Contextual Task – Rankin Fashion Programme
Erwin Blumenfeld was born on the 26th of January 1897, he was an American photographer whom was born in berlin and emigrated to the states where e became a very successful and well paid fashion photographer. Erwin worked as a freelance photographer for Harper’s Bazaar and American Vogue.
Erwin started his life in Germany where he worked in the clothes trade and wrote poetry. IN 1918 Erwin went to Amsterdam where he met Paul Citroen and George Grosz. In 1933 he made a photomontage showing Hitler as a skull with a swastika on its forehead which was later used as propaganda material in 1943.
He married Lena Citroen, with whom he had three children, in 1921. In 1922 he started a leather goods shop, which failed in 1935. He moved to Paris, where in 1936 he set up as a photographer and did free-lance work for French vogue. After the outbreak of the Second World War he was placed in an internement camp; in 1941 he was able to emigrate to the United States. There he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photography, and worked as a free-lance photographer or Harpers Bazaar, Life and American Vogue.
Lisa Fonssagrives on Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1939
Leonora Fini, Paris, 1939
Cecil Beaton, Paris, 1937
Jessica is an American photographer from Detroit she has been active since 2012, she does fashion/ portrait photography. She started uploading to YouTube in 2013 these videos she shows her equipment, her skills and hr lifestyle. She started at art school to do what she loved which was graphic design. 2 years after she graduated she stated perusing photography professionally full time.
Jessica uses a Canon 5d mark 4 with a 24-70mm lens, this lens is very versatile meaning she can use it in all different kind of photography. She also used her 35mm and a 50mm which has a shallow depth of field which she likes to use at wedding shoots.
I think Jessica’s images are a lot different from Erwin’s photography’s as Jessica’s has more of a flow between the clothing the models has on and the lighting used to light them. Erwin’s images is more of an abstract feel. I prefer Jessica’s images as it is more eye catching to me and brighter.
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