What's a good way to discover photographers you like, including dead ones? Is Pinterest good?
>>4484740>What's a good way to discover photographers you like, including dead ones?Go to a used book store or your university's library (even if you aren't a student you can get a library card as a member of the public) and borrow photography books. Find something with a focus on historical periods in photography, scenes and movements, or specific photographers. Even if you get one book that is overall on a subject that, after you turn the final page, you have no affection for, you may return it or put it back on your bookshelf at least knowing where you'd like to point your nose next, since you may find an allusion to another photographer or style outside the scope of the book you just read.>Is Pinterest good?Maybe. I like Flickr. Tumblr probably has some blogs you might like and there is a hashtag system so you can jump down some rabbit holes there. This is a queer suggestion but pbase and goat.vision are great resources for viewing sample galleries of specific cameras or lenses, not so much for finding specific photographers though.
>>4484740Reading.
>>4484762+I highly recommend to brief review of each book you read. take a picture of the cover or the most representative picture and write one or two lines of your impression about that book or the photographer.Trust me, it will give you in the future such great insightful database that any other meme youtuber's bullshit reviews could never give. This trick applies to pretty much everything in life though.
