Early Influences

Been looking at some of the photographers that influenced me when I first started out – Robert Frank, Cartier-Bresson, William Klein, Walker Evans, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Ralph Gibson, Clarence John Laughlin.  Frank, Klein, and Evans still resonate for me.  Gibson, not so much anymore.  Meatyard, Laughlin & Cartier-Bresson are great, just not as influential any more.
Who were your influences?

Which early influences still resonate for you?

William Klein – Candy Store, Amsterdam Avenue, New York, 1954-55

Robert Frank – Trolley—New Orleans, 1955 from The Americans

Walker Evans –   Fish Market Near Birmingham, Ala., 1936

Henri Cartier-Bresson – Behind the Gare St. Lazare, 1932

Ralph Gibson – The Somnambulist, 1970

Clarence John Laughlin – The Masks Grow to Us 1947

Ralph Eugene Meatyard – Occasion for Diriment, 1962

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