Richard Avedon

He was an American Photographer. He capitalized on his early success in fashion photography and expanded the realm of fine art. He also photographed patients of mental hospitals, the civil rights movement, protesters to the Vietnam war and the fall of the Berlin wall. He also created two famous portraits of The Beatles. His portraits are distinguished by their minimalist style where the person is looking squarely in the camera, posed in front of a sheer white background. He is also distinguished by his large prints, sometimes over three feet tall. He did large format portraits of drifters, miners, cowboys and others from W. US, and made it a best selling book and exhibit called, In the American West. he became a staff photographer for the New Yorker and has won many photography awards including the international center of photography master of photography award, the prix nadar and the royal photographic society 150th anniversary medal in 2003.

Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, journalist, activist and film director. He is remembered for his photo essays in Life magazine as the director of the 1971 film shaft. He is drawn to pictures of migrant workers and those in strife. He likes to double expose frames. He also enjoyed taking portrait pictures for society women. He also wanted to photograph in the fashion world, and was hired by vogue editor to do shoots for evening gowns, and did that for the next few years. He published two books, Flash Photography and Camera Portraits: Techniques and principles of Documentary Portraiture.

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was an American photographer who was known for her portraits of people on the fringes of society- transvestites, dwarfs, giants, prostitues and working class citizens. She used the 35mm cameras but by the 1960's Arbus adopted the rolleiflex medium format twins lens reflex. This format provided a square aspect ratio high image resolution and a waist level view finder that allowed her to connect with subjects in ways that a standard eye level viewfinder did not.

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Annie Leibovitz

Annie is an American portrait photographer who uses a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject. She worked for the rolling stone magazine and in 1973 was named chief photographer. She took very intimate pictures of celebrities which helped define the rolling stone magazine look.She worked as a featured portrait photographer for vanity fair. She sued paramount pictures for copyright infringement on her picture of a pregnant Demi Moore. She photographed for the American Express charge cards and launched an exhibition at the national portrait gallery. She was asked in 2007 by Queen Elizabeth II to take the queens official picture. In 2007 she was hired by the Walt Disney company to do photographs of celebrities with various roles and scene in the Disney Parks year of a million dreams campaign.

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