The document discusses two music photographers, David LaChapelle and Rankin. It provides details on their styles, with LaChapelle known for surreal, sexualized photos using unusual props and exaggerated personalities. Rankin takes simple, up-close portraits where the artist stares at the camera, making them the center of attention. The author likes LaChapelle's colorful, attention-grabbing style and Rankin's ability to connect with audiences through direct eye contact and a sense of innocence in the portraits. They plan to emulate Rankin's simplistic technique of shoulder-up close-ups for their magazine cover photo.

1. Nicole Tonge: Music Photographers
Photographers
David La Chapelle
David La Chapelle is an American photographer and director who works in the fields of
fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique,
sexualized, and often humorous style. He Exaggerates aspects of their personalities and
their personal lives and tries to get the artists personality across through his photos which
therefore connects to his audience helping them see a side of the artist which they wouldn’t
normally see. He is known for his weird style in his photos which are often controversial. He
uses a Great use of complementary colours to get his point across to the audience and has
attracted a lot of fans because of his ‘weird’ work.
What I like about this photographer is the weird props and photos he uses in his photos, and
how the artists allow him to get away with the photos and poses which he does with them.
I also like the fact his photos are bright and colourful and always attract a lot of attention
from the media; the colours make all his photos look exciting and interesting as there
always is a lot going on in his photos which has attracted him a lot of fans.

2. Nicole Tonge: Music Photographers
Rankin
Ranking is a British portrait and fashion photographer, Rankin's lens captures, creates and
unveils icons, Rankin made his name in publishing, founding the seminal monthly magazine
Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack in 1992. The magazine was extremely controversial
in the media but it had lots of fans. He most known as being Britans number one
photographer. His typical style is very close up and making the artist in his photo the centre
of attention as well as making the artists looks innocent and staring directly into the camera
which therefore connects to the audience. He normally just has the artist in the image
which makes them the centre of attention.
I like his work because of his simplistic approach to his photos, all of his photos look good
and attract attention, yet they are very simple but effective. I also like how all the artists in
his photos tend to look directly into the camera; I like this because this makes the audience
feel connected to the artist on a personal level. The innocence of the artists is a good affect
as well as this also allows the audience to once again connect with the audience seeing a
new side to them which they haven’t seen before.
I have chosen to use Rankin to inspire my photos and front image for my magazine because
I like the simplistic look he has and the style which he uses, I think this would work for a
front cover image because his photos attract the audience because they are looking directly
into the lens which therefore attracts the audience’s attention and influence the audience
to buy the magazine because they feel connected to the artist and feel drawn to the
magazine. I will copy his same techniques by making my chosen model look directly into the
lens and take the photo from shoulder length upwards.