Colour Portrait Photography

Colour Portrait Photography

1. Nadav Kander - (born 1 December 1961). Nadav is a London-based photographer, artist and director, known for his portraiture and landscapes. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is best known for his Yangtze - The Long River series, for which he earned the Prix Pictet Prize. He never photographed further than twenty miles from the river itself. The photographs are dominated by immense architectural structures where humans are shown as small in their environment. In 2010-2012, he photographed a series of nudes, 6 women and 1 man in his London studio. On 18 January 2009, he had 52 full colour portraits published in one issue of The New York Times Magazine.

   • Barack Obama
   • Rosamund Pike

2. Nan Goldin - (born 12 September 1953). She is an American photographer who lives and works in New York City, Berlin and Paris. Her work explores LGBT organisations and the opioid epidemic. Her first solo show was in 1973 based on transgender and gay communities. A lot of her work is in the style of a slideshow. She received the Edward MacDowell medal in 2012.

3. Alec Soth (born 30 December 1969). He is an American photographer based in Minneapolis and his work features the mid-west USA. In 2021 he received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. He has collections in San Francisco and Houston.

4. Pieter Hugo (born 29 October 1976). He is a South African portraiture photographer. He began his career in the film industry. He has worked on fashion photography and has contributed in The New Yorker and NY Times Magazine. Through his work he tries to change peoples ideas of groups of people to Western Europe, people thought to be outsiders.

5. Rankin (born 28 April 1966), (John Rankin Waddell). A British photographer known as Rankin. He is best known for his photos of Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, Madonna and Queen Elizabeth II. He started studying accounting but took up photography instead. He started up a company with a graphic designer and launched a magazine called Dazed and Confused. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society. He has been involved in several programmes eg The Great British Photography Challenge in 2021.

   • Queen Elizabeth II
   • Daniel Craig

6. Annie Liebovitz (born 2 October 1949). A well known portrait photographer especially of celebrities. She took a polroid of John Lennon and his wife just 5 hours before he was shot dead. Therefore, this is considered as one of the most famous magazing cover shots which featured in the Rolling Stone magazine. She took her first photos in the Phillipines during the Vietnam War. She has used a variety of makes of camera. She worked on Rolling Stones Magazine and Vanity Fair. She had an exhibition at the National Gallery in 1991, the first woman to show there.

   • Leonardo DiCaprio
   • Meryl Streep

7. Jean-Baptiste Mondino (born 21 July 1949). He is a French fashion photographer and music video director. He is a much admired and sought after photographer. He has worked for Dior, Nike and has produced album covers for Mariame Faithfull and Prince. He has directed music videos for which he won awards. His first passion was music. He has had exhibitions in Paris, Toronto and Hamberg.

   • We Are the Majority (1992)
   • Madonna

8. William Eggleston (born 27 July 1939). He is an American photographer mostly for his colour photography as he began experimenting in 1965. He used colour transparency film then, went onto-dye-transfer printing most known for William Eggleston Guide (1976).

9. Juno Calypso (born 1989)

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