The vintage fashion photographer Henry Clarke
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,…
The Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) in photos
The Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) was created in 1976 in order to show the best movies presented in the other film festivals around the world to Toronto audiences. The original name was “the Festival of Festivals” ; it was renamed “the Toronto International Film Festival” in 1995. The most prestigious price is the People’s Choice…
The fashion photographer Serge Leblon
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…
The fashion photographer Xevi Muntane
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/
The fashion photographer Michelangelo Di Battista
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…
The vintage fashion photographer Richard Rutledge
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.
The vintage photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe
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 New York based photography duo Ioulex
The photographs and directors Julia Koteliansky and Alexander Kerr form the photography duo Ioulex. They work with many magazines such as Variety, Flaunt Magazine and The Block Magazine. The duo shoots portraits of actors like Jessica Chastain and Christian Bale and realize fashion photoshoots. The photos produced by the duo are poetic, hypnotic, mysterious, intense,…
The American photographer and film maker Alex Prager
Alex Prager is an American photographer and film maker. She produces creative, colorful, Old Hollywood inspired, glamour, artistic and scripted photos.
A sparkling night in Versailles
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/
The fashion photographer Angelo Pennetta
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,…
The Old Hollywood photographer Eugene Robert Richee
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…
The Old Hollywood costume designer Edith Head
Edith Head (1897-1981) was an American costume designer who worked with the most famous Hollywood actresses and directors like Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder. Between 1924 and 1967, she worked at the Paramount Pictures in the costume department. In 1967, she left Paramount to join Universal Pictures. She worked on many…
The Brazilian photographer Paulo Vainer
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.
The vintage fashion photographer F.C. Gundlach
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…
The vintage fashion photographer Nina Leen
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 vintage fashion photographer Frances Mclaughlin-Gill
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…
The fashion photographer Venetia Scott
The London based fashion photographer realizes romantic, sweet and retro photoshoots. She collaborated with many fashion brands such as Paule Ka, Orla Kiely, Kate Spade, Red Valentino and blugirl.
The fashion photographer Tim Walker
Through his photos, the British photographer Tim Walker brings us in an enchanted and childish universe. His photoshoots are surrealistic, amusing, quirky, poetic and fanciful. He is more than a classic fashion photographer, he is a storyteller, he tells us fantasy stories. He produces fashion photoshoots for prestigious magazines but also advertisings (Red Valentino and…
The photographer Jean-Marie Périer
Jean-Marie Périer is a famous French photographer. I like particulary his work during the sixties. From 1962 to 1974, he was the photographer of the French magazine “Salut les copains”, along with the artists of the sixties.
