Richard Avedon was an America photographer and widely regarded as one of the best portrait photographers there has ever been. Avedon was a staff photographer for the New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar and the very elite Vogue magazine. His work has been exhibited all around the world including places such as Paris, Milan and New York. Upon Avedon's death, his obituary in the New York Times stated that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."
Yousuf Karsh is a photographer who overcame a difficult start to life in Turkey in order to hone his skills and photography some amazing individuals. Karsh first got his break when the Prime minister of Canada was impressed by his work and invited Karsh to take pictures of some world leaders. Karsh didn't stop there as he built on his portfolio with pictures of Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart, Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa, Winston Churchill and the great Nelson Mandela.
Although Even Arnold was a portrait photographer for a number of years before, her work first received the recognition it deserved when she photographed Marilyn Monroe on a film set in the 1960s. Following this, her career blossomed and she moved to England where she took some of the most iconic images of Queen Elizabeth the second ever to be taken.
Edouard Boubat was a slightly different portrait photographer as he didn't capture famous people in his photographs. Boubat was excellent at capturing people going about their lives but caught in a moment which was very personal. Many of Boubat's shots included couples gazing intimately at each other or individuals daydreaming or deep in thought. Boubat was very much a humanist photographer as he photographed people in a way which was not undignified or embarrassing but very moving.
Phillipe Halsman was another photographer who photographed celebrities and he had a lot of his work published in Life Magazine as well as making the cover 101 times. As well as his celebrity photographs, Halsman is also well-known for his surrealism work.
Yousuf Karsh is a photographer who overcame a difficult start to life in Turkey in order to hone his skills and photography some amazing individuals. Karsh first got his break when the Prime minister of Canada was impressed by his work and invited Karsh to take pictures of some world leaders. Karsh didn't stop there as he built on his portfolio with pictures of Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart, Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa, Winston Churchill and the great Nelson Mandela.
Although Even Arnold was a portrait photographer for a number of years before, her work first received the recognition it deserved when she photographed Marilyn Monroe on a film set in the 1960s. Following this, her career blossomed and she moved to England where she took some of the most iconic images of Queen Elizabeth the second ever to be taken.
Edouard Boubat was a slightly different portrait photographer as he didn't capture famous people in his photographs. Boubat was excellent at capturing people going about their lives but caught in a moment which was very personal. Many of Boubat's shots included couples gazing intimately at each other or individuals daydreaming or deep in thought. Boubat was very much a humanist photographer as he photographed people in a way which was not undignified or embarrassing but very moving.
Phillipe Halsman was another photographer who photographed celebrities and he had a lot of his work published in Life Magazine as well as making the cover 101 times. As well as his celebrity photographs, Halsman is also well-known for his surrealism work.
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