Horst P. Horst
Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann, also known as Horst P. Horst (August 14, 1906 - November 18, 1999) was a German-born American photographer known for his photographs of women and fashion taken while working.
In the history of fashion photography of 1900, no one left a more enduring and artistically significant mark than Horst P. Horst.
In the sixty years of his glorious career, Horst has become a legendary photographer, and his photographs are universally recognized as synonymous with elegance, style and glamour.
Irving Penn
Irving Penn is the photographer who most of all has left an indelible mark in the history of fashion photography.
the American photographer "changed the way people see the world, and the perception of what beauty is".In the case of Penn, "fashion photographer " is probably a reductive definition: the American photographer was an all-round artist, interested in all the multiple aspects of the study of form and color, and arrived at the world of photography only later.
Penn left us in 2009 when he died in his New York apartment at the age of 92. His works and the foundation dedicated to him still bear witness to the importance of his work.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-American photographer and photojournalist. He used to use a Leica M3 camera with a 35 mm lens. He is best remembered for his photo of the celebrations in Times Square on the day of the victory against Japan.
Eisenstaedt’s most famous photograph depicts an American sailor kissing a young woman, on 14 August 1945, in Times Square.
Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau is a French photographer known for his poetic approach to street photography.
Born in Gentilly, a suburb of Paris, in 1912
Robert Doisneau managed, more than anyone else, to portray the "French". His photographs captured the spirit of an entire nation and became synonymous with the French lifestyle. No one as he knew how to tell the charm of the Ville Lumiere: Doisneau was able to crystallize in images all the myths and icons of Paris of the ¿900. Doisneau. Crossing the city from the Seine to the workers' suburbs, Doisneau tells us about the Paris of the lovers, that of the bistros, that of the fashion studios and that of the street children, giving to his admirers a monumental fresco of Paris and Parisians..
Steve Mccurry
Steve Mccurry (born April 23, 1950) is an American photographer, one of the photographers of Magnum Photos, who has covered many genres with his reportages, from street photography to war photography and from urban photography to portrait as the famous photo Afghan girl.
Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 in Berlin - 23 January 2004 in West Hollywood) was a German-born Australian photographer, best known for his studies of female nudity.
Helmut Newton has the most disparate opinions. For some, it’s a genius that elevates fashion photography to art; for others, it’s a misogynist whose photographs have overstepped the limits of acceptability. He himself was aware of the controversial judgments he attracted, and on that bad boy image I built a good part of his character. One of his sentences, perhaps the most famous, well explains Newton’s inclination: «You must always live up to your own bad reputation».
Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman (April 3, 1958 - January 19, 1981) was an American photographer. She was, despite a short life, an influential and important photographic artist for the last decades of the twentieth century.She appeared in many of her photographs and her work focused mainly on her body and on what surrounded him, and often fuse them together with skill. Woodman used mostly long exposures or double exposure, so she could actively participate in the film’s impressions. .
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker known for her conceptual self-portraits
Shortly after his birth, the family left New Jersey to move to Huntington, Long Island. Cindy Sherman was already interested in visual arts in college (SUNY Buffalo), where she began to devote herself to painting, but soon left to devote herself to photography. For a short time he focused on painting by painting realistic copies of photos taken from magazines and portraits. When in America there was the female protest, Sherman appropriates the masculinist stereotype of the sensual woman, interpreting it in first person to reuse it in an ironic key. Use the stereotype to eliminate the stereotype.