DAVID BAILEY
David Bailey is an English fashion and portrait photographer. Bailey developed a love of natural history, and this led him into photography.He had determined to pursue a career in photography so he bought himself a Cannon rangefinder camera. In 1959, Bailey became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, and in May 1960, he was a photographer for John Cole's Studio Five, before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine later that year.
Here are a few of his quotes:
" Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love".
"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."
Here are a few of his quotes:
" Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love".
"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."
Visual: This is one of my favourite pictures which David Bailey had taken which is of Micheal Caine. the areas that appear to be the sharpest/Clearest are the
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. In 1944, Avedon began working as an advertising photographer for a department store, but was quickly endorsed by Alexey Brodovitch, who was art director for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar. He was inspired by his parents' clothing businesses, as a boy Avedon took a great interest in fashion, especially enjoying photographing the clothes in his father's store.
MARTIN SCHOLLER
GREGORY CREWDSON
YOUSUF KARSH
Yousuf Karsh, was an Armenian–Canadian portrait photographer.According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he is "one of the greatest portrait photographers of the twentieth century, who achieved a distinct style in his theatrical lighting."