Comments on: Raymond Meier Website

By: benjamin hancock

benjamin hancock — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:23:16 +0000

Interesting that he would rather hide his work from people who would rip him off, than to have it online for potential clients to see. The threat of getting ripped off is always going to be there; it just seems like a strange reason to take down your site.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:14:13 +0000

No i am not putting Meier in the same league with Penn, Meier is a great photographer, Penn is the history of photography.
Penn is another level.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:22:14 +0000

I share all of the above sentiments about his execution and slickness – it’s faultless. But it’s all about “look” & “surface” & “product”. The ideas and concepts are a little thin. I really don’t think you can put him in a league with Irving Penn & co

By: dude

dude — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:36:36 +0000

Sølve rocks and he’s got those crosses through his “Ø”s.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:10:37 +0000

Well Meier is one of my favourite photographer ever, incredible technique and a great eye, he’s been doing this for a long time.
I think Penn is way more conceptual than him but i can see some similarity between these 2 greats.
I agree Sølve Sundsbø and Nick Knight too are amazing and Javier Vallonrhat was a great one too and i also loved Guy Bordin.
These are real photographers.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:52:07 +0000

I love the work, but the site takes decades to load…. on a fast pipe with a spanking new MacBook Pro…

You have to be this good to get away with a site this slow, methinks

By: scott Rex Ely

scott Rex Ely — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:16:17 +0000

@todd huffman, I agree with you about Mr. Meier’s still lifes, but for subject matter with a pulse, this guy is my favorite technical bad ass: Sølve Sundsbø

By: todd huffman

todd huffman — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:05:53 +0000

Mr. Meier is the best of the best imo. He shoots in so many styles and techniques, yet all off the images are recognizably his. My faves are the products on location stuff.

By: robert wright

robert wright — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:03:25 +0000

an “hommage” to raymonds site design might be welcome as a choice for aphotofolio…

By: dude

dude — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:37:48 +0000

It would be very, very difficult to copy Raymond’s work.
He is so insanely talented, exact and singular in his vision.

By: Ellis Vener

Ellis Vener — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:48:08 +0000

Raymond Meier’s photographic work is as beautiful and as frighteningly precise in execution and obsessive attention to detail and composition as the work of Irving Penn.

As a photographer I greatly admire his use of light. Not just lighting technique, or the use of light for illumination, but more importantly of the depiction of light as an aesthetic element in its own right. He even manages to insert a very dry sense of wit into what would otherwise be very sterile photos.

I look forward to the day that he starts working on portraits.