Categories: Architecture, Australia, © Ashley Golsby 2014., B&W, Beauty, Black and White, Camera, City, Cityscape, Documentary, Historical, Inspiration, Long Exposure, Monochrome, NSW, Photographers, Photographic Artist, Photographic Influences, Photographic Styles, Photography, Straight Photography, Strand Arcade, Street Photography, Sydney
“Beauty is a $160 billion-a-year global industry. The worldwide pursuit of body improvement has become a new religion. The promise of bodily improvement is fuelled by advertising campaigns and a commercially-driven Western media, reflecting an increasingly narrow palette of beauty. The modern Caucasian beauty ideal has been packaged and exported globally, and just as surgical operations to ‘Westernise’ oriental eyes have become increasingly popular, so the beauty standard has become increasingly prescriptive. In Africa the use of skin-lightening and hair-straightening […]
Categories: Beauty, Contemporary, Cosmetic Surgery, Love Me, Photographers, Photographic Artist, Photographic Influences, Photographic Styles, Photography, Portrait, Portraits, Vanity, Zed Nelson
Series: Les Amies De Place Blanche documenting ‘ladies of the night’ transsexuals in Paris in the 1960’s. Photographer: Christer Strömholm 1918-2002 He befriended and photographed transsexual prostitutes of the neighbourhood’s red-light district struggling to live as women and to raise money for gender reassignment surgeries. These photographs are predominately nighttime scenes on the street and in hotel rooms which are dark and moving and a vibrant tribute to his subjects. This essay raises awareness […]
Categories: Art, Camera, Christer Strömholm, Gender, Historical, Les Amies De Place Blanche, Paris, Photographers, Photographic Artist, Photographic Influences, Photographic Styles, Photography, Portrait, Portraits, Street Photography, trans*, Transgender, Transition, Transitory
From his studio in New York, Australian-born Anton Bruehl (1900-1982) created inventive and perfectly realised colour photographs for magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. His work ranges from advertising to images of stars of the stage and screen, to his personal photography in the classic documentary tradition. Bruehl was a leader in the new field of colour photography. He was best known for his staged, densely coloured ads. Ansel Adams described his work as being ‘entirely contrived, and yet absolutely sincere’ […]
Categories: Anton Bruehl, Photographers, Photographic Influences, Photographic Styles, Photography
I am influenced by the work of Larry Clark
Categories: Larry Clark, Photographers, Photographic Influences, Photographic Styles, Photography
I am influenced by the work of Bruce Davidson
Categories: Bruce Davidson, Photographers, Photographic Influences, Photographic Styles, Photography
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