WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, DAVID BAILEY?

For our first project in digital imagery production we are going to practise and research all about beauty shots and then create our own. We will look at different lighting concepts, photographic techniques and photographers as inspirations to produce my own 4 final beauty photographs. 

Fashion and Beauty Photographers

DAVID BAILEY

Bailey is a British photographer that broke through to the industry by assisting photographer John French in 1959 and then started a contract with Vogue in 1960. He is known for his advertising, celebrity and fashion photographs. He was known for his celebrity portraits with dramatic lighting effects and plain backgrounds. His lighting creates exceptional bone structure on his models and highlights their best features. Bailey is considered to be one of the best photographers to date.  I love the simplicity of his images and the contrast used. It makes the images really striking without being over the top. 


ERWIN BLUMENFELD

Erwin's Photography consisted of a lot of surrealism. His portraits often looked distorted in some way which was created by lighting and contrast which would blow out some of the facial features. The most famous and influential photograph Blumenfeld created was the 1950 Vogue cover which showed the little facial features yet looked beautiful. Erwin actually started creating photos when he was 10 years old and found his own unique style from being an experimenter and innovator. He is now one of the most influential photographers of the 21st century.


PATRICK DEMARCHELIER

Patrick is a french photographer that has shot many photographs for magazine covers and is one of the most famous photographers of the 21st century. He shoots many celebrities and supermodels. In 1972 his work was first noticed and he was brought to work for Glamour Magazine which was known as the  training ground before working for Vogue. In 1989, he started shooting covers for Vogue and during this time, Princess Diana had him to take photos of her and her sons. This made him the first official non-British photographer for a member of the Royal Family. After that he started shooting more covers for Vogue which lead on to shooting for other leading fashion designers. For me his work really stands out because I love the way his models are posed and just think the images are really beautiful and crisp. The fact he also  he has launched the careers of numerous make-up artists such as Jason Marks, Laura Mercier, and Pat McGrath really inspires me and I think its great that his photos show beautiful makeup.


MARIO TESTINO 

Mario Testino grew up in Peru and until 1977 he then moved to London to pursue his dreams of being a photographer. His work has been published in top fashion magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. The highlight of his career is regarded as being his photo shoot with Princess Diana for THe vanity Fair edition in 1997. He is known for his beautiful fun and colourful imagery. He likes to bring the models personality out in the photo and uses bright makeup to emphasise the looks and make the image stand out.







References 
David Bailey Biography-
http://www.biography.com/people/david-bailey-38755
Famous Photographers, David Bailey-
http://famous-photographers.com/david-bailey/

Blumenfeld Wikepedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Blumenfeld
Erwin Blumenfeld - Photographer & Artist-

http://www.erwinblumenfeld.com/

Vogue Bio-
http://www.vogue.co.uk/spy/biographies/patrick-demarchelier
Famous Photographers Bio-
http://famous-photographers.com/patrick-demarchelier/

Famous Photographers Bio-
http://famous-photographers.com/mario-testino-2/
Official Website- Mario Testino-
http://www.mariotestino.com/
Mario Testino- Book- In Your Face