Golden+Age+of+the+Hollywood+Photographers

=Golden Age of the Hollywood Photographers=

"his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century." - //New York Times//
Avedon had set up his own studio and began providing images for magazines including Vogue and Life. Avedon did not conform to the standard technique of taking fashion photographs, where models stood emotionless and alike to the camera. Instead, Avedon showed models full of emotion, smiling, laughing, and, many times, in action. He photographed famous old Hollywood celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ann Sheridan. He was a photographer for not only Vogue but participated in many Versace campaigns, and photographed many other famous celebrites as well as many presidents.

Marilyn Monroe

Elizabeth Taylor

Ann Sheridan

Bert Stern
Not only was Bert Stern a very well known photographer, he was also a director. "The Last Sitting" is his most famous work. It is a collection of 2,500 photographs taken of Marilyn Monroe six weeks before her death for Vogue. He has photographed other celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Drew Baryymore, and Lindsay Lohan. Most of his work was taken for advertising, traveling, and other publications.

Elizabeth Taylor for Vogue

Marilyn Monroe

Twiggy

Sue Lyon "Lolita"

Milton Greene
Milton Greene a famous fashion and celebrity photographer that was also famous for his Marilyn Monroe photos. He had been taking pictures since he was fourteen years old, he received a scholarship for photography and later apprenticed photojournalist Elliot Elisofen. Greene realized his passion for fashion and assisted photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe who was known for her magazine cover photos. By twenty-three he was known as "Colour Photography's Wonder Boy". His photographs ended up in Life, Look, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, as well as Vogue. Greene had photographed various celebrities such as Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Aundry Hepurn, and Judy Garland. Greene first met his best model, Marilyn Monroe, while shooting for Look Magazine. Marilyn and himsef became very close and at one point she lived with his family. Greene even worked on Marilyn's autobiography titled "My Story". Milton Greene specifically was credited for defining fashion photography as a fine art. One of his many talents in photography was timing. His photos earned him many international awards including the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Art Director's Club of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Detroit.

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Marilyn Monroe and Milton Greene

Marilyn Monroe and Milton Greene

Marilyn Monroe

Mailyn Monroe

Suzy Parker

Cecil Beaton


Beaton was a famous English fashion and portrait photographer as well as painter, interior designer, stage and costume designer for many films and theater productions. He was even entered into the Hall of Fame for International Best Dressed List. Beaton learned about professional photography at the studio of Paul Tanqueray (another English photographer). He then had his own studio and photographed for Vogue regularly. His best work was of the Bright Young People, he worked in English and French Vogue and worked with Vanity Fair. Not only did Beaton commonly photograph celebrities, he often phootgraphed the Royal Family. He had taken famous photos for the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Beaton's first camera was a Kodak 3A folding camera. He used both large and small formatted Rolleiflex cameras. He was known as a highly skilled technical phootgrapher.

Kodak 3A Folding Camera

Audrey Hepern

Audrey Hepern

Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor

Marilyn Monroe

Queen Elizabeth

Camera Shot Lengths
- long shot (whole body) - full shot - medium shot (half body, torso up) - close-up (head shot) - extreme long shot (landscape, full image) - American shot (variation of the medium shot) - Italian shot (only eyes visible) - macro photography (insects, flowers)

Camera Angles/ Views
- aerial shot (god like view, very high above) - bird's eye view - crane shot - low-angle shot (make things look larger) - over the shoulder shot - point of view shot - reverse shot - two shot (two people in a picture) - slanted

Lighting
- back lighting - three point lighting - four point lighting - low key lighting - fill light - key light - ambient light - diffused light - spotlight - artificial - combinations of lighting