Showing posts with label Character Portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Character Portrait. Show all posts

Monday, October 3, 2011

Photographer Profile ~ Rodney Smith

Rodney Smith is a 1970 graduate of the University of Virginia and received a Master of Divinity in Theology from Yale University in 1973. While at Yale he studied photography under Walker Evans. His teaching experience has included an adjunct professorship at Yale.
Mr. Smith has been commissioned by clients such as The New York Stock Exchange, American Express, BMW, MCI World.com, The New York City Ballet, Starbucks, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Ritz Carlton and Visa. His editorial clients include The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, W Magazine, Esquire, New York Magazine, and Bloomberg Personal and his fashion clients include Ralph Lauren, Neiman Marcus, Ellen Tracy, Bergdorf Goodman, and Saks Fifth Avenue.

He received a Jerusalem Foundation Fellowship in 1975, enabling him to live in Jerusalem for three months and resulted in his first book, In the Land of Light, published by Houghton-Mifflin Company in 1983. His second book, The Hat Book was published by Doubleday in 1993. Mr. Smith’s third book, The End, was published in November 2009. He lives with his wife and daughter in Snedens Landing, on the Hudson River near New York City.

Portrait of Rodney Smith 






















































Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Visit Venice and then Kenya with Photographer James Mollison

Visit James Mollison at his studio in Venice, Italy where he discusses group and individual identity and how his thoughts on the subject has informed the perspectives of his projects.

Then travel with Mollison to Kenya where he sets out to photograph the huge variety of people at the Dadaab Refuge Camp in Kenya, the world's oldest and largest refugee camp that sits in the desert on the Kenya-Somalia border.

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James Mollison recounts the story behind his "found photographs" book, The Memory of Pablo Escobar, a personal look into the life of the most notorious drug dealer in history

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Photographer Profile ~ Irving Penn


If I had to pick one photographer to be my favourite Irving Penn would certainly be it. He was a true master. His Compelling and thoughtful portraits and strong graphic still life's always had a profound effect on me. He was also a visionary in the fashion world.

My connection with Penn was via a Polaroid. 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.



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Irving Penn ~ Three Rissani woman with Bread, Morocco, 1971

Picasso ~ Irving Penn

Al Pacino


Truman Capote


Dali

 Woody Allen

 Nicole Kidman
Georgia O'keeffe

 Irving Penn ~ Barnett Newman


Irving Penn ~ Max Ernst + Dorothea Tanning, 1947


 Artist Giorgio de Chirico, Rome, 1944.



Hitchcock



Audrey Hepburn



JFK



Irving Penn - Veiled Face (Evelyn Tripp), 1949 







 Joe Louis


 Miles Davis
Bee Stung Lips, 1995











 Lisa ~ Penn's Wife/model



  Eugene Ionesco
























 Miles Davis


 Miles Davis









 
Irving Penn Self Portrait











 Truman Capote



 Raymone and Blaise Cendrars


















 Miles Davis

Miles Davis




 Photographer Cecil Beaton

 Miles Davis





 Street Photographer








Kate Moss
Nadja Auermann - Vogue by Irving Penn, July 1996























Irving Penn ~ Issey Miyake dress


Irving Penn corset Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel NYC,1994



Lisa 
Lisa

Amber Valletta


Kate Moss

Dorian Leigh and Maurice Tillet

 Rudolf Nureyev

 Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart

 Ingmar Bergman


 Ingmar Bergman



 Simone de Beauvoir


Truman Capote


 Marlene Dietrich

 Jean Cocteau

Georgia O'Keeffe, Gypsy Rose Lee


 Igor Stravinsky, Marcel Duchamp

 Truman Capote, Spencer Tracy

 Jacob and Gwen Lawrence


 Ballet Society, 1948

 Louise Bourgeois


  Marlene Dietrich
















Portrait of fashion Photographer by Penn: From left to right: Serge Balkin, Cecil Beaton, George Platt Lynes, Constantine Joffe, Dorian Leigh (model), Horst P. Horst, John Rawlings, Alexnader Liberman (art director), Erwin Blumenfeld.

Penn's Studio
Irving Penn Self Portrait. Auctioned for $45000 at Christies in London