A New York Times article on Jerome Liebling:

For much of a half-century of taking quiet, subtly powerful pictures that demand and reward long looking, Jerome Liebling has been known as a photographer’s photographer. The label is both a high compliment and an acknowledgment that Mr. Liebling, now 82, has not enjoyed the acclaim accorded to many of his contemporaries who first took their cameras to the streets of New York after World War II.

An advantage of being “untrained” in photography (my academic background is in a different field) is that I can still “discover” photographers that everyone else probably knows about already. This article (and the accompanying Ken Burns multimedia clip) introduced me to Liebling’s wonderful images. (Thank you to The Online Photographer for the link.)
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Mike Johnston has an interesting commentary at The Online Photographer – inspired by the Newsweek piece on “best known” photographer Annie Leibovitz:

It’s an almost backhanded compliment, that “best known” – but it’s accurate, forehandedly and backhandedly And it’s certainly not the photographer’s fault that she’s gotten famous by doing what she does very well. Still….

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New York Times:

His photograph of the flag-raising atop Mount Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945, may be the most widely reproduced photograph in American history. [NYT > Arts]

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Adobe has sponsored a trip to Iceland by a group of well-regarded photographers – to use Adobe’s software, of course… :-)

In any case, a gallery of images being created by the group is online and worth taking a look: http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/images/adventure_web1/content/index.html
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