Having been asked, here is my list of (sports) photographers that I am closely monitoring: Michael Clark, James Quantz, Dennis Murphy, Brian Baily and two local Bavarians: Andy Fox and Uli Wiesmeier.
For street photography my favorites are Richard Kalvar and Joel Meyerowitz while I learned also a lot of Bert Stephani, Zack Arias, David Hobby and the strobists.
Recommended books: I started in the 70ies with Andreas Feiniger’s Fotolehre and Ansel Adam’s Positiv, moved on with Joe Mac Nally’s Moment, John Freeman’s Composition and read more recently David du Chemin’s Frame. Just in case you want to know that too…

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