CINDY SHERMAN

Cindy Shermans photography was all staged and mostly self portraiture. she had a series of work named 'Film Stills' in which she created different personas for herself using costumes and different sets. she appears to create stereo typical scenes in which she is able to display female mannerisms. she always created a staged narative in her works.

Annie Leobovitz does mostly staged photography and my most favourite projects is of the Disney photographs and also the fairy tale. I like these photographs because of the colours and also how the models are dressed. the clothes they are wearing are really good outfits and make them look like they are in the fairy tale which they are supposed to be in :)

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/111/284920842_c836142115.jpg

Terra Kate

Making the subject, levitate, float, fly, go upsidedown, and just contain weird and abnormal things so that she can create a 'fantasy' sort of state in her staged images.

Looking on her portfolio (http://www.terrakate.com/beginningportfolio) shows so many different fantasy staged images which i find are really interesting.

Les Krims

Les krims produced a body of work in which he took one photo and added others to create a photo collage style print. He then released a body of work called little america, where he took dwarfs and ut them in the position of the everyday person in the south of america in a very brave statement of work.

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman creates photograhs herself whilst disguised as characters attempting to create a narrative through a series or within a single frame. To do this, she physically alters her own appearance with the use of fake tan, wigs, costumes and makeup. In her earl work she recreated film stills and through the series described the roles different women play in society. She featured vulnerability and strength throughout these photographs. In her more recent work, she looked into the ideas of plastic surgery and altering your face to make yourself look good. Despite the photographs being unappealing and a poor advertisement of how you could look, there is a definate look of pride of the models that suggest they feel happy with the results of the work despite viewers disagreeing.

Dazed and Confused Exhibition - Somerset House

http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/dazed-and-confused-magazine

Henri Cartier bresson

Cartier bresson optimised the term "decisive moment". He captured subjects at certain moments that defined them or the current affairs. His most famous photo is a man jumping
http://www.photohype.com/DecisiveMoment.htm