3. Nick Knight Biography
Nick Knight, Director of SHOWstudio, is among
the world's most influential photographers. He
has won numerous awards for his editorial
work for Vogue, Dazed & Confused, i-D, The
Face and Visionaire, as well as for fashion and
advertising projects for clients including
Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Christian
Dior, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves
Saint Laurent. Knight has also shot record
covers for Björk, David Bowie, Kylie and
Massive Attack.
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4. Nick Knight
As a fashion photographer, Nick Knight has
consistently challenged conventional notions of
beauty. His first book of photographs,
Skinheads, was published in 1982. He has
since produced Nicknight, a twelve year
retrospective, and Flora, a series of flower
pictures, both published by Schirmer Mosel.
Knight's work has been exhibited at such
institutions as the Victoria & Albert Museum,
Saatchi Gallery, the Photographers Gallery and
Hayward
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17. Corrine Day
Corinne Day made a distinctive contribution
to fashion photography in the early 1990's.
She was one of the pioneers of a style that
is candid and hard-hitting. Day continues to
work for style magazines such as Ray Gun,
Dazed and Confused and Vogue Homme
International.
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18. Corrine Day
In contrast to the traditional and glamorous
image which dominated fashion photography
during the late 1980's, Day’s work represents a
more informal, confrontational and
confessional approach to the medium. She has
used unconventional, and sometimes
androgynous models to question the gender
stereotyping found in the mainstream media
and magazines.
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24. Glen Luchford
Glen Luchford is a young photographer who
reinvigorated British commercial photography
in the early 1990's in such magazines as i-D
and The Face. His images for the 1997
campaign for the fashion house Prada
received considerable acclaim.
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25. Glen Luchford
Luchford’s work to date has been mysterious
and suggestive of stills from a film where the
motivations of the central characters must be
unravelled and completed by the viewer. He
has recently exhibited with painter Jenny
Saville in New York.
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30. Mario Testino: Biography
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One of fashion's most sought-after snappers,
Mario Testino was born in 1954 in Lima, Peru.
He came to London in 1976, took a flat in an
abandoned hospital near Trafalgar Square,
and began selling portfolios (for £25, including
hair and make-up) to wannabe models.
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31. Mario Testino
Today he is best known for his highly polished,
exotically bright ad campaigns and his
exquisitely styled photographs of the couture
scene all of which carry a deceptive air of
nonchalance.
Now at the top of his profession, Testino has
shot Madonna for Versace as well as
photographing the late Diana, Princess of Wales
for her famous Vanity Fair cover in 1997.
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32. Mario Testino
His popularity with designers and fashion editors
stems as much from his professionalism and
good nature as his unerring ability to take
beautiful pictures which sell clothes.
Testino is also credited with bringing to an end
the reign of the ubermodel: rather than pay the
exorbitant fees demanded by Linda, Naomi et al,
in the early Nineties Testino championed a new
breed of model, including Kate Moss.
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