Before Christmas there was a post on Facebook about Alec Soth and Aron Morel posted that Soth is like the Coldplay of photography which is a bit cruel but not too cruel. To be fair, someone else said he was the Leonard Cohen of photography which is so, so, so much nicer.
So it got me thinking who are the musical equivalents of photographers. It was said that you can't really compare the two, but that didn't stop people when I put up a post wondering at who would be who in musical terms. These are the answers below - and feel free to add more diverse photographers and music as we go.
Somebody asked if there was a prize. There isn't but if there was, it would go to Markus Schaden for his suggested match up of Cindy and Bert (no, me neither, but I do now) to Andreas Gursky. This is Cindy and Bert's version of Paranoia by Black Sabbath, given a Holmesian twist.
If you watch only one thing today, watch this...
And enjoy the rest of the answers, some fit perfectly some don't. And nobody was too cruel, for the most part...
Alec Soth
Alec Soth = coldplay!
Alec Soth = Leonard Cohen
Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen is Die Antwoord, but everyone knows that :-)
or Throbbing Gristle
not quite
Daido Moriyama
Moriyama / Tom Waits
Good call
yes both are equally irritating and forced.
Rinko Kawauchi
Rinko Kawauchi is Ryuichi Sakamoto
I was going to say Rinko - Bjork
Rankin
Rankin are Boyzone
Nah, Rankin is the Spice Girls (not in a bad way).
the spice girls weren't that bad... its a bit cruel to call them Rankin...
Stephen Shore is Dylan.
Rankin is definitely Nickelback.
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus - Patti Smith
Diane Arbus is Janis Joplin
Malick Sidibe
Malick Sidibé / Fela Kuti
Chris Kilip
Chris Killip is Richard Thompson
Ivars Gravlejs
Ivars Gravlejs is Stump
Niall McDiarmid
Niall McDairmid is Blur.
Niall McDiarmid is more Proclaimers than Blur....
Mark Cohen
Mark Cohen is Talking Heads
Bjork is more Maisie Cousins
I dunno, bjork is too ethereal...
Eugene Smith
Eugene smith - Bob Dylan
Wolfgang Tillmans
Tillmans - Brian Eno
nailed it
Gareth McConnell
Gareth Mcconnell - Cocó Rosie
Anna Fox
Anna Fox = some punk maybe The Slits? or Blondie?
Zanele Muholi
Zahele Muholi = M.I.A ?
Ernest Cole
Ernest Cole / Public Enemy
...Or Gordon Parks
Erwin Blumenfeld
Blumenfeld is Bowie.
Georgiu Pinkhassov
Pinkhassov Cocteau Twins
No - he's a Cocteau Twins Album cover
Irving Penn
Irving Penn is Cole Porter
Who's Miles Davis?
Miles Davis - Atget
Frederick Sommer
Robert Frank
I suggest Thomas Ruff.
Huger Foote
Larry Clarke - think about it without prejudice.
I think Paul Graham is Miles Davis. Both aloof and both continually re-inventing themselves.
yes!
hmmm - how much does PG actually re-invent... Miles really did go from Kind of Blue to On The Corner past In A Silent Way... MD broke every rule - every sound - every genre...
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman is Blondie
Vivian Maier
Joan Baez
Billie Holiday
Vivian Maier is Lesley Gore
Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh = Nina Simone
The Becher's
Philip Glass is the Becher’s
Bernd and Hilla Becher - Cindy & Bert (see top)
Lee Friedlander
Friedlander is Thelonious Monk
Nan Goldin
Dare I say Nan Golding / Dolly Parton....
Nan Goldin is Björk
this is an interesting one...
I would have went more punk... maybe Sonic Youth
Nan Goldin is Nico
William Eggleston
Eggleston / Creedence
Eggleston is Elvis
Susan Barnett
Odyssey
Juergen Teller
Juergen Teller / Boney M
Haha
Keep 'em coming. I'm having my consciousness raised. Feel free to ask questions - like Who's Robertino, or who's Billy Holiday?
Yousuf Karsh
Billy Holiday is Karsh
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Is there a prize? Ralph Eugene Meatyard is Nick Cave.
I’d say Ralph Eugene Meatyard is Hasil Adkins.
Arthur Tress
Arthur Tress? Arthur Brown
Lewis Baltz
Lewis Baltz.......Philip Glass (early).
lot of competition for Glass. Uta Barth?
Gursky is Glass
Gursky / barbie girl by aqua (I think it was played on art zoo while his work was shown and I can't disasociate the two)
Radiohead?
Jeff Wall is Radiohead
I was thinking Trent Parke
John Myers
John Myers is Jarvis Cocker
Christopher Anderson
Christopher Anderson has to be David Bowie - nearly every project is different from the last!
Don McCullin
Don McCullin - The Beatles.
Elliot Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt- Madness
Matt Black
Matt Black - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Who is Milli Vanilli
Andreas Serrano?
Who’s Tom Wood?
My music knowledge just wouldn’t do him justice.
...the Libertines?
Like it. I was thinking more 70s but yes that’s good, like it.
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams is...Bryan Adams! (Do with this what you wish)
Sebastiao Salgado
Salgado- Brahms
Antoine d'Agata
Antoine d'Agata is Trent Reznor
not a chance. More like baby metal.
Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson / Bob Dylan
Philip Jones Griffiths
Philip Jones Griffiths- The Doors
David Hurn
David Hurn - Manic Street Preachers
Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons is Talking Heads not Cindy Sherman lol
Vanessa Winship
Vanessa Winship - Janis Joplin?
oh yes!
Peter Hujar
Peter Hujar - Lou Reed
Sally Mann
Sally Mann - Joni Mitchell
I was thinking patti smith also
David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle is Prince, channelling Grace Jones and Boy George.
Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore / Jack Kerouac. Ok, ok, I know he's a writer, but it feels so right and I always wonder when I read Kerouac, if Shore was inspired by him at all, for his road trips.
Anton Corbin
Anton Corbin/joy division
Krass Clement is Joy Division
Walker Evans
Walker Evans is? Tempted to say Mozart?
Who is Kraftwerk?
Thomas Demand
Good call.
Thomas Demand is Paperlace
Martin Parr
Martin Parr is The Beatles
You mean the Beatles spng hopladee hoplada on repeat?
I mean they started off good but then as time goes on you realise how “establishment” they are.
Martin Parr - David Byrne
Martin Parr - U2
Martin Parr as the Elton John of the photoworld is for me the most obvious one.
Elton John? No mate just no! An insult to Elton
Elton is certainly as bitchy in private as Martin Parr’s photographs.
You're all wrong. He's somewhere between Ivor Cutler and the Wurzels....
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Vanessa Winship - PJ Harvey
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