PDN’s 30 Most Influencial Photographers of the Decade
28 Jan
In preparation for their 30th Anniversary Issue, PDN asked it’s online readers who the most influential living photographers of the last decade were. There where tons of responses and it caused quite the controversy because many couldn’t agree that some seemingly unknown photographers where really as influential as voters claimed. Many attributed them making the list to their reach with social network sites like Twitter and Facebook.
To deal with the disparities PDN decided to do three lists: Votes by number of individual voters, Votes by votes received, and number of votes per voter
Here’s their first list of 30 Most Influential by number of Individual Voters:
BECKER
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
SETH RESNICK
JAMES NACHTWEY
SEBASTIAO SALGADO
JASMINE STAR
JAY MAISEL
JOE MCNALLY
CHRIS FAWKES
JESSICA CLAIRE
ALEXANDER GARZA
CHASE JARVIS
DANE SANDERS
IRVING PENN
DAVID LACHAPELLE
EUGENE RICHARDS
ROBERT FRANK
MARY ELLEN MARK
DAVID HOBBY
DAVID JAY
STEVE MCCURRY
ED KASHI
STEPHEN WILKES
YURI ARCURS
ELLIOTT ERWITT
STEVEN MEISEL
WILLIAM EGGLESTON
MARTIN PARR
YERVANT
JOSE VILLA
Please visit PDN for the other 2 lists.
I was interested to see some of the photos from photographers on this list. I have only checked out the top ten and i must say a couple of these shooters have certainly produced some iconic images that will make sure they are remembered well after they have left this earth. Some of it truly incredible work.
Thank you for posting the links.
Paul Curtis