A great pastime for those who surf the net is to check out what’s the best or what’s the top 10 of whatever, from peanut butter to sports cars. And truth be told, I occasionally do this myself. So why not throw my hat into the ring with a list of my very own!

You know you want it. You know you need it.  Surely Mankind has been waiting … but is it truly ready?

Here’s my plan … to provide you with a very subjective list and discussion on my “favorite” top 10 black and white analog photographers.  Black and white analog, because that’s my interest and it’s what this website is about … and I’m in charge of this microscopic corner of the Internet universe. “Favorite”, because this is incredibly subjective and it cannot be otherwise … and finally, it’s my list! Their pictures speaks to me … they may not to you. And there may be some other very subjective reasons for my choices.  We’ll see how it goes.

I’ll tell you why I think they’re wonderful and why I think you should know about them!  I will also throw an example of one of their books to head you in the right direction!  Look, they may not be your favorites or what you consider the top 10. And of course there might me many others that are out there that I might have liked even more if I only knew they existed. So why wouldn’t I know about them? Because I haven’t seen every photographer’s photographs in person or in published form, and then there are those that purely photograph for the love of it and we never see their work at all. Vivian Meir would have been a prime example of this, were she not discovered by pure accident!  I wrote about her and the great photography we will never see several years ago if you want to check that out.

So stay tuned and I hope you will enjoy reading these periodic entries as much as I will enjoy writing them.

Stay safe,

Michael