LO1: Photographer research

Steve McCurry - vivid use of colour, tight headshot images, some landscapes (documentary) 

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Dorothea Lange - social realism, displayed displaced families and farm workers, migrant workers, moving portraits of tattered-looking families, as well as post-war imagery (war, event)

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Annie Leibovitz - carefully staged settings, superb lighting, and use of vivid colour (portrait) 

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David Bailey - stark backgrounds and dramatic lighting effects, transformed British fashion and celebrity photography from chic but reserved stylization to something more youthful and direct, celebrity portraiture  (fashion, portrait)

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Henri Cartier-Bresson - focused more on human elements than news. In humanist photography, more empathy is required and the ability to show situations from their subject's perspective (landscapes, documentary)

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Robert Capa -conflict were imbued with narrative and pathos (war, documentary) 

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