BITESNICH

Andreas H. Bitesnich is seen as one of the greatest photographers of our time. Especially in the area of nude photography, he counts among the best in the world. Bitesnich captures moments of indescribable beauty. In his successful artistic work, he uses his unmistakeable textures to create his famous nude photographs, numerous national and international advertising campaigns as well as portraits of famous contemporary figures such as Anthony Quinn, Leni Riefenstahl or Reinhold Messner. 
With his travel reports, the fine art photographer depicts movingly beautiful landscape settings and once again proves how versatile his photographic oeuvre is.

http://www.bitesnich.com/

ROLLING VOGUE

Albert Watson is a Scottish photographer well known for his fashion, celebrity and art photography, and whose work is featured in galleries and museums worldwide. He has shot over 200 covers of Vogue around the world and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s. Photo District News named Watson one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time, along with Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, among others. Watson has won numerous honors, including a Lucie Award, a Grammy Award, the Hasselblad Masters Award, three ANDY Awards, and the Centenary Medal, a lifetime achievement award from the Royal Photographic Society.

http://www.albertwatson.net/

10 TIMES ROSIE

Rankin lenses a captivating and diverse set of moody images of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley for Qvest #42, calling her the next Kate Moss. He also says she’s got boobs and a great ass, comments that would offend many but not us. The images are part of a new book on Rosie called "Ten Times Rosie". I added many new images to this collection of fabulous Rosie Huntington-Whiteley photos, as Rosie assumes the persona of many captivating women. Rankin works in that choice range of art and fashion photographers who consistently make a woman more than the sum of her body parts. Gorgeous photos!

book: Ten Times Rosie, Rankin

PARIS OPERA BALLET

Gérard Uféras, the French photographer who spent more than a year behind the scenes with the dancers of the Paris Opéra Ballet, has recently published In the Company of Stars, an unusual and strangely beautiful book.  Scarcely ever in tutus and stripped of all artifice, members of the prestigious company are portrayed going about their everyday life at the Palais Garnier. Over a hundred photographs show the dancers backstage in the wings, in the elevators or simply warming up in the rehearsal rooms before a performance.

book: In the Company of Stars, Gérard Uféras

COMTE

 

For decades Michel Comte has been shooting protagonists from the world of art, film and entertainment. However, he does not only take photos perhaps more than any other artist Comte understands the art of capturing the beauty of the moment by choosing the perfect angle and light intensity.

http://www.michelcomte.org/index.php/home.html

IMAGE UNKNOWN

No information about the photographer, neither about the pictures. Just a blog with some amazing pictures.

http://ffffound.com/image/5c8e2f3e0b13224b922d20c076de8e13c64c768a

RE-EXAMINES

John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’. Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/john_stezaker.htm

COLOURS CLASH

 

 

What a set of amazing imagery by professional photographer Eliot Lee Hazel. Eliot is based in Los Angeles, and he has an exquisite eye for finest of details. I sense he likes to create drama in his photography, using a mixture of grunge and darkness, then flipping it with light hearted fun. Scrolling through his portfolio gave me different emotions, some pictures were funny and very nostalgic, some quite dark and interesting. It makes you want to know the story behind each and every character, leaving you on a slight cliffhanger. I also really enjoyed the way the tones and colours clash, the imagery is very experimental and is something to be praised.

http://eliotleehazel.com/

ALBINO BALBINO

Albino siblings Esthefany Caroline (l) and Kauan Fernandes (r) play with their cousin Taina (c) outside their home in the V9 slum of Olinda, in the northeastern state of Pernambuco. Three of five of the Fernandes family's children are albinos, which according to genetics professor Valdir Balbino of the Federal University of Pernambuco is a very rare occurrence concidering the parents and two children are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians.

http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2009/08/31/editors-choice-best-photos/

SHINORAMA

Kishin Shinoyama houses a constant care of ever-renewed, polymorphic photographic expression, thus dwells on the technical aspects of photography (creation of the "Shinorama", from 3 to 3x3 linked cameras) and, contrarily to rather unchanging photographers such as Daido Moriyama, he changes the size, grain and colors of his shots from one series to the other which makes his work, to critics's despair, hard to categorize, and gives it a very peculiar and most fortunate dimension.

magazine: Vice, august 2010

THE FAMILY AND THE LAND

Last year I visited the exhibition "The Family and the Land" of Sally Mann in The Hague. Mann's portraits of her children offer the bliss and the gloom of childhood. Naked, bruised, defiant these unsanitized portrayals of youth incited a fair amount of controversy and censorship. In response to claims of child pornography, exploitation, or parental neglect, Mann simply defended her work as the perspective of motherhood.

exhibition: The Family and the Land, Sally Mann (Fotomuseum Den Haag)

PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHY

Jeff Bark’s photography likens the traditions of the old masters style of painting, photographing on a studio set of enormous proportions he pays meticulous attention to detail. It is more about removing light, than adding it. Bark explains, “When I am ready to photograph my subject, there is practically not much light coming from strobes. I use long exposures and that is what gives the effect of a painting. It looks as if the light is illuminating from the subject rather than onto it.” Bark’s use of light and shadow are created manually and not digitally. Whether saturated in mute color, or rich with the blue hues of the moonlight, Bark’s work draws out the volatile beauty of his subjects and settings in juxtaposition as a visual inspiration from past art movements.

documentary: Jeff Bark, Between painting and photography

ADOLESCENCE

Ryan McGinley knows from adolescence. As the chronicler of (usually naked) misspent youth, the 32-year-old photographer has made a not-insignificant career out of capturing and exalting this most evanescent of states. It's so diverse yet it stays true to his style. 

http://ryanmcginley.com/