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I was wondering if people could give me names some good still life photographers. I am doing my final exam for photography on still life so if anyone knows of an Ansel Adams, Rankin, Lachappelle or burdeny of the still life scene it would be greatly appreciated.

ive been carrying out some research but i can only seem to find the people that pay google the most.

if anyone could give me names so i dont have to dip the hook in the water with no bait it would be greatly appreiated.


cheers

chris
 
I might do that, I have looked in my colleges library which turned out to be fruitless. i have a few big librarys nearby which might be worth a go.
 
thanks foodpoison ill give it a go this week.

if anyone does know of some still life photographers please feel free to make them known :-)
 
Off the top of my head..

Irving Penn
Edward Weston
Robert Mapplethorpe

Ansel Adams shot still life
 
Karl Blossfeldt

Famous for his flower photography. At one point he was the most succesfull german photographer (his book of photos of flowers was one of the most popular books sold in post-ww1 germany). He is quite good.

[EDIT] I forgot to add, you can't go wrong with someone who has a name like a Bond villan!
 
use t'internet to find the books in the libraries, you can ask them to move em round if you give advance warning.

When I did my history coursework I spent hours getting stuff from books in the sexeter library, couldn't take any home because of devon vs cornwall thing though. Is there an institutes library you could use, I spent a morning in the imperial war museums library and it was a very well spent morning I took my mum and sister and we all frantically made notes before we went lunch on a weekend trip to london. All I had to do was ask at the desk and they told me the what to go.
 
A lot of the best modern and contempory still life is in advertising. Check out some of the classic campaigns of recent years. Even though the best guys earn a great deal of money, they are hardly ever well known outside professional circles. Phone a few agencies and see which names crop up, then google their websites :)
 
The best advertising photography is in glossy mags - the posh ones. Find out the agency that handle the top accounts, the likes of Saatchi, BBH etc, and see if you can get some names of the art directors. You'll need to be persistent and do as much desk reseach as you can first, but the images are out there.

I'm way out of touch with these things, but a name that springs to mind as one of the greats of still life (amongst most other things photographic) is Irving Penn - as already mentioned. This pic sold for $67,000.

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I like this one too. There are loads.

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As a student I remember being impressed by an exhibition of his 'cigarette butts' series. They were printed about five feet tall, in gritty mono. Genius :)
 
He's still shooting for US Vogue at 92, and they are still doing a feature/interview on him most years..

I have film from his fridge....:lol:
 
Irving penn looks good cheers for that

david1701 i actually buy GQ quite often and i have been browsing through them. do you think if mailed the photo editor he could give me a list of the photographers used in the adverts??

cheers for the help once again
 
chris_tim said:
Irving penn looks good cheers for that

david1701 i actually buy GQ quite often and i have been browsing through them. do you think if mailed the photo editor he could give me a list of the photographers used in the adverts??

cheers for the help once again
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They could tell you who shot the editorial pics, but probably not much else.

For advert details, speak to the ad manager/sales director on the mag and they can tell you the name of the agency that booked the ad. This is usually different to the agency that did the creative, but the booking agency can tell you who the creative agency is. Get to speak to an art director there for photographers names.

I said you'd need to be persistent ;)
 
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