Lionel Kazan (1930-2016) was a fashion photographer of Russian origin who had known a great success during the Fifties and Sixties. He is especially famous for his collaboration with the French fashion magazine ELLE ; he produced 92 covers from 1953 to 1965. Lionel Kazan also produced photoshoots for Vogue, Glamour, Marie-Claire and Nouveau Femina.…
Tarun Khiwal is an India’s leading fashion photographer. Pride of his culture and heritage, he photographs with an authentic India Modern aesthetic. Recognized internationally, he collaborates with magazines like Vogue, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire and L’Officiel. Besides, Tarun Khiwal produced campaign photoshoots for famous brands such as Dior, L’Oreal, Sony, Amrapali and Sabyasachi.…
Tarun Vishwa is a renowned Indian fashion photographer. He collaborated with pretigious magazines like Vogue, ELLE and Harper’s Bazaar. He also produced campaign photoshoots including Indian jewellery brands. His photos are bright, colorful and luminous.
Henry Clarke (1918-1996) was an renowned American fashion photographer. In 1950, he began to work with Vogue French, UK and US editions. This collaboration lasted more than 25 years. He shot famous models like Suzy Parker, Ann Sainte Marie and Bettina. Beside his fashion photoshoots, he also took portraits of celebrities such as Sophia Loren,…
Serge Leblon is a Belgian fashion photographer collaborating with magzines like Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and AnOther Magazine. His photos are artistic, hazy, luminous, colorful, poetic and glamour. The blurry photos are full of poesy and create a dreamlike atmosphere. I love also his work on the light : neons, colored lights, reflects, effects of light…
Xevi Muntane is a Spanish fashion photographer. He produces photoshoots for fashion magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and V magazine. He shoots models but also celebrities such as Léa Seydoux and Kylie Minogue. His photographs are luminous, colorful and retro inspired. Sources : http://pinterest.com/ , http://tumblr.com/ and https://models.com/
Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a black American photographer who worked for Life magazine from the 1940s to the 1970s. Multi-talent and activist, he produced fashion photoshoots, realized photos of celebrities, directed movies (“Shaft”), wrote books, but also depicted through pictures the poverty and racial segregation in the United States. His fashion photographs are elegant, sophisticated…
Michelangelo Di Battista is an Italian fashion photographer. He collaborates with the greatest fashion magazines like Vogue, InStyle and Harper’s Bazaar. He also shoots advertising photoshoots for famous brands. Many movie stars had been captured by him (Julianne Moore, Jessica Chastain, Julia Roberts…). His photos are solar, sophisticated and glamour. I like when he uses…
Richard Rutledge ( 1923-1985) was an American studio photographer for the publisher Condé Nast. For a 15-year period following the World War II, he had realized photographs for prestigious fashion magazines such as Vogue, Glamour, and House & Garden. Multi-skilled, he shot beauty, fashion and shoes photos for magazines.
Louise Emma Augusta Dahl (1895-1989) was an American fashion photographer. She is mainly known for her work in the magazine Harper’s Bazaar from 1936 to 1958. She collaborated with the fashion publishers Carmel Snow, Diane Vreeland and the art director Alexey Brodovitch. The models Evelyn Tripp and Mary Jane Russell posed very often for her.…
With her diaphanous skin and her bright red hair, the American actress Jessica Chastain rekindles the Old Hollywood glamour. My favourite movies of her are “Interstellar”, “Dark zero thirty”, “A most violent year”, “The help”, “Take shelter”, “The zookeeper’s wife”, “debt”, “Miss Sloane” and “Molly’s game”. Sources : fabfashionfix.com ; intothescreen.com ; http://visualoptimism.blogspot.fr/ ; http://www.fashiongonerogue.com/…
Alex Prager is an American photographer and film maker. She produces creative, colorful, Old Hollywood inspired, glamour, artistic and scripted photos.
Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) was one of the most famous fashion photographers of the 20th century. His fashion pictures were elegant, sophisticated, inspired and creative. He shot also celebrities such as Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. He was one of the first to shoot models out of the studio, outside. The background was important in his…
William Klein (Born in 1928 in New-York) was a Franco-American painter, photographer and film director. He was nicknamed “bad boy” because he broke the rules of photography. He is famous for his creative fashion photoshoots, his portraits of Audrey Hepburn, his street photos and his photos of New-York. Sources : projectcurve.in ; http://www.photoforager.com/ ; https://pleasurephoto.wordpress.com/…
Clifford Coffin (1913-1972) was an American fashion photographer considered as the greatest of Vogue’s photographers. During the 1940s and 1950s, he produced elegant, graceful and creative fashion photoshoots. He played an important part in fashion history : he covered the inauguration of the “new look” in 1947 by Christian Dior, encouraged the careers of famous…
Paulo Vainer is a Brazilian photographer and filmmaker based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He begun his career in 1978 as an assistant to photographer Bob Wolfenson. He realizes fashion photoshoots for many magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. He shoots also fashion ad campaigns. His photos are powerful, graphic and colorful.
Franz Christian Gundlach (born in 1926) is the most significant fashion photographer of Germany’s post-war years. Gundlach covered the evolution of fashion : “from the optimistic postwar years to the beginning of postmodernism, from Paris Haute Couture to Prêt-à-Porter, and from Berlin Chic to the colorful designs of the 1980s”. His work is namely inspired…
Nina Leen (1914 – 1995) was a Russian born photographer who became one of the first female photographers for LIFE magazine in 1945. Her fashion photoshoots are elegant, sophisticated and creative. She didn’t shoot only fashion models but also Hollywood stars and animals.
The American Frances McLaughlin-Gill (1919-2014) was one of the rare female photographers in the 40’s. She was the first female photographer to sign a contract with Vogue in 1943. She said about her work “everyone was wearing beautiful clothes, sitting in an elegant chair, or leaning against a pillar, looking into the camera.” Her photos…