Task 1A - historical and contemporary research

Historical photographers

~Marylin Monroe~ 1957
Photographer: Richard Avendon

I have decided to look at the photographer who took photos of the most beautiful women. It was Richard who had the great opportunity to work with such an amazing icon. He was an American fashion, but mainly portrait photographer. His portrait photography define America's image of style. I really like his photos, even though most of the are black and white. The contrast of the photos are really good, and they look amazing in black and white. He has photographed for magazines like Vogue, as well as worked with advertising campaigns for Versace or Calvin Klein. 

~Celebrities~ 1959
Photographer: David Bailey

David is an English fashion as well as portrait photographer. He has starting working in photography industry in 1959 and still continues working now. I really like David's Bailey's photography as it is simple but show a lot of emotions in his black and white portraiture photography. He has been working with a lot of famous people like Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He always goes for simplicity in his photos, which looks really natural and nice. Bailey has also recently gained a lot of rewards for his amazing portraiture photography. 

Contemporary photographers

~Maleficent~ 2014

Photographers: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.

I have picked to do a research about photographers from Maleficent, Disney film from 2014, because this is my first idea of a film that I want to work on. Therefore I have decided to look at the photographers work from this  film. I have found that Mert Alas as well as Marcus Piggot were both taking the photos of Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) for posters. They were working is studios, just as we have the opportunity to work in studio in this project. Their work has really caught my eye, as the face expressions as well as the lightning are clearly thought through and we can really see it in their photos, especially photos for a poster to Maleficent film. They have also work with other celebrities like Madonna, Lady Gaga, Victoria Beckham or Jennifer Lopez. They are mainly know for fashion photography. They met for the first time in England in 1994.

~Harry Potter~ 2011
Photographer: Jaap Buitendijk

This photographer grew up in Holland. I really like his photos from the last Harry Potter film. They're are very high quality photos and show a lot of emotions, they are mainly photos in action. I really like the way he captures the poses, emotions as well as the equipments and the background of the photo. It looks really good. Jaap has studied documentary photography and since then he started exploring documentary skills. He captured beautiful photos on film plan as well as behind the scene. He worked within a lot of films including Harry Potter as well as some other as World War Z or Gladiator.

~Resistance~ 2011
Photographer: Jules Heath

Jules Heath has a very strong passion for photo journalistic and fine art. His shots are taken spontaneously but carefully composed, and cropped for maximum impact. His goals is to make the picture that challenge the viewer, asking more questions that they answer. Which simply means he wants the viewer to look deep into his photography. I think it really works, because all of his photos have different meanings and they are very powerful in terms of emotions. He has a lot of film credits on her list such as Resistance, and many more. He has also shot for many TV series like BBC, Sky, CH4. He has worked with clients like BBC Worldwide, 20th Century Fox, SKY, and many more. For his excellent work, not only in my opinion he gained some awards like : 2009 - World Wildlife Photographer of the year, 2012 - PND World In Focus and Creative Review Photography Annual. 

~Series of Disney themed celebrity portraits~ 2014
Photographer: Annie Leibovitz

Annie is considered as one of the best portrait photographers in America. Annie started her career with the Rolling Stones magazines in the 70's, and from then on she has worked with a lot of celebrities. I really like her photographs that she took with different celebrities with the theme of Disney movies. She has a lot of photographs from all Disney movies, but I have decided to pick these four which stood out the most to me. She uses a lot of Photoshop in her photos, especially in this photo shoot, but who doesn't? I really like the different kinds of effect on the photo which match so well with the photography of the celebrities. In my opinion there's something magic in every single photo that she took, and I think this is what she wanted it to be like as it is all based on Disney.

Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Antony from Aladdin.

Beyonce, Oliver Platt, and Lyle Lovett as Alice in Wonderland. 

Taylor Swift as Rapunzel.

Historical film stars

Julie Andrews~

Julie born in 1935, is one of the greatest film stars. She sang like an angel in Mary Poppins. Julie is an English film stage actress, singer, author, theatre director and dancer.

Charlie Chaplin~

Charlie was born in 1889  and died in 1977. He was one of the greatest English actors, comedian as well as film makers. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona 'the Tramp' and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His active years through his life were 1899 till 1976.Chaplin has also wrote, directed, produced, edited, statrred in as well as composed music for most of his film. 

Contemporary film stars

Angelina Jolie~

Angelina born in 1975, is an american actress as well as filmmaker. She has received a lot of important awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress in 2009, 2011 and 2013. She is a beautiful women, who played a lot of amazing roles in contemporary films.

Leonardo DiCaprio~

Leonardo born in 1974, played a lot of great roles in amazing as well as very well known films. Two of my favourite films with Leonardo DiCaprio are definitely Titanic as well as Romeo and Juliet. He is an american actor as well as film producer. He has been nominated for a lot of important award, winning most of them including Golden Globe for the best actor. 

Historical Portraiture

The Blackboard Poland, 1948
David 'Chim' Seymour (American, born Poland, 1911 - 1956) ~ 

One of the founders of Magnum Photos in 1947. Chim firstly gained recognition for his portrait photography from Spanish Civil War and the Popular Front in Paris during World War 2. His ability to identify and record very important key moments in the events and of the surroundings, allowed him to access the emotional look of a subject. He has used his photography talent mainly for photographic children.

Still from an Untitled Film, 1978

Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954) ~

Between 1977 and 1980, Cindy photographed herself in a series of sixty-seven staged scenarios meant to suggest Hollywood films of the 1950's. 

Contemporary Portraiture

Jamie Warren ~

I have found really interesting photographer, who did a very inspirational as well as funny photo shoot. Jamie Warren decided to do portraits of celebrities as food. Jamie is a photographer who lives in NY. She has received an amazing reward in 2014, it was Baum Reward for an Emerging American Photographer. She has also exhibited a lot of solo projects in different kinds of museums etc. all around America.

 Tuna Turner

Lasagna Del Rey

Madonut

 Andreas Laszlo Konrath~

I have this American photographer who do a lot of portrait, mainly of friend but has few series of celebrities portraiture as well. I have picked him because I really like the compositions that this photographer uses as well as how he frames the photos. Not all of them are straight and some of them have bits cut off them, but they look really effective. 

 Historical Films

• Dirty Dancing ~ 1987
• Scarface ~ 1983
• Casablanca ~ 1943
• Singing' in the rain ~ 1952
• King Kong ~ 1933
• Snow White and seven dwarfs ~ 1937
• Mary Poppins ~ 1964
• Miracle on 34th Street ~ 1947
• The Godfather ~ 1972
• Charlie Chaplin ~ 1925

Contemporary Films

• Maleficent ~ 2014
• Asterix and Obelix Mission Cleopatra ~ 2002
• Zorro ~ 1998
• Titanic ~ 1997
• Pulp Fiction ~ 1994
• Taken ~ 2008
• Jingle all the way ~ 2014
• Home alone ~ 1990
• The Hunger Games ~ 2013
• Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows ~ 2007