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.. title: Influential Photographers
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.. slug: influential-photographers
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.. date: 2015-02-19 22:06:58 UTC+02:00
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.. tags: art, photography, photographer
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.. link:
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.. description: Influential photographers
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.. type: text
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.. author: Alexandre Dulaunoy
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Influenced? We are influenced in our life for good and bad reasons.
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If you are doing photography, it's very rare to start from scratch.
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You are kind of on the shoulders of giants. Even the simple fact to
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start photography, you are influenced. The first time you have a camera
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in your hand because someone decided to make a gift, a camera.
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Brooke Hayward has offered a Nikon camera to Dennis Hopper for his birthday in 1961.
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So Brooke indirectly influenced Dennis to do photography...
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I mention Dennis Hopper because he was a photographer who influenced me.
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Some years ago in Amsterdam, I saw an exhibition where some photographs of Dennis Hopper and
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I was really touched by his work.
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I didn't know why I was touched by his work. It was quite standard black&white pictures
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nothing more but something touched me personally. It's not the only photographer who influenced me
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but that's the first who really change my way of doing photography.
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Very recently, I found this quote from Dennis Hopper:
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*I think of that with my photographs. I think of them as ‘found’ paintings because I don’t crop them, I don’t manipulate them or anything. So they’re like ‘found’ objects to me.* **Dennis Hopper**
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.. figure:: trainstation.jpg
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:alt: Snow and Train Station
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:align: center
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Snow and Train Station (Arlon), ƒ/2.0, 1/50, 35mm, snowtrainstation_ on flickr
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.. _snowtrainstation: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adulau/16494850922/
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That's how I feel when I'm doing photography. So it seems that's my initial interest
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in the Dennis Hopper photography. Even without knowing this quote, he transfers this feeling
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into his photographic work. Don't forget while reading photographic books,
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when going to exhibition and to the museum, you might be influenced for the best.
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