1. In a league of their own: Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton. They produced work that was technically perfect, immediately distinguishable yet never repetetive, eery+interesting and breathtakingly beautiful. This his the kind of body of work I can just not understand how they could accomplish. If I had to choose I think I would go with Bourdin since his non-fashion work is almost as good as his fashion stuff. Helmut Newton was too much into the freaky stuff - just photographically living out his most disgusting fascinations and desires - he was in desperate need of a few dominatrix editors to focus on what might be remotely interesting (clothes, faces, beauty).
2. Avedon and Scavullo - the same as the above but not eery+interesting. Just to die for exquisitely beautiful. Avedon was somehow profound but Scavullo had a unparallelled sense for glamour and his vision of beauty is much closer to mine, which of course leads me to worship his work...
3. von Wangenheim and Man Ray - very interesting, almost flawless and with some of the best ideas I've ever seen. Sexy.
4. Irving Penn, Steven Meisel, Mario Testino, Nathaniel Goldberg and Arthur Elgort: Penn is flawless but his work doesn't resonate as well with me as Avedon or Scavullo - of course he is awesome, though. Meisel - sometimes he nails it like Penn, Avedon or Scavullo but he produces some work (reminiscent of Roversi or Lindbergh and completely devoid of decadence or drama) that I just don't care for at all. Testino - borders on boring and can be sloppy (or so it seems to me) but when he nails it he is awesome and has the talent for glamour that can come close to Scavullo's - only with that twist - he really is the ideal swimsuit issue man even though he has a surprisingly romantic side to his talent (I recently discovered this lush Christy Turlington British Vogue country side style editorial which made me swoon). Elgort - this is the man for sweet and romantic yet realistic photography - I love it. Goldberg almost always does great stuff - he's on his way up and he has an integrity and a meditative stringency (reminiscent of Avedon) that I admire.
5. Hans Feurer and Otto Stupakoff: Some of the sexiest stuff I've ever seen is Feurer's 70s Paris Vogue work. I also would like to see a lot more of Otto Stupakoff - I haven't seen enough but his late 70s Paris Vogue stuff rocked.
I also enjoy most of the work of [Albert Watson, Demarchelier, David Bailey, Ellen von Umwerth, Thierry le Guoues and Pakchanian] and some of the work of [Leibowitz, Andrea Blanch, David LaChapelle, Mert&Marcus, Ineez&Vinoodh, Camilla Akrans, Jimmy Backius and Craig McDean].
2. Avedon and Scavullo - the same as the above but not eery+interesting. Just to die for exquisitely beautiful. Avedon was somehow profound but Scavullo had a unparallelled sense for glamour and his vision of beauty is much closer to mine, which of course leads me to worship his work...
3. von Wangenheim and Man Ray - very interesting, almost flawless and with some of the best ideas I've ever seen. Sexy.
4. Irving Penn, Steven Meisel, Mario Testino, Nathaniel Goldberg and Arthur Elgort: Penn is flawless but his work doesn't resonate as well with me as Avedon or Scavullo - of course he is awesome, though. Meisel - sometimes he nails it like Penn, Avedon or Scavullo but he produces some work (reminiscent of Roversi or Lindbergh and completely devoid of decadence or drama) that I just don't care for at all. Testino - borders on boring and can be sloppy (or so it seems to me) but when he nails it he is awesome and has the talent for glamour that can come close to Scavullo's - only with that twist - he really is the ideal swimsuit issue man even though he has a surprisingly romantic side to his talent (I recently discovered this lush Christy Turlington British Vogue country side style editorial which made me swoon). Elgort - this is the man for sweet and romantic yet realistic photography - I love it. Goldberg almost always does great stuff - he's on his way up and he has an integrity and a meditative stringency (reminiscent of Avedon) that I admire.
5. Hans Feurer and Otto Stupakoff: Some of the sexiest stuff I've ever seen is Feurer's 70s Paris Vogue work. I also would like to see a lot more of Otto Stupakoff - I haven't seen enough but his late 70s Paris Vogue stuff rocked.
I also enjoy most of the work of [Albert Watson, Demarchelier, David Bailey, Ellen von Umwerth, Thierry le Guoues and Pakchanian] and some of the work of [Leibowitz, Andrea Blanch, David LaChapelle, Mert&Marcus, Ineez&Vinoodh, Camilla Akrans, Jimmy Backius and Craig McDean].
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