There are many avenues for a fashion photographer
Freelance (without an agent)
Freelance with an agent
Employed by a retailer
Employed by a publication (magazine, book publisher, newspaper, etc.)
Employed by a fashion house
Employed by an advertising company
Employed by a fashion manufacturer
Employed by a direct-mail company
Open your own studio
Periodicals
Ad agencies
Department stores
Fashion houses
Modeling agencies
Retailers
Catalogues
Galleries
Stock photography agency
The Myths, the Realities and the Basics
I Can’t Take Pictures, Can I Become a Fashion Photographer?
I Can’t Use a Darkroom
Is There Work Outside The Big Fashion Magazines?
Every Fashion Photographer is a Critical Success
It’s Not All Behind The Camera
“Art” In Fashion Photography vs. Commerce
I Don’t Live In A Major Fashion City
What Are The Up-Sides To Being A Fashion Photographer?
Getting Ready for the Big Break
Market Size
Details of Employment Numbers
Salaried vs. Independent
Industry Classifications: Lots of Different Kinds of Fashion
Photography
Magazines
Catalogues
Advertisements
Stock Photography
Paparazzi
Art
Portraiture
Personality Traits of a Fashion Photographer
Visual Imagination
Artistic Sensitivity
Be Ready to Work In Difficult Conditions To Get The Shot
Organize: The Whole Shoot Is Your Responsibility
Skills
Make The Clothes Look Better
Put Everyone In The Right Place At The Right Time
Know Your Camera! (Technical Skill)
Understand The Equipment (Technical Skill)
Scout a Scene
Get A Crew
Stay On Budget
Working with a Model
Respect is the Name of the Game
Help Them Relax, They May Be Nervy
Models You Hire vs. Models From An Agency
How To Deal With Their Tantrums Without Disaster
Know The Poses
Creating A Model’s Portfolio
To Go to School or Not to Go to School
Some School Profiles
Some Things To Consider In Schools
How Long Do You Need To Study?
Correspondence Courses
Can It Be Done Without University Training? Yes!
Creating Portfolio
Don’t Sell The Shots, Sell Yourself
Be Original
Use The Web
Get Great Shots, Use Your Best
The Physical Portfolio
Career Game Plan
Why You May Need An Agent
They Know People, So You Know People
Workflow With An Agent
The Things You Don’t Have Time For
Help With Post-Production
They Want To Make Sure You’re Taken Care for
Finding The Right Agent
Qualities Of A Good Agent
The Whole Career
Beware of Scam Artists
They Ask For Money
Certification
Don’t Rush!
Copyrights
Get Entry-Level Experience
Apprenticeships
Distribute Your Portfolio
Nab A Few Clients
Use Your Contacts
Don’t Go AwayMeet People
Have Something To Give Out
The Money: A Little To A Lot
Work Up To The Big Time
Different Money For Different Shoots
The Real Fashion Photography Work Environment
Freelance
Staff
Being Successful
Success Traits
Love the Work
Be Determined To Get Your Work Out There
Willingness To Work The Long Day
Creative Desire to be New and Better
Be In The Right City
Classics
Some Other Cities You May Not Have Though About
No Runway Show In Your Town… No Problem!
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Masters of Photography
Adams Ansel
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View Portfolio Ansel Adams American, 1902 - 1984 Adams was born in the Western Addition of San Francisco, California to distinctly upper-class parents Charles and Olive Adams. He was an only child and was named after his uncle Ansel Easton. The Adams family came from New England, having migrated from the north of Ireland in the early 1700s but were not connected with the Presidential Adams family. His grandfather founded and b...
Adams Robert
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View Portfolio Robert Adams American, born, 1937 Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980, and he received the MacArthur Foundation's MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York a...
Arbus Diane
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View Portfolio Arbus, Diane American, 1923-1971 A pivotal figure in contemporary documentary photography, Diane Arbus produced a substantial body of work before her suicide in 1971. Her unrelentingly direct photographs of people who live on the edge of societal acceptance, as well as those photographs depicting supposedly "normal" people in a way that sharply outlines the cracks in their public masks, were controversial...
Atget Eugene
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View Portfolio Atget, Eugene French, 1857-1927 Jean Eugene Auguste Atget, among the first of photography's social documenters, has come to be regarded as one of the medium's major figures. His images of Paris are perhaps the most vivid record of a city ever made. Atget was born in Libourne, near Bordeaux, France, and was raised by an uncle from an early age after the deaths of his parents. He became a cabin boy a...
Avedon Richard
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View Portfolio Artists Website Richard Avedon American 1923 - 2004 Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine's photographic section. Upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store. Within two years he had been "found" by an art director at HARPER'S BAZAAR and was producing work for them as well as VOGUE, LOOK, and a numb...
Baltz Lewis
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View Portfolio Lewis Baltz American, born 1945 Lewis Baltz (born 1945 in Newport Beach, California) is a visual artist, philosopher,[citation needed] and well known photographer who became an icon of the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s. Baltz graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 1969 and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School. He received several scholarships and awa...
Becher Bernd & Hilla
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View Portfolio Bernd & Hilla Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher were a German photographer team and a married couple, best- known for their collection of industrial building images examining the similarities and differences in structure and appearance. Bernd (1931 – 2007) and Hilla (b. 1934) Becher first met at the Düsseldorf Academy. Both were studying painting at the time and in 1961, the two were married. The...
Bellocq E.J
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View Portfolio John Ernest Joseph Bellocq American, 1873-1949 John Ernest Joseph Bellocq was a professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century. Bellocq is remembered for his haunting photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans' legalized red light district. These have inspired novels, poems and films. E. J. Bellocq was a commercial photographer of Frenc...
Blossfeldt Karl
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View Portfolio Karl Blossfeldt (1865 – 1932) was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher, and artist who worked in Berlin, Germany, at the turn of the century. He worked with a camera he designed himself. That camera allowed him to greatly magnify the objects he was capturing, to up to 30 times their actual size. He spent much of his time devoted to the study of nature. In his career of more than 30 years, he p...
Bravo Manuel Alvarez
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View Portfolio Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Mexican, 1902-2002 Álvarez Bravo was born in Mexico City on February 4,1902. He came from a family of artists, and met several other prominent artists who encouraged his work when he was young, including Tina Modotti and Diego Rivera. His grandfather was a photographer and his father was a patron of photography, painting and literary composition. Manuel began studying painting and music...
Bresson Cartier Henri
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View Portfolio Artist's Website Henri Cartier-Bresson French 1908 - 2004 Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed. Born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, near Pari...
Callahan Harry
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View Portfolio Callahan, Harry American, 1912-99 Born in Detroit, Callahan studied at Michigan State University before going to work for the Chrysler Motor Parts Corporation. In 1936, he married Eleanor Knapp, who later became the subject of some of his most important images. Callahan bought his first camera in 1938, and credits Ansel Adams' visit to the Detroit Photo Guild in 1941 as pivotal in his decision to become a photogr...
Cunningham Imogen
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View Portfolio Cunningham, Imogen American, 1883-1976 Imogen Cunningham began photographing in 1901 after being inspired by the work of Gertrude Kaesebier. Born in Portland, Oregon, she graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a major in chemistry and went to work in the studio of Edward S. Curtis, where she learned the process of platinum printing. In 1909 she continued her education in photographic chemistry at...
Davidson Bruce
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View Portfolio Bruce Davidson (born September 5, 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American photographer. He has been a member of Magnum since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, have been widely exhibited and published in a number of books. Biography Youth Bruce Davidson was born in Oak Park to a single mother who worked in a factory to support her two sons. His mother raised her children to be autonom...
Doisneau Robert
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View Portfolio Robert Doisneau (April 14, 1912 - April 1, 1994) was a French photographer noted for his frank and often humorous depictions of Parisian street life. Among his most recognizable work is Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville), a photo of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Who the couple were was a mystery until in 1993 Denise and Jean-Louis Lave...
Eggleston_William
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View Portfolio William Egglestone American born 1939 William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi. His father was an engineer who had failed as a cotton farmer, and his mother was the daughter of a prominent local judge. As a boy, Eggleston was introverted; he enjoyed playing the piano, drawing, and working with electronics. From an early age, he was also drawn to visual media, and repor...
Evans Walker
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View Portfolio Evans, Walker American, 1903 - 1975 Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, Walker Evans was part of a well-to-do family. He graduated from Phillips Academy, in Andover, Mass. He studied literature for a year at Williams College before dropping out. After spending a year in Paris, he returned to the United States to join the edgy literary and art crowd in New York City. John Cheever, Hart Crane, and Lincoln Kirstein were among...
Friedlander Lee
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View Portfolio Lee Friedlander American,born 1934 Friedlander studied photography at the Art Center College of Design located in Pasadena, California. In 1956, he moved to New York City where he photographed jazz musicians for record covers. His early work was influenced by Eugène Atget, Robert Frank, and Walker Evans. In 1960, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Friedlander a grant to focus on hi...
Goldblatt David
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View Portfolio Artist's Website David Goldblatt (born November 29, 1930) is a South African photographer who was born in Randfontein, Gauteng Province. Goldblatt began photographing in 1948 and has documented developments in South Africa through the period of Apartheid to the present. He has numerous publications to his name and is held in high esteem, both locally and internationally. His book, South Africa: The Stru...
Gowin Emmet
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View Portfolio Emmet Gowin American, born 1941 He grew up in southern Virginia. He began photographing in 1961, at the Richmond Professional Institute, and went on to graduate study at the Rhode Island School of Design. His prints have been exhibited widely and are in the collections of museums and galleries throughout the United States. Gowin lives with his wife, Edith, and their sons, Isaac and Elijah, in a small Pennsylvani...
Hine Lewis
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View Portfolio Lewis Hine Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940), was an American photographer. For Hine, the camera was both a research tool and an instrument of social reform. Although Lewis Hine was neither the first-nor certainly the last-photographer to employ his camera in the cause of social reform, the quality of his best work has rarely been equaled. Even more importantly, H...
Karsh Yousuf
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View Portfolio Karsh, Yousuf Canadian, 1908-2002 Yousuf Karsh came to international prominence with a 1941 Life cover: the famous "English bulldog," portrait of Winston Churchill. Karsh has photographed many thousands of subjects in the last 50 years, principally portraits of distinguished men and women in every field of endeavor: statesmanship, the arts, and the sciences. Karsh prefers to take his portraits in the su...
Kertész André
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View Portfolio Kertész, André American, 1894-1985 André Kertész is recognized as one of the world's leading photographers. During a career spanning more than 70 years, he created images of ordinary life, in a style without pretension, using small-format cameras almost exclusively. As his instinctive formal sense became more assured, he retained the vital curiosity which first prompted him at age 18,...
Lartigue Jacques Henri
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View Portfolio Jacques Henri Lartigue Jacques Lartigue was born in Courbevoie, France on June 13, 1894. He took his first photographs at the age of six, using his father’s camera, and started keeping what would become a lifelong diary. In 1904 he began making photographs and drawings of family games and childhood experiences, also capturing the beginnings of aviation and cars and the smart women o...
Mapplethorpe Robert
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View Portfolio Arists Website Mapplethorpe, Robert American, 1946-1989 At first Robert Mapplethorpe wanted to become a musician, but he eventually decided to study painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In 1968 he met the singer Patti Smith with whom he moved to the now legendary Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan in 1970. Under the influence of his friend John McEndry, curator for printed art and photography at the Metropolitan...
Penn Irving
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View Portfolio Irving Penn American, born 1917 Born in New Jersey,Irving Penn studied design at the Philadelphia Museum School, where he became a student of Alexey Brodovitch. In 1937, the year before he graduated, several of his drawings were published by Harper's Bazaar. From 1940 to 1941, he worked for the art and advertising director of Saks Fifth Avenue, and the following year he spent in Mexico pai...
Porter Eliot
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View Portfolio Eliot Porter American, 1901 - 1990 An amateur photographer since childhood, Porter earned degrees in chemical engineering and medicine, and worked as a biochemical researcher at Harvard University. Around 1930 he was introduced to Ansel Adams by a friend of the family and to Alfred Stieglitz by his brother Fairfield Porter. Stieglitz continued to critique Porter’s black and white work, now t...
Salgado Sebastiao
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View Portfolio Sebastiao Salgado Brasilian, born 1944 After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking photographs. He chose to abandon a ...
Sander August
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View Portfolio August Sander German 1876 - 1964 August Sander was born and lived in Germany. He started his great project around 1910; his aim was to produce a kind of catalogue of representative types of German Society - 'Man in the Twentieth Century'. His portraits of individuals and small groups often show them in their working clothes and sometimes in their work environments, and are captioned by occupation - scho...
Sommer Frederick
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View Portfolio Frederick Sommer American 1905 - 1999 Frederick Sommer (September 7, 1905 - January 23, 1999), was an artist born in Angri, Italy and raised in Brazil. He earned a M.A. degree in Landscape Architecture (1927) from Cornell University where he met Frances Elisabeth Watson (b. September 20, 1904 - d. April 10, 1999) whom he married in 1928; they had no children. The Sommers moved to Tucson, Arizona in 19...
Stieglitz Alfred
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View Portfolio Stieglitz, Alfred American, 1864-1946 Stieglitz was born the eldest of six children in Hoboken, New Jersey and raised in a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper East Side. His father moved with his family to Germany in 1881. The next year, Stieglitz began studying mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin and soon switched to photography. Traveling through the European countryside with his camera, he...
Strand Paul
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View Portfolio Strand, Paul American, 1890-1976 Paul Strand, one of the towering figures of American 20th c. photography, was born in New York City, the only child of parents of Bohemian-Jewish descent. He first became interested in photography as a student at the Ethical Culture School under the influence of Lewis Hine. It was Hine who introduced Strand to Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo Secession Gallery in 1907. In the next few y...
Stroemholm Christer
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View Portfolio Artist's Website Christer Stroemholm Sweden, born 1918 - 2002 Curriculum Vitae 1918 Born on July 22, in Stockholm. 1924 After his parents’ divorce, Christer divides his time between two families. His father is in the armed forces and stationed in various parts of the country, so the you...
Sudek Josef
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View Portfolio Josef Sudek Czechoslovakian, 1896 - September 15, 1976 Joseph Sudek trained as a bookbinder (his younger sister went into photography) but had a become a keen amateur photographer before being called into military service in the First World War in 1915. He produced several albums of pictures - including landscapes showing splintered trees and other war damage - during his almost three years of war service, which ended...
Sugimoto Hiroshi
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View Portfolio Artist's Website Hiroshi Sugimoto (杉本博司, Sugimoto Hiroshi), born on February 23, 1948, is a Japanese photographer currently dividing his time between Tokyo, Japan and New York City, USA. His catalog is made up of a number of series, each having a distinct theme and similar attributes. // Life and Works Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, ...
Weston Brett
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View Portfolio Brett Weston American 1911 - 1993 In 1925, long before photography was accepted as a ‘legitimate’ art form, Brett Weston embarked upon a remarkable career in fine art photography that would span more than 65 years. That year, he began his legendary abstraction of form in Mexico under the astonished eye of his father, the great photographer Edward Weston, who often privately credited Brett w...
Weston Edward
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View Portfolio Artists Website Weston, Edward American, 1886-1958 Edward Weston is renowned as one of the grand masters of 20th c. photography. His legacy includes several thousand carefully composed, superbly printed photographs which have influenced photographers around the world for 50 years. Photographing natural landscapes and forms such as peppers, shells, and rocks, using large-format cameras and available light, Weston...
Yavno Max
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View Portfolio Max Yavno American 1911-1985 Max Yavno was born in New York City on April 26, 1911. His interest in photography blossomed twenty years later during the mid-1930s during which time he changed careers to devote more time to the darkroom. He further rounded out his skills by joining the Photo League, which enabled him to associate with other artists on a regular basis. He eventually became President of ...
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