Alessandra sanguinetti – Louise Fleming

Alessandra, born in 1968 in New York, was an American magnum photographer. Her most long-time project was a documents photography project that is about two people who are cousins. It’s about them two growing up together as they fantasise about becoming adults, early motherhood and becoming young woman while their relationship changes.

Alessandra sanguinetti has been a member of the magnum photos since 2007. She is a magnum workshop teacher and has led many classes in Brighton photo biennial and in San Francisco. She has been represented by yossi milo in Newyork and Ruth benzacar gallery in Argentina.

Magnum photos is a photographic cooperative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer members. With powerful individuals visions, magnum photographers chronicle the world  and interpret it’s people’s , events, issues and personalities. Thought its four editorial offices in Newyork, London, Paris and Tokyo and a Newyork of fifteen sub agents, magnum, advertising, television and museums across the world.

Louise Fleming.

Grete Stern

Grete Stern (1904 – 1999)

Issy Knight

Stern was a german born photographer who is said to have modernised visual arts in Argentina, alongside her husband, one of her best achievements was presenting the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires in 1935. The photographers Grete Stern & Horacio Coppola met at the Bauhaus in 1932 . The next year, they emigrated to London, where they married, and then to Coppola’s native Argentina, where they mounted the country’s first exhibition of modernist photography.

From 1948 to 1950, Stern was hired by a women’s’ magazine to “illustrate” the dreams that readers of the magazine – mostly Argentine housewives. She made 150 photomontages, called Suenos (dreams), that comprise the most brilliant and telling psychological document ever made of the secret lives of women of that time period.Her work showed an unconventional approach to photography- advertisement collages and studies with crystals, objects and still-lifes. Even the most accepted subjects at the time, such as portraits and landscapes, were done in unconventional ways- perfect definition, flat lighting, simple poses and untouched negatives.

Between 1935 and 1981 she continued with this work in Argentina, adding an important series of photomontages, reproductions of artwork and portraits. Stern brought with her from Germany a modernist sensibility, developed in bohemian Berlin and at the legendary Bauhaus School, that shook up the respectable approach to photography in Argentina at that time and established her as one of the founders of Argentine modern photography.

 A bumper exhibition of their work, now at MOMA – organised by Roxana Marcoci and Sarah Meister, and jammed with more than two hundred and fifty vintage prints, plus films and publications- is really two shows in one. Coppola, who died in 2012, at the age of a hundred and five, produced numerous images of Buenos Aires at night, and his surreal moodiness recalls the work of Bill Brandt. But Stern, originally trained in graphic design and typography, emerges as the more compelling artist.

Peter Lippmann

Peter Lippmann 

Issy Knight

Peter Lippmann was born in New York and grew up in New Jersey. Is passionate for photography, he started working as an assistant to the photographer Detlef Trefz in 1982. For the past 25 years, Peter Lippmann has lived in Paris and has traveled all over the world. Cartier, Guerlain, Minute Maid, Chianti, Christian Louboutin, Wilkinson as well as Vogue, The NY Times, Le Figaro are some of his clients.

Peter Lippmann recently partnered up with l shoe and handbag designer, Christian Louboutin, to shoot their Spring/Summer 2014 lookbook. Drawing inspiration from the impressionist masters, Peter photographed Louboutin accessories within meticulous recreations of works by Brueghel, Cézanne, Fantin-Latour, Monet, Pissarro, and Van Gogh. Through this ongoing partnership with the designer, Peter has created Louboutin lookbooks for the past 6 years but has been creating images like these for much longer. His method of creating photos with a painting like approach has been tested for over 25 years, each time changing his method slightly and perfecting his results.
In previous shoots with Christian Louboutin, Lippmann produced surreal photographs, focussing on size and proportion distortion, enabling the shoe to be a larger than life size in its surroundings. These images are commonly colourful and have a fantasy feel to them. The 2014 shoot that Lippmann completed gives a much more vintage feels, showing busier images, with many autumnal colours. The shoes are part of the scene, they are not the
main focal point of the image itself – even though that is the subject being advertised. In all of Lippmann’s images, his background and studio set up is just as important as the subject his is photographing – if not more important. 

Sally Mann -Robyn Holtzhausen

Sally Mann is one of America’s most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including Guggenheim Foundation grants. Her work is held by major galleries internationally. Her many books include “Second Sight  which was published in 1983, At Twelve published in 1988, Immediate Family published in 1992, as well as a verity of other published books. A feature film about her work, What Remains, debuted to critical acclaim in 2006″. She was born in Virginia, born in 1951.

once Sally Mann had graduated, she worked as a photographer at Washington and Lee University. In the mid-1970s she photographed the construction of its new law school building, the Sydney Lewis Hall, this lead to Sally Mann’s first solo exhibition in the late 1977.

Sally Mann’s work shows the harsh truth of society. she has eliminated the girl as she is the subject point of the photograph making her stand out.

(Robyn Holtzhausen)

Uta Barth

Uta Barth is a contemporary photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

She uses photography to examine the differences between what the human eye sees and what the camera lens captures. Uta’s photographs are rarely grounded in the figurative and often lack a foreground subject. Her images are out of focus, blurry and cropped. In the absence of a clear object or landscape, atmosphere and light become her subjects.

She introduced the imagery for which she has become known for; blurry backgrounds created by focusing her camera on empty foregrounds. The series ‘ground and field’ are the works that brought her to international attention. These greatly colored photographs tested connections between the descriptive clarity of photography and the haze of memory.

Cindy Sherman – Amy Willis

Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director who is best known for her conceptual portrait photographs. Sherman began her creative career with painting but she quickly became frustrated with the medium’s limitations and abandoned the form to take up photographic art. Sherman saw her camera only as a tool to create art with, just like a paintbrush however she liked how quickly she could create imagery using a camera unlike the long time it takes to create a painting.

Sherman’s work mainly consists of self-portaits in many different costumes which were captured alone in her studio where she took on the roles of makeup artist, hair stylist, wardrobe designer, model and photographer. In one of Cindy Sherman’s early works, titled ‘Bus Riders’ she is featured in a series of fifteen images, modelling as different characters that she had previously observed on public busses. ‘Bus Riders’ was photographed in 1976 but not shown until the year 2000. The images were created in an obviously staged way with a bland setting, using a plain white wall as a backdrop with the wooden floor in each frame and a singular stool in the centre of some of the frames.

I like the way that Cindy Sherman allows some of the theatrical components to be shown within the frame, such as cables and the cable release foot pump or parts of the previous costume like shoes which extenuates the idea that Sherman worked alone in the studio with nobody around but herself to capture the photographers or set the composition.

Bernd and Hilla Becher. – Katie Patrick

The Becher’s were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a duo. They are well known for their series of photographic images, or typologies of industrial buildings and structures. Their work is famously displayed in a grid form. They have influenced a range of different generations of documentary photographers and artist through being the founders of ‘Becher School’. For example Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Laurenz Berges. They have been awarded the Erasmus prize and the Hasselblad award.

Bernd studied painting at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Stuttgard from 953 to 1956, then went on to further study typography under Karl Rossing where he met Hilla. After their time with Karl Rossling they began working as freelance photographers for the Troost advertising agency.

Their work worked very closely around industrial archaeology. They closed in on their initial ideas which was to capture steel and mining industries and focus around there shapes and design of the building. Their work displayed the similarities and differences between varies edifices of cooling towers. Gas tanks and coal bunkers. As a duo the Becher’s used a large 8 x 10 inch view camera and photographed the buildings at various angles. They traditionally shot the images with an “objective” point of view. The composition of their images excluded any detail that would allow the viewers’ attention to be taking away from the subject matter. To inforce this they set up a comparison view point and lighting throughout the capturing of their images as this allowed the attention of the viewer to be sent directly to the structural comparison.

The Becher’s exhibited and published their single-image gelatin silver prints; they were placed in a grip of six, nine or fifteen. This allows the viewer to create a comparison throughout the images, based on form, design, basic function, regional idiosyncrasies and the age of the subject. The titles of the work are cogent and the caption only displays the time and location of the photograph.

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Vivian Maier – Female Photographer

Vivian Maier was an American street photographer. She worked as a nanny for 40 years, taking photographs was always just a hobby to her. She never gained recognition during her lifetime. 2 years before her death she was failing to keep paying for the storage space for her collection of thousands and thousands of prints and unprocessed negatives, they were auctioned off to art dealers and after her death she’s become a highly celebrated photographer during the 20th century. It is estimated that she has taken over 150,000 photographs during her career. The man who bought her photographs at an auction posted her photos to flickr which gained an extreme following from people. Since then her photographs have been exhibited all over the world.

All of her photos have all different kinds of reasons for her photos to be so successful. Whether it’s the composition being slightly off, tones, shutter speed, amount of grain used, subject, angle, shapes. All the technical aspects in the photographs are considered. She was very successful at capturing the right moment and being at the right place at the right time make the photograph work.  While including a lot of street photography, she was also good at finding ways of capturing self portraits. By use of shadows or window reflections, mirrors in certain places.

– Connor McClelland

October 29, 1953, New York, NY

Female Photographer

The eccentric Elina Brotherus is a Finnish photographer and video artist, known for her self portrait and landscape series’. Lots of her work involves self portrait, typically investigating the relationship between individual and space, both in relation to interiors as well as landscapes.

Brotherus was born in Helsinki, Finland and trained in Chemistry in 1997, Master of Science (Analytical Chemistry) at the University of Helsinki. In 2000 she began to study Master of Arts (Photography) at the University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH). She is considered a prominent member of The Helsinki School – a loose group of photography artists, still studying at or already graduated from the Photography department of Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.

The themes of her work are usually based around a reflection of her life and memories. For example, in her diptych series, ‘Das Mädchen sprach von Liebe (The Girl Spoke of Love)’ she situates herself in domestic environments. It is a personal subject, one photo involving herself in her mum’s wedding dress, her dad’s wedding suit and her mum’s funeral dress.

‘Points of View on Landscape’ is another series where she shows the perspective of how we perceive the world. Standing in the middle of a Nordic landscape, wearing orange trousers, she photographed her back against the camera and then laterally reversed facing the camera, photographed from the opposite direction. The same landscape and the same person, standing in exact same place, but seen from two points of view.

Robyn White

Elle Von Unwerth

Ellen Von Unwerth is a German photographer born in 1954. Before becoming a photographer, she was a fashion model for ten years. She is now a renowned photographer that shoots fashion, editorial and advertisements. Her work has been in magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and I-D. She has also published several photography books such as Snaps, Wicked and Revenge. As well as a photographer, Ellen Von Unwerth is also a director, directing short films for fashion designers and music videos for well known pop musicians. Ellen Von Unwerth’s photographs all have a distinctive look as they’re often extremely vibrant (while not in black and white) and contain a lot of contrast. Often, the images are so contrasting that the skin on people’s faces blend together to make other features such as the hair and eyes stand out.

Katie Graham