Photographers that inspire me #5

This series of posts is to give you an insight into the photographers, and their various styles of photography, that inspire me to go and take more photographs. i hope these photographers help to give you ideas and inspiration.

Tim Walker (b;1970 ), is a fashion photographer from the U.K and is best known for his use of large scale props such as UFOs, dolls and giant cameras.
Walker graduated in 1994 and worked as a freelance photography assistant, later moving to New York to work as a full-time assistant to Richard Avedon.

Walker now resides in London, England and specialises in fashion photography and portraits, all done in his rather dazzling, sometimes humorous, world of Unicorns giant dolls and fantastical scenes.

Ellen von Unwerth(b;1954), is from Frankfurt, Germany and is best known for her feminine erotic photography. Unwerth first started off as a fashion model, working for around ten years before taking to move to behind the camera rather than in front of one.



After photographing Claudia Schiffer, Unwerth started to be published by the likes of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Face and Arena and shot advertising campaigns for the likes of Chanel, Dior, Thierry Mugler, H&M, Guess, Lavazza, Tommy Hilfiger, Joop , Zac Posen, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Alberta Ferreti, Miu Miu and Diesel etc. Then later went on to publish several books of photography. Unwerth has also photographed various musicians such as Duran Duran (1990 album Liberty and 1991 album Madazzaland) and South African hip hop group Die Antwoord.

Annie Leibovitz (b;1949), is an American portrait photographer. After workig on a Kibbutz in Amir, Israel for several months and developing her photography skills, Leibovitz returned to the USA and started her career as staff photographer in 1970 for the then fledgling magazine Rolling Stone. In 1973 she became chief photographer of Rolling stone magazine and held this for aver 10 years. During the late 1980s, Leibovitz started to work on a number of high-profile advertising campaigns. 




The most notable was the American Express “Membership” campaign, for which her portraits of celebrity cardholders, like Elmore Leonard, Tom Selleck, and Luciano Pavarotti, earned her a 1987 Clio Award.

In 1991, Leibovitz’s collection of over 200 color and black-and-white photographs were exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Later that year, a book was published to accompany the show titled Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990.

I hope you found the photographers in this post as interesting as I do.

You can purchase books by the photographers in these posts HERE

Written by Paul Casey Hemming @ Big World Picture Dot Com

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