Photography Research

First photographer I am going to lok at is Gered Mankowidz (born 3 august 1946) is a British photograperh of rock music scene over last 40 years. Some of his portraits of rock musicians, such as The rolling Stones, Jimi Hendric and Slade, are now part of the permanent collection of the National Portait Gallery.

After attending several North London progressive schools he left devoid of any academic qualifications aged 15 and served a short but intensive apprenticeship with the legendary photographer Tom Blau at Camera Press Ltd, having been inspired to pursue photography by the actor Peter Sellers.
After two years of assisting in various different fields of photography Gered established his first studio in Masons Yard, in the very heart of 60s swinging London in 1963.
Through working with folk/pop duo Chad & Jeremy he met and photographed Marianne Faithfull who was managed by the mercurial Andrew Loog Oldham, who also managed the Rolling Stones.

Gered started working with the Rolling Stones in 1965; he toured America with them later that year and produced several album covers for the band. He continued working with them on a regular basis until 1967 by which time Gered was established as one of London’s leading rock photographers.
Over the past 45 years Gered has continued to work in the music business as well as supplying many leading magazines with celebrity portraits and also finding time to take prize winning images for the advertising industry.

Currently Gered has been concentrating on books and exhibitions as well as selling prints and producing small editions of large Lenticular prints, trying to satisfy the considerable global interest that has built up in his archive.

In 2009 Gered was one of the panel of judges for the Sony World Photography Awards sharing the role with some of the most famous names in photography including, Mary Ellen Mark, Bruce Davidson and Sarah Moon. He has recently moved his studio and home to Cornwall and is also a part-time lecturer at University College Falmouth.

Some of Gered's photos

This photo its a great example of what Amy wants in some of her pictures, its colourful but at the same time is not, make it look really interesting becuse the only colourful part on this photo are the clothes he's wearing. I might use this idea for Amy's photo shoot.


Photos of the Rolling Stones by Gered

Gered's role models in photography- The early photographers, the people who really influenced me particularly, were Irving Penn, an American photographer who is absolutely wonderful, Richard Avedon and a portrait photographer called Arnold Newman, a guy called Yousuf Karsh - he was a very inspiring portrait photographer. And then of course older more historical figures - Stieglitz, Man Ray, I was interested in all of these people without really knowing very much about them. Probably the two most influential were Irving Penn and Richard Avedon.

The second photographer I am going to look at is Todd Young  he is an American photographer  specializing in live music photography and bands portraits. He graduated from Washington University in St.Luis. He's work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, The New York Times, SPIN, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Alternative Press, The WallStreet Jurnal, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice and Harper's Bazaar. He's clients include America Express, Wrangle Jeans, Fuse TV, Atlantic Records, Universal Music Group, Live Nation, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, JH audio and Dave Matthews.                    

Specializing  

• Music Photography 
• Band Portraits
• Tour Photography 
• Whoop Ass

 photos by Todd:

   

Photographer Michael Robert Williams grew up in the small town of Congleton, just south of Manchester in North West England. Some time later he moved to London armed with a camera, a photography degree, enough money to live on for a couple of months, and whatever would fit in the back of the car. Still based in London, today Michael is well known for his portraits of musicians, including The Killers, Oasis, Kasabian, La Roux, Ian Brown, Ellie Goulding, Pixie Lott, Biffy Clyro, Kaiser Chiefs, and Portishead to name just a few, and other celebrities from the worlds of sport, film, and music. His portraits have featured in many publications around the world, including Filter, Clash, Uncut, Time, Die Zeit, 944, FMS, and NME. In addition to portraits for magazines Michael has produced artwork and promotional images for record labels and artist management, and commercial clients including adidas, Philips, and American Rag Clothing. Although always shooting, when not on assignment Michael enjoys travel, music, and films. Some of Michael's work.

My clients idea for the photo shoot :


Location- studio


Amy wants to be shoot in the photography studio, she wants a mixture of photos with different lightinig and different colours, she wants some of the photos to be more colourful and bright and some of to be more toned and natural (sepia).

Those photos of Adele are a great examlpe because the colours and the lightning that they use create the atmosphere that Amy is going for, they are not to bright and mainly focused on the natural colour which makea Adeles face stand out more, thoso photos look very natural and thats the kind of thing i want to focus on, i want Amy to look very natural and feminie mainly Im going to focus on her face and eyes.  

Those two are good examples of more bright and colourful photos, I think that I will use white background because it looks more natural and it reflects the lights better (for example when u want to create the shadow effect).  I also think that i will change the lightning during the shot just to get some different photos, it will make it look more interesting