Fine Art
What is fine art photography..?
Fine art photography is photographs that are created to full-fill the creative aspect of fine art.
Celebrity Photography!
What is celebrity photography..?
Celebrity photography is a subset of photojournalism. E.g. celebrities in arts, sports and sometimes politics.
Quoted from the wikipedia website.
fashion photography!
What is fashion photography?
Fashion photography is a genre of photography displaying clothes and many other fashion items. Fashion photography is mainly used for advertisement or fashion magazines e.g. vogue, vanity fair or Ellie.
Man Ray
- Man Ray was an American artist, who is renowned for fashion and portrait. He displayed mechanical and artistic ability from his childhood.
- He also educated himself as he took frequent visits to a local art museums where he studied the work of old masters.
- “Man Ray allowed little of his early life or family background to be known to the public, even refusing to acknowledge that he ever had a name other than Man Ray” quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray
Man Rays Work
This is a piece of Man Ray’s work he has a very unique style, he does a lot of portraits and looks at self portraits. Here are some examples of Man Rays work:
This is a piece of Man Ray’s work he has a very unique style, he does a lot of portraits and looks at self portraits. Here are some examples of Man Rays work:
David Bailey
- David Bailey became a photographic assistant in 1959 he then became a photographer later that year for john Cole's studio five before he was contracted as a fashion photographer for the British magazine vogue.
- Not only have David Bailey been into fashion photography but he has been responsible for record album sleeve art for performing.
- David Bailey suffered from undiagnosed dyslexia and because of this he experienced problems at school. He went to a private school called Clarke's college in Ilford. He says “ They taught him less than the more basic council school”. Later in his life he developed a love for natural history this is what led him into being interested in photography.
David Bailey's work:
This is some examples of David Bailey’s work he uses lots of black and white and sometimes block colours to present fashion in a interesting way.
Mario Testino
¢Mario Testino went to London to study photography in 1976. He shot fashion stories for vogue Gucci and vanity fair and some celebrity shots which most famously included: Diana, prince of whales and her sons and many actresses including: Kim Basinger, Emma Watson, Cameron Diaz and Julia Roberts. Living in London he continues to carry on with photography photographing the British Royal Family and also for brands such as Gucci, Zara, Estée Lauder.
¢Mario Testino has became one of the most famous fashion/ celebrity photographers. Mario’s work has been featured across the world in magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and V.
Mario testino's work:
This is some examples of Mario Testino’s photography. A lot of his photography is for magazines, celebrity and fashion.
