The Word Model Is Also A Verb ~ Agyness Deyn Shot By Photographer Nick Knight
Zombie Portraits ~ Shot On Location @ The Toronto Zombie Walk By Yours Truly
© anthony luke
A zombie is a creature that appears in folklore and popular culture typically as a reanimated corpse or a mindless human being. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodoo, which told of the people being controlled as laborers by a powerful sorcerer. Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead.(wikipedia)
Life As A Photographer
Photographer Annie Leibovitz Got Her First Big Break Shooting Rock'n'Roll Royalty ~ The Rolling Stones
2009 INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
IPA 2009 Finalists from Lucie Foundation on Vimeo.
New Leica S2~ The ultimate camera? For $25,000(body only) it is the perfect stocking stuffer this Christmas.
New Leica M9 Overview.
The New Leica M9 ~ A camera worth selling a kidney for ?
The history of 35-mm photography began almost 100 years ago with the legendary Ur-Leica. Today, it is the Leica M9, a landmark camera that carries the proud heritage of Leica M cameras into the digital age. The Leica M9 is the world's first digital system camera of its size to be built with a full-frame sensor - a CCD sensor developed specifically for the M9 - that is capable of perfectly capturing the full 35-mm format (24 × 36 mm) in ultra-high resolution. (from Leica website)
Photographer Profile ~ Freelance Photojournalist/Filmmaker Danfung Dennis
Danfung Dennis graduated from Cornell University with degrees in Applied Economics and International Agriculture in 2005. He worked briefly for a business consulting organization. He began his photojournalism career by freelancing for the Beijing Bureau of The Associated Press covering breaking news throughout Asia. In 2006, he traveled to Afghanistan to cover the increase in fighting and lack of reconstruction and development. He spent much of 2007 and 2008 covering Iraq. Now based in London, he will focus his future work on documenting wars, conflicts and critical social and economic issues.
His work has been published in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Sunday Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Le Figaro Magazine, Financial Times Magazine, Mother Jones, L'Express, Der Spiegel, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Wall Street Journal and his footage aired by PBS, ITV, and CBS.
Amazing Time Lapse Images Shot With Canon 5D Mark II DLSR... Set To Pink Floyd!!
Timescapes Timelapse: Learning to Fly from Tom @ Timescapes on Vimeo.
Filmmaker Uses A Canon 5D MkII To Shoot a Documentary About U.S Marine's Struggling To Win The Hearts & Minds Of The Afghan People.
Battle for Hearts and Minds Trailer from Danfung Dennis on Vimeo.
MMA Fighters Frozen In Time with The Profoto 8A Air. Save your pennies...it's $12k
Profoto Fight Night from S1 Group on Vimeo.
David LaChapelle Documentary ~ Speaks about Andy Warhol giving him his big break and about his new work.
How a magazine might look in the not-so-distant future ~ inspired by Harry Potter
Death Of A Master ~ Irving Penn Dies at the age of 92
" A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. "
Irving Penn has always been my favourite photographer. His strong graphic images struck a cord with me at a young age. I picked up his book "Passages" when it was first available and still look at it often. All his images are iconic from the portraits of high fashion models and celebrities to his fantastic mud people images to the found objects like cigarette butts ~ Pure genius. Often copied but never matched Irving Penn was a true master
While still studying photography in College, I assisted a food and product shooter who would receive Polaroids from Irving Penn for art direction. (pre-digital days) We were shooting Clinique ads and Penn would set up the composition of the bottles and shoot it at the angle he desired and then forwarded the Polaroid to the photographer. The photographer would then carry out Penn's vision. I wish I had one of those Polaroids! He will be missed.
War Photographer - James Nachtwey. Compelling and stunning images by the best photojournalist living today.
Documentary film shows French photographer Denis Darzacq working with street dancers in the suburbs of Paris with amazing results that defy gravity.
Behind The Scenes Photoshoot with Gisele Bundchen
10 photography Blogs You Should Read
Check out these photo-blogs. Source Photographic Review has profiled 10 photography-related blogs they think are worth reading. Some interesting insight into the world of photography.
Yes, the nail is real! No Photoshop here! I watched in horror and fascination as he proceeded to hammer the nail into his face. Scott McClelland (aka Eisengrimm) is the real deal folks. He is the creator of "Carnival Diablo" and 'The Paranormal Show'.Sideshows for the 21st Century. Check them out!
Photographer Guy Bourdin was one of the most unique, provocative and influencial fashion photographers of the 70's & 80's and to this day
Fantastic Documentary on photographer Helmut Newton by his wife June.
Photographer Mario Sorrenti shoots Naomi Campbell on the streets of NYC
Paolo Roversi, an Italian-born fashion photographer, speaks about creativity
Behind the Scenes with Photographer Peter Lindbergh
Model-morphosis
Transformations at New York Fashion Week. Check out model Karlie Kloss before and after makeup. Great make-up artists make all the difference.
Influences ~ Photographer Albert Watson
Watson recalls, 'I looked over and she was under an umbrella - right there I knew that was the shot, how perfect her head was in that raw sunlight.' The strong lines o this composition delineates Campbell's remarkable profile, like an eighteenth-century silhouette.
Albert Watson, Christy Turlington, New York (1990)
This was part of a fashion series that Watson was assigned to create at a moment when Turlington's star was continuing to rise. 'She was obviously a very good models.' 'Christy was great to work with and was always thinking, always enaging and ready for the challenges of being before the camera.'
Bowie
Marilyn Manson
Albert Watson, Mick Jagger, Los Angeles (1992)
The picture was created for Rolling Stone magazine’s twenty-fifth anniversary issue. Initially, Watson photographed a leopard. He then used a marker to draw the animal’s outline on to the viewfinder of his camera and rewound the film in the camera and made an old-fashioned double exposure.
Kate Moss
Jack Nicholson
LL Cool J
Alfred Hitchcock
Albert Watson, Near Abilene, Texas (1987)
Watson wanted to shoot fashion in direct light and so he took advantage of the intense, raw Texas sunlight. ‘Simplicity. The challenge is to take a complex image and to make the photograph simply, but with elegance.’
Prince
Mike Tyson