unit 31- photography for media products: October 2013

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Annie Liebovits Photography Analysis Powerpoint

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Mario Testino Photographer

Mario Testino

Background:
Mario Testino was born and grew up in Lima. He was one of six children in a middle class family.When he was young he wanted to be a priest. Testino studied economics at Universidad del Pacífico.
In 1976 he went to London to study photography. Living in an unconverted floor of a hospital, without much money, he funded himself by working as a waiter. He had his hair dyed pink which helped him get noticed as a photographer. In 1982 Testino moved permanently to London.

Career:
Testino has shot fashion stories for Vogue, Gucci, and Vanity Fair. Celebrity subjects have most famously included Diana, Princess of Wales and her sons. Also more recently Prince William and Catherine Middleton on the occasion of their engagement in December 2010.
In 2002, The National Portrait Gallery in London staged the landmark exhibition “Portraits” by Mario Testino that to date remains its second most successful exhibit. For ten years it had the highest attendance of any exhibition ever to be held there. Over the next four years the exhibition went on tour to Milan, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Mexico City, and Boston.
Testino has also received royal commissions, including The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William, Prince Harry, The Duchess of Cambridge, Diana Princess of Wales, The Duke of Kent, and the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.

Photography they're famous for:
Mario Testino is a Peruvian fashion photographer. His work has been featured in magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. His career highpoint came when he was chosen by Diana, Princess of Wales, for her Vanity Fair photoshoot in 1997. Testino has been regularly employed by the British royal family ever since.

Media Products their work has appeared in:
Testino has become one of the world's most well known and celebrated fashion photographers. His work has been featured across the globe in magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and V, and he has crafted and contributed to the imagery of leading fashion houses such as Burberry, Gucci, Versace, Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, Salvatore Ferragamo, Estee Lauder and Michael Kors, among others. As well as having published seven books of his work and edited one other dedicated to contemporary art and artists from his native Peru, Mario Testino has had many successful exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world.

Examples of his work:

Annie Liebovits Photographer

Annie Liebovits

Background: Annie liebovits was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 2nd, 1949, She is the third of six children. She is a third-generation American whose great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe. Her father's parents had emigrated from Romania. Her mother, was a modern dance instructor of and her father, was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. The family moved frequently with her father's duty assignments, and she took her first pictures when he was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War.

In high school, she became interested in various artistic endeavors, and began to write and play music. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied painting. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while working various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz in Amir, Israel, for several months in 1969.

When Leibovitz returned to the United States in 1970, she started her career as staff photographer, working for the just launched Rolling Stone magazine. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone, a job she would hold for 10 years. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone look. While working for Rolling Stone, Leibovitz became more aware of the other magazines. learned that she could work for magazines and still create personal work, which for her was the most important.She was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2009.

Types of Photographs she is famous for:

Annie Liebovits is an American Portrait photographer and is famous for her celebrity photographs that she has taken, and those are the photos that made her a famous photographer.

Media Products in which their photography is used in:

Annie Liebovits images have appeared at museums and galleries all over the world, including the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris.

Monday, 7 October 2013

Tom Jenkins Photographer

Photographer

Tom Jenkins

Background: Tom Jenkins left Newport College, Wales, with a diploma in documentary photography in 1989 and immediately began his career working freelance for the Allsports Agency, Then the Sunday Telegraph. Tom has been the Sports Photographer for the Guardian and Observer newspapers. Tom started being a professional sports photographer in 1989 for The Guardian. He has covered 5 World Cups and 3 Olympic games which are his highlights of his career. He is highly regarded among his peers and has won many awards during his career in sports photography. Awards he has won during his career are;

1990 British Press Awards Young Press Photographer of the Year
1992 Ilford Sports Picture of the Year
2000 What the Papers Say Sports Photographer of the Year
2001 Nikon Sports Photographer of the year
2002 SJA Sport For All Picture
2003 Zurich Rugby Photographer
of the Year
2003 British Press Awards Sports Photographer of the Year
2003 SJA Sports photographer of the Year
2004 What the Papers Say Photographer
of the Year
2004 SJA Sports Photographer of the Year; Olympic Portfolio; Sports Portfolio; Sports News Picture.

Photography they’re famous for: Tom Jenkins is a Sports photographer and has taken many pictures of major events including the Olympics and World cups.

Media Products in which their photography is used in: Tom Jenkins is an award-winning Guardian sports photographer. And has covered major events like 3 Olympic Games and 5 World Cups. Most of his sporting pictures are used in The Guardian, The Sun, The daily Mail and in The Observer Newspaper.

http://www.georgemccarthy.com/

· George McCarthy takes pictures of wildlife.

· You will find his images in Wildlife magazines, and books.

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http://www.sports-photo.co.uk/

· Sports-photo is a sports photographer

· You will find their images in any sports magazines, and in sports adverts.

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http://www.peterwoodsphotography.co.uk/

· Peter woods takes photographs of plants, wildlife and other animals.

· You will find his images in wildlife magazines and plants magazines.

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http://www.perou.co.uk/

· Perou are a fashion, music, personal, commissions and projects photographer

· Their photos are mainly found in fashion magazines, music magazines and on adverts.

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http://www.rexfeatures.com/

· Rex features do a range of different photographs like for the news travel, business, animal, humour, lifestyle, fashion, music, historical or creative stock images.

· Their Photographs are used in magazines, newspapers, adverts, books