Top 10 Most Famous Portrait Photographers In The World

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  • The Atlas of Beauty: Women of the World in 500 Portraits

    • ASIN: 0399579958
    • ISBN: 0399579958
    • Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

    Based on the author's online photography project, this stunning collection features portraits of 500 women from more than 50 countries, accompanied by revelatory captions that capture their personal stories. Since 2013 photographer Mihaela Noroc has traveled the world with her backpack and camera taking photos of everyday women to showcase the div... [Read More]

  • National Geographic The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals

    • ASIN: 1426217773
    • ISBN: 1426217773
    • Brand: National Geographic
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic

    The lush and unique photography in this book represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals—especially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion, and art: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore ... [Read More]

  • Ten Times Rosie

    • ASIN: 0956315550
    • ISBN: 0956315550
    • Manufacturer: Rankin Photography

    This fashion-related art book sees photographer Rankin shoot top British model, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, celebrating 10 seasons of edgy clothing-label Thomas Wylde. After casting Rosie for the 2010 Spring/Summer campaign, Rankin and Thomas Wylde CEO Paula Thomas realised that they had found the perfect collaborative triumvirate. Only 22 years old... [Read More]

  • Slim Aarons: Once Upon A Time

    • UPC: 884778392488
    • ASIN: 0810946033
    • ISBN: 0810946033
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    A richly illustrated visual journey inside the lifestyles of the rich and famous features 250 full-color photographs that capture the lives of the international elite--Hollywood stars, European aristocracy, high society mavens, moguls, statesmen, and other luminaries--during the jet-set decades of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

  • Dogs

    • ASIN: 0810996537
    • ISBN: 0810996537
    • Brand: Harry N Abrams
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    Since the wolf first snuck into the caves of our ancestors to take warmth from the fire, dogs have been man’s constant companion. Dogs, multi-award-winning photographer Tim Flach’s stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed Equus, delves deep into the psyche of this enduring bond with Canis familiaris to present an exquisite study of “ma... [Read More]

  • Rubens: A Portrait

    • UPC: 683865012090
    • ASIN: 0815412096
    • ISBN: 0815412096
    • Manufacturer: Cooper Square Press

    The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous "Rubenesque" women. In Oppenheimer's account of his life, Rubens emerges ... [Read More]

  • This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes

    • UPC: 791243653633
    • ASIN: 1579653634
    • ISBN: 1579653634
    • Brand: Brand: Artisan
    • Manufacturer: Artisan

    Fifty-four portraits of women that are striking, beautiful, and real. The bodies in this book have been shaped by the full sweep of the feminine experience. They belong to 54 women from all over the country, ages 19 to 95, of all sizes and shapes, ethnicities, and life experiences, who were willing to expose their naked physical forms in This Is Wh... [Read More]

  • Tim Walker: Story Teller

    • ASIN: 1419705083
    • ISBN: 9781419705083
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    A stunning photography collection from world-renowned fashion photographer Tim Walker, Story Teller showcases his signature fantastic style with some of the biggest names in fashion and contemporary culture. Walker is one of the most exciting photographers of our time, and his flamboyant style—often tongue-in-cheek but always exquisitely executed... [Read More]

  • The Life and Death of Buildings: On Photography and Time

    • ASIN: 0300174357
    • ISBN: 0300174357
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Art Museum

    Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking meditation on architecture in photography explores the intersection between these two ways of embodying the past. Photographs... [Read More]

  • Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age

    • ASIN: 1419708635
    • ISBN: 9781419708633
    • Brand: Graydon Carter
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture―both highbrow and low. From its inception in 1913, through the Jazz Age and the Depression, to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years, to the image-saturated Information Age, Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded... [Read More]

  • Women Seeing Women: From the Early Days of Photography to the Present

    • ASIN: 039305778X
    • ISBN: 039305778X
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    A comprehensive survey of women photographers and their female subjects. Women have been making photographs since the medium's invention, for scientific purposes, to earn a living through portraiture or journalistic activities, and for artistic expression. For almost that long, they have been turning their cameras on other women: at first taking th... [Read More]

  • If I Live to Be 100: The Wisdom of Centenarians

    • ASIN: 1599621355
    • ISBN: 1599621355
    • Brand: Welcome Books
    • Manufacturer: Welcome Books

    More than fifty extraordinary Americans, who have all celebrated their one hundredth birthday, share a century of insights. Paul Mobley has taken his camera on the road once again, this time to photograph America’s oldest and wisest citizens. Mobley traveled to all fifty states to find these indomitable, extraordinary centenarians. In this inspir... [Read More]

  • Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter

    • ASIN: 0374116482
    • ISBN: 0374116482
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    An insider's account―the first of its kind―of the thoroughly unconventional life of one of the twentieth century's most shockingly original paintersLucian Freud's paintings are instantly recognizable: often shocking and disturbing, his portraits convey a profound yet compelling sense of discomfort. Freud was twice married and the father of at l... [Read More]

  • Callas Kissed Me...Lenny Too!: A Critic's Memoir

    • ASIN: 1576874249
    • ISBN: 1576874249
    • Brand: Brand: powerHouse Books
    • Manufacturer: powerHouse Books

    From his extraordinary beginnings—his mother went into labor while gambling at a French casino—to escaping Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and ultimately hoping to conquer New York City, John Gruen writes a subtly revealing self-portrait in Callas Kissed Me…Lenny Too! As a boy unable to speak a single word of English, Gruen was determined to ma... [Read More]

  • National Geographic Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary

    • ASIN: 1426215614
    • ISBN: 1426215614
    • Brand: National Geographic
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic

    National Geographic's dazzling photography book of visual wonders, shot by some of the world's finest photographers, reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. This New York Times bestseller features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heirlooms seldom seen by human eyes. It's all here: 30,00... [Read More]

  • Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

    • ASIN: 0374532338
    • ISBN: 0374532338
    • Brand: Hill Wang
    • Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

    A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any other medium. This ... [Read More]

  • The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand

    • ASIN: 1881337057
    • ISBN: 1881337057
    • Manufacturer: Fraenkel Gallery

    The first publication to focus on the street photos at the core of Winogrand's work, this collection features numerous shots that have never before been printed. 107 duotones.

  • Harry Benson: 50 Years in Pictures

    • ASIN: 0810941716
    • ISBN: 0810941716
    • Brand: Brand: Harry N. Abrams
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    Over a glittering 50-year career, award-winning photojournalist Harry Benson has covered the central events and personalities of our time. With a range that is unequaled-from the Beatles to Bosnia, from world leaders to thousands of the most glamorous celebrities-Benson's unforgettable images have found their way onto the pages (and often the cover... [Read More]

  • Susan Burnstine: Within Shadows

    • ASIN: 8881588110
    • ISBN: 8881588110
    • Manufacturer: Charta

    Susan Burnstine began photographing with homemade cameras made of vintage camera parts, attempting to evoke those fleeting moments of consciousness between dreaming and waking. The landscapes in these lush black-and-white photos are vast and haunted, the human figures diminutive and solitary.

  • Richard Renaldi: Touching Strangers

    • ASIN: 1597112496
    • ISBN: 1597112496
    • Brand: Aperture
    • Manufacturer: Aperture

    Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format 8-by-10-inch view camera, Renaldi encounters the subjects for his photographs in towns and cities all over the United St... [Read More]

  • Top 10 Most Famous Portrait Photographers In The World

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