A list of Eric Kim’s favorite and most influential photographers in history, who have influenced him:

High contrast, gritty black and white

It started with William Klein, who inspired Daido Moriyama, Araki, as well as Anders Peterson and Jacob aue Sobol.

Daido inspired me as well as Josh White.

Color photography

Biggest pioneers for color photography include William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Martin Parr.

Street Photography

Biggest innovators in street photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson and Andre Kertesz.

More classic times include Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Bruce Gilden, Helen Levitt, Saul Leiter, Alex Webb.

Modern times: Charlie Kirk, Dirty Harrry, Matt Stuart, Blake Andrews, Jesse Marlow, Blake Andrews, Justin Vogel, Ludmilla Morrais, Junku Nishimura, Sean Lotman, Kaushal Parikh.

Fashion Photography

Richard Avedon, Man Ray.

Nature photography

Ansel Adams.

Photography bloggers

David Hobby, Fred Miranda, Ken Rockwell, Darren Rowse, Steve Huff, Chris Weeks, Thorsten Overgaard, Eric Kim, Kaiman Wong, Zack Arias, FD Walker, Spyros Papaspyropoulos, Martin Waltz, Oliver Krumes, Michael Zhang, Bellamy Hunt.

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Obviously I’m forgetting many folks who influenced me. So friend if I forgot to include your name, please forgive me.

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