my inspirations

My Mood board


from the images I places on my mood board I have realised I'm a romantasist, I love the colours and lighting. I also like a retro feel and look to my images, I like my images to tell a story normally of the fantasy or fairytale type

From my mood board I noticed that I had I had included quite a few images the had been created by Annie Leibovitz so thought that would be a good place to start my research.




when researching images I liked the look of, I came across Annies “dream portraits” which was commisioned by Disney parks. when I looked further into annies careet I found some beautiful imagery but mostly after reading interviews and watching her documentary, I really connect to her attitude in the artical (http://www.fastcocreate.com/1683295/annie-leibovitz-on-getting-the-shot-and-the-future-of-photography#1) she shares her views on different aspects of photography, I love that she still choses to work with those that dont negativly impact her creativity and she still doesnt class herself as a great technical photographer, she follows her heart and continues to develop



In the artical “pilgrimage” which was to promote a new project she lists lots of people who have shaped her work over the years:

Henri Cartier-Bresson -August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of photojournalism. He was the master of candid photography and an early user of 35 mm film. He helped develop the street photography or life reportage style, and coined the term, The Decisive Moment, that has inspired generations of photographers ever since.(wikipedia)


He only shot in black and white and never cropped his images so they all have a signature black strip round the ages, he was inspired by the image (right) to take up photography again, Annie purchessed one of his images when she first started making money from photography the second was by

Robert Frank (born November 9, 1924) is an American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider’s view of American society. Critic Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans “changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century.”Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.





Annie was inspired by Joe Eszterhas who wrote famous films such as flashdance, basic instict and showgirls
 Hunter S Thompson who wrote hells angels, the rum diary, fear and loathing in las vegas amongst others

Tom Wolfe- who wrote lots of non fiction including
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)The Pump House Gang (1968)Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970)The New Journalism (1973) (Ed. with EW Johnson)The Painted Word (1975)Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976)

Dame Paula Rego, DBE (born 26 January 1935), is a Portuguese visual artist who is particularly well known for her paintings and prints based on storybooks Rego’s style has evolved from abstract towards representational, and she has favoured pastels over oils for much of her career. Her work often reflects feminism, coloured by folk-themes from her native Portugal. Rego studied at theSlade School of Fine Art and was an exhibiting member of the London Group with David Hockney and Frank Auerbach. She was the first artist-in-residence at the National Gallery in London. She lives and works in London.



When I began to work for Rolling Stone, I started to look at all the Life photographers: Margaret Bourke-White, [Alfred] Eisenstaedt and Larry Burrows, who was the war photographer. Then, when [Rolling Stone] moved to New York [in 1977], I was very lucky to come under the wing of Bea Feitler, the art director who had worked with Alexey Brodovitch and Ruth Ansel, and she brought me into the world of Helmut Newton. She designed Newton’sWhite Womenbook, and she was very good friends with Diane Arbus.

Susan Sontag went to the Metropolitan [Museum of Art in New York] every week. She gulped down culture - she loved New York for that. She couldn’t get enough; she would go back to see a film eight times. I learnt from her about going back again and again to get a different experience. She took me to meet so many people who rounded out my world. I met [stage director] Robert Wilson through her, and I also met [choreographer] Mark Morris through her. [Mikhail] Baryshnikov I met through working for Vanity Fair.

specifically while doing the disney project, Annie researched walt disney himself all his career, as well as researching differerent interpretations of the stories from across the world and the darker side of the fairy stories by the brothers grim

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
Annie Leibovitz


http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2011-12/02/annie-leibovitz-pilgrimage-interview/page/1
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