Task 1A

Task 1

A mannequin is a dummy; it’s a three-dimensional representation of the human body which can be a full sized or partial representation. It’s used by artist, tailors, dressmakers, window dressers and others. Mannequin can also be called a lay figure or a doll. They use this especially to display or fit clothes. A mannequin can also be a model or a person employed to wear clothing to be photographed or to be shown or displayed before customers, buyers etc.

Norman Parkinson

Norman Parkinson was born in London, England and he studied at the Westminster
school. His career began 1931 as an apprentice to the court photographers, they were
called ‘Speaight and sons ltd ’. He opened up his own studio with Norman Kibblewhite
in london’s Piccadilly in 1934. Parkinson was one of the twentieth century’s best
known fashion photographers. He took photograpg for over then 50 years and was
involved in taking portraits and fashion photography outside the still formality prototypes
and inserting an easy and casual elegance into his images. norman dazzled the world
with his sparkling inventiveness as a portrait and fashion photographer. His work shows
a clear record of developing fashion, photography and modeling from the 1940 to 1990.
Parkinson worked for a wide range of publications. He had a long association with vogue,
in vogue he worked with people like Audrey withers, Diana Vreeland and grace Coddington
and many others. He had a numerous assigments for Harper’s bazaar, town & country and other international magazines which brought him worldwide recognition. In one of the new exhibition which is related to childhood, Parkinson combines the techniques of photo journalism with
catch the moment as it flies with an Irving Penn-like sense of formality. The child is casual, the picture instant, yet the form severely composed. I personally like Norman’s photography
and it give me very good ideas for my project and about the styles that I should use. I like
the way that he made every picture very glamorous.

These pictures inspire me because they are glamour pictures. I like the classy way that he used to make this pictures. it will inspire me in my project because i am doing more related to glamour pictures and looking at this pictures i get a lot of ideas to put into my project.

 Paolo Roversi

Born in Ravenna in 1947, Paolo Roversi’s interest in photography was kindled as a teenager during a family vacation in Spain in 1964. Back home, he set up a darkroom in a convenient cellar with another keen amateur, the local postman Battista Minguzzi, and began developing and printing his own black & white work. The encounter with a local professional photographer Nevio Natali was very important: in Nevio’s studio Paolo spent many many hours realising an important apprenticeship as well as a strong durable friendship.

In Paris Paolo started working as a reporter for the Huppert Agency but little by little, through his friends, he began to approach fashion photography. The photographers who really interested him then were reporters. At that moment he didn’t know much about fashion or fashion photography.  Only later he discovered the work of Avedon, Penn, Newton, Bourdin and many others.

Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The new york times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century".Richard Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish family. His father, Jacob Israel Avedon, was a Russian-born immigrant who advanced from menial work to starting his own successful retail dress business on Fifth Avenue, called Avedon’s Fifth Avenue.At the age of twenty-two, Avedon began working as a freelance photographer, primarily for Harper’s Bazaar.From the beginning of his career, Avedon made formal portraits for publication in Theater Arts, Life, Look, and Harper’s Bazaar magazines, among many others.Throughout, Avedon ran a successful commercial studio, and is widely credited with erasing the line between “art” and “commercial” photography. His brand-defining work and long associations with Calvin Klein, Revlon, Versace, and dozens of other companies resulted in some of the best-known advertising campaigns in American history.

Craig McDean
Craig is a well known photographer and also a film maker which is known for his
striking fashion images and portraiture. Mcdean originally worked as a car mechanic
before studying photography at Mid Cheshire College and Blackpool and the Fylde
college. He discovered photography by taking pictures of his rocker friend in the
north england. Before striking out on his own McDean moved to london where he
assisted for nick knight, with assignments for I-D and the face. In 1999 he made
his highly anticipated publishing debut I love fast cars, his homeage to the world od
drag racing and the community that loved it. For now McDean lives in New York
and has photographed a lot of campaigns which include campaign for Dior, Gucci,
Yves Saint Laurent, Armani, Estee Lauder and calvin Klein. He is married to formar
model and stylist Tabitha Simmons who is also a contributing fashion editor with vogue.
they live in chelsea manhattan.

                                          

This photographer inspired me because I like the way that he puts contrast in the pictures. in my project I want to use contrast as well so his pictures help me to get an idea of what kind of contrast I should do.


nick knight

nick knight is a british fashion photographer, documentary photographer and an web publisher also. he directs the SHOWstudio.com, which is the fashion &art internet broadcating channel. he has won many award for vogue, dazed and confused, W magazine, I-D and Visionaire. he has also done fashion and advertising projects for people like Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent. nick knight was awarded the prestigious moet chandon fashion tribute for 2006 on the 24th october,2006. he celebrated this even by throwing a big masked ball at horace walpoles gothic revival treasure, strawberry hill. Knight's work has been exhibited at such international art institutions as the Victoria & Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery, the Photographers' Gallery and Hayward Gallery.he has also won awards for his editorial work for Vogue, Dazed & Confused, i-D, The Face, W Magazine, Another Magazine, Arena Homme + and Visionaire, as well as for fashion and advertising projects like, edition of the Pirelli Calendar

these pictures inspire me again because of the harmonising colours and the contrasting colours. and this is one thing that im trying to do. Mix the two different effects to get one over all amazing effect.





Marcin Tyszka 
Marcin Tyszka Marcin tyszka is a polish fotographer, he specializes in the fashion photography, also he is a juror television programs related to this field. For few years he ran a polish television program called 5- 10- 15. . When you go abroad, among others, he completed sessions for "Elle", "Marie Claire" and "Montreal