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Helmut Newton

Fashion Photographer

Helmut Newton, the prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications.

His images, often in stark black and white, were calculated to shock, featuring tall, blond, sometimes naked women in heels, perhaps illuminated by headlights or trapped in a dark alley. 

Along with the photographers Herb Ritts, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, Mr. Newton moved fashion photography from a staid reflection of the current year’s styles to a more artful, glamorous presentation of mood and story. 

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/24/nyregion/helmut-newton-fashion-photographer-83.html

JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER

First Portrait Photographer

BORN MAY 5, 1811 DIED JANUARY 4, 1882 Made First Portrait, 1839 

J. W. Draper, is recognised as the father of photographic portraiture as well as being the first Astrophotographer. 

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Source: http://artdeciel.com/Exposure/post/2010/06/10/The-First-Astrophotographer.aspx

Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004)

Avedon was an American photographer, who’s fashion and portrait photographs helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century. Hepburn was Avedon’s muse in the 1950s and 1960s, and he went so far as to say:

“I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.”

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Source: http://club.foto.ru/classics/47

Freddie Mercury:

Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die…

Countryside

Some pictures I took while I was visiting my grandparents in Georgia last summer.

Sanna Dullaway:  colourization of old black and white photos

Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway specializes on colourization of old black and white photos. Dullaway’s color restoration project breathes new life into these aged, colorless images. 

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 Source: http://imgur.com/a/wapUe

The Spirit of Georgia

I had a chance to spend my summer 2011 in Tbilisi, Georgia with my beloved family. I was amazed by the city, and how the georgian people managed to preserve the historical monuments and the general architecture of Tbilisi over the past 17 centuries…and of course I couldn’t stop capturing some those breathtakingly beautiful places and details I’ve seen over my stay there…

Lindisfarne, Holy Island

The Collection of Absolutely Amazing Photos…

A stunning photo by Nick Knight…one of my personal favourites…