300 word photography essay

This Report is about the photographer Peter Lindbergh, his life and his work,

Lindbergh is a German photographer and filmmaker, who was born November 23, 1944 in Lissa and now currently lives in Paris, New York, Arles. He spent his childhood was in Duisburg,

                                                   

In 1971 he turned his attention to photography and worked for two years as assistant to Düsseldorf-based photographer Hans Lux. He moved to Paris in 1978, started working internationally  for Vogue, first Italian Vogue, then English, French, German and American Vogues, later for New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Allure and Rolling Stone.

In 1992 he signed a four-year contract with the American Harper's Bazaar in New York. At the same time he photographed the campaigns for Giorgio Armani, Jil Sander, Prada, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein and Comme des Garçons. Portraits of Catherine Deneuve, Mick Jagger, Charlotte Rampling, Nastassja Kinski, Tina Turner, John Travolta, Madonna, Sharon Stone, John Malkovich and many others.

Peter Lindbergh's work defined the supermodel era. Peter Lindbergh’s black and white photos have become instant classics in fashion photography. His images are sensual and full of emotion. His work is inspired by the beginnings of German cinema and the Berlin art scene of the 1920s.

Cinema in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film and photography. In its early days, the cinematograph was seen as an attraction for the upper class, but the novelty of moving pictures did not last long. Soon, trivial short films were being shown as fairground attractions aimed at the working and lower-middle class.

I admire Lindbergh’s work – it’s clear and simple; the black and white photographs have tone contrasts of the skin and the dull, aged backgrounds - remote fashion photography.

“What's so striking about black and white photography is how it really helps a sense of reality to come through.” -  Peter Lindbergh

Photoshop - continued 

I used a beaver body and head, with a lizard

tail and a duck's bill, to create my own platypus. 

Here I used a  Highland cow for the head

and body, and added the ears of a fox and 

the tail of a degu. The fox ears are much 

bigger than  an Highland cow, although

the tail is quite similar.

Amy Rowson - Digital Manipulation

In my photography rotation lessons, I started with a introduction to photoshop. I learnt how to use the 'lasso' tool to crop and select parts of the image I wanted, I also learnt how to re-size and rotate my images within photoshop - with this I learnt that the 'alt' key stops the image from distorting while resizing. 

 Here I used the body and head of a horse,

then I put a narwhal's tusk on the head to create

my own fantasy unicorn. I expanded on this idea

and then found dragon wings to turn my unicorn 

into a pegasus. I also used lions paws for the feet 

of my final creature.

For this creature I used a wolf's head and a fox's tail, to this I added the wings of a bat and the body of a degu (small gerbil/squirrel-like animal) this creates the sense of how small this creature is, compared to my pegasus which can be viewed as the size of a horse - what humans are used to, but this creature's head is seen as the size of a dog's in normal life, whereas here it is the size of a rat.