Top 15 Famous Photographers around the world and their photos
Photography is something that can boost up your creativity your way to see the world with the different perception .Famous Photographers around the world : If you have a passion for photography or an amateur photographer, you can gain inspiration by looking at the pictures of the 15 best and famous photographers in my blog. Being a good photographer is not easy, let alone getting to that professional level. Here is a collection of the famous photographers portfolio websites all in one place. An inspirational gallery for all designers and top photographers.
1. Mario Testino - Famous Photographers
Mario Testino (was born on October 30, 1954) is a Peruvian fashion photographer. His work has been featured in magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. One of fashion's most sought-after snappers, Mario Testino was born in 1954 in Lima, Peru. He came to London in 1976, took a flat in an abandoned hospital near Trafalgar Square, and began selling portfolios (for £25, including hair and make-up) to wannabe models. Today he is best known for his highly polished, exotically bright ad campaigns and his exquisitely styled photographs of the couture scene all of which carry a deceptive air of nonchalance. Now at the top of his profession, Testino has shot Madonna for Versace as well as photographing the late Diana, Princess of Wales for her famous Vanity Fair cover in 1997. His popularity with designers and fashion editors stems as much from his professionalism and good nature as his unerring ability to take beautiful pictures which sell clothes. models.com/people/mario-testino
2. Steve Mccurry - Famous Photographers
Steve McCurry was born on February 24, 1950 in Pennsylvania, attended Penn State University. Steve McCurry (born February 24, 1950) is an American photojournalist best known for his photograph, "Afghan Girl" that originally appeared in National Geographic magazine. He originally planned to study cinematography and filmmaking, but ended up getting a degree in theater arts and graduating in 1974. He became interested in photography when he started taking pictures for the Penn State newspaper The Daily Collegian. After working at Today's Post in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania for two years, he left for India to freelance. It was here that McCurry learned to watch and wait on life. “If you wait,” he realized, “people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.” facebook.com/stevemccurrystudios
3. Timothy Hogan - Famous Photographers
Timothy Hogan is an award-winning luxury goods and still life photographer and director working in New York, Los Angeles, and London. Timothy Hogan’s driven self-motivation keeps him on his own two feet. As a photographer, director, cinematographer, and avid surfer, he is a jack of all trades, working with global clients on everything but the kitchen sink – from still life, to film, to fashion. He recently produced a collection of photos entitled, “The FIN Project” that merges his love for still life and an obsession with surfing with the goal of exposing “the shape of the wave… and the way a quarter of an inch can make a dog into a ‘magic’ board.” Few photographers have chronicled surfboard fins, and Hogan has breached the topic, with a mix of modern and old architecture – some wood, some color, each one with its own distinct aura. The photos remind us of how the simplicity of objects can become in their own way, beautiful masterpieces. timothy-hogan.com
4. Christian Aslund - Famous Photographers
Christian Aslund is a photographer based in Stockholm, Sweden.He was a winner in a Professional Campaign. Honkey Kong - an advertising campaign for the sneaker brand Jim Rickey, shot on location in Hong Kong. A 2d platform game tribute. Images were shot from skyscrapers toward the ground, using a telephoto lens to make the image as flat as possible to make it look like a platform game. christian.se
5. Kait Robinson - Famous Photographers
Kait Robinson is a Brooklyn-based fashion, beauty and portrait photographer, Kait Robinson, is a 22-year-old student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She likes to spend her time traveling, taking pictures (obviously) and eating lots of good food. She has also recently discovered that she hates writing about herself. kaitrobinson.com/about
6. Jeremy Cowart - Famous Photographers
At his core, Jeremy is an artist. Starting out as a painter first, Jeremy fell in love with the creative process. He then went on to study graphic design in college and founded his own graphic design company, Pixelgrazer, in 2001. Jeremy really only began taking pictures to bring texture into his design work. But before he knew it, he realized that photography was his true passion. So in April of 2005, Jeremy switched over to it full time and he has never looked back. In a relatively short amount of time, Jeremy earned the respect of artists, photographers, and celebrities alike. Now hailed as one of the trailblazers in the industry, Jeremy sees photography as a natural extension of his passion for the arts. twitter.com/jeremycowart
7. Annie Leibovitz - Famous Photographers
Arguably the most famous portrait photographer working today, Leibovitz has photographed many of the world’s major celebrities, often in elaborate and imaginative set-ups.When Leibovitz returned to the United States in 1970, she started her career as staff photographer, working for the just launched Rolling Stone magazine. In 1973, publisher JannWenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone, a job she would hold for 10 years. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone look. While working for Rolling Stone, Leibovitz became more aware of the other magazines. Richard Avedon's portraits were an important and powerful example in her life. She learned that she could work for magazines and still create personal work, which for her was the most important. She sought intimate moments with her subjects, who "open their hearts and souls and lives to you." She was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2009 facebook.com/AnnieLeibovitz
8. David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle is known internationally and in Israel as a photographer, a director of documentaries, and a video artist whose colorful, smooth and extroverted style is filled with sensuality, fantasy, and dark adventure, packed with accessible popular images, and communicates with a wide and variegated audience. His images have appeared on the covers of scores of leading fashion and entertainment magazines, and LaChapelle himself has played a pivotal role in the promotion of prestigious brands, such as Diesel, Nokia, Tommy Hilfiger, etc.twitter.com/LaChapelleland
9. Janae Shields
Janae found her passion for photography at a young age when she inherited her grandfather's antique 35mm camera.She knew from the moment she took her firts picture that this was her life's path,prompting her to enroll in high school at the Las VegAS Academy for Visual Arts.Her images have featured in The Knot,The Knot Northern California and Brides Northern California. She has also been warded for her work at Wedding and Portrait Photographers International. janaeshields.com
10. Nicholas Samaras
Nicholas Samaras, is one of the most passionate and committed underwater photographers. His love and dedication to sea and its creatures in combination with his characteristic effort to bring out to surface the beauty of the marine world with a unique aesthetics, established him in a very short period of time both in Greece and abroad.His first attempt to participate in an international underwater photography competition held in 2006 (DAN EUROPE PHOTO CONTEST) was a success. This award answered all questions that he had, about the quality of his work and the forced him to continue efforts to be widely recognized in the field of underwater photography.From 2006 until today many awards in underwater photography competitions and festivals followed in Greece and abroad, including, NELOS International Underwater Photo & Film Festival, Festival Mondial De L'Image Sous Marine, Scuba Diving Magazine International Annual Contest (USA), Greek National Underwater Photography Championship, Annual Contest underwaterphotography.com, International Underwater Photography Contest ''CITTA' DI VENEZIA 2010'', PELAGOS Festival etc Facebook.com/Nicholas.Samaras.UWPhotography
11. Anne Geddes
Anne Geddes, MNZM (born 13 September 1956) is an Australian-born photographer, clothing designer and businesswoman who now lives and works in New Zealand. She is known for her stylized depictions of babies and motherhood. Typical images show babies or young children dressed as fairies and fairytale creatures, flowers, or small animals. She has described herself as "a baby freak.Geddes became a photographer at age 25. She had always had an interest in babies in general, but the schools she attended did not offer photography classes. She chose babies as her subject because of her love of them. "I had seen the way children and babies were generally being photographed. It just didn't seem realistic to me that people took their children along to photographic studios all dressed in their Sunday best, photographs that didn't really show the personality of the child."Geddes believes that "emotional content is an image's most important element" and that people are drawn to her work because of its simplicity and personality. prefers the black-and-white scheme because she feels that colour distracts from the image and the natural beauty of life. annegeddes.com
12. MareenFischinger
MareenFischinger is passionate about everything involving photography. She has made award-winning photographs for advertising campaigns and corporate communication, has shot a large body of work available as ‘stock’ photography via gettyimages, and explores experimental technical and conceptual possibilities of photography in her fine arts series.Her images, like that of PotsdamerPlatz in Berlin, look fragmented and deformed as though taken from a superordinate perspective that can document multiple angles at one time while maintaining the same vantage point. The way in which the images stage the subject, piece together the subject like a boxy mosaic, and make reality look both new and voluminous, recalls Cubist experiments.mareenfischinger.com
13. Andrea Gjestvang - Famous Photographers
Andrea Gjestvang (b. 1981) is a Norwegian photographer based between Berlin and Oslo. For the past years, she has been focusing on the northern parts of the world, where she explores the intimate life and persistence of people living in remote and inaccessible environments. Her work has a strong political view on the social and anthropological issues related to globalization, identity and cultural uniqueness.Over the years, Andrea has been awarded several prizes, including Picture of the Year Norway 2012, and the prestigious L’Iris d’Or /Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year 2013. Her work has been supported by grants provided by the Norwegian Freedom of Speech Foundation. In 2012 She launched her first book (En dag ihistorien), published by Pax andreagjestvang.com/about-2/bio
14. Florainritter - Famous Photographers
Florian Ritter is from Frankfurt, Germany. Known for his landscape & travel photography, he worked and lived around the world before settling in Shanghai in 2009. He offers studio, portraiture, corporate & still life photography services. As a freelance creative director he worked on international ad campaigns, corporate design, illustrations and web design concepts for clients like Adidas, Remy Martin, Haier, UK Pavilion, FinnAir, Ikea& Opel.creativehunt.com/shanghai/listing/florian-ritter
15. Michael Kenna
Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer best known for his black & white landscapes. He has received the following awards: Honorary Master of Arts (Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 2003),Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (Ministry of Culture, France, 2000),Golden Saffron Award, (Consuegra, Spain, 1996),Institute for Aesthetic Development Award (Pasadena, California, USA, 1989),Art in Public Buildings Award (California Arts Council Commission, Sacramento, California, USA, 1987),Imogen Cunningham Award (San Francisco, California, USA, 1981). michaelkenna.net
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