Since we are currently working on portrait / fashion retouching in class, I decided to write about a
photographer who lately has been straddling the line between fashion and art photography. Annie
Leibovitz is undoubtedly one of the best art photographers of our time, yet she is also a chief photographer for
Vogue magazine as well as many other mainstream publications. How has she miraculously been able to walk the thin line between commercial and art photography? I think that it has to do with her innate ability to make fashion spreads both glamorous and interesting at the same time. She does the cosmetic touch-ups by airbrushing the faces, thinning out the figures, etc. Yet she starts with creating extraordinary scenes and subject matter that can allure both the public eye as well as art lovers and critics. She is always able to
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nize the celebrities and supermodels that she shoots by taking a typical portrait an making it unusual and interesting while still keeping the subject's beauty intact.
Since we are currently working on portrait / fashion retouching in class, I decided to write about a photographer who lately has been straddling the line between fashion and art photography. Annie Leibovitz is undoubtedly one of the best art photographers of our time, yet she is also a chief photographer for Vogue magazine as well as many other mainstream publications. How has she miraculously been able to walk the thin line between commercial and art photography? I think that it has to do with her innate ability to make fashion spreads both glamorous and interesting at the same time. She does the cosmetic touch-ups by airbrushing the faces, thinning out the figures, etc. Yet she starts with creating extraordinary scenes and subject matter that can allure both the public eye as well as art lovers and critics. She is always able to ico
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