Annie Leibovitz started her career as a fashion photographer in 1970 when she became a staff photographer at the newly launched Rolling Stone magazine. Three years later she was named chief Photographer at the magazine by the magazines publisher Jann Wenner, she held this job for ten years and it was her intimate photographs of celebrities that helped to define the rolling stone look.
Above are three of her photographs that were used as the covers for the magazine.
I hope to be able to create intimate photographs of the band/person chosen to photograph. This way the viewer can get a 'feel' for who the person/people in the image is.
I like how Leibovitz is able to get up close and personal with the music artists that are posing for the magazine cover. When it comes to creating my own images for this part if the assignment i hope to be able to imitate this closeness between the camera and the model i like how some of the poses could have been created to show the personality behind the band on the cover.
The next photographer i have decided to look into is the work of Jason Christopher who is a fashion photographer based in Los Angeles California. His wok has been described as classic romantic and clean these have been said to be three main qualities of a good photograph. it was during his period of work with Jerry Avenaim that he worked on his technical skills as a photographer. his work has been likened to that of French painter Degas and the Italian master of artistry Leonardo Da Vinchi, in the way that he uses clean classic lines that are similar to those used in fine art.
I like the way his images compliment the fashions that he is shooting and the way the images show an elegance even if the third image seems a bit wild. I do however think that the images could look even better if they didn't have a plain back drop, for example like the first of these three images even though its a prom dress thats being photographed i think the woodland backdrop works really well with the rough hem line of the dress.
