The document discusses three photographers - Rankin, Peter Lindbergh, and Ellen Von Unwerth - that could serve as inspirations for the photographer's magazine focused on the rock genre. Rankin is noted for his cult magazine experience and work with bands/artists in the rock genre. Peter Lindbergh takes memorable black-and-white photos focusing on human emotions. Ellen Von Unwerth specializes in erotic femininity and capturing women's sensuality through fashion and editorial photos.

1. Relevant photographers

2. Rankin
• Rankin has made his name in publishing, Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack in
1992. It provided a platform for innovation for emerging stylists, designers,
photographers and writers. The magazine went on to forge a distinctive mark in
the arts and publishing spheres, and developed a cult status forming and moulding
trends, and bringing some of the brightest lights in fashion to the foreground.
• Tapping into the consciousness of the 90s and 00s with his intimate approach and
playful sense of humor, Rankin became known for his portraiture of bands, artists,
supermodels and politicians. Having photographed everyone from the Queen of
England to the Queen of Pop, Rankin is often seen as a celebrity photographer.
• Rankin s a relevant photographer to my magazine as he has experience in
designing the front cover of magazines which are cult and differentiate . My
magazine is a cult alternative to mainstream magazines that focuses on the Rock
genre and the wide range of bands and artists that fall under that category. Rankin
has also worked with many band members and artists some of which are included
in my genre.
• Rankin works in a wide range of different styles and setting with a wide range of
objects and people which includes celebrities and everyday people to create
brilliant photographs.

3. Rankin
Rankin's style of photography and the
example of pictures by Rankin which I
have inserted are what I hope to recreate
and reconstruct in my own magazine as
they are relevant to Rock.

4. Peter Lindbergh
• Known for his memorable cinematic images, Peter Lindbergh is recognised
as one of the most influential contemporary photographers, due to his
unique style that sets him apart.
• Considered a pioneer in photography, he introduced a form of new realism
by redefining the standards of beauty with timeless images. His humanist
approach and idealisation of women sets him apart from the other
photographers as he privileges the soul and the personality making him
play an important role in the history of photography.
• Lindberghs style is to capture many emotions in a single shot. He also
commonly takes all of his pictures in black and white to add a sad, damped
effect which the viewer picks up on.
• Lindbergh is relevant for my magazine as the multiple emotions captured
from the person and scene will interest my viewers. Rock also typically
features the color black so his black and white photography style fits in
perfectly.

5. Lindbergh
Lindberghs black
and white photos
with humans at
the center of the
viewers curiosity
with a wide variety
of different objects
and backdrops is
what I wish to
reconstruct in my
magazine.

6. Ellen Von Unwerth
• Ellen von Unwerth is a photographer and director, that
specialses in erotic feminity. She worked in the fashion
industry for many years before becoming a
photographer who now makes fashion, editorial and
advertiseing.
• By 1998, the American Photo Magazine listed her
among the Most Important People in Photography.
Since this time, she has been on the radar as being
among the best female photographers with a natural
talent to capture the sensuality of women, which I
want to try and capture in my models.

7. Ellen Von Unwerth
Unweths perspicacious
images draw the viewer in
where the true attitudes are
revealed. I want my
magazine to have the same
effect and the photographs
to show the models deep
adn dark, rock attitudes!