The Face's of Fashion

I wanted to take a more detaile dapprooach into the research of fashion photography so I found a few photographers and artists that's work inspired me and gave me a few ideas for my own shoots.

Guy Bourdin

Guy Bourdin was a french fashion photographer. Bourdin was the first photographer to create a complex narrative, then snatch a moment sensual, provocative, shocking, exotic, surrealistic, sometimes sinister and simply associate it with a fashion item. The narratives were strange and mysterious, sometimes full of violence, sexuality, and surrealism. Bourdin was influenced by his mentor Man Ray, photographer Edward Weston, the surrealist painters Magritte and Balthus, and film maker Luis Buñuel. Even though much less well known to the public than his colleague Helmut Newton (also working for Vogue), Bourdin possibly has been more influential on the younger generations of fashion photographers.

Guy Bourdin was a short man with a whiny voice, and had a reputation of being incredibly demanding. Dark rumours surrounded him: his mother abandoning him as an infant, the suicides of his wife and two of his girlfriends, and the cruelty in which he treated his models.

What i like most about the work of Guy Bourdin is the surreal and shocking images he produces. most of his work is related to sexuality and violence which adds a more sinister theme to his photos. I love how his photos have narratives and a story behind them which usually were stories of a darker and sinister nature.

Nick Knight

Nick Knight is one of my biggest inspirations his work just jumps out at me due to the unique and unusual compositions of his photos.  I love the bright colour pallet used to make his phtos more surreal and how hw consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty.  His first book of photographs, skinheads, was published in 1982.  He has since produced Nicknight, a 12 year retrospective, and Flora, a series of flower pictures. He has also photographed many celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent.

  

 Vogue

Both photogrpahers have doen work for vogue magazine.Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.Vogue was described by book critic Caroline Weber in The New York Times in December 2006 as "the world's most influential fashion magazine".

Fashion news daily, catwalk videos, backstage photos, fashion trends, supermodel interviews, beauty trends and celebrity party photos.

Knight :

Nick Knight is top of the celebrities' photographer wishlist. His reputation for pushing boundaries technically and creatively at every opportunity and being at the forefront of innovation is deeply attractive. He has worked on a range of often controversial issues during his career - from racism, disability, ageism, and more recently fat-ism. He continually challenges conventional ideals of beauty. He once said: "I don't want to reflect social c

Nick Knight is top of the celebrities' photographer wishlist.

Bourdin:

Bourdin, born in Paris in 1928, was the pioneering fashion photographer of the 1970s whose arresting photographs filled the pages of French Vogue for three decades. His work completely re-shaped the ‘fashion picture’ and today his legacy lives on in ad campaigns the world over. Bourdin abandoned the traditional tendency to present the product in an elegant, safe manner, and instead chose to stimulate consumer desire by using models to create intriguing and provocative narratives.

With his photographs, he sought to shock and to play on people’s curiosities, staging unsettling scenarios that hint at violence, sex and death. If sometimes troubled, Bourdin was not, however, relentlessly dark. The resulting images are colourful, decadent, often humorous and playful.

Guy Bourdin was Man Ray’s protégé and the spirit of the Surrealists is ever-present in his work - evident in the dream-like quality of some photos and in the artist’s use of uncanny juxtapositions. Moreover, he cleverly fused a very European aesthetic with that of the post-war Pop culture of west coast USA. Of the former, influences include Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard and even Lewis Carroll. Of the latter we see hints of Marilyn Monroe’s glamour and sex appeal and Andy Warhol’s stark colour palett