Lindsay Adler is an American portrait and fashion photographer based out of Manhattan, New York. Her editorials have appeared in Bullett Magazine, Zink Magazine and Fault. She has contributed to photo publications Professional Photographer, Rangefinder Magazine, and Popular Photography. In 2020, Adler became the first woman to win the Rangefinder Icon of the Year award
In May 2010 Adler published her first book, A Linked Photographers' Guide to Online Marketing and Social Media. Her second book, Fashion Flair for Portrait and Wedding Photography, was named one of Amazon Best Books of 2011 in Arts & Photography. |
“If they don’t see it, they don’t know how to ask for it. My play days pay off all the time, it helps people see what they should hire me for, but it also helps me to learn, make mistakes, and trying new things.”
– Lindsay Adler
“When I started to create a name for myself and a style, I started to shoot where there was mood, emotion, hair & make up, and wardrobe. And people started to ask me for that type of look.”
– Lindsay Adler
“Eventually style is not an option, if you want to be better than ’good’”
– Lindsay Adler
Her use of bright colours against a dark shadow really brings out the model and her object she would be using using for the shoot and the vibrancy for the image. I believe that the colours she uses are used for the reason to bring a bold and bright significance against the dark and black background. She uses this technique to perhaps tell a story behind these shoots showing how brightness can overcome darkness as the brightness in this image definitely stands out against the darkness.
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"Luck is not a career strategy"
- Lindsay Adler
Her use of colour gels add to the vibrancy of the image, but also creates a mood to the image that the viewer can infer. I believe the colours Adler has within her images allow her images to be bold and significant when in an exhibition and is easily memorable. I find that her work links to the quote on portraiture I chose,
"If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things." -Sebastiao Salgado, because Adler is empowering the women within these images. |
Maurizio Anzeri is an Italian contemporary artist living and working in London.
He was born in 1969 in Loano, Italy. He works in a variety of media including sculpture, photography, drawing and traditional craft techniques. Anzeri's deft handiwork turns vintage portraits and landscapes into surreal, psychologically charged images, while upending the conventions of traditional photography. Anzeri studied sculpture and graphic design at the Camberwell College of Fine Arts His worked has appeared in many places such as Notable group exhibitions include Self Service at Dallas Contemporary, TX (2019); Iconoclasts: Art Out of the Mainstream, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2017). explore the essence of signs in their physical manifestation As a sculptor, Anzeri uses synthetic hair to create slightly ominous, sentinel-like works. Piled into totemic forms, the bundled locks are simultaneously woven into curls, plaits and pleats. |
'I work with sewing, embroidery and drawing to explore the essence of signs in their physical manifestation. I take inspiration from my own personal experience and observation of how, in other cultures, bodies themselves are treated as living graphic symbols.'
Maurizio Anzeri
Lisa Kokin was born in America in 1954 and died at age 69.
Artist, teacher, and mentor Lisa Kokin lives and works in El Sobrante, California. Originally from the East Coast, she moved to the Bay Area to attend art school and never looked back. Kokin received her BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts in Oakland. Kokin uses scraps and remnants to create much of her work. By using recycled or reclaimed materials to create mixed media textile art, she creates delicate art that is also gentle on the planet. Common themes in her work are memory, the sociopolitical realities of our time, stories, and family. Lisa Kokin’s original work and commissions can be found in art galleries across the country and in the private collections of many institutions, This includes: Four Seasons Napa Valley, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Palo Alto Medical Center. |
"I like money in its shredded state because it is stripped of value and power. Worthless, it becomes just so much green and white confetti. It is literally not worth the paper it's printed on."
Lisa Kokin
Lauri Laukkanen is a 20 year old editorial and commercial photographer.
What makes this young man’s story so special is the fact that he started out with photography only 7 months ago. In this short period of time, he has been awarded with Photographer of the Year award and has shot for some of the biggest customers in Finland. And as if that isn’t enough, he is also planning a workshop tour in Europe and is an editor on SLR Lounge. Most of his photographs are taken in studio, where he can build the exact places he imagines and where he can control everything: from the material and texture of the walls to the proportions, the color palette, the shape of that stain on the carpet or the perfect light for the model. It takes a lot of work and time to create just one picture, but for him, it feels right. |
"I have been fortunate to find opportunities that led to experiences I could never have dreamed of."
-Lauri Laukkanen
Höch was not only a rare female practicing prominently in the arts in the early part of the 20th century , near unique as a female active in the Dada movement that coalesced in her time , she also consciously promoted the idea of women working creatively more generally in society.
She explicitly addressed in her pioneering artwork in the form of photomontage the issue of gender and the figure of woman in modern society. Her transformation of the visual elements of others by integrating them into her own larger creative projects evidenced a well-developed early example of "appropriation" as an artistic technique. Höch also helped expand the notion of what could be considered art by incorporating found elements of popular culture into "higher" art. She was one of many Dadaists to take advantage of such means, but she was both among the first, and one of the most self-consciously explicit in describing the goals and effects of doing so. |
"I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve."
-Hannah Hoch
Günter Brus born 27 September 1938, is an Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist, experimental filmmaker and writer.
Brus grew up in Mureck, attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Graz and went to Vienna in 1956, where he studied painting and met his lifelong friend Alfons Schilling. Influenced by German expressionism, Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, abstract expressionism and artists such as Emilio Vedova, he began in the fall of 1960 to create artwork that was not confined to visual media. Shortly before his first major exhibition together with Schilling, he was conscripted into the military in May 1961. After completing his military service, he fell into a psychological crisis and did not start work again until the end of 1962. In 1964, Brus performed his first "Aktion" titled Ana, in which he painted his wife Anni Brus, his own body, and the surroundings of his studio with white and black paint. Throughout the latter half of the 1960s he staged numerous performances with his own body at the center of the action, as in the actions Selbstbemalung and Selbstverstümmelung. He was a co-founder in 1964 of Viennese Actionism with Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. |
"Art is beautiful but is hard, like a religion without a purpose."
-Gunter Brus
Walker Evans is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
His elegant, crystal-clear photographs and articulate publications have inspired several generations of artists, from Helen Levitt and Robert Frank to Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. The progenitor of the documentary tradition in American photography, Evans had the extraordinary ability to see the present as if it were already the past, and to translate that knowledge and historically inflected vision into an enduring art. Born in 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, Evans dabbled with painting as a child, collected picture postcards, and made snapshots of his family and friends with a small Kodak camera. After a year at Williams College, he quit school and moved to New York City, finding work in bookstores and at the New York Public Library, where he could freely indulge his passion for T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and e. e. cummings, as well as Charles Baudelaire and Gustave Flaubert. In 1927, after a year in Paris polishing his French and writing short stories and nonfiction essays, Evans returned to New York intent on becoming a writer. |
"Weather he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts"
-Walker Evans