In reply to KaWai:
I always find in Avedon's work a sense of tension, a kinetic energy waiting to be exploded.
Photography and Filmmaking
Creative, conceptual and technical; contemporary and historical
I have always find it very interesting and stimulating talking about fashion photography, the famous photographers, their style and techniques, their point of view on beauty, and if one could tell their styles apart or not. I thought here is a great platform for people who love fashion photography to share their passion on this topic.
Photo by Avedon, for Versace.
Photo by David Bailey.
Love the street photography style used in the genre of fashion. The street always provides great textures, tones and details to fashion photographs, and combined with using less artifacts in the styling, leaves us to the genre of documentary photography, or the feel of documentary photography, which to me is one of the best ways to photograph fashion, especially in black and white format.
Photo by David Bailey
It's not easy to take good black and white photos.
Paparazzi style in fashion photography, love the fact that she is a bit messy you could almost feel the sweat on her skin.
Photo by Arthur Elgort, one of my all time favorite photographers. He is also a dance photographer.
Photo by Arthur Elgort.
If one didn't know the fact about this photo he or she could have mistaken this for Helmut Newton's work. In this photo, even in black and white, I could feel the heat of summer in the middle of Manhattan. Have we been seeing less of this type of black and white photos in fashion magazines nowadays?
Photo by Mario Testino
I think I could always tell a Mario Testino photograph, by looking at the skin tones. A lot of photographers tend to show the skin lighter, but I think he would shoot models so their skin would be a shade darker than in reality. He loves warm tones on skin, he is really good with shooting in colors, I could always feel the heat in his photographs.
Photo by Testino
Skin and colors! Focus on the pores of the skin, the powder of the makeup, the textures of the lipstick. This photo could get away with no retouching.
No need for introduction. I wonder if Helmut Newton's camera was on a tripod? It's a wonderful result from such hasty set up and little budget, this photograph didn't require a big team of people at all, just the photographer, maybe one assistant, no need for hair and makeup people, the model could do that herself.
Photo by Newton
This is a really good black and white photograph, brilliant idea. Again, the set up I think was quite simple, it's all in the skill of the photographer, and also his sense of beauty and vision. In the documentary on Helmut Newton made by his wife June, he said something about his equipment, a simple camera-"It's a very simple camera, you just point and shoot, anyone could use it"(then he points to his head) "It's all in there."