Showing posts with label Masters of Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Masters of Photography. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Irving Penn

"Irving Penn was a grand master of American fashion photography whose "less is more" aesthetic, combined with a startling sensuality, defined a visual style that he applied to such varied subjects as designer dresses, cigarette butts and cosmetics jars, many of them now- famous photographs owned by leading art museums, He died at 92 years." 























(Quoted from LA Times)

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton (October 31, 1920 – January 23, 2004) was a German-Australian photographer He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications.