Let's start with one of my favorites: Ryan McGinley. He first got famous for his scenes of nude models in nature. His mastery of lighting and color fill me with envy, and his portraits are just perfect. Take a look:
This one is easily my favorite of his. Just sheer perfection. Interesting subject, great composition, unbelievably real lighting, and so many colors. Love love love.
So weird and so good. Again, great composition, color, and light.
Like the one above, just so strange.
The lighting in this could not be more beautiful.
I love how weird this is.
Great portrait, the lighting is phenomenal.
Great composition.
L.I.G.H.T.I.N.G. And the fact that the subject looks so soft and effeminate, but is covered in tattoos and appears to have a broken wrist.
Next we'll look at Gregory Crewdson, who does photography with a very eerie, cinematic feel. I normally don't like to set up a photo, I like to capture reality, but his work in creating a scene is simply poetic.
Odd colors, odd situation, really interesting.
Great use of different lighting sources.
Utterly bizarre scene. Can't help but stare at this.
Shows the tremendous effort he goes to in order to set up a scene. This was probably using a rain machine.
Next up, a master of Photoshop. Anthony Goicolea (don't ask me how to pronounce his name) got famous by photoshopping himself into really weird situations, making himself look younger, and playing all the parts of the photos.
Very obviously photoshopped, but so wild and fully of life.
Less obviously photoshopped, but equally wild.
Bizarre and colorful. I can't help but wonder how he so perfectly photoshopped himself hoisting himself.
Looks like a great vintage boarding school photo but it's all him.
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