Ben Hassett is a photographer and filmmaker now living in NYC. He studied Fine Art in England, and began his career in landscape and art photography. His life and work have been profiled in The British Journal of Photography and Playboy Magazine. A regular contributor to Vogue magazines worldwide, Ben also shoots for W, Numero, and American Harpers Bazaar and he is best known for his striking and sometimes disturbing beauty images. German Vogue labeled him “the Penn of his generation”.
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Kirsty Mitchell
Kirsty Mitchell (1976) is a fine art photographer and fashion designer based in the UK. Following the tragic loss of her mother, Kirsty turned to photography to help deal with her grief and embarked on her now revered three year series entitled ‘Wonderland’, created in her mother’s memory – inspired by the fairy tales her mother read to her as a child. The international acclaim for her work led Kirsty to leave her fashion career in 2011 and pursue her future as a fine art photographer. Kirsty’s belief in beauty and fascination with folklore has become the root of her inspiration, with work that has led her to be described as a multi-faceted artist with talents and artistic direction that combine to produce beguiling, dream like images – which Kirsty calls ‘fantasy for real’.
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men. The frank homoeroticism of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks. Mapplethorpe worked primarily in the studio, particularly toward the end of his career. Common subjects include flowers, especially orchids and calla lilies, and celebrities, including Andy Warhol, Deborah Harry, Richard Gere, Peter Gabriel, Grace Jones, and Patti Smith.
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Edward Weston
Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called “one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…” and “one of the masters of 20th Century photography”. Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still life, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a “quintessentially American, and specially Californian, approach to modern photography” because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 x 10 inch view camera.
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Francesco Tonelli
Born in the Marche region of Italy, and raised in Milan, Tonelli is a photographer, whose style was born from a deep and passionate understanding of food. A former professional chef, restaurateur and teacher, Francesco worked in kitchens across Europe before picking up a camera to explore the art of digital image capture. The length and breadth of his culinary career now guides his photographic work with intuition and skill born from years of experience.
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Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902– April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist best known for his black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially of Yosemite National Park. With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs and the work of those to whom he taught the system. Adams primarily used large-format cameras despite their size, weight, setup time, and film cost, because their high-resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images. Adams founded the Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston. Adams’s photographs are reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books, making his photographs widely distributed.