Photo: Openbilled stork at sunset, Thailand.
Photographer and photo copyright: Soren Breiting, Stock photography from A-Z Fotos
Photo: Common mynah in tree with red flowers with mountain in the background, Thailand.
Photographer and photo copyright:: Soren Breiting, Stock photography from A-Z Fotos
Photo of
long-legged flies mating, with white hands. Taken in Thailand.
Title of the photo: ' White hands on'. Get this
picture
of Long-legged flies copulating in Thailand.
Photographer and photo copyright:: Soren Breiting, One of the stock photos from A-Z Fotos.
Each of us who are passionate about photography will from time to time take really good pictures: top photos. But to be a real top-photographer you need to take thousands of outstanding photos that separate you from the main stream photography and stile.
Not only should the technical quality of the pictures of a top-photographer be at the top but also the idea behind the photos and the general creativity should be outstanding to be called a top-photographer.
Another aspect is the acceptance of your work at your contemporary time. May be it is needed that you are recognized as a top-photographer already during your life to really earn the title, a top-photographer?
All the photographers mentioned in the menu to the right deserve the title top-photographers but how many of these will stand the test of time only time will show - after us.
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Books with Top Photographers
Landscape
Landscape: The World's Top Photographers and the Stories Behind Their Greatest Images (Worlds Top Photographers) by Terry Hope. RotoVision.
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Wildlife
The
World's Top Photographers and the Stories Behind Their
Greatest Images: Wildlife
By Terry Hope.
(Worlds Top Photographers). RotoVision.
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Portraits
The
World's Top Photographers: Portraits
And the Stories Behind Their Greatest Images by
Fergus Greer. RotoVision.
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Nudes
The
World's Top Photographers: Nudes
And the Stories Behind Their Greatest Images
by Anthony LaSala
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World series from RotoVision
The
World's Top Photographers: Landscape
And the Stories Behind Their Greatest Images
by Terry Hope
"A stunning collection of photographs and a highly informative book." Geographical Magazine (UK)
The World’s Top Photographers: Landscape is packed with shots of beautiful landscapes. The work of contributors such as Charlie Waite, Michael Busselle, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Jim Brandenburg, and the late Galen Rowell graces the pages of magazines such as National Geographic and Geo, and is exhibited worldwide. In The World's Top Photographers: Landscape, they and other top photographers tell the stories behind some of their favourite images. With anecdotes, tips, and technical details, this book gives a fascinating insight into the creative processes behind the photographs. There is also a brief biography of each photographer, with a bibliography of his or her published work.
The book features stunning images of some of the world’s most beautiful natural landscapes, from the Scottish Highlands to Monument Valley, and includes forests, mountains, oceans, deserts, and meadows.
Three other titles are now available in the stunning 'World's Top Photographers series': Wildlife, also by Terry Hope, Portraits by Fergus Greer, and Nudes, by Anthony La Sala.
About The Author
Terry Hope is a regular contributor to the UK's national press, including The Times and The Guardian. He is the author of a number of books for RotoVision, including Portraits, Nudes, and Photo-Journalism in the Black and White Photography series, Extreme Photography, and Fine Art Photography.
Read more about the books on photography with Top Photographers at RotoVision.
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World series from RotoVision
The
World's Top Photographers: Wildlife
And the Stories Behind their Greatest Images
by Terry Hope
"The great names are all here." Amateur Photographer
Stunning images from the world's most acclaimed wildlife photographers have been brought together for the first time in this elegant collection of photographs.
The work of Frans Lanting, Art Wolfe, Jim Bandenburg, Heather Angel, and Stephen Dalton is renowned, gracing the pages of magazines such as National Geographic and Geo and the walls of galleries across the world. In The World's Top Photographers - Wildlife, they and other top photographers tell the stories behind some of their favourite images in their own words. With anecdotes, tips and technical details, this book gives a fascinating insight into the creative processes behind some of the most beautiful wildlife photographs. There is also a brief biography of each photographer, which includes a bibliography of his or her published work.
This book is also available in a new paperback edition.
The other titles in the 'World's Top Photographers' series are: Landscape, also by Terry Hope, Portraits by Fergus Greer, and the forthcoming Nudes by Anthony LaSala.
About The Author
Terry Hope is a regular contributor to the UK's national press, including The Times and The Guardian. He is the author of a number of books for RotoVision, including Portraits, Nudes, and Photo-Journalism in the Black and White Photography series, Extreme Photography, and Fine Art Photography.
Read more about the books on photography with Top Photographers at RotoVision.
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World series from RotoVision
The
World's Top Photographers: Portraits
And the Stories Behind Their Greatest Images
by Fergus Greer
Stunning portraits by 40 of the world’s finest portrait photographers
From instantly recognisable celebrities, models, actors, and politicians, to the so-called “ordinary” people, Portraits presents a stunning collection of photography.
The book features the work of such eminent practitioners as Chris Buck, Patrick Lichfield, Lord Snowdon, David Bailey, Terry O'Neill, Yousef Karsh, Martin Parr and Rankin, alongside their personal anecdotes and professional tips and secrets.
Portraits will appeal both to the professional and to the amateur photographer who wishes to learn from the best in the field, to celebrity buffs and glossy coffee table literature collectors, as well as to the many satisfied readers of the previous two titles in the series, Landscape, and Wildlife, both by Terry Hope.
About The Author
Fergus Greer is a well-established UK-born, LA-based photographer who has worked with photographers of the calibre of Terence Donovan and Richard Avedon. He has contributed to many magazines, including Vanity Fair, New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, GQ, and Esquire; has worked for top advertising agencies; has headlined various major photography shows, and has authored and contributed to various books.
Read more about the books on photography with Top Photographers at RotoVision.
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World series from RotoVision
The
World's Top Photographers: Nudes
And the Stories Behind Their Greatest Images
by Anthony LaSala
For
anyone who admires the human form, The World’s Top Photographers:
Nudes presents a stunning collection of photography.
The naked body is perhaps the most popular subject in the history of
photography. This book features the work of such eminent practitioners
as Bob Carlos Clarke, Bettina Rheims, Ralph Gibson, David Penprase and
Kenro Izu, alongside their personal anecdotes and professional tips
and secrets.
Nudes will appeal both to the professional and to the amateur photographer who wishes to learn from the best in the field, to celebrity buffs and glossy coffee table literature collectors, as well as to the many satisfied readers of the previous three titles in the series, Landscape, and Wildlife, both by Terry Hope, and Portraits by Fergus Greer.
Read More about Guido Argentini below
About The Author
Anthony LaSala is a Senior Editor at the award-winning US monthly magazine for professional photographers, Photo District News. He has also been a regular contributor to a number of US national magazines as well as guest curator at New York’s Alice Austen House Museum. He is a nominee for Photo Editor of the Year at the 2004 International Photography Awards.
LaSala lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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More about top photographer of nudes: Guido Argentini
Profile of Guido Argentini
The photographs of Guido Argentini are like sculptures that have come to life. Women’s bodies, dipped in silver, glisten and flash. Others blend with the natural environment, balanced on waves of sand, or beached on outcrops of granite.
Argentini has a passion for dance and for the sculpting of human forms in metal and stone. His images are a reflection of that. “I was heavily influenced by the art of Constantin Brancusi, whose primeval sculptures of polished bronze made me aware of the fascination of the absolute,” he says. “That is why I used silver paint to emphasize the body form of my models.”
Silvereye (teNeues, 2003) is a vibrant collection of images that took 12 years to make. As well as his studies of bodies covered in a metallic sheen, it is Argentini’s geometric studies that set his work apart. Subjects interact with circles, squares, and triangles, twisting their bodies to harmonize with the shapes. The resulting compositions are homages to both form and flesh.
“In some cases, I have made use of certain structural elements that are based on a pattern of elementary geometric figures, such as the triangle and the square, which I used to confine a space. In other cases, I chose the desert or the sea. These two aspects are not contradictory, since in both cases I wanted to convey a sense of the infinite,” he explains. “In the first case, I resorted to a rather abstract, mathematical approach; in the second, I made use of a landscape that is authentic, but not subject to temporal limitations.”
Born in 1966 in Florence, Italy, Argentini originally studied medicine at the University of Florence. Although he always loved photography (his first photo session was with his girlfriend at the age of 17), it wasn’t until he was 23 that he focused his attention on it as a career. Inspired by Helmut Newton’s and Guy Bourdin’s success in “creating a new way to look at women,” Argentini moved to the United States and began a career that has seen him shooting for dozens of major magazines, including Vogue, Maxim, Playboy, Men’s Health, and Marie Claire. He now splits his time between Los Angeles, Miami, and his original home in Florence.
His devotion to nude photography stems from his love and dreams of women. “The women I portray represent the abstraction of beauty to a far greater extent than reflecting traditional aesthetic values that the world of fashion takes so much to heart,” he says. “The energy that flows between me and my model is stronger and more intense when I am alone with the model. The personal relationship that develops between the photographer and the model is of decisive importance and the basis of the final result. And because that is so, I am prepared to wait a long time until I find the right subject for a particular idea.
“I have seen how strongly the model’s attitude depends on the personality of the photographer and on the type of attraction that unfolds between the two, and that there is an interdependence that necessarily has to do with sexuality. Just think of Helmut Newton’s and Bettina Rheims’s photographs in comparison with those of Herb Ritts and Bruce Weber.”
Still using the same camera that he has had since he was 20 years old—a Hasselblad—Argentini has continued his study of the nude with a “more erotic” follow-up to Silvereye.
“Nude photography is a difficult subject, probably the most difficult of all,” he explains, “but for this very reason it is also the most stimulating—it is a continual challenge. It is a walk on a tightrope requiring a steady gait, for it carries the risk of plummeting into pornography on the one hand or plunging into banality on the other.
“Some photographs of nudes have been so heavily retouched by computer that the bodies look as though they are made of plastic,” he continues. “Do I insult anyone by saying that some photographers just betray their lack of self-confidence that way? My understanding of the quest for perfection is not the battle against scars or other blemishes, which is conducted with such vehemence that it annihilates the energy contained in the picture. For me, perfection is truth and vitality.”
Guido Argentini is one of thirty three photographers whose career and
work is profiled in The World’s Top Photographers - Nudes from
Rotovision, se above.
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more about the books
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Digital Cameras
Many Top photographers are nowadays using digital cameras from Canon
Top photographersJoe McNally (One of the most successful contemporary story telling photographers)Annie Leibovitz (portrait photographer with provocative portraits of celebrities, Rolling Stones and extravagant fashion)James Balog (Unconventional photographer of animals, trees and landscapes)Steve Bloom (Wildlife photographer and artist in photography)Marc Hom (Fashion photographer and celebrity photographer)Pete Turner (The modern master of color photography)Ernst Haas (The father of color photography. Portraits, locations etc.)Franz Lanting (World famous wildlife photographer)Arthur Morris (The master of bird photography in close-ups)Tui de Roy (A world-renowned wildlife photographer)Sebastiao Salgado (Captive photography of people in need and at risk)Manuel Alvarez Bravo (The famous Mexican photographer)Alfred Stieglitz (A classic master of black and white photography)Adam Jones (Fine photography of landscapes, nature, calender photos etc.)Guio Argentini (Nude photography with challenging nude pictures, books, calenders)Richard Avedon (Portrait photographer, celebrities photographer and fashion photographer)Art Wolfe wildlife photographer, expedition photograherMore Masters of photography
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