Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander is based in London world renowned for his portraiture and landscapes, he's also an artist and director. His work is part of the collection at the National Portrait Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London also his work is exhibited in many international galleries and museums.

He began taking photographs at 13 and then when he was drafted into the South African Air Force, he worked in the darkroom printing aerial photographs. Nadav Kander’s work appears in magazines like Rolling stones, Sunday Time Magazine. After collecting some of Nadav's work i chose a picture that was similar to one of his. The position of the subject is a clear pattern in Nadva's work all subjects are captured in the moment or appearing to be caught for e.g in the middle of a thought. I think i used Kander's technique well because the picture is similar to his.

I like this video becuase Nadav explains his work method experiencing what he photographs is necessary, he speaks about his trips to china and the journey he went on to achieve the best photography.
He chose to go to China and let the experiences tell him what he needed to capture.

I like this video because Kander explains how he works, technique and lighting.

Kander explains that he doesnt like to speak to his subjects because photographing someone you know is hard, he says the tension when you first meet someone makes it easier to photograph well.

Arnold Newman

Newman attended the University of Miami studying painting and drawing with an introduction to modernism. He wasn't able to continue studying and moved to Philadelphia where he worked for a studio making 49-cent portraits. The time he spent working taught him the importance of interacting with this subjects this also allowed him to develop his technique. Newman had photographed many personalities but he still said even if the person was unknown or forgotten that the epicure would excite and intrigue the viewer. Newman is said to have been the first photographer to use so-called environmental portraiture, the photographer places the subject in a carefully controlled setting to capture the essence of the individuals life work. Newman normally captured the subjects in  a familiar setting showing their professions and personalities for e.g a writer would be captured writing a book or reading a book. In all the pictures i gather in my research Newman had captured the subject in their moment or environment.



For my next shoot I will find a subject who is for e.g a musician and i will capture them in their element, i'm going to capture the person and making the picture almost an expression of that person and what they do. If i cant find a subject i will photograph myself surrounded with music.I think i will make the picture black and white but if the colour gives a better effect then i will not alter it further.

Portrait Photography using continuous lighting

David Bailey

I used David Bailey's style of photography which is to take strong black and white pictures. I found in my research that the subject usually didn't smile instead they had a blank face or a serious face. I think Bailey used this effect to  draw the person looking at the photo to the subjects face. 

Originally the picture was in colour so i altered it and made it black and white, most of the picture i found taken by David Bailey were portrait photos so I altered the size of the picture and made it smaller.

In yesterdays session we took portrait pictures in the studio, using the same technique as the photographer i was researching. I used David Bailey style of photography positioning myself in a position similar to one of Bailey's pictures. When i originally took the picture you could see more of me, so i cropped the picture, i still to alter the picture and make it black and white to match Baileys style.
I decided to include the chair because in the picture i researched had cutlery and glasses so i thought the chair would add a classic effect to the photo which is what bailey aimed to do, create pictures that are timeless.

David Bailey

David Bailey's said himself he had no style, in his younger years Bailey developed a love of natural history this led him into photography. In 1959
he became a photographic assistant at the John French studio he then went on to be contracted as a fashion photographer for British vogue magazine in late 1960. Bailey is also said to have helped create the 'swinging London' of the 60s. at the height of his productivity he shot 800 pages of Vogue editorial in one year. Bailey's work is said to have thrived the most during the swinging sixties, his work remains timeless and he remains one of the best original photographers. He maintains that his style of photography remains the same I've always tried to do pictures that don't date. I always go for simplicity.

In this video David explains that he aims to make his work different and out of the box and often has an idea of what he wants. I chose this video because it explains more about David and his unique style. The "Swinging London" scene was reflected in his Box of Pin-Ups (1964): a box of poster-prints of the main 1960s celebrities and socialites including Terence Stamp,The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol and notorious East End gangsters the Kray twins.