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His Most Famous Photograph (Fading Away) – Henry Peach Robinson
English photographer Henry Peach Robinson or H.P. Robinson (1830-1901) was a pioneer of ‘Pictorialist Photography,’ especially ‘Combination Printing.’ Pictorialists believed that ‘Art Photography’ needed to emulate the paintings of everyday life in such a way to etch it in time and remove from it the mundane of the photograph. Among the methods used for the same were soft focus, special filters, lens coatings, heavy manipulation in the darkroom, and exotic printing processes. These processes together gave an eerie and an unreal feeling of being etched in space and time to the fluid and everyday ‘Modern Photography.’ Henry Robinson was called “the King of photographic picture making,” proving the pinnacle of his competence as a photographer. His “Fading Away” is an all time stunner.
Robinson began his career in 1850, working as a bookseller, while continuing to study art. In 1852, at the age of 21, he exhibited his oil painting “On the Teme near Ludlow” at the Royal Academy. Around this time, he also started taking photographs. After five years, he decided to make this new technique called ‘High Art’ or ‘Combination Photographs,’ his career. Robinson learnt the intricacies of photography from Hugh Welch Diamond, one of the earliest photographers in the world. In 1857, Robinson opened a studio at Leamington Spa. Along with making portraits, he started creating photographs, imitating the ‘genre paintings.’ These artworks showed ‘scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people in work or recreation, depicted in a generally realistic manner.’ Some of Robinson’s well-known photographs are ‘Juliet with the Poison Bottle’ (1857), ‘The Lady of Shallot’ (1861), ‘Autumn’ (1863), and ‘Seascape at Night’ (1870). His masterpiece however, is “Fading Away,” a ‘Combination Print’ that took him five negatives to create.
Generated in 1858, Henry’s “Fading Away” depicts the peaceful death of a young girl due to tuberculosis. Her grieving family, her sister, mother, and fianc
Famous People Photos From the Photographers Perspective
Looking back on over 25 years in the photo business, and still counting, my memories often flip between thousands of captured moments in black and white and then back to the same strange world in color. For over a decade of my career I was living and working in Los Angeles, California, taking photos of celebrities and most often on the red carpet.
From that description you might think I was one of the paparazzi, those obnoxious stalkers of famous people photos. I may have stood side by side with some of the paparazzi during my time on the red carpet, but I was hunting for a very different type of image.
It started back in March 1992 when I was hired as a runway photographer for that years Academy Awards. As someone who enjoys shooting people, I have always valued the subtleties of any shoot. To get the best results, you must pay attention to all the details; the styling of clothes and hair, the make up, the weather and angles of light wherever they are coming from and the various facial expressions of the subject.
When hunting for perfect famous people photos, you may take thousands of photos during an event and from all those exposures you are very lucky to get one or two good shots. It is very rare that all these puzzle pieces come together in one click. This is probably why most paparazzi shoot for quantity, not quality.
My official job on that sunny day back in March (and for the next 10 years) was to shoot the standard posed paparazzi style famous people photos. My agency wanted standing, smiling at the camera type shots ready to be splashed on the tabloids all over the world the next day. It took me only a few seconds to realize that I would be missing a huge opportunity if I limited photos to such a narrow view.
As I stood shoulder to shoulder with the other photographers on the world’s most famous 60 yards of carpet watching the waves of celebrity pass only a few feet in front of me, I played a dual role. I was one cameraman for my agency snapping the standard famous people photos and with my second camera and mini telephoto lens, I shot for my personal collection, mostly in black and white.
For as many years as I covered the Academy Awards, there is really nothing that can prepare you for such an event. Aside from the time pressures and all the technical maneuvers this sort of shoot requires, the near circus atmosphere all around you creates an unusual work zone.
The event attracts hundreds of photographers lined up side by side with TV crews, reporters and producers all dressed in black tie and evening gowns. There are long lines of parking attendants in red uniforms, huge throngs of fans screaming to be heard by their favorite star and a dozen helicopters circling endlessly like bees round a hive. In less than two hours over a thousand limousines drop off celebrity after celebrity with each stars arrival pushing that invisible “on” button for the media machine setting off a shock and awe of flashes and activity.
And deep within the madness that is The Oscars, somewhere behind all the smiles, bright lights and endless interviews are those magic moments waiting to be captured. With my old 35 mm SLR and mini telephoto lens, I waited for the perfect break in the storm that is the red carpet. In an odd way, as those famous faces crossed my path; the mix of screen legends, super models, music icons, foreign directors and action heroes, my mind became still. My senses all joined together in my virtual hunt for those perfect famous people photos and my work took on a very meditative quality.
These types of photos are few and far between, but they tell a story that the average celebrity shot just can not. With a lot of care and patience and a little luck, a photo can open a doorway into the mystery that we all love to create around our celebrities. As any movie fan can tell you, a smiling head shot is fine, but famous people photos that cut through the facade, even a little bit, are worth their weight in gold. These are the images that raise our awareness of the individual as well as the art form.
I no longer live in Los Angeles and no longer shoot the annual event known around the world as The Oscars. My photography muse has taken me into other aspects of the medium, but whenever I want to revisit those magical afternoons I can simply pull out my special book, my famous people photos, the ones I carefully hunted down oh so long ago and am still proud of to this day.
By: Mark Sierra
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Are you a movie star fan? Do you love photos that show more or your favorite star than just white teeth and nice hair? Would you like to see some of the photos that Mark was writing about in this article? If so, then please take a look at some beautiful photos of your favorite celebrities
Western Art – Famous Western Artists & Paintings
Famous artists in the context of this article will be taken from those most popular. Famous or best artists is something too hard for a mere mortal like me to quantify simply whereas popularity, particularly on the internet can be calculated. Art is all about subjectivity, so i don’t claim for the following list to be exhaustive or fully comprehensive, but please treat it as a fun way to discover more about artists you already know about, and to perhaps find some new artists that you had not heard of before. This is the main purpose of this article. The artists are not listed in any particular order, so the final entry would not necessarily be the least famous artist, it is more a general collection to browse through.
Michelangelo
Famous Movie Stars of the 90′s – The Hidden Side
When the famous movie stars walk down that red carpet, thousands of photos are taken by hundreds of photographers. Many shots will be posed and still many more will be looking to make the star seem foolish or poorly dressed, but a very few will reach inside the star and show a side that is rarely seen.
These are the photos that turn those famous movie stars into real people. But these photos are rare and don’t normally come from the paparazzi. The paparazzi shoot for the exploitive and outrageous images, that’s what they get paid for. For the paparazzi the order of the day is shoot more, shoot often and see what you have shot once you download them to your computer.
During the 90s several technological changes took place, the biggest of which was the birth of the digital age. The digital age had its victims though, one of the biggest being film cameras, at least where still cameras were concerned. With digital photography the job of the paparazzi became that much easier, cheaper and faster.
The digital “new media” also became a concern for famous movie stars during the 90s as this new medium cut into the once gigantic actor salaries. Even though the 90s were another groundbreaking decade for films and filmmakers, actors had to begin a long battle for their share of this new digital pie.
All of these concerns can be seen on the faces of stars if you look very closely. But in the glitz and hurry of the red carpet scene, photos that show more than a dress or a hairdo are seldom seen. These photos must be mined like the gold they are. These actors are not famous movie stars for nothing, they have learned to play a part and that “part” is what the public most often sees. Even on the red carpet though, there are brief moments of clarity.
During those brief moments as the stars on the red carpet move down the gauntlet, the true photographers capture more than the facade of these famous movie stars. They photograph a piece of the true personality, the kind of photo that tells much more than a 1000 word story. A photo that shows some insight into what makes this person the star they have become.
Every decade has its share of famous movie stars, the 90s was no different. The 90s stars just had to learn to do it digitally. The same way every photographer had to face the digital age as well. But whether the photo was taken digitally or on film, it was still up to the man behind the camera to know when the moment was right. The stars just create the moments, the photographers have to catch them.
By: Keith King
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Want to see what an artistically candid celebrity photo looks like? Love the movie stars of the 1990s? Click now to see a beautiful collection of black and white and color photos taken during the 90s on the red carpets in and around Hollywood.
Photography – Famous Photographers
Thinking of joining the ranks of the greatest photographers of all time? Well, it might be a good idea to check out a few of them and the works they’ve done so you know just what it is you’re up against.
Probably one of the most famous photographers of all time was Ansel Adams. Adams was born In San Francisco California in 1902. He lived in Carmel until he died in 1984. His most popular photo was titled “Moonrise Over Hernandez, 1944″. This is a breathtaking photo showing a beautiful night view and the small town below it. Other famous photos by Adams were “Clearing Winter Storm” and “Winter Sunrise”. Adams did a lot of outdoor photography with some breathtaking views. His most popular photo has about 1000 copies in print. The price range of these photos, depending on condition goes from $5,000 to $175,000 if you can find one.
Moving from outdoor photography of landscapes to nude women on beaches we have the works of Jock Sturges. Sturges was born in the big city of New York in the year 1947. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington. His most popular images, all of beach nudes, are “Misty Dawn 1991″ and “Northern California, 1991″. His prints range in price from $1,000 to $3,000. His most expensive print sold for $4,000.
Herman Leonard was known for taking great photographs of jazz legends. He was born in Allentown, PA in 1923. He currently lives and works in New Orleans. His most popular images are photos of great jazz legends Dexter Gordon, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. Herman Leonard was one of the more active photographers even when not working at his craft. He often traveled with great entertainers like Marlon Brando, who he hung out with in 1954. His photos range in price from $950 to $5,500.
Another great photographer was Irving Penn who was born in Plainfield, NJ in 1917. Penn was actually known for a number of different styles of photography including fashion photography and provocative life style portraits. His most famous work was “Cuzco Children” which sold for as much as $175,000 at the turn of the century. Penn worked for some of the most popular magazines of our time including Harper’s Bazaar, Saks Fifth Avenue and Vogue Magazine.
Another great photographer, who most people have actually heard of, was the one and only Helmut Newton, who just recently passed away in 2004. He was most known for photos involving fashion and nudes illustrating themes of mass media, glamour, sex and theater. Newton’s work was often categorized as bizarre. He was once quoted as saying “My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain”. He most certainly did that better than just about anyone else. His most popular image is “Sie Kommen I, II”. His photographs are in such demand that some go for as much as $400,000 each.
The list of famous photographers goes on, literally forever. So if you are thinking of joining the ranks of these greats and many others, then you’re going to have to work hard at your craft.
Very, very hard.
By: Michael Russell
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Kids’ Portrait Photographers
Of the many different types of photographers, kids’ portrait photographers might rank among the most popular. They must bring a great deal of patience and artistic ability to the table.
Kids’ portraits require a special tye of photographer that usually specializes in just this type of work. This can be a very demanding and rewarding. Demanding because it takes a great deal of skill and patience to put a child at ease and relaxed enough to produce an ideal portrait. Rewarding because people always want pictures of their children. Children have this strange habit of changing and growing and unlike adults; last year’s pictures tend to be out of date.
Most professionals of this sort work in studios that seem as much like day care centers or nurseries as work areas. There are always cuddly toys around to put children at ease and bring out that special smile that makes a child’s portrait so precious. The use of digital cameras and computer software has recently become an important part of the business. This enables the photographer to immediately show the images to the parents and close the sale of various portrait packages on the spot.
Like most of his or her peers, this professional relies on a portfolio of previous work to advertise their skill. Many begin their careers working as assistants in portrait studios developing the experience needed to be able to capture just the right image of the child.
Of the various photography fields, it is the one with the best growth potential in the coming years. Despite the wide spread use of digital cameras that have increased the competition in most areas of photography, portraits and specifically children’s continue to be in demand. The demand continues to increase as the population increases. Most parents see a major difference between the thousands of casual snapshots they might take of their children and a production done at the studio.
One other aspect of the field is the school photo sessions. This is a major business opportunity and also a good place for an aspiring portrait photographer to get started. The chance to pose and take literally thousands of quick portraits of children is an excellent training opportunity. Photography can also be a subject of study at many colleges and Universities, but nothing replaces experience and artistic ability.
By: Aazdak Alisimo
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Aazdak Alisimo writes about freelance event photographers for FreelanceEventPhotographers.com.
Photographers – Protect Your Work
The photography business is competitive. Professional photographers work hard. As a photographer, don’t allow your work to be taken without being compensated. This article presents some ways in which a photographer can protect her work.
1. When displaying images on the web,
Famous People Pictures Worthy Of A Book
Those Hollywood celebrities that we all love so much all started out as normal people just like you and me. Well, most of them started out that way. The higher up the celebrity ladder these stars climb, the less we see of their true person.
Famous people pictures come in as many varieties as films do. Some photos are rough and gritty, showing the under belly of the star. Most of these photos are taken by the paparazzi. This is a style of photography that flatters few and values quantity over quality.
The paparazzi are the ones responsible for stalking and hounding celebrities at every twist and turn of their daily life. Their job is not a glamorous one, but there are many fans that want to see the stars looking and acting their worst.
A true fan of famous people pictures their stars in a much better light. The stars we see on the big and little screens have used a combination of talent, hard work and luck to get to where they are and the real fans know this. To be a true fan means to admire the dedication that these stars have shown to their trade.
Some pictures of movie stars are more contrived, like the posed studio shots that often seem very far away from the real star. These are pictures that are created by a team of public relations experts and more a sales tool than a look into the real person behind the star.
But a real fan can tell the good famous people pictures from the bad. The good ones may be as simple as a snap shot from the red carpet, but the photo shows a deeper view of the star. These sorts of pictures are taken by a true artist, a hunter of actors that is happy to wait for that winning moment when all things come together to form a small map to the stars real person.
These photographers combine the beauty of a posed shot with the immediacy of a paparazzi photo. These photos are what the hardcore fan loves. They show the stars in all their glory while at the same time showing us a little more, a closer look at what may have helped this person become the star they are today.
These famous people pictures are the ones we seen in framed collections and art books. These are the photos a true fan lives for because of the insight they give us. As long as the movie stars keep making films, the fans will want the photos that tell the stars story, if only one glimpse at a time.
By: Keith King
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Want to see what an artistically candid celebrity photo looks like? Are you a fan of the movies and those stars that make them? Click now to see a beautiful collection of black and white and color photos taken during the 90s on the red carpets all around Hollywood.
Famous Photographers – 3 Photographers You Should Know
Photography is often the art of the anonymous as we rarely know who was on the other side of the camera. We can all name a few bits of famous photographs, such as that one Time Square picture or the one of the iron workers sitting above a city, but for the most part we don’t spend much time focusing on the history of the medium as an art form. By understanding influential artists, it can have a big impact on how we see photography and inspire new ideas, so here are three photographers who’s influence is recognized worldwide.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Though the name may not be as familiar, Cartier-Bresson was a giant in the development of modern photography. He is considered to be one of the forefathers of photojournalism and spent most of his adult life on assignment magazines like Life. Daring and fearless, Henri Cartier-Bresson captured images from some of the most volatile environments in history like the liberation of Paris in WWII, the Spanish Civil War and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
Famous Photography by Henri Cartier Bresson: The Decisive Moment
Alfred Stieglitz
If you’ve ever taken a photography class, the chances are good that you recognize this name. Stieglitz was married to Georgia O’Keeffe, a legend in her own right, and many of his most iconic images center around her. He was responsible for forcing photography into the public view as a valid art form, which he accomplished through innovative exhibits organized around the country. Stieglitz was known as the father of pictorialism. Pictorialism is where the significance of the picture is more about the way in which the photographer manipulated the image than about the importance of the subject.
Famous Photography by Alfred Stieglitz- The Terminal
Larry Burrows
Larry Burrows is a legend among photojournalists. He was often referred to as the man who went off to war with “film in his socks,” Burrows is best known for his photo coverage of the Vietnam war for Life magazine. His pictures were some of the most iconic and emotionally charged images to come out of the region and gave the public a view into the conflict. Sadly, Burrows was killed in the conflict when his helicopter was shot down but his images have lived on as well as his tales of heroic actions like carrying soldiers to safety and rescuing civilians.
Famous Photography by Larry Burrows – One Ride with Yankee Papa 13
Whenever we work in an art medium, it is important to remember the people who came before us and the contributions they made. These 3 photographers have had an enormous impact on the validity and importance of photography as an art form. You should check out biographies or photo collections by each of these artists as viewing amazing and famous photography can often lead to great new paths.
By: Autumn Lockwood
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Autumn Lockwood is a writer for YourPictureFrames.com and loves picture frames. Shop online and see our selection of silver picture frames now.
Female Erotic Photographers Top 5
Jody Frost
An ex-dancer who uses herself as the main source in her portraiture, Jody is interested in the female form in all its animated glory. She seeks to understand movement in her pieces and the physicality of a mime or movement. Many of her works display confident dancers expressing themselves in a variety of situations which have a sense of muscular drama as well as being detached from time and space. Her self portraits in more static poses carry a similar sense of majesty as well as disreputable elegance and chic immorality.
Elizabeth Prouvost
The artist behind many films and a famous photography book, ‘Edwarda’, Prouvost is a highly regarded erotic cinematographer who has won awards at the highest level, including at the Cannes Film festival. With a grounding in the fine arts, she is interested in the work of Francis Bacon and has used religious imagery in her own pieces. She is also influenced by renaissance artists which inform much of her later photographic work.
Francoise Lacroix
Another inhabitant of the UK Lacroix makes her art come alive by placing her subjects in absorbing backgrounds which have a personal significance as well as befitting the situation. Her work has been used in many situations, including as backdrops to television shows and she has exhibited widely across Europe where her beautiful work has often been well received by her eager viewers. Since graduating from one of the world’s best art colleges she didn’t rest on her laurels, but instead chose to beat a path to the top of her trade. Now she can be rest assured some of her portfolio is strong enough to ensure she is always in huge demand.
Sarah Ainslie
An English photographer who works in London Ainslie is a film and television specialist as well as a theatre connoisseur. Her daring work challenges stereotypes of women and men in all their vulnerability as being weak or somehow dispossessed when lacking their clothes. Her powerful nudes exude power and energy as well as portraying esoteric glamour and keeping us guessing. She went on to take photos of sports figures such as Arsenal Football Club players which goes back to her earlier theme of nudity as strength. Having accomplished a lot in her career already she is also undertaking projects involving strippers at clubs in London.
Anja Muller
Born in Germany in 1971, Anja Muller, is an interesting female erotic photographer who is known to produce erotic portraits. She has written several books such as ‘Schonner Kommen-Das Lesbensex Buch’ and ‘Mannen’. Her work is primarily focussed on the lesbian, gay and transgender communities where she lives and works, providing the viewer with seemingly detached voyeuristic forays into her model’s lives. However her work in actually fairly confrontational in essence, at least in its subject matter of nude women chained to iron beds and close-ups of sensual bodies under fast-pouring showers.
Thanks for reading this article about female erotic photographers and if you are interested in erotic photography and fine art painting check out Russ Trotter who is an interesting figurative artist, also captivated by the power of the human form, with influences drawn from the above five photographers.
By: Russell Steedman
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An honours graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in the UK, Russell Steedman is the Creative Director of Almond Design. With plenty of art and design experience in the UK, Russell has worked with design agencies, cultural entities in the UK and Australia, has been involved with magazine design and he has worked in the airline industry. Having been involved in graphic design (via his mother’s career) since he was a small child, Russell enjoys the buzz of the art and design world which he knows inside out.
Visit his websites – http://www.almond-design.com.au