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Today we will look at three more highly influential and important fashion and portrait photographers.  Their work is so well known and often crosses the lines of art and fashion, old and new and challenges viewer expectations. Here are three fashion photographers who are still alive and their work continues to inspire.

1.    Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz is an American born photographer who has produced some of the most well known celebrity and fashion images.  Her collaborative work with Vanity Fair magazine goes on to this day producing some controversial images.  Her forte is focusing on the subject, creating a strong bong and creating elegant, high quality images.

Noted photographs include a heavily pregnant Demi Moore in the nude, a Rolling Stone cover featuring John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono taken on the day of his murder, a picture of Whoopi Goldberg in a bath full of milk, and most recently, a picture of country pop stat, Miley Cyrus on the Vanity Fair cover draped in a sheet.  Controversy was around as Miley was 15 at the time leading to Annie commenting that the photograph had been “misinterpreted”.
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Fashion Photography is always changing and although there are new photographers making a name for themselves all the time, there are also the seasoned experienced photographers that regularly feature in the most high end magazines like Vogue and Tatler because of their consistently striking images.

Let’s take a look at three living Fashion photographers whose work you will find in many magazines that are currently on the shelves, but that also have a high quality feel and edge to their work.

1.    Steven Meisel

Steven Miesel is an American photographer who has worked with some of the most famous supermodels and actors in the world.  He is even credited for discovering some of the worlds most famous Supermodels though his beautiful photographs, like Christ Turlington, Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell.
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When it comes to Fashion photography, some may argue that the genre is more frivolous than others.  But when we look at the type of work the best fashion photographers have created over the years, it’s clear that not only did the work they do inspire and revolutionize photography, but that they also documented the change of the times.

Whether it was changes in society or a war, these sentiments were often echoed in the fashion of the times so not only do the great fashion photographs reflect past trends, they also represent history.

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Fashion photography may seem frivolous but these days, aside from the generic catalogue style shots, there are many high end fashion pictures that are considered as Art because of their creative ways of breaking of convention.

Here are some fashion photographers to be inspired by from the past and the present.  Studying fashion photography is an excellent way to look at perfect lighting, how to pose models and is useful if you are interested in portraiture.

1.    Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon is an American Photographer whose photographs are such high quality that they are considered as fine art.  He worked for magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, where he injected a sense of life and emotion into their fashion shots.
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If you love Landscape Photography, why not get inspired by looking at the work of some of the greats.  They may not be achievable for you now, but they will give you an idea of what the very best in Photography is and will give you something to aspire too.  Here is a look at three more famous and highly talented Landscape Photographers.

1.    Art Wolfe

With a name like Art Wolfe, some could say that he was always meant to be an artist.  Art Wolfe is a US photographer who has taken many photographs in the genre of Landscapes, Wildlife and Travel.  Like many other landscape photographers, he is an environmentalist who cares deeply for nature.
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