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Olaf Breuning's 2009 series Black Images (color studies) feature female figures with bodies and faces painted black. [30] A 2001 photograph titled Primitives features four white men with smeared brown body and face makeup wearing grass skirts and holding sticks. [31] The 2000 video work "King" features "a parade of figures in blackface".
Sally Mann (born Sally Turner Munger; May 1, 1951) [1] is an American photographer known for making large format black and white photographs of people and places in her immediate surroundings: her children, husband, and rural landscapes, as well as self-portraits.
Black men paint their faces with charcoal which represents three things. Firstly, the blackface is used as a tool to remember their African ancestors. Secondly, the black face is representative of the disguise or concealment on the run which slaves would have used to evade the Spanish colonizers.
Glamour photography is a genre of photography in which the subjects are portrayed in attractive poses ranging from fully clothed to nude, and often erotic. Photographers use a combination of cosmetics , lighting and airbrushing techniques to produce an appealing image of the subject.
The Countess in a photo by Pierre-Louise Pierson (c. 1863/66). Fashion photography has been in existence since the earliest days of photography. The oldest surviving photograph taken on camera was made by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826, [2] but people would soon use photography to present costumes and garb.
Japan: A Photo Theatre, Farewell Photography, Stray Dog, Tights Daidō Moriyama ( Japanese : 森山 大道 , Hepburn : Moriyama Daidō [ 1 ] , born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine Provoke .
Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer.The New York Times described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."