Landscape Image Bank -

Photographers - 

• Fay Godwin
• Simon Roberts
• Rut Blees Luxemburg 
• Stephen Shore
• George Georgiou
• Idris Khan
• Carl Wooley 
• Simon Norfolk
• Ed Burtynsky 

Favourites - 

Rut Blees Luxemburg:

Stephen Shore: 

Ed Burtynsky:

Carl Wooley:

Simon Roberts: 

Documentary Image Bank -

Photo-Documentary - 

Photo-Documentary : Photography that documents significant moments within society or in an individuals life.

Robert Frank:

Frank had a series called 'The Americans' published in the late 1950s. Frank himself was Swiss but decided to document the American lifestyle. The work is in the style of Street Documentary. 

Corey Arnold: 

Arnold documents his life through photography focusing mostly on his occupation as an alaskan fisherman who spends most of his life at sea on a crab fishing boat. Arnold also is part of film documentary on the Discovery Channel titled 'Deadliest Catch'. Therefore, it is interesting that Arnold continues to document his life in photographs rather than relying on film.  

Low Key Lighting Image Bank -

Portraits - 

Irving Penn : 
Penn is an interesting artist who studies identity through his portraiture; Penn does this through a technique known as low key lighting that evokes a sense of mystery and other such emotions.  I especially like the second image as some would say that it is not necessarily identity, however, in my opinion I believe it is identity as it is the hand of Miles Davis, a trumpet jazz musician, playing a trumpet chord. As a result I strongly hold the belief that it is an example of portraiture in the study of identity even though arguably it can be said that portraiture is when a face is present in the image.

Portraiture Image Bank Continued -

Portraiture -  

Annie Leibovitz:
Annie Leibovitz photographs mostly famous faces such as Anne Hathaway and Adele and also does photography for publicity such as the first image feature below. Leibovitz did the publicity photography for 'Les Miserables'. Leibovitz work focuses significantly on the use of light and the saturation of colour. As a photographer I find Leibovitz's work to be fascinating through the use of the formal elements such as colour within her portraits.

Thomas Ruff: 
Ruff employs a deadpan appearance within his portraiture that are reminiscent of a passport photo. It could be argued that Ruff defies gender norms by giving female subjects a blue background whilst male subjects are given pink. Ruff, unlike a few of the other photographers featured here, focuses on ordinary people rather than the lifestyles of the rich and famous celebrities. Thomas Ruff is sometimes questioned as a photographer due to his style that is considered controversial.

David Lachapelle:
Lachapelle is an extremely controversial photographer often focusing on extreme circumstances of the nude human form. Lachapelle is also a celebrity photographer who uses bold colours and out of the ordinary ideas whilst studying the human form and identity; working with celebrities regularly, Lachapelle, provides an interpretation of a famous face that the public may not be familiar with.

Alec Soth:
Alec Soth studies identity through his portraiture with some of his books being entitled 'Broken Days', 'Dog Days Bogota' and 'Sleeping by the Mississippi'. Most of Soth's works study regional identity and appear almost like a polaroid picture due to the hue and saturation of the colours; as a result Soth's works evoke an almost nostalgic feeling in the audience.

Richard Avedon:
Avedon is a portrait photographer who focuses mainly in the black and white genre. The three images below are featured in a series entitled 'In the American West'. Like Soth, Richard Avedon studies regional identity, specifically in this series, and evokes a series of questions within an audience. The black and white appears to have been used to exaggerate the forms of the human body in the portraiture but could also symbolise something more deeply about how skin colour is irrelevant.

Portraiture Image Bank -

Portrait - 

Portrait - A painting, drawing, photograph often focusing on an individual.

Portraiture - The art of painting or taking photographs.

My interpretation of portraiture - Any form of image documenting a person or something representative of that person.

Matthieu Bourel:

Matthieu Bourel uses pre-existing photographs which he then dissects to reveal the underneath layers to evoke a sense even unity even in diversity. Most of Bourel's portraiture features vintage period famous actors and actresses well known to the public which he then manipulates.

Dan Mountford: 

Dan Mountford uses the medium of photography but focuses on a technique referred to as 'Double Exposure'.