Top 125 Art & Fashion Photographer News, Resources

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• 25 Photos That Defined the Modern Age - "A group of experts met to discuss the images that have best captured - and changed - the world since 1955."
• 40 outrageous photos that changed fashion - From teenage Kate Moss to Twiggy in a mini and Lady Gaga’s meat dress.
• 41 era-defining music photos - From Elton John at the piano to Stormzy at Glastonbury & Madonna snogging Britney - "Icons, rock stars - and divas behaving badly: these photographs of musicians struck a chord around the world."
• 59th World Press Photo Contest 2016 - The Winners.
• 2016 Audubon Photography Awards - Top 100.
• 2022 Sony World Photography Awards - "The winners of the Open category of the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards have been revealed. More than 170,000 images were entered into this year's Open competition, with over 100 photographers shortlisted. Each winner will go on to compete for the overall Open Photographer of the Year title and a $5,000 prize. The overall winners in the Open, Student, Youth and Professional competitions will be announced on 12 April."
• 2024 World Press Photo - global winners - "The global winners in the World Press Photo annual competition have been announced, with Mohammed Salem winning world press photo of the year. The winners were selected from 24 regional winners and there were also six honourable mentions and two special mentions this year."
• 2024 World's best photos revealed - "Take a look at this year’s winning images in the Sony World Photography Awards 2024."
• A wedding photographer like no other - "Photographer captures weddings in their candid, chaotic glory."
• Alamy - since 1999. "Over 70 million high quality stock images, vectors and videos from Alamy, the world’s largest stock photo collection."
• ALBERT KAHN MUSEUM & GARDENS - Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Historic photographs and film.
• Albert Watson’s portraits - in pictures - "Divine, Pacino, Jagger ... and me." The legendary photographer’s new book features inspiring images and insider tips - such as remembering to order in a subject’s favourite coffee.
• Annie Leibovitz interview: 'The Queen gave me career advice' - The Telegraph.
• Annie Leibovitz: Life behind the lens - "Celebrated portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz has spent decades capturing images of some of the most iconic people of our time for the covers of Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines. But for all her celebrity pull, some of her most striking work can be seen in 'Women,' a powerful series of images she first launched in 1999, which has strong connections to her own close female relationships."
• Annie Leibovitz Remembers Photographing Queen Elizabeth II - "Annie Leibovitz was invited to photograph Queen Elizabeth II twice, in 2007 and in 2016. She was the first American photographer to be asked by the royal family to do so, and considered it an honor. As Leibovitz wrote in her 2008 book At Work, 'It was ok for me to be reverent. The British are conflicted about what they think of the monarch. If a British portraitist is reverent he’s perceived to be doting. I could do something traditional.'"
• Annie Leibovitz teaches photography - MasterClass.
• Annie Leibovitz’s Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done - The New York Times.
• ART + COMMERCE - agency specializing in photography for advertising and editorial clients. Includes online image archive.
• Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 shortlist revealed - "Breathtaking images of a lavender field lit up by the Milky Way, a panorama of Iceland's Northern Lights over a frozen estuary, and a hazy sunrise in Shanghai are among those shortlisted for this year's 2021's Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition."
• best photographs of 2020 & the stories behind them - "From an apocalyptic Australian dust storm to elephants scavenging in Kenya and goats roaming Llandudno - photographers recall how they grabbed some of the most eye-catching images of the year."
• Bird photographer of the year 2024 winners - in pictures - "The winning images in this year’s Bird Photographer of the Year competition have been selected from 23,000 entries from around the world. The overall winner Patricia Homonylo’s image showed birds killed by colliding with windows."
• Bokeh - the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image, caused by Circles of Confusion. Bokeh has also been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause very different bokeh effects.
• ‘Born with a twisted mind’: Helmut Newton’s freaky fashion - in pictures - "The photographer’s offbeat shoots for magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair had a lasting influence on visual art - and are the subject of a new book."
• Camera Work - was a quarterly photographic journal published by Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917. It is known for its many high-quality photogravures by some of the most important photographers in the world and its editorial purpose to establish photography as a fine art.
• Cecil Beaton: Icons of the 20th century - in pictures - The Guardian.
• Cecil Beaton's sublime portraits - in pictures - "From Salvador Dalí in a fencing mask to Coco Chanel in her luxurious Paris flat, everyone who was anyone in the early 20th century had their portrait taken by Cecil Beaton."
• Charlie Watts, Miles Davis, John & Yoko ... and other David Bailey wonders - in pictures - "The celebrated photographer will open up his archive for the first time at Photo London - with portraits of the Rolling Stones, Michael Caine and Jerry Hall on display."
• Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
• Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019: Here are the finalists - "Frightened fish, shy bears, sarcastic owls and birds that were just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
• CORBIS - "Premium Quality Stock Photography and Illustrations." Privately owned by Bill Gates, who founded the company in 1989. It has a collection of more than 100 million images.
• Cyanotype, Photography’s Blue Period, Is Making a Comeback - The New York Times.
• David Bailey: 'Jack Nicholson turned me on to viagra very young' - The Telegraph.
• Look Again by David Bailey review - no reflection, no regret - "Juicy anecdotes, a huge amount of sex and stories of the Krays ... but the photographer’s memoir reveals a narcissist and bully."
• David LaChapelle: ‘I’ve never seen what I do as objectification’ - "The world famous photographer, known for portraits of Britney Spears, Eminem, Tupac and Angelina Jolie, discusses his long career ahead of a new retrospective."
• David LaChapelle: can the king of hyper-real photography help heal the world? - The Guardian.
• David Hamilton found dead amid allegations of historical rape - The Guardian.
• Eve Arnold - The groundbreaking female photographer who changed the way we see fashion - "When Eve Arnold joined Magnum in 1951 - four years after the renowned photographic agency was founded - she was its first female photographer. 'Magnum was about to open a New York office,' she would write in her acclaimed monograph, 1976’s 'The Unretouched Woman'. 'I went to see them. Being a woman helped. I was to be their token American woman stringer.' By 1957, when she became a full member, she was one of just two women on the agency’s books internationally."
• Explore 56 years of award-winning photojournalism - World Press Photo.
• Famous Helmut Newton pictures on display in London - Daily Mail.
• FILM UND FOTO - exhibition held in Stuttgart in May-June 1929.
• FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY - Wikipedia.
• first colour photographs of America - The Telegraph.
• Forget Filters - 19th Century Tintype Photography Still Rules - Wired.
• Free Resources for Photographers - Digital Photography School.
• From cats to cakes: The photo that made me - "The Association of Photographers asked its members to go through their archives during the lockdown and find a single photograph that changed their career."
• From Pro Skater To Photographer Tyler Shields Captures Contemporary Culture - "Part provocative, part hyper-real meet cheeky chappie photographer, Tyler Shields."
• Getty Acquires Early Photographs of Lebanon & Syria
• Getty Images - "Stock Photography, Royalty-Free Photos, Video Footage & Music."
• Getty Search Gateway - allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.
• GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE - the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York.
• GETTY IMAGES GALLERY - "London's largest independent photographic gallery with unique access to one of the greatest photographic collections in the world."
• Gian Paolo Barbieri’s wild fashion shoots - in pictures - "The Italian photographer was inspired by cinema and art history to create outlandish images depicting Audrey Hepburn, Naomi Campbell and others."
• Golden hour - the period of daytime shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the Sun is higher in the sky.
• greatest travel photographs of all time? - The Telegraph.
• Guy Bourdin: A fetish for fashion - BBC Culture.
• Guy Bourdin’s images of ChloÉ are celebrated at the fashion house’s new Maison - The Telegraph.
• HELMUT NEWTON FOUNDATION - Berlin, Germany. Donated in October 2003 an extensive photo collection to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, establishing the Helmut Newton Foundation.
• Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful review - not-so fawning fashion doc - "Director Gero von Boehm’s fascinating film includes the famed fashion photographer’s muses but also asks questions about his misogynist images."
• 'Heroin chic’ & the tangled legacy of photographer Davide Sorrenti - "A new documentary about the late fashion photographer, who died at the age of 20, recalls the rise of the controversial look with which he made his name."
• hidden fingerprint inside your photos - "They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Actually, there's a great deal more hidden inside the modern digital image."
• 'His pictures are timeless': celebrating the work of Irving Penn - "In a new exhibition, the career of esteemed photographer Irving Penn is being remembered from everyday objects to Vogue covers."
• Hats off! How Frank Horvat changed fashion photography - in pictures - "The Italian-born photographer Frank Horvat, (1928-2020), took models out of the studio and shot them in inventive locations, as a new exhibition at Photo London 2022 shows."
• How Helmut Newton created some of the world’s most sexy & subversive images - "In the 1970s, photographing with carte blanche for Vogue France, he invented a bold monochrome visual language - black lingerie, insouciant countenance, power plays and decadent interiors - that has been widely imitated in the years since."
• How Irving Penn ‘changed the way people saw the world’ - "Alastair Smart and Photographs specialist Rebecca Jones examine the legacy of a photographer whose elegant minimalism broke down boundaries - illustrated with works offered at Christie’s."
• How Man Ray changed fashion photography forever - "When is a fashion or beauty image art? Cath Pound explores the remarkable work of the legendary artist whose ‘strangeness’ raised the status of the medium."
• How Studying Karsh, the Man & the Artist, Can Make Us Better Portrait Photographers - "Yousuf Karsh is widely regarded as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the twentieth century. In this essay, I discuss five ways that studying Karsh's life and photos can impact our own work as portrait artists."
• How to Pose for a Photograph - The New York Times.
• How to shoot your next adventure like a pro - "Athletes and video pros share their go to gear and tips."
• 'I wasn't too obvious': how Bob Colacello captured candid celebrities - "In a new exhbition, the writer, photographer and longtime friend and biographer of Andy Warhol, shares his look at VIP culture of the late 70s and early 80s."
• ICONIC PHOTOS - "Famous, Infamous and Iconic Photos."
• Incredible images shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award - "Curious meerkats, a rescued Amazon river dolphin and a school of barracudas feature on the shortlist of images for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice competition, and fans can vote for their favorite. The 25 images are currently on display at an exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London until voting ends on February 2, 2022, according to a press release from the museum."
• International Center of Photography - since 1974. Photography museum, school, and research center. 1114 (School) & 1133 (Museum) Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, Manhattan, New York, NY 10036, U.S.A.
• iOS 18: Master the New Search Features in the Photos App - "Apple's iOS 18 update brings powerful new search functions to the Photos app, allowing you to find specific images with unprecedented precision. Here's how to make the most of its new capabilities."
• iPhone at 15, through pro photographers' eyes - "This week marks 15 years since the iPhone first went on sale and ushered in a new era: the age of the smartphone. The modern smartphone has changed photography. To capture a snapshot of that change, we asked more than a dozen Associated Press photographers across the world who use iPhones - some of the most talented journalists in the business - to capture an image on their phone and submit it."
• Leaf peeping - informal term in the United States for the activity in which people travel to view and photograph the fall foliage in areas where foliage changes colors in autumn, particularly in New England. A similar custom in Japan is called momijigari.
• MAGNUM PHOTOS - photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members.
• Man Ray's 'Le Violon d'Ingres' could become the most expensive photo ever sold - "The original print of the masterpiece, widely considered to be Man Ray's most famous work, is expected to fetch between $5-7 million when it goes under the hammer at Christie's in May - the highest estimate for a single photograph in auction history, according to the auction house."
• Man Ray's 'Le Violon d'Ingres' photograph sells for record $12.4 million - "The original print of the masterpiece, widely considered to be Man Ray's most famous work, sold for $12.4 million, smashing sale estimates. Prior to the sale, it was expected to fetch between $5-7 million, the highest estimate for a single photograph in auction history, according to Christie's, which sold the work."
• Many Accusations, Few Apologies - The New York Times.
• Mobile phones have killed photography - "Renowned film director Wim Wenders hits out at 'phone photography'."
• new 'Big 5' are for shooting with a camera, not a gun - "In the 1800s, when blood sports were more socially acceptable, the term 'Big Five' was coined to refer to the lion, rhino, buffalo, elephant and leopard -- the animals that trophy hunters in Africa considered the most dangerous to hunt on foot."
• NYC PAST - historical photos from New York City.
• On Photography - collection of essays by Susan Sontag.
• Paolo Di Paolo's Italy in the 1950s & 60s – in pictures - "The Paolo Di Paolo: Lost World exhibition presents more than 250 largely unseen images from the photographer’s archive. Di Paolo chronicled life in his country as an economic boom followed the destruction of the second world war. Although those were the years of la dolce vita he was an anti-paparazzo - he shunned the salacious and respected his subjects."
• PARIS PHOTO | Foire internationale de photographie d'art - since 1997. The largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium and is held each November at the historic Grand Palais in Paris.
• Patrick Demarchelier obituary - "French fashion photographer whose 1990 portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, transformed her image all over the world."
• Pete Turner, Whose Color Photography Could Alter Reality - The New York Times.
• Peter Beard (1938-2020): reckless playboy photographer whose life was as wild as his work - "He got trampled by elephants, swam in crocodile-infested waters and was painted by Francis Bacon - while making images revealing man’s plunder of the natural world."
• Photographer Alison Jackson: 'I'm always almost getting arrested' - "The controversial artist discusses her celebrity lookalike photos in a time when fake news is all around us and why she finds men’s photography to be crude."
• Photographer Known for Huge Polaroid Images Is Retiring - The New York Times.
• Photographer transforms into eclectic characters inspired by thrifted nametags - "British fashion photographer and director Nadia Lee Cohen's self-portrait series imagines 33 different characters and their posessions based on nametags she collected at thrift shops and flea markets."
• PHOTOJOURNALISM - Wikipedia.
• PHOTOMONTAGE - Wikipedia.
• Picking an iPad as a Portable Photo Studio - "Apple has a range of models in its tablet line, but you may not need the most expensive one to suit your image-editing needs."
• Picture Post - was a photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957. It is considered a pioneering example of photojournalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,700,000 copies a week after only two months. It has been called the UK's equivalent of Life magazine.
• Pollux Award - "The Photography Gala Awards." This Award is open to all photographers, professional and non professional worldwide, working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements will be welcome.
• Proud Galleries - since 1998. Europe’s most popular privately funded photographic gallery.
• Rebel, rebel: how Lee Miller’s defiance in fashion, photography & life still endures - "Miller counted Picasso and Man Ray as friends, took devastating war photos and dressed outrageously. A new film starring Kate Winslet and exhibition explore her renegade spirit."
• Remarkable Journeys with 6 photographers - The New York Times.
• Richard Avedon: is this what power looks like? - The Telegraph.
• Richard Avedon: Tina Turner to Cindy Crawford: icons shot by Richard Avedon - in pictures - "To celebrate 100 years since the renowned American photographer’s birth, famous names pick their favourite images - of Malcolm X, Marilyn Monroe and more."
• RIP Photographers? All The Wild Things People Are Doing With Photoshop’s New Generative Fill Tool - "Since Adobe Photoshop launched its new artificial intelligence (AI) Generative Fill tool last week, the 'photoverse' has been awash with its awesome power. PetaPixel has rounded up some of the most remarkable examples so far."
• Secrets of fashion photographers revealed - "Secrets of the fashion week pit: Photographing the other side of the runway."
• See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer review - how to really read a picture - "In these seductively curious essays, Dyer scrutinises images and photographers, unearthing hidden truths and a sense of the uncanny."
• Sex, supermodels & champagne: Guy Bourdin - in pictures - "In 1987, Chanel asked the fashion master to shoot an ad campaign for its new watch. The strange, dreamlike images he produced are at Paris Photo this weekend, alongside other rare Bourdin photographs."
• SIPA PRESS - independent French agency founded in 1969 representing over 2000 photographers worldwide.
• Sony World Photography Awards 2023 - "These were judged the world's best photos. The year's best images unveiled."
• Sony World Photography Awards 2024 - "World's best photos revealed: Take a look at this year’s winning images in the Sony World Photography Awards 2024."
• Street Photography: Leica meets Fibonacci & the golden ratio - "Forget the rule of thirds. My new favourite compositional device is the golden ratio. But what does a formula described by a 13th century Italian mathematician have to do with taking pictures? And what on earth does a recursive spiral have to do with street photography? It’s all about the intersection of mathematics, history, and art. Read on to dive deeper into the mystery."
• The boy who photographed La Belle Époque of France - "Jacques Henri Lartigue, born in 1894 in Courbevoie, was given a camera as a boy by his father at the dawn of the 20th Century."
• The celebrity photographer who refuses to Photoshop movie icons - "Celebrity photographer Andy Gotts has snapped numerous stars, from Hollywood titans Al Pacino, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts to promising newcomers like Anya Taylor-Joy and Nathalie Emmanuel. But one picture stands out to him as the most poignant of his career: a portrait of the late Tony Curtis, his face painted with an American flag."
• THE DECISIVE MOMENT - Henri Cartier-Bresson.
• The Diane Arbus You've Never Seen - The New York Times.
• THE FAMILY OF MAN - "The greatest photographic exhibition of all times." Created by Edward J Steichen in 1955 for the Museum of Modern Art in New York brought to the Château de Clervaux.
• The fashion industry says goodbye to the most loved character in fashion, Bill Cunningham - The Telegraph.
• The Mental Trick That Makes Your Photography Much Better - "Become a better photographer by understanding how breaking conformity and the mental trick of it makes people stare at your images."
• 'The most honest picture ever taken of Marilyn Monroe' has been sold for £77,500 at Sotheby's - The Telegraph.
• The Red List - since 2012. "Designed as a trend book, the Red List offers total immersion in the world of visual arts so as to build bridges between historic and contemporary creativity."
• The stories behind 10 of the world's earliest known photographs - CNN style.
• THE TRI-X FACTOR - The Economist Intelligent Life.
• The year's best photographs revealed - "Sony World Photography Awards 2020."
• This $2,000 Camera Is a Glimpse Into Your Phone's Future - Wired.
• This Photo of a Potato Sold for Over $1,000,000 - PetaPixel.
• VEER - stock photos, stock illustrations, fonts, free downloads.
• TIME's Best Photojournalism of 2019 - "It was in the second decade of the 21st Century that the camera completed its big move - from around the neck of a person who had set out to take pictures, to the pocket of almost anyone, taking a picture of just about anything. Married to social media, the camera phone can place more still images before a person in a single day than might have been seen in a whole year just a generation ago. And yet the power of the journalistic photograph, and truth it holds, is undiminished. Throughout 2019, photographers commissioned by TIME produced pictures that captured reality as it is still best understood."
• TIME's Top 100 Photos of 2021 - TIME Magazine.
• TIME's top 100 photos of 2024 - "very year the TIME photo department sits down to curate the strongest images that crossed our path over the previous 12 months. And every year, sitting with the images, we find ourselves mulling the ways this collection feels heavier than the last, how the year produced images unlike what we’ve seen before."
• Tony Kelly Serves Up Unadulterated Glamour With His High-Octane Photography - "Los Angeles-based, Ireland-born creative Tony Kelly started off as a reportage photographer in his teens, and with a trip to Barcelona he was entranced by fashion photography. So entranced in fact, that it provoked his light bulb moment. And ding! That was that, he realised it was the path he was meant to be on."
• VISA Pour l'Image - since 1989. "The premier International Festival of Photojournalism held in Perpignan, France."
• When a fashion photographer wants more - "Michel Comte was a renowned fashion photographer but he needed more."
• Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters - The New York Times.
• WORLD PRESS PHOTO - known for organizing the world's largest and most prestigious press photography contest.
• WORLD PRESS PHOTO Archive - "Welcome to the World Press Photo Archive." For over fifty years the World Press Photo contest has captured images of our times. Our archive of winning photos is not only a record of more than half a century of human history, but a showcase of successive styles in photography and reportage.
• World Press Photo of the Year - 2020 Photo Contest.
• World Press Photo winners 2022 - in pictures - "A selection of images from this year’s World Press Photo 2022 contest, with regional as well as overall winners for the first time, supported by a regional judging process."