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.…
The Parliament of Hungary in Budapest is incredibly decorated with gold ornaments, glass windows…
I took these photos of glass windows in the Dohany street Great Synagogue of Budapest, Hungary. For more information : http://www.greatsynagogue.hu/gallery_syn.html
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.
Every Saturday from June 18 to September 17 2016, the gardens of the Château de Versailles offer stunning fireworks in front of the Grand Canal. I saw amazing and beautiful fireworks in July. It is a wonderful spectacle. For more information : http://en.chateauversailles.fr/
Richard Dormer was a fashion photographer from the 1940’s to 2000. He worked for many magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Elegance Magazine. He shot many famous models (Suzy Smith, Barbara Goalen…) and particulary Jean Shrimpton. His photos in Egypt are really beautiful and inspired. Sources : https://www.tumblr.com/ ; http://hprints.com/ ; http://pinterest.com/ ; http://magdorable.blogspot.fr/ and…
Angelo Pennetta is a British fashion photographer. He collaborates with many magazines and in particular Vogue. He also produces advertising photoshoots for famous fashion brands such as Jimmy Choo, DVF, Kate Spade, Tory Burch and Manoush Paris. His photos are luminous, pretty, joyful, natural and sweet. He shot also celebrities like Elle Fanning, Poppy Delavigne,…
Eugene Robert Richee (1896-1972) was an Hollywood photographer at Paramount (1921-1941) and Warner Brothers. He started by shooting silent movie stars like Gloria Swanson, Claudette Colbert and Carole Lombard. He is particulary famous for his portraits of movie stars such as Clara Bow, Sylvia Sidney and Marlene Dietrich. At MGM and Warner Brothers, he photographed…
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…