Irving Penn 1917-2009

One of the greatest studio portrait photographers.

Joe Lewis

Simone de Bouvoir

Yves St. Laurent

Duchess of Windsor

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Rudolf Nureyev

Balloon Seller


New York Times obituary, published October 8, 2009

Irving Penn: Small Trades at the Getty

Hellen van Meene

Hellen van Meene is a Dutch portrait photographer who focuses her camera predominately on young women. Slightly haunting, honest, tender, beautiful.

-Interview between Hellen van Meene and Joerg Colberg
-Hellen van Meene's website

-Yancey Richardson Gallery

Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe

Studio portrait photographers Seydou Keita(b. 1921) and Malick Sidibe (b. 1935) each captured people of Bamako, Mali from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Seydou Keita

Seydou Keita

Seydou Keita

Malick Sidibe

Malick Sidibe

Malick Sidibe

Recomended publications:

-Seydou Keita, Scalo, 1997

-Malick Sidibe: Photographs, Steidl/Hasselblad Center, 2004