Speeling is not my strong suite 
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I remember that photo well (doesn’t everyone?), but had never looked into who took it.
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Ah! Yes, like @elGordo, I remember that image very well, but never looked into the photographer… Thanks!
Allan Sekula, a tremendously honest and hard working artist. Had the incredible proviledge of assisting him for a couple days.
From Dear Bill Gates
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My dad got me interested in photography . He didn’t do loads of photos but he loved his cameras. He gad a darkroom … well not a darkroom just a blacked out space under the stairs of the terraced house we lived in. When he died a few years ago I scanned all his old negs brought back some good memories.
As for well known photographers . I don’t necessarily think any have inspired me. I like a streetie shot and maybe indirectly I admired Martin Parr over the years without necessarily knowing who he was.
Parr did a cracking shot of Burnden Park. The former home of my football team Bolton Wanderers 
. I could quite easily have been one of the people in the shot below
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Thanks for this inspirational thread, for me its hard to find one name, there are just too many unique and talented photographers out there!
I found this short video series Photographers in Focus with some portraits of photographers mentioned above and also some new ones, I enjoyed it a lot 
Well known: Eugène Atget, especially his park (Le Nôtre) and abstract photos: https://www.moma.org/artists/229
Little-known (and sadly departed): Lauren Simonutti: https://lauren-rabbit.blogspot.com
You really need to see her portfolio of her house in Silvershotz Vol 4 Ed 4, from 2007. Unbelievable.
I also don’t have one single inspirational photographer as I am not very aware of who the standout photographers of the last few, or even current generation, are.
I’m familiar with the name Ansel Adams, and his impact on landscape photography from his works in Yosemite.
But I think I have one bit of inspiration…I have one photography book. Had it since I was 15 I think. It’s title is “Great Photographers of World War II”. That book has some great moments captured by both the Allied and the Axis documenting seconds, minutes, and events from the front lines and the homefront.
Not every image is perfect, but almost every image tells a story.
The thing that I found inspirational from it was that these war photographers (who came from all facets of the commercial and freelance industry) thrust themselves directly in to the battles, or accompanied the armies after an offensive to document what had happened.
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Ansel Adams is a photographer that inspire me in many ways as well and made me realise two things :
Even with technological limitation
- heavy equipment
- low DR medium of the era
- cumbersome post processing
he made wonderful things !
And he made a case for post processing with it’s famous quote :
The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance
And having musical training and a taste for processing, it spoke to me.
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