>>3064910You don't seem to understand what "self taught" means. Quite a number of people, while they learned, also had to figure quite a bit out on their own. And honestly, do YOU think just being able to name-drop famous photographers on 4chan or looking at their work makes you a better photographer? Do you have a solid reason that it's necessary? Have we yet properly clarified what makes a photographer "worth knowing about"?
>>3064915>the only pretentious wanker here is youPlease, tell me where I accused anyone here of being pretentious.
I want you to answer seriously now, how do you know what photographers are "worth knowing about"? And how exactly will knowing about them effect your own photography in any meaningful way? By your photography, I mean your own personal output. Your own "vision". Is knowing that William Eggleston pioneered color photographs and New Topographics, or that Andreas Gursky sold a print of a river and some grass for millions of dollars, going to make you a better photographer in terms of your own unique images? Especially if you're more interested in doing portraits or something otherwise completely unrelated to them?
It would help if we even knew what OP's goals are or what he's looking for so it doesn't turn into a circlejerk where everyone just lists off their favorite famous photographers and calls it a day, because at the moment that's what this thread is turning into.
