Photgraphers

Ansel Adams

• American photographer
• B&W landscape photos of the american west especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calender’s posters and book.

Don McCullin

• 9 October 1935- British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of uber strife.
• His career which began in 1959 has specialised in examining  the underside of society and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished.

Mario Testino 

• Born 30 October 1954- Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer.
• His work has featured internationally in magazines such as Vogue, V magazine, Vanity Fair and GQ. He has also created images for brands such Burberry, Gucci, Versace, Michael Kors, Chanel, Estee Lauder and Lancome.

David Bailey 

• Born 2 Jan 1938- English fashion and portrait photographer
• Captured and helped create the ‘Swinging London of the 1960’s’ and a  culture of fashion and celeb chic. The three photographers socialised with actors, musicians and royalty and found themselves elevated to celebrity status.

Gregory Crewdson 

• His photographs usually take place in small-town America, but are dramatic and cinematic. They feature often disturbing and real events. The photos are elaborately staged out and lit using crews familiar w motion picture and lighting large scenes using motion picture film equipment and techniques.
• He is renowned for his photography of tableau :a group models or motionless figures representing a story or a scene from history.

Vivian Maier 

• Took more than 150k photos during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of NYC, Chicago and LA. (street photography)
• During her lifetime her photographs were unknown and unpublished and she never print many of her negatives.]
• A critic in the Independent wrote that ‘the well to do shoppers of Chicago stroll and gossip in their department store finery before Maier, but the most arresting subjects are those people on the margins of successful, rich America in the 1950’s and 60’s.