Twelve Influential Photographers Sir Isaac Newton PDF
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www.binaryrhyme.com Twelve Influential Photographers RA Photo Club December 2007 © copyright 2007, Mike Heffernan. All rights reserved. Sir Isaac Newton ―If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.‖ © copyright 2007 by Mike Heffernan. All rights reserved 1 www.binaryrhyme.com Richard James Helmut Avedon Nachtwey Newton Steve Annie Lee McCurry Leibovitz Friedlander Gordon Ansel Yousuf Parks Adams Karsh George Freeman Imogen Hurrell Patterson Cunningham Richard Avedon ―All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.― © copyright 2007 by Mike Heffernan. All rights reserved 2 www.binaryrhyme.com Richard Avedon 1923 -2004 Began exploring photography at 10 years old. Dropped out of High School. Enlisted in the Merchant Marine‘s photographic section in 1942. Hired as a fashion photographer by Harper‘s Bazaar 1945-65. Interesting Trivia 1958 -Named one of the world‘s top ten greatest His first sitter was Russian pianist- composer Sergey Rachmaninoff photographers by Popular Photography magazine. In a Simpsons Episode Homer buys Staff photographer for Vogue, 1966-90 an issue of The New Yorker only for Richard Avedon's pictures 1974 -Exhibition: Jacob Israel Avedon The Museum of Modern Art The film Capote features Avedon's collaboration with Truman Capote and his photographs of In Cold Blood 1985 –Exhibition: In the American West murderers Perry Smith and AmonCarter Museum Richard Hickock. 2001 –Inducted into the American Academy of ~ 775,000 Google search results Arts and Sciences Richard Avedon Publications © copyright 2007 by Mike Heffernan. All rights reserved 3 www.binaryrhyme.com Richard Avedon Style Introduced an emotional complexity new to fashion photography. A plain, white background became his trademark. Light illuminates every pore and flaw of the subject's face, turning wrinkles into crevices. His savage vision seems to be directed not at the subjects but at vanity and hypocrisy in general. Photographs of his father, 1969-1973, have been admired for their humanity as they trace his father's losing battle against incurable cancer. Bookrags.com Cher 1974 © copyright 2007 by Mike Heffernan. All rights reserved 4 www.binaryrhyme.com Nastassja Kinski 1981 The Beatles 1967 © copyright 2007 by Mike Heffernan. All rights reserved 5 www.binaryrhyme.com ―The sash isn‘t right. It should have echoed the outside leg of the elephant to Dovima‘s right‖ Richard Avedon Dovima with Elephants 1955 ―A picture of Norma Jean, not Marilyn.‖ Vik Muniz Marilyn Monroe 1957 © copyright 2007 by Mike Heffernan. All rights reserved 6 www.binaryrhyme.com Ronald Fischer, Beekeeper 1981 Martha Graham and the Martha Graham Dance Company 1961 © copyright 2007 by Mike Heffernan. All rights reserved 7 www.binaryrhyme.com Rudolf Nureyev, ―en pointe‖ 1967 Live Schreiber as Henry V 2003 © copyright 2007 by Mike Heffernan. All rights reserved 8 www.binaryrhyme.com Kevin Kline as Falstaff in Henry IV 2003 Maurizio Cattelan 2004 © copyright 2007 by Mike Heffernan. All rights reserved 9 www.binaryrhyme.com Marc Chagall 1959 Andy Warhol 1969 © copyright 2007 by Mike Heffernan. All rights reserved 10
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