Sally Mann
Sally Mann is an American photographer born in 1951 and living in Virginia. She is famous for black and white portraits Immediate Family of her three kids taken with a 8×10″ large format camera. Here are some gallery links: Catherine Edelman, Houk Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, Artnet. The images show apparently unspectacular yet very intimate moments. [...]
Brent Humphreys’ Tour de France
Have a look at Brent Humphreys’ photos of Le Tour de France. And his behind-the-scenes blog at WTJ. He’s a photographer from Texas and lives in the back of a van for the three Tour weeks. Brents shots make the difference – he’s using some Profoto 7B lights on the street. His portfolio.
Richard Avedon
“There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” – Richard Avedon Richard Avedon was born 1923 in New York as the son of Jewish Russian immigrants. From 1942, he served in the photography department of the US Merchant Marine, taking a lot of [...]
Yousuf Karsh
I was lucky to find an antiquarian copy of Yousuf Karsh’s book A 50-year Retrospective. Karsh has photographed many of the most influential persons of the last century. Among them is the famous portrait of Winston Churchill (“the roaring lion”) taken in 1941. He also made wonderfully lit portraits of Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Albert [...]
David Burnett
There is a very intersting blog post by photographer David Burnett, a long-time US photojournalist: Closing the Circle. He talks about his beginnings when he was shooting basketball games where the newspapers did not send their own staffers to. He has photographed Ayatollah Khomeini during the revolution in Iran in 1979, he was in West [...]
Ansel Adams
Today would be Ansel Adams’ 107th birthday. See the work of THE landscape photographer here.
Advertising Photographer Mark Zibert
The F Stop Magazine features an article about advertising photographer Mark Zibert shooting the Adidas Campaign in Beijing. Very impressive stuff! Some more hints to photographers: A master of portrait lighting is Marco Grob, a Swiss photographer. He was awarded the Hasselblad Masters Award in January 2007. His website shows his stunning portfolio with portraits [...]
Photo Book 2008: Walter Iooss
My favourite photo book of 2008 is Walter Iooss’s book Athlete. Walter Iooss has shot about 300 covers for Sports Illustrated and looks back to a 40 year career as a sports photographer. The book includes more than 150 beautiful photographs – from kids playing baseball in Cuba to captures of Tiger Woods taken with [...]
The Most Published Advertising Photographer: Nadav Kander
Find out who is the most published advertising photographer… It’s Nadav Kander. Lürzer’s Archive Magazine lists them all. There is also a featured Spot of the Week, as well as the Print Ad of the Week. The Guardian recently pulished an interview with Nadav Kander. Kander’s latest project, Yangtze from East to West, is currently [...]
Editorial Photographer Chris Buck
One of the top editorial photographers: Chris Buck. His portraits always show the unexpected, and his portfolio is an incredible pot of creativity. There is a very interesting recent interview with Chris Buck by A Photo Editor. I also found an article about him on CBC, The portrait photography of Chris Buck. It also describes [...]
Editorial Photographers I Admire
Here is a short list of some great editorial photographers whose work I find very inspiring. I only included contemporary photographers, and this list does not cover pure photo journalists. All these photographers make ingenious use of lighting to achieve their specific style. Chris Buck. An incredible pot of artistic creativity! The master of editorial [...]
Stretching the Moment: David Claerbout
Today I’ve visited an exhibition about Venice in paintings over the last 200 years – from Canaletto to Turner to Monet. There were also lightboxes with photographs by David Claerbout, a Belgian artist born in 1969. I was impressed by his work called The Algiers´ Sections of a Happy Moment showing a small football pitch [...]