- Mario Testino
Mario Testino (born 1954) is a London-based fashion photographer. Mario Testino was born in Lima, Peru. He was a pupil at the American School of Lima. He subsequently studied economics at the Universidad del Pacifico, law at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and international relations at the University of San Diego, California (USA). In 1976, Testino moved to London, England, (taking a flat within an abandoned hospital near Trafalgar sqaure), … - Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. Avedon was able to take his early success in fashion photography and expand it into the realm of fine art. - Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter born at Innsbrucker Straße 24 in Berlin- Schöneberg, Germany, was a German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women. The son of a German-Jewish button-factory owner and an American mother, Newton attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin. Interested in photography from a young age, he worked for the German photographer Yva (Else Neulander Simon). - Mario Sorrenti
Mario Sorrenti (born 1971) is a photographer best known for his spreads of nude models in the pages of "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar". Sorrenti was born in Naples, Italy, but moved to New York City at the age of ten where he is still based. He is the son of New York based advertiser, Francesca Sorrenti. He has had exhibitions in London (Victoria and Albert Museum), Paris, Monaco and New York (Museum of Modern Art). - David Lachapelle
David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963 Fairfield, Connecticut, United States) is a photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique and often humorous style. - Steven Meisel
Steven Meisel is an American photographer, who obtained popular acclaim with his work in US and Italian "Vogue" and his photographs of friend Madonna in the latter's 1992 book "Sex" designed by Fabien Baron. He is now considered one of the most successful fashion photographers in the industry, shooting regularly for both US and Italian "Vogue" and lately "W" (also edited by Condé Nast). - Terry Richardson
Terry Richardson (born 1965) is an American photographer. Richardson was born in New York City, raised in Hollywood, California, and is the son of fashion photographer Bob Richardson. Richardson began photographing his environment while attending Hollywood High School and playing in a punk rock band. He has shot advertisements for fashion designers, including Gucci, Levi's, Hugo Boss, Anna Molinari, Baby Phat, Matsuda, and Sisley. - Patrick Demarchelier
Patrick Demarchelier is a French-born fashion photographer. Born in Le Havre in 1943, Demarchelier has lived in New York City since 1975. He has worked for magazines such as "Glamour", "Mademoiselle", "Vogue", "GQ", and "Rolling Stone". Since 1992 he has worked with "Harper's Bazaar", becoming its premier photographer. Demarchelier was awarded the contract for the 2005 Pirelli Calendar. - Irving Penn
Irving Penn (b. 16 June 1917) is an American photographer, born in New Jersey. Known primarily for his fashion photography, Penn's work shows a unique vision and a wide range of subjects. - Guy Bourdin
Guy Bourdin (born December 2 1928 in Paris, died March 29 1991 of cancer in Paris) was one of the best known photographers of fashion and advertising of the second half of the 20th century. He worked for "Vogue" magazine from 1955 onwards for roughly 30 years. His work for "Vogue", together with another Seventies famous fashion photographer, Helmut Newton defied the standards, ideas and theories about fashion photography in general. - Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits in the style of classical Greek sculpture. Consequently some of his more famous pieces are of male and female nudes in what can be called glamour photography. He was born in Los Angeles, California to a prosperous family who owned a furniture business. - Peter Lindbergh
Peter Lindbergh, (born "Peter Brodbeck", November 23, 1944) is a German fashion photographer. Lindbergh was born in Lissa, Germany and grew up in Duisburg. He studied painting in art school, but began photography in 1971 and established himself as an advertising photographer. Moving to Paris in 1978, to concentrate on high-fashion, he photographed many top models including Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Tatjana Patitz. - Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (January 14, 1904 - January 18, 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. - Janice Dickinson
Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 15 1955) Supermodel fashion photographer, actress, author and an agent. She has also recently opened her own modeling agency, the "Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency". - Ellen von Unwerth
Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954 in Germany) is a photographer and director, specializing in erotic femininity. She worked as a fashion model for ten years herself before moving behind the camera, and now makes fashion, editorial, and advertising photographs. Ellen von Unwerth found fame when she first photographed Claudia Schiffer for Guess? Jeans. She has been published in top magazines like "Vogue", "Vanity Fair", "Interview", "The Face", … - Melvin Sokolsky
Melvin Sokolsky (born in 1933) is an American photographer and film director. Born in New York City, Sokolsky had no formal training in photography, but started to use his father's box camera at about the age of ten. Always analytical, he started to realize the role that emulsion played as he compared his own photographs with those his father had kept in albums through the years. - Gilles Bensimon
Gilles Bensimon is a top fashion photographer and the Creative Manager of ELLE magazine. He has also been the photographer on the Reality TV series America's Next Top Model. Born in Paris, France in 1944, he joined the French ELLE in 1967, where he met his first wife Pascha. When the American ELLE was launched in 1985, Bensimon was invited to join it. Here he photographed many well-known models, including Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, … - Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for "Life" magazine and as the director of the 1971 film "Shaft". - Jay Manuel
Jay Manuel (born August 14, 1972) is a Canadian make-up artist and fashion photographer, most recognizable as the creative director of photo shoots on the popular reality television show "America's Next Top Model" and the host of the last cycle of "Canada's Next Top Model". Manuel was born in Scarborough, Ontario, to an Italian mother and Somalian father. He and friend J. Alexander, also an "America's Next Top Model" personality, … - Francesco Scavullo
Francesco Scavullo was a prominent American fashion photographer best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan Magazine and his celebrity portraits. Scavullo was born in Staten Island, New York but when he was six, his family moved to Manhattan, where his father had purchased an upscale supper club. Although Scavullo's father had wanted his son to follow him into the family business, the young Scavullo had other plans, displaying an early interest in fashion. - Robert Altman
Robert Mark Altman (born October 20,1944) is an American photographer. Altman attended Hunter College at the City University of New York. After graduation, Altman was taught photography by Ansel Adams. He was soon hired as a photojournalist by "Rolling Stone" magazine. Following his early success as chief staff photographer for "Rolling Stone" he expanded into the realm of fashion photography and fine art. - Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Jean-Baptiste Mondino is a French fashion photographer and music video director. He has directed music videos for Madonna, Chris Isaak, David Bowie, Sting, Björk, China Moses (Dee Dee Bridgewater's daughter) and Les Rita Mitsouko. The video for Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer", which Mondino directed, swept the MTV Video Music Awards in 1985, winning the "best video", "best direction" (by Mondino), "best art direction" and "best cinematography". - Norman Parkinson
Norman Parkinson, CBE (born London April 21 1913, died 1990) was a celebrated English portrait and fashion photographer. - Craig McDean
Craig McDean (b. 1964, England) is a British fashion and portrait photographer based in New York City. McDean began his photographic career in London as a photographer's assistant to photographer Nick Knight. His early editorial work was featured in magazines such as "i-D" and "The Face", which led to advertising campaign work for clients such as Jill Sander and Calvin Klein. - Albert Watson
Albert Watson (born 1942) is a Scottish fashion photographer, who writes and lectures on photography. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of a physical education teacher and a boxer. He grew up in Penicuik, Midlothian, and attended the Rudolph Steiner School in Edinburgh and Lasswade High School, followed study at the Duncan of Jordonstone College of Art in Dundee and the Royal College of Art in London. - Horst P. Horst
Horst P. Horst, born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann, and most often known as just Horst was a photographer best known for his photographs of women and fashion taken while working for Vogue. - Thierry Mugler
Thierry Mugler, born 1948 in Strasbourg, France is a fashion designer, photographer, and creator of a fashion design company of the same name. While he was trained as a ballet dancer, he also studied design and created garments for friends. He moved to Paris in 1970 and worked as a window-dresser, designing clothing as a side job. He founded his label for women in 1974, and began designing for men four years later. - Erwin Blumenfeld
Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was a famous American photographer of German origin. In the 1930s, he published collages mocking Adolf Hitler. In 1936, he emigrated to Paris. With the German occupation, he was interned in a concentration camp in 1940 because he was Jewish. In 1941, he could escape to the USA. In the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for his fashion photography, working for "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar", and also for artistic nude photography. - Terence Donovan
Terence Donovan, was a celebrated photographer and film director, perhaps best remembered for his fashion photography of the 1960s, or for the music video to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love". He was born in Stepney in the East End of London, and took his first photo at the age of 15. The bomb-damaged industrial landscape of his home town became the backdrop of much of his fashion photography, … - Eugenio Recuenco
Eugenio Recuenco is a Spanish fashion photographer. The creative department of many catalogues and agencies defined his style as "cinematographic" or "pictorial". In Spain he shoots exclusively for Vogue. Among others international magazines he works for Madame Figaro. His campaigns include prestigious brands such as Chanel (Spanish market), Boucheron, Carolina Herrera, Louis Vuitton (Spanish market), Custo Barcelona, Carrera y Carrera, Caramelo, Cimarrón, Caroche, … - George Hoyningen-Huene
Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (1900 - 1968) was a seminal fashion photographer of the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Russia to Baltic German and American parents and spent his working life in France, England and the United States. - Max Vadukul
Max Vadukul (born Manoj Kumar on 2 February 1961, in Nairobi, Kenya) is a self-taught British photographer. Celebrated for his surreal, quirky style, Vadukul's photography captures images with a raw elegance in the realm of fashion, music, advertising and portraiture. - Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Louise Emma Augusta Dahl was a photographer, known primarily for her work for Harper's Bazaar with fashion editor Diana Vreeland. Born to Norwegian parents, Dahl-Wolfe was known for taking photographs outdoors, with natural light in distant locations from South America to Africa in what became known as "environmental" fashion photography. She married sculptor Meyer Wolfe, who constructed the backgrounds of many of her photos. - Greg Kadel
Greg Kadel is a US born fashion photographer and film maker based in New York City. He was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Long Island University where he double majored in marine biology and fine arts. Kadel divides his time between New York and Paris. His images have been published in American "Vogue", "Vogue" Italia, "Numero", "Vogue" Nippon, "Vogue" UK, "L'Uomo Vogue", "Visionaire", "i-D", … - Glen Luchford
Glen Luchford is a British fashion photographer and film director. Luchford first signed with the New York Agency, Art and Commerce, at the age of 24. In 1997, he signed exclusively to Prada, and has since shot advertising campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Levi's, Mercedes-Benz and Calvin Klein. He has collaborated extensively with British artist Jenny Saville and has had editorial work featured in magazines such as "Arena", "i-D", "UK, … - Milton H. Greene
Milton H. Greene (March 14, 1922 in New York City - August 8, 1985) was a famous fashion and celebrity photographer. He is probably best known for the photoshoots he did with Marilyn Monroe. - Brian Smith
Brian Smith is an American photographer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games in the "Orange County Register". In 1988, he was again a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of Haiti in Turmoil for the "Miami Herald". His photograph of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games won top awards from World Press Photo, … - George Platt Lynes
George Platt Lynes (15 April 1907 - 6 December 1955) was an American fashion and commercial photographer. Born in East Orange, New Jersey to Adelaide (Sparkman) and Joseph Russell Lynes he spent his childhood in New Jersey but attended the Berkshire School in Massachusetts. He was sent to Paris in 1925 with the idea of better preparing him for college. His life was forever changed by the circle of friends that he would meet there. - Maya Guez
Maya Guez was born in 1980 in Israel. She is a noted fashion photographer and makeup artist based in New York. She has worked with many publications and companies across the world doing fashion, beauty and glamour photography. Guez was brought up in a poor family with 4 siblings and a sick father. She put herself through school and after finishing a 4 year study of fine arts in Israel, she continued onto private photography school and fashion design school. - Sacha Dean Biyan
Sacha Dean Bïyan is a fashion photographer and photojournalist. Biyan was born on October 1, 1968 and grew up in Montreal, Canada. He holds a Master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering and worked as a consultant in the aerospace industry before diverting his full attention to photography. Although he had no formal training in photography, he began experimenting with cameras, film and darkroom techniques at an early age.
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