Photogs

After perusing all 50 photographers, I found myself liking all the same styles.  Hard to narrow down. Here are the six finalists:

Horst P. Horst

 

Horst P. Horst (most often known as just Horst) was a photographer best known for his photographs of women and fashion taken while working for Vogue. Horst rented an apartment in New York in 1937, and while residing there met Coco Chanel, whom he called "the queen of the whole thing". He would photograph her fashions for three decades. Horst is best known for his photographs of women and fashion, but is also recognized for his photographs of interior architecture, still lifes, especially ones including plants, and environmental portraits.  His method of work typically entailed careful preparation for the shoot, with the lighting and studio props arranged in advance. His published work uses lighting to pick out the subject.

some Horst bio    bio and photos

Mario Testino 

Testino has become one of the world's most well known and celebrated fashion photographers. His work has been featured across the globe in magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and V and he has crafted and contributed to the imagery of leading fashion houses such as Burberry, Gucci, Versace, Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, Salvatore Ferragamo, Estee Lauder, Hugo Boss, Miu Miu, Shiseido and Michael Kors, among many others. As well as having published nine books of his work and edited one other dedicated to contemporary art and artists from his native Peru, Mario Testino has had many successful exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world.
his page      some work


Terry Richardson

Terry Richardson is an international celebrity as well as one of the most prolific and compelling photographers of his generation. Known for his uncanny ability to cut to the raw essence of whomever appears before his lens, Mr. Richardson's vision is at once humorous, tragic, often beautiful, and always provocative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Richardson   http://www.terryrichardson.com/bio.html


Tim Walker

Tim Walker is a photgrapher based in London. Tim’s interest in photography began during work experience at Condé Nast where he set up the Cecil Beaton archive.
http://visualstreak.com/2008/06/07/tim-walker-fashion-photographer/   http://www.timwalkerphotography.com/ 

William Eggleston

William Eggleston (born July 27, 1939), is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries—which, until the 1970s, often tended to privilege work by photographers making black-and-white prints. 
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1206729/bio   http://www.egglestontrust.com/ 

Yousuf Karsh

Karsh was a master in the use of studio lights. One aspect of Karsh's portrait is the emphasis on the lighting the subject's hands separately. He photographed many of the great and celebrated personalities of his generation. Journalist George Perry wrote in London's Sunday Times that "…when the famous start thinking of immortality, they call for Karsh of Ottawa."

http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Karsh_Yousuf.html   http://www.karsh.org/