ANALYSIS: WES ANDERSON – THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS

Wes Anderson is an American film director who is known for his fleet-footed, unique, bizarre and humorous film productions. In 2001 he publishes “The Royal Tenenbaums”, an absurd tragic-comedy about a family of geniuses who fail and struggle with themselves. The development of the family dynamics and the destinies of each individual member in connection Read more about ANALYSIS: WES ANDERSON – THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS[…]

REVIEW: DAVID CAMPANY – ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE

“Hunting for pictures in the street” The photographer’s hunting grounds are the streets, his weapon is the camera and the quarries are moments, captured quickly and with the right view for special and interesting situations. There are not any rules, you do not have to speak to those people you are going to photograph, no Read more about REVIEW: DAVID CAMPANY – ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE[…]

STEVE MCCURRY – AMERICAN PHOTOJOURNALIST

McCurry is most popular for his memorable picture “Afghan Girl” he shot in 1984 which appeared in National Geographic Magazine. He is best known for his colourful and saturated photographs of people all around the world, especially in conflict areas for example India, Afghanistan, Yemen or Nepal. At his first trip to India he learned Read more about STEVE MCCURRY – AMERICAN PHOTOJOURNALIST[…]

BERNHARD & HILLA BECHER – INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRPAHY

The artistic couple is known for their black-and-white pictures of old studwork houses and industrial constructions. They started to work together after their studies and wanted to document industrial buildings that in the near future should be demolished. Their hallmark were several photography series of the same building to show it from different perspectives and Read more about BERNHARD & HILLA BECHER – INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRPAHY[…]

PETER LINDBERGH – GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILM DIRECTOR

Peter Lindbergh had an enormous influence on how we see fashion today because he is the man who mostly discovered the supermodels in the 90s. He describes his former cover for the British Vogue of Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford as the birth of the supermodel era. A lot Read more about PETER LINDBERGH – GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILM DIRECTOR[…]

DOCUMENTARY MODES – L.A. DREAMERS

L.A. Dreamers from Igor Kosenko on Vimeo. The documentary “L.A. Dreamers” by Igor Kosenko, a cinematographer based in Los Angeles, shows the story of five Japanese girls who came to L.A. to become hip-hop dancers, to live their biggest dream and to make their passion to their purpose of life. Far away from home and Read more about DOCUMENTARY MODES – L.A. DREAMERS[…]

CORINNE DAY – BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHER

Corinne Day was a fashion and documentary photographer. In 2010 she lost her battle against a brain tumor but will be remembered for transforming and influencing the fashion photography in the early 1990s. As a self-taught photographer she brought a more documentary and real look to the fashion photography industry and established a raw and Read more about CORINNE DAY – BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHER[…]

ELLEN VON UNWERTH – PHOTOGRAPHER AND DIRECTOR

Before becoming a fashion, editorial and advertising photographer, von Unwerth worked for ten years as a model herself. Actually she wanted to study Economics in Munich but a model scout discovered her and her career as an international model began. On her way to Kenya for another shoot she got a camera from her boyfriend. Read more about ELLEN VON UNWERTH – PHOTOGRAPHER AND DIRECTOR[…]

HELLEN VAN MEENE – DUTCH PHOTOGRAPHER

She was born in 1972 in Alkmaar and became a portrait photographer at early age. Since 1994 she has been taking photos of adolescent girls and occasionally boys. She aims to show the development phase when a girl becomes a women and a boy a man. It is a period where youngsters do not always Read more about HELLEN VAN MEENE – DUTCH PHOTOGRAPHER[…]

HELMUT NEWTON AND MARIO TESTINO

The German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton was a fashion photographer with fondness for provocative and erotically black-and-white photography. Unfortunately, he died in a car accident in 2004 and left us behind with his terrific work. First of all, he got famous for his precise arranged fashion photographs and worked for the French, Italian, English and American Read more about HELMUT NEWTON AND MARIO TESTINO[…]