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Famous Photographers: Are there really any?

Famous Photographers: Are there really any?

by Stanley LearyMarch 17, 2012September 1, 2025

Jay Maisel, Bernie Boston, Hugh Morton, and George Tames are four famous photographers. I took this at the Southern Short Course in the 1980s. Most photographers want to be known for their work, and almost everyone I know wants…

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24 responses to “Famous Photographers: Are there really any?”

  1. Stanley Leary Avatar
    Stanley Leary
    June 12, 2012

    Thanks famous photographer.

  2. Stanley Leary Avatar
    Stanley Leary
    June 12, 2012

    Thanks famous photographer.

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    Famous Photographer
    June 12, 2012

    Thanks for sharing with us your encounter with Bill Fortney. Very good article to read.

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    Famous Photographer
    June 12, 2012

    Thanks for sharing with us your encounter with Bill Fortney. Very good article to read.

  5. Stanley Leary Avatar
    Stanley Leary
    March 25, 2012

    Guy

    Thanks for the thoughts on the subject.

    I wrote this as much for me to remind me as for anyone else. Every day I struggle with this in some way.

    Pride can get the best of you and often it does.

    Perspective is something I need and with the help of my faith I get it a little better than without it.

  6. Stanley Leary Avatar
    Stanley Leary
    March 25, 2012

    Guy

    Thanks for the thoughts on the subject.

    I wrote this as much for me to remind me as for anyone else. Every day I struggle with this in some way.

    Pride can get the best of you and often it does.

    Perspective is something I need and with the help of my faith I get it a little better than without it.

  7. Guy Lyons Avatar
    Guy Lyons
    March 25, 2012

    Thanks Stanley for this reminder. Early on in my photography I was subject to the temptations to be something in the eyes of man or even history. It was at my first SWPJ conference in '94 when I saw images from Pat Davidson's Colorado story on hunting that brought tears to my eyes. Many other men and women's work glowed on the screen those few days and I was undone. I knew I'd never reach the level they were at. I committed to God that day that even if I knew I could somehow categorically the best photographer who ever lived, the world could do without seeing any image I ever created. I committed that no matter what I did regarding photography, if it wasn't for His glory and purposes that I pursued photography, I didn't want anything to do with it.
    He continued to open doors for me and I ended up overseas shooting as the eyes for His Bride in the US. Feedback is rare and awards even rarer for the average shooter in the business. But, I learned from a friend after one of my first stories in China that God had used specifically the images from my published story to move a man's heart to forsake everything in his life in the US and move to China to make Jesus Christ's name known among an unreached people group. My images… the ones I prayed over at each press of the shutter button… the ones my Father and I crafted together… those images, they were used to move a man's heart to bring eternal freedom to an entire unknown and unreached people in an obscure corner of China.
    I don't need National Geo, Time or other famous publications in portfolio. Sure, it would be fun to shoot for them but I don't need them. I may never have a reader compliment me a cover shot on S.I., but someday, I'll meet men and women who's eternal destinies were impacted by the simple squeezes of a button on my camera.
    I am famous and so are you Stanley! It has all been so worth it.

    Grace,
    Guy

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    Guy Lyons
    March 25, 2012

    Thanks Stanley for this reminder. Early on in my photography I was subject to the temptations to be something in the eyes of man or even history. It was at my first SWPJ conference in '94 when I saw images from Pat Davidson's Colorado story on hunting that brought tears to my eyes. Many other men and women's work glowed on the screen those few days and I was undone. I knew I'd never reach the level they were at. I committed to God that day that even if I knew I could somehow categorically the best photographer who ever lived, the world could do without seeing any image I ever created. I committed that no matter what I did regarding photography, if it wasn't for His glory and purposes that I pursued photography, I didn't want anything to do with it.
    He continued to open doors for me and I ended up overseas shooting as the eyes for His Bride in the US. Feedback is rare and awards even rarer for the average shooter in the business. But, I learned from a friend after one of my first stories in China that God had used specifically the images from my published story to move a man's heart to forsake everything in his life in the US and move to China to make Jesus Christ's name known among an unreached people group. My images… the ones I prayed over at each press of the shutter button… the ones my Father and I crafted together… those images, they were used to move a man's heart to bring eternal freedom to an entire unknown and unreached people in an obscure corner of China.
    I don't need National Geo, Time or other famous publications in portfolio. Sure, it would be fun to shoot for them but I don't need them. I may never have a reader compliment me a cover shot on S.I., but someday, I'll meet men and women who's eternal destinies were impacted by the simple squeezes of a button on my camera.
    I am famous and so are you Stanley! It has all been so worth it.

    Grace,
    Guy

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    Stanley Leary
    March 23, 2012

    Shawn thanks for the kind words.

  10. Stanley Leary Avatar
    Stanley Leary
    March 23, 2012

    Shawn thanks for the kind words.

  11. Shawn M. Knox Avatar
    Shawn M. Knox
    March 23, 2012

    I was thinking about this topic just recently and really came to the same conclusion but I think you've said it a lot better than I could have. Very nicely said.

  12. Shawn M. Knox Avatar
    Shawn M. Knox
    March 23, 2012

    I was thinking about this topic just recently and really came to the same conclusion but I think you've said it a lot better than I could have. Very nicely said.

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    Stanley Leary
    March 18, 2012

    Gary thanks so much. I value our friendship a lot.

  14. Stanley Leary Avatar
    Stanley Leary
    March 18, 2012

    Gary thanks so much. I value our friendship a lot.

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    gary s chapman
    March 18, 2012

    One of your best. Thanks for sharing. Proud to call you friend.

    Wise words for everyone to pay attention to.

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    gary s chapman
    March 18, 2012

    One of your best. Thanks for sharing. Proud to call you friend.

    Wise words for everyone to pay attention to.

  17. Stanley Leary Avatar
    Stanley Leary
    March 18, 2012

    Ed thanks

  18. Stanley Leary Avatar
    Stanley Leary
    March 18, 2012

    Ed thanks

  19. Ed Polakoff Avatar
    Ed Polakoff
    March 18, 2012

    Beautifully put Stanley. I have been extremely blessed by my friendship with you and very grateful for that invitation you extended to me after knowing me only a short while to join you at SWJPC a few years back.

  20. Ed Polakoff Avatar
    Ed Polakoff
    March 18, 2012

    Beautifully put Stanley. I have been extremely blessed by my friendship with you and very grateful for that invitation you extended to me after knowing me only a short while to join you at SWJPC a few years back.

  21. Stanley Leary Avatar
    Stanley Leary
    March 18, 2012

    Thanks Christen

  22. Stanley Leary Avatar
    Stanley Leary
    March 18, 2012

    Thanks Christen

  23. Christen Avatar
    Christen
    March 18, 2012

    Beautifully said. Thanks for speaking truth today!

  24. Christen Avatar
    Christen
    March 18, 2012

    Beautifully said. Thanks for speaking truth today!

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