Portraits
I don’t know about you, but I adore portraits. I believe that a human being is the most interesting creature in the world. And I collect all sorts of information concerning portraiture.
When they teach you to draw they make you copy works of the great masters. It not only gives you an idea of proportion, lines, tones and colors but first and foremost shows you your own way for further development. I guess, with photography it is quite the same thing. If you want to be better, read more and watch more and definitely learn from the great ones.
Certainly each of you has his or her own preferences in portraiture but here is my list of those whose works seem to be interesting. Probably it will be of some help for you, too (in case you are also interested in portraits).
Richard Avedon
David Bailey
Cecil Beaton
Harry Callahan
Julia Margaret Cameron
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Bruce Davidson
Robert Doisneau
Elliott Erwitt
Walker Evans
Anne Geddes
Nan Goldin
Philippe Halsman
Lewis Hine
Horst P. Horst
Yousuf Karsh
Dorothea Lange
Sally Mann
Robert Mapplethorpe
Mary Ellen Mark
Steve McCurry
Arnold Newman
Erwin Olaf
Irving Penn
Herb Ritts
Jan Saudek
Mark Seliger
Cindy Sherman
Alfred Stieglitz
Jock Sturges
Jerry Uelsmann
Hiroshi Watanabe
Edward Weston
Joel-Peter Witkin
Nadar
Albert Sands Southworth
Julia Margaret Cameron
George Hurrell
Yousuf Karsh
Philippe Halsman
Arnold Newman
Richard Avedon
Cindy Sherman
Diane Arbus
Peter Lindbergh
Herb Ritts
David Hamilton
Robert Mapplethorpe
Rankin
Bettina Rheims
Annie Leibovitz
Mary Ellen Mark
Hiroshi Watanabe
Reneke Dijkstra
And as a bonus. A book on how to take extreeeeeemely classical portraits.
http://jzportraits.home.att.net/
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