonathan Ive Shigeru Miyamoto Jul 04 05 04:29 pm Link in no particular order mine are: Xtreme Artists Visual Mindscapes 'GWC' Jack D. Trute (no need to tell me... I gotta sick mind!) Jul 04 05 04:33 pm Link John Ford *** Akira Kurosawa Andrei Tarkovsky Nicholas Meyer *** David LaChapelle Chantal Ackerman Ingmar Bergman Isaac Asimov Richard Donner *** Gregg Toland Jack Cardiff J. Michael Straczynski *** Roald Dahl *** Steven Spielberg George Lucas Satyajit Ray Jim Henson *** Donna Tartt Douglas Adams Gene Roddenberry Robert Wise Michael Piller ok, I'm gonna stop now, but it's alot longer than this *** major influences Jul 04 05 04:35 pm Link Posted by SayCheeZ!: Um..all those ports are really mine. Jul 04 05 04:36 pm Link Posted by XtremeArtists: Posted by SayCheeZ!: Um..all those ports are really mine. Oooops, I musto' misread. I thought the topic was 'list your influenza ' ! Jul 04 05 04:41 pm Link Posted by Justin N Lane: Jose and Jack to of my favorites Jul 04 05 04:53 pm Link Photographers: Sarah Moon and the man that started it all as far as most of the erotic/sexy stuff you see today - Helmut Newton Cinema:Ridley Scott and classic hollywood Movies:Ghost in The Shell and Fallen Angels Jul 04 05 11:53 pm Link Mary Ellen Mark Andre Kertesz Helmut Newton Michael Lichter Justice Howard David LaChapelle Sacha Dean Biyan Timothy White ....just to name a few Jul 05 05 12:35 am Link Posted by GWC: Very nice! Jul 05 05 01:52 am Link - Ansel Adams - National Geographic - David Skernick - Thanks Dave for all the great instruction. Jul 05 05 01:56 am Link [get ready to google] In no particular order: E. J. Bellocq Robert Mappelthorpe Barbara Nitke Lee Stranahan Susie Bright Betty Dodson Edward D. Wood Jr. Alfred Hitchcock Dr. Alfred Kinsey Edouard Manet John Singer Sargent Herb Ritts Edward Weston Gale Wilhelm Ernest Hemingway Raymond Chandler John Coltrane Larry Flynt Maria Beatty Mayan Lee [mm#2422] Jock Sturgess Mary Ellen Mark Anais Nin Camille Paglia Billy Tipton Orson Welles Scotty Welbourne Guido Crepax Fred Rodgers Billy Strayhorn Roy Orbison Jul 05 05 06:39 am Link Posted by SayCheeZ!: Posted by XtremeArtists: Posted by SayCheeZ!: Um..all those ports are really mine. Oooops, I musto' misread. I thought the topic was 'list your influenza ' ! Actually I was surprised to see a post from you that wasn't about Calvin. Jul 05 05 08:01 am Link No particular order (or art form...) David Lynch Jay Maisel Caravaggio The whole color-field school of painters Gregory Crewdson (who I think is David Lynch in disguise) Lauren Greenfield (hope I got that right) Joseph Rodriguez, although I don't have the shooting courage he does, his class had a huge effect on my work Jeff Jacobson (rep by reduxpictures) Erica Larsen (rep by reduxpictures) Hieronymous Bosch Tibetan Thangka paintings Jul 05 05 10:17 am Link Posted by XtremeArtists: Posted by SayCheeZ!: Posted by XtremeArtists: Posted by SayCheeZ!: Um..all those ports are really mine. Oooops, I musto' misread. I thought the topic was 'list your influenza ' ! Actually I was surprised to see a post from you that wasn't about Calvin. OK... just to get even with you for that remark, I was gonna add Calvin's name to the list.... but sheeit!... I don't have the heart to do that to ya... not even as a joke. Jul 05 05 10:45 am Link I have always found the most important influences, are not others inages but how they treat life itself. I could list tons of people I call mentors or peers that I so enjoy, but's it's my own ideas that can realte to other things beyond just the image.To sound egotistical.....I like the influences Alex Alexander has on others around me and how we each give to the other. Jul 05 05 10:51 am Link |
