Anna-Lou (Annie) Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, Waterbury, Connecticut) — an American photographer. Specializes in portraits of celebrities.
Andreas Gursky, Germany, 1955
The man who fetched $ 4,338,500 for the Rhein II picture at the Christie auction. It was a phenomenal record. Everything is clear with finances here, but judge for yourself about the artistic merits of the picture.
Richard Kern, USA, 1954
An underground photographer and filmmaker focused on sex, violence and rock and roll. In this field, he became one of the most iconic photographers of the New York underground, among the heroes of his pictures were even such extreme monsters as GG Allin. He is regularly published in major men's magazines, and also indulges himself in the production of music videos, including clips for Sonic Youth and Marilyn Manson. His typical works are erotic, to put it mildly, but not at all in the way we are used to in glossy galleries.
Martin Parr, Great Britain, 1952
A specialist in life scenes, but preferred to work in such saturated colors and angles in which life is not shown to an ordinary observer. It is necessary and sufficient for you to know that Martin's special passion was the satirical examination of the British social classes.
Mick Rock, Great Britain, 1948
The last name doesn't deceive you: rock was the main theme of his work, at one time MikRok was even listed as a staff photographer for David Bowie. In rock and roll and journalistic circles, he was nicknamed "The Man who shot the Seventies."
Annie Leibovitz, USA, 1949
A master of fairy-tale plots with a very powerful charge of wit, understandable even to simpletons far from hyperglamour. Which is not surprising, since the lesbian Annie started as a staff photographer for Rolling Stone magazine.
Patrick Demarchelier, France/USA, 1943
He is still a living classic of fashion photography, which has enriched this genre with a particularly sophisticated sophistication. And at the same time, he lowered the exorbitant degree of glamorous pretentiousness, which was the norm before him.
Elliott Erwitt, France, 1928
A Frenchman with Russian roots, famous for his ironic and absurd view of our troubled world, which is very mobile in his still photographs. Not so long ago, he also began to exhibit in galleries under the name André S. Solidor, which in abbreviation reads as "ass".
Marc Riboux, France, (1923-2016)
Author of at least a dozen "prints of the era": you've probably seen a hippie girl holding a daisy to the barrel of a rifle a million times. Riboux has traveled all over the world and is most revered for his portfolio of filming in China and Vietnam, although you can also find scenes from the life of the Soviet Union.
Diana Arbus, USA, 1923-1971
Her real name is Diana Nemerova. She found her niche in the photo department by working with the most unsightly nature — freaks, dwarfs, transvestites, imbeciles… At best — with nudists. In 2006, the biographical film "Fur" was released, where the role of Diana was played by Nicole Kidman.
