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Helmut Newton is the doyen of fashion’s dark side, a photographer who has fundamentally changed the terms of the fashion image. Over the last forty years he has brought a unique mixture of style, sex, and theater to fashion photography and has shaped not only magazine imagery, but fashion itself.

Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was one of the most influential fashion photographers of all time. Born in Berlin, he arrived in Australia in 1940 and married June Brunell (a.k.a. Alice Springs) eight years later. He achieved international fame in the 1970`s while working principally for French Vogue, and over the next three decades his celebrity and influence continued to grow. Eschewing studios for the most part, Newton preferred to shoot in the streets or in interiors. His mixture of controversial scenarios, bold lighting, and striking compositions came to form his signature look. In 1990 he was awarded the “Grand Prix National” for photography; in 1992 was awarded by the German government “Das Grosse Verdienstkreuz” for his services to German culture and was appointed “Officer des Arts, Lettres et Sciences” by S.A.S. Princess Caroline of Monaco. In 1996, he was appointed “Commandeur de l`Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by Philippe Douste-Blazy, the French Minister of Culture. Working and living in close companionship with his wife until his death at 83, through his last click of the shutter he continued to be as distinctive and influential as ever.

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Nick Brandt depicts the animals of East Africa with an intimacy and artistry unmatched by other photographers who choose wildlife as their subject. He creates these majestic sepia and blue-tone photos contrasting moments of quintessential stillness with bursts of dramatic action by engaging with these creatures on an exceptionally intimate level, without the customary use of a telephoto lens. Evocative of classical art, from dignified portraits to sweeping natural tableaux, Brandt’s images artfully and simply capture animals in their natural states of being. With a foreword by Alice Sebold and an introduction by Jane Goodall, On This Earth is a gorgeous portfolio of some of the last wild animals and a heartfelt elegy to a vanishing world.

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Olga Guzhevnikova tallented and well known Russian photographer. Few years ago we commend Olga and today she came with new works but in photography and graphic design.
 
 
 

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Many photographers have documented the difficulties faced by Earth’s indigenous peoples, from poverty to prejudice, sexism to outright violence. Few have made as big a difference with their pictures as Phil Borges. Widely exhibited and published, Borges’s work has depended on close partnerships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which provide the means to get the photographer to places that concern him. Yet the seed of Borges’s latest project was planted on a self-supported project to photograph shamanism around the world.

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In the childhood Petr Lovigin dreamed to be the seller of water-melons or the beggar and other alternatives did not recognize. But the life has disposed in own way: Peter Lovygin became the photographer. Having received architectural education, has shortly told to him «good bye». Has taken the camera and began to remove. Though till now hopes, that sooner or later will design any tow or single garage. Peter about four months in a year, when removes light day long. Such «photographic seasons» in a life was already three. «The sun is a holiday. There comes winter — think of the future shootings, May comes — I include the chamber». Photos which has time to make for four months, suffices to live year.

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Self taught photographer, composer, artist. Francis A Willey was born in Alberta in July of 1969, the day that man first walked on the moon. A modern day renaissance man, Francis expresses his creative force through drawings, paintings, photography, ballads and poems. He is a self-taught artist who draws his inspiration from nature, the plight of people less fortunate and from a strong spiritual connection to the world around him. Francis’ extended travels through India and South-East Asia have added significant depth to his work as he lived in different monasteries and with local families throughout his journey. His first hand experience with the day-to-day lives of people with different values and beliefs sharpened his creative forces and his concern for the highly material values of North America.

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Both shocking and evocative, French fashion photographer Thierry Le Goues’ SOUL is a visionary collection of nudes and portraits of today’s most well known and admired models of African descent. Discover with SOUL never-before published portraits and nudes of Naomi Campbell, Iman, Karen Alexander, Kiara Kabukuri, Adia Couliealy, and Lauren Pascale among others.

Experience within SOUL the gentle curves, the seductive stares, and the allure and quiet power of African beauty, strengthand eroticism personified through Le Goues’ lens.

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Jo Whaley has lifelong roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, having earned advanced degrees in Art and Photography from the University of California, Berkeley by 1980. Whaley originally studied to become a painter, putting her abilities to work as a scenic artist for the San Francisco Opera and other Bay Area theatrical companies.  Her theater experience openly informs her photography, in which she creates stage sets and employs numerous props, painted backdrops and dramatic lighting. All of her photographic series fuse the language of photography with the language of painting and rely on an expressive use of color.

Working in discreet series, the subject matter of her photographs over the last 25 years have ranged from allegorical nudes, to a revision of the “vanitas” still life tradition, to a fusion of natural history and environmental issues in the Entomology Portfolio of insects. The compelling issue, that has driven her work, is the interface between nature and urban technological culture.  With an ironic and quirky point of view, she juxtaposes organic and manmade elements to reflect the issue of environmental degradation in an imaginative manner.

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The scenarios construct Lynn Bianchi emphasize the irony of body-consciousness. Small and heavy women cavort nude in celebratory displays of eating and dressing, challenging our ideals on weight, beauty and sexuality. Playing off Vargas pin-up girls, her dress-up plays on sexuality, celebrating how a woman views herself. Her work shows that every woman has import, regardless of her weight or shape.
 
Lynn Bianchi’s work is a constant inquiry into the perception and interpretation of the classical ideal of the female nude. The New York photographer interprets with a dreamlike choreography the culinary culture of the 20th century. Her works show, not without irony, a female world: Naked women eat spaghetti, drink tea, telephone, and laugh. “We celebrate and ritualize, our sensuality and humanity around a meal at the table. Yet, we seem unable to accept those bodies which show the excessive effects of such pleasure.” The gold toned silver gelatin photographs have an appearance similar to charcoal drawings or fresson photographs, so that the very surface of each image serves to extend to them our persception of physical beauty.

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A stylish, sexy, glamourous and deep vision of women by Raphael Daviet, my personal vision of those beings; rare, fragile and yet powerful, mysterious…
 
 
 

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Michael Kenna’s work is highly sought after throughout the world. His small, delicate prints are like jewels. Many of the photographs are time exposures made at night, producing a soft surreal effect. The work has been exhibited and published numerous times and his prints are in some 70 museum and corporate collections. Mr. Kenna is English and was born in 1953. In 1977, he moved to California from where he travels to photograph in several different countries.

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Ukrainian photographer Palinchak Mikhail, a member of the European union of professional photographers and an artist of the international federation of photographic art (AFIAP) has over the past 15 years displayed his work in more than 300 exhibitions in the USA, England, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, and France. He’s even exhibited at the prestigious Royal Photographic Society. He is the winner of countless prizes and awards.

Mikhail Palinchak was born in 1959 in Uzhgorod, Ukraine. Photography became his passion at the age of 12. Most of his craft has been self-taught from journals available in the old USSR. He works as a professional photojournalist for a regional newspaper. He specializes in portrait and landscapes. He has a strong attraction to capturing the mystery, puzzle and beauty of women, particulary by setting his subject up in opposition to the forces of nature, both as he puts it, creations of God.

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At just 18 Lara Jade is already making a name for herself by crossing the boundaries between fashion photography and the surreal.

“I love capturing people’s emotions, images and styles - there’s something magical about photographing people, whether through a plammed portrait or on the hoof”, says Lara Jade Coton, who, despite being 18, receives photographic commissions from a range of clients.

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Elena Martyniuk is the deserved pictorialist of the International federation of photoart. A member of the European union of professional photographers.

In photo is engaged since the childhood. An art photo since 1989. The first gold medal has received in 1990 in London at an exhibition “London-Salon”. Now Elena the owner more than 150 gold, silver and bronze medals, Grand prix and other awards received at the largest international exhibitions of such countries as England, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Scotland, Portugal, Korea, Belgium, etc.

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Gian Paolo Barbieri was born in Milan in 1938. In 1965, he began his collaboration with “Vogue Italia” and with many fashion designers. By 1978, “Stern” was ranking him as one of the 14 best fashion photographers in the world and in 1982, he published his first book, “Artificial”. During his travels for “Vogue”, he came into contact with other cultures that fascinated him: in Tahiti he discovered the topics of his imagination, transmitted to him by Gauguin’s paintings and also the written accounts found in Melville and Cook. Besides this mythical “lost” world, Barbieri also discovered people both open and innocent who shared with him the mysterious ritual of tattooing. After visiting archaic Madagascar and Tahiti, Barbieri finally discovered the Garden of Eden in the Seychelles, sensually photographed in the book “Equator”. The only absolute ruler here is the sun, casting patterns on naked skin through the palm fronds, or perhaps the Trade Winds that stir the almond trees. Barbieri now lives and works in Milan.

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Photographer Andrew Zuckerman’s strikingly detailed images of animals from around the world are as delightful as they are inspiring. This collection of astonishing studio portraits of 175 wild creatures from baby leopards to parrots, bears, mandrills, and many more are stunningly foregrounded against white backgrounds, depicting their subjects with rare sensitivity, insight, humor, and wonder. Zuckerman also an up-and-coming filmmaker, whose first short film, High Falls, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 has created a volume perfect for animal lovers, photography fans, and anyone fascinated by the world around us. Creature is a beautiful and thought-provoking look at the fragile wonders of the natural world.

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Tim Flach is obviously an animal photographer. Many of his images do have animals in them. And they treat animals quite sensitively. He has a few series which he has worked on extensively. Series on animals that are not the first lovable wooly warm-blooded mammals that appear in our minds. Or even the glamorous charismatic mega-fauna, not the predators and nor their fecund prey. His work has been on humble bats, the domesticated horse and dog, pigs and the occasional monkey. And maybe some mega-fauna as well, sometimes humans.

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Alessandro Bavari was born in Latina, a coastal town south of Rome, Italy, on april 1963.

Grown up in an italo-french family, he was early attracted by artistic matters and decided to attend art college, where he began making photomontages at the age of 15.

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The Staudinger + Franke studio has received a slew of major international awards for their advertising work and have been named one of the “200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide” by Luerzer’s Archive. When the team of Robert Staudinger and Andreas Franke started their careers in Austria seventeen years ago, they needed to shoot a wide array of subjects to survive in their small market. After entering the US market, where most photographers were specializing, Staudinger and Franke decided not to sacrifice their diverse interests. They welcomed the challenge of having to shoot a Boeing airplane one day, and then a portrait of a baby the next. “I try not to fall into one niche; I try for something new every day,” Franke says. The key, however, is to be able to do everything and anything and still maintain the style that ultimately brings it all together and keeps clients coming back for more.

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