Photo Photography

Author: Glenn Meyer

  • Lynn Goldsmith

    Lynn Goldsmith

    Lynn Goldsmith was born in Detroit, Michigan. Her mom was an interior designer and her dad was an engineer. Her older sister, Ellen Nieves, is a painter living in upstate New York city. Goldsmith stayed in Detroit until her senior high school when she relocated to Florida. She graduated from Miami Beach Senior high school then went to the University of Michigan where she finished in only three years with a double degree in English and Psychology. She was magna cum laude. She was the youngest female director ever before accepted into the Director’s Guild of America as a director. She has many awards for her photography from the Lucien Clergue to The World Press award.

    Though she has actually had numerous occupations: co-manager of Grand Funk Railway, Island Record’s recording artist Will Powers, etc she is most commonly known for her pictures of rock-and-roll most significant icons. It’s been stated that tale of rock lives in Lynn Goldsmith’s photographs. She narrated Bruce Springsteen’s passage to magnificence, the Rolling Stones’ fabulous arena trips, Michael Jackson’s spectacular ascent, and the brooding force of Bob Marley. Cultural heroes like Bob Dylan and Patti Smith became regular subjects for her lens, as she joined up with the community of artists whose tracks defined our era.

    The wide range of Lynn’s talents, skills and achievements are products of a belief she
    holds constant: Creativity is based on breaking limiting thought patterns

  • Edouard Boubat

    Edouard Boubat

    Edouard Boubat (September 13, 1923, Paris, France – June 30, 1999, Paris) was a French art photographer.

    Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He studied typography and graphic arts at the Ecole Estienne, and then worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer after WWII. He took his first photograph in 1946 and was awarded the Kodak Prize the following year. Afterwards he travelled the world for the magazine Réalités.

    The French poet Jacques Prévert called him a “Peace Correspondent.” His son Bernard is also a photographer.

  • Annie Leibovitz

    Annie Leibovitz

    Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. While studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, she took night classes in photography, and in 1970, she began doing work for Rolling Stone magazine. She became Rolling Stone’s chief photographer in 1973. By the time she left the magazine, ten years later, she had shot 142 covers. In 1983, she joined the staff at Vanity Fair, and in 1998, she also began working for Vogue. She has worked with many arts organizations, including American Ballet Theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and with Mikhail Baryshnikov. She is one of the worlds most influential portrait photographers.

    Her books include Annie Leibovitz: Photographs (1983), Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970–1990 (1991), Olympic Portraits (1996), Women (1999), American Music (2003), A Photographer’s Life: 1990–2005 (2006), and Annie Leibovitz at Work (2008).

  • Anton Corbijn

    Anton Corbijn

    Anton Corbijn (born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for almost three decades. Some of his works include music videos for Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence” (1990) and Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” (1993), as well as the Ian Curtis biopic Control (2007), George Clooney’s The American (2010), and A Most Wanted Man (2012) based on John le Carré’s 2008 novel of the same name.

    Corbijn has photographed Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Tom Waits, Prāta Vētra, David Bowie, Peter Hammill, Miles Davis, Björk, Captain Beefheart, Kim Wilde, Robert De Niro, Stephen Hawking, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Morrissey, Simple Minds, Clint Eastwood, The Cramps, Roxette and Herbert Grönemeyer, amongst others. Perhaps his most famous, and longest standing, association is with U2, having taken pictures of the band on their first US tour, as well as taking pictures for their Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby albums (et al) and directing a number of accompanying videos.

  • Max Vadukul

    Max Vadukul

    Max Vadukul is a leading image maker best known for his portrait photography. He follows in the tradition of what he calls “art reportage” photography, which he describes as “taking reality and making it into art”. He has also had a lifelong affinity with grainy high contrast black and white, a foundation of much of his early work. He has long standing relationships with magazines such as The New Yorker, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue, and Rolling Stone. He shoots regularly for W Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue China, and others.From 1996 to 2000 he was the New Yorker’s staff photographer, a title previously occupied by Richard Avedon. He photographed hundreds of subjects for the magazine, including Mother Theresa, Al Gore, Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, 40 Nobel laureates at once. In 1997 he photographed much of the magazine’s celebrated Indian Fiction issue. After the New Yorker, he became photo Editor-At-Large for Tina Brown’s Talk magazine. He established himself in the 1990’s with a large body of work for French Vogue – a large portion of which was created with his wife, the eminent fashion editor Nicoletta Santoro. They have collaborated often through the years. In the mid 1980s Max photographed several prestigious Yoji Yamamoto advertising campaigns, introducing many to his signature dynamic movement-filled black and white images for the first time.

  • Michael Clark

    Michael Clark

    Michael Clark, a former physicist, is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. He produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, and mountain bikers in remote locations around the world. He uses unique angles, bold colors, strong graphics and dramatic lighting to capture fleeting moments of passion, gusto, flair and bravado in the outdoors. Balancing extreme action with subtle details, striking portraits and wild landscapes, he creates images for the editorial, and advertising markets worldwide.