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Who is the most influential photographer of all time? Which photographers have had the biggest impact on the world around them? There’s probably no absolute answer to these questions seeing as everyone will have their own views and opinions.

Well after hours of debating this subject long and hard, the team here at Picture Frames Express have produced this list of photographers we consider to be the most influential of all time. Of course, our list is by no means definitive, nor exhaustive. There’s sure to be a few incredible photographers we’ve missed out, and perhaps a few you think shouldn’t have made the top 49. But that’s the beauty of photography, everyone interprets and appreciates it in their own way, so enjoy!

1 – Ansel Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984)

Ansel Adams was an American photographer who specialised in the black and white photography of rural landscapes. He was an environmental activist and one of the pioneers of modern nature photography.

2 – Richard Avedon (15 May, 1923 – 1 October, 2004)

A mas

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Platon (photographer)

British photographer

Not to be confused with Plato.

Platon
Born	Platon Antoniou (1968-04-20) 20 April 1968 (age 56) Greece
Nationality	Greek
Known for	Photography
Website	www.platonphoto.com

Platon (born Platon Antoniou, born 20 April 1968) is a British portrait and documentary photographer.

Biography

Platon was born on 20 April 1968 in Greece. His father (Jim Antoniou) was a Greek architect and illustrator and his mother is an art historian.^[1]^[2] Platon is currently married and has two children.^[2] He was raised in Greece and moved to England at the age of 8.^[2] Platon studied graphic design at Saint Martin's School of Art where he encountered his first experience with photography.^[1] He went on to receive his masters in fine arts from the Royal College of Art where he met his instructor and mentor, John Hind of Vogue.^[1]^[3]

Career

After leaving college in 1992, Platon began his career in fashion photography and portr

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Best Memoirs of Famous Photographers

Not that many autobiographies, for obvious reasons. While other arts are turned inwards, photography is, with a few exceptions, entirely turned outwards. This means that for the photographers the work is the autobiography—what they saw, who they saw, what they felt. What's left, when turned into words, often becomes mostly anecdotal, which is the case, for example, with the Ansel Adams autobiography (sarcastic minds will state that most of his photography is also anecdotal, but that's for another thread ).

That said, there are some worth reading. Top on my list is Gordon Parks' A Choice of Weapons, one of the most powerful autobiography you'll ever read. Ends early in his life—he followed that with To Smile in Autumn—but it's entirely worth it. I have Don McCullin's Unreasonable Behaviour on my bookshelf. People have told me good things about it, but, again, I haven't had time to read it yet.

Danny Lyon is an immensely interesting photographer that isn't mentioned enough. His essays are somewhat in between being about biography and abou