This document provides biographies of four photographers: - Lord Snowdon, known for his fashion photography and portraits of notable figures such as Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth II. - Cecil Beaton, a pioneering British fashion, portrait and war photographer best known for his work with Vogue and portraits of stars like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. - David LaChapelle, an American photographer known for his surrealistic style and commercial work with celebrities like Britney Spears and magazine covers for Rolling Stone. - Mario Testino, a Peruvian fashion photographer based in London and New York who rose to fame shooting campaigns for Gucci and working with Vogue and Princess Diana.

1. Photographer Analysis
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2. Past Photographer
Lord Snowdon (Antony Armstrong-Jones)
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, born 7th
March 1930, is an English photographer and film
maker. He is well known for being the ex-husband of
Princess Margaret an ex-brother-in-law of Elizabeth
II. He was the only son of the barrister Ronald
Armstrong-Jones and first wife, Anne Messel. Just
after Armstrong-Jones’s parents separated, he
contracted polio whilst in Wales on a family holiday,
aged 16. Whilst spending six months recovering in
hospital, his mother gave him a camera to pass the
time. This was the start of his future.
He went on to study architecture at the University of Cambridge where he failed his final exams. After this,
rather than re-sit the exams, he chose to leave and become a photographer in fashion, design and theatre.
In the early 1960’s, he became the artistic adviser of the Sunday Times and by the 1970’s, he had
established himself as one of the most respected photographers Britain had ever seen. Although, his work
includes everything from documentary images or inner city life to the mentally ill, he is best recognized for
his fashion photography and portraits of world notables. His work has been published in Vogue and Vanity
Fair.

3. Helen Mirren by Lord Snowdon, Vanity Fair, 1995. Queen Elizabeth II by Lord Snowdon,
1957.
Princess Diana by Lord
Snowdon.
HRH Princess Margaret by Lord
Snowdon, 1960s.
Elizabeth Taylor by Lord Snowdon.
Kate Bush by Lord Snowdon, 1980.
Catherine Oxenberg by Lord Snowdon, Vogue
UK, 1980,
Lord Snowdon

4. Past Photographer
Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, born 14th January 1904, was an English
fashion, portrait and war photographer. He was born in Hampstead into a
wealthy family as his grandfather had founded Beaton Brothers Timber
Merchants and Agents. He was the son of Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton, a
timber merchant, and Etty Sissons, and was the eldest of four siblings,
Nancy, Baba and Reginald. He was educated at Heath Mount School,
Hertfordshire, and St Cyprian’s School, Eastbourne. Growing up, Beatons’
nanny had a Kodak 3A Camera, which he become fond off. His nanny taught
him to basics of capturing photographs and developing film. He got his own
camera and practiced photography by getting his mother to sit. He then used
to send his work off to high class London magazines under a different name
and recommending his work.
He then went on to attend Harrow, followed by St John’s College, Cambridge. He met several people through
university, one of which managed to get one of his photographs of George Rylands published in Vogue. At St
John’s, Beaton studied history, art and architecture but left age 22 without a degree. He worked at the family
timber business as an office employee for a matter of months, but soon proved hopeless. With no hope of a
photography business taking off any time soon, he reached out for the support of English writer, Sir Francis
Sitwell. With the help of a well respected patron, he set up his own exhibition in the Cooling Gallery, London.
Due to an unknown photographer setting up an exhibition in an exclusive gallery, uproar was caused. After the
disaster of the exhibition, Cecil Beaton, left and went to New York, in hope that more success would be found
there. He was right and managed to get a contract with Conde Nast Publications, a mass media company, who
caters to the needs for the likes of Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ and Lucky, to take exclusive photographs for them.
His career began here. He died in 1980.

5. Twiggy by Cecil Beaton.
Marilyn Monroe by Cecil Beaton, 1956.
Marilyn Monroe by Cecil Beaton, 1956.
Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady by Cecil Beaton,
Cecil Beaton

6. Present Photographer
David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle is an American commercial, music and
fine-art photographer. He was born in Hartford,
Connecticut, in 1963 to Phillip and Helga LaChapelle.
LaChapelle lived their until he was nine years old before
moving to North Carolina, where him and his family lived
until he was fourteen, they then moved back to
Connecticut, this time to Fairfield. During growing up, he
was bullied for his sexuality. Due to this, he ran away to
New York City to become a busboy at Studio 54 where his
enrolled at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Eventually, David LaChapelle returned home and moved
to North Carolina again, where he went to the North
Carolina School of Arts.
When he was 17, he by chance bumped in to Andy Warhol, who after chatting offered him his first job as a
photographer for his pop culture magazine, Interview. Warhol said to LaChapelle at his first shoot; “Do whatever
you want. Just make sure everybody looks good.”. LaChapelle did this and it gained him a lot of attention, so
much attention that some of the top editorial publications around the world were wanting him to shoot for them.
His work had appeared on the covers of magazines such as GQ, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue Italia and
Vogue Paris. In 1996, he wrote a book, LaChapelle Land, which was chosen as one of the Seminal Photographic
Books of the Twentieth Century and is now highly valued by collectors.

7. The Kardashian family Christmas Card, 2013, by David LaChapelle
Una Thurman by David LaChapelle.
Katy Perry for GHD, 2011, by David LaChapelle.
Britney Spears for Rolling Stone by David
LaChapelle.
Kanye West: The Passion by David LaChapelle.
David LaChapelle

8. Present Photographer
Mario Testino
Mario Eduardo Testino Silva, OBE, is a fashion
photographer. Born in Lima, Peru on October 30th, 1954,
his father was Italian and his mother was half Spanish and
half Irish, he is the eldest of six children. He lived in a
middleclass family which was supported by his fathers job
as a international businessman. Whilst his father was
travelling, him and his younger siblings were cared for by
their mother, who was a housewife but who had iconic and
glamorous style, which influenced Testino’s genre of
photography. In 1972, when he was 17, his 10 year old
brother, Gino-Angelo dies unexpectedly of Liver cancer.
The death of his younger brother had a huge lifelong effect of Mario. So much that he packed his bags up and
moved to London 4 years later. He moved to England not only in an attempt to move on with his life after the
family tragedy, but to also follow his dreams of becoming a well known photographer. In London, he died his hair
candy floss pink in hope he would get noticed whilst funding himself by working as a waiter. His first residence, a
squat with no toilet facilities didn’t suit him so he moved into a friends flat in Chelsea. After a short spell there, he
took home in an old wing in a the abandoned Charing Cross Hospital where he lived for 7 years. He worked for
Vickers until he got his big cover break for Over 21. 10 years after moving to London, he moves to New York
where he begins to photographer male nudes. In 1995, he works with Carine Roitfeld for Gucci on his first ever
fashion campaign. Using the theme of ‘heroin chic to cocaine chic’, the success of the campaign was huge and it
rocketed Testino in to the fashion world. He went on to work with Vogue, V and Vanity Fair and shot for Burberry,
Michael Kors, Valentino, Versace and Estee Lauder. He has worked with Diana, Princess of Wales, as well as
Prince William and Kate.

9. NataliaVodianovaforVogueUKbyMario
Testino,2008.
Cameron Diaz by Mario Testino.
Prince Harry and Kate Middleton engagement
celebrations by Mario Testino2011.
Cara Delevingne for Vogue UK by Mario
Testino, 2013.
LanaDelRayforVogueUK,byMario
Testino.
Lady Diana by Mario Testino, 1997.