Advertising Campaigns (whodunnit?)

Kev M

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I'm doing a photography course at college and have to come up with two themes. One is architecture and for the other I'm thinking of trying to produce images that would be suitable for use in an advertising campaign (nothing like setting the bar unrealistically high is there). For each of these subjects I have to research and reference 10 past and present photographers from the industry. This in itself isn't too difficult because I could just google commercial photographer and pick the first ten that come up.

What I would rather do is find some campaigns I can associate with and reference the photographers from them. This isn't as easy as it sounds. Are there any online resources for finding out who shot what? I remember a while back Garry Edwards talked about the secrecy (probably not the right word for it) between the photographer and their clients which might be why I can't find out who shot things like the dianese ads in my copy of PB for example. I'd be particularly interested in comparing past and present campaigns seperated by 50 years or so.

Can anyone help with finding out who shot what or should I just start trawling googles 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 search results?

Cheers,
Kev
 
Toni Thorimbert linky did the 2008 Dianese campaign.

Think the only way you'd find out who did specific campaigns would be to contact the press office for the companies you want to research or trawl good old google.. not much help sorry. :)
 
There's no secrecy about who shot what. Everybody will want to shout about a good campaign. Commercial work is never credited but the relevant people in agency land will know for sure. Finding them and getting them to talk to you might not be easy and google might not be much help. You need to bang on a few doors, or rather the telephone to some creative commissioning directors.

Dainese are Italian aren't they? Prolly originated there and images distributed internationally. There's no real reason why the UK distributer should know who shot their stuff - you'll have to track it back through them to the source.
 
Cheers chaps, I knew this wasn't going to be an easy one. Perhaps I should have chosen something simple like landscapes;)
 
Kev M said:
Cheers chaps, I knew this wasn't going to be an easy one. Perhaps I should have chosen something simple like landscapes;)
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Nah, fortune favours the foolish. :D
 
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