photographer's portraits III | by michael oréal
portraits of Will McBride, Herlinde Koelbl, Antoine D'Agata, Eikoh Hosoe, Izima Kaoru, Ken Schles, Henry Bond,
Pierre Faure, David Shale

Will McBride, January 10, 1931 – January 29, 2015, was an American photographer in reportage, art photography and book illustration as well as a painter and sculptor. In 2004 McBride received the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize which is bestowed by the German Photographic Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie).
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Herlinde Koebl, born October 31, 1939 in Lindau, is a German photographer and documentary filmmaker. Her biggest project is a long-term study; from 1991 to 1998 she photographed and interviewed 15 personalities from politics and business per year. This project was published in 1999 under the title "Traces of Power - The transformation of the Human Being by the Office«.

Antoine D'Agata, born 1961, is a French photographer and film director. He has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 2008. He has published more than a dozen books and three films.
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Eikoh Hosoe, born 18 March 1933 in Yonezawa, Japan, is a Japanese photographer and filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan. He is known for his psychologically charged images, often exploring subjects such as death, erotic obsession, and irrationality. Through his friendships and artistic collaborations he is linked with the writer Yukio Mishima and 1960s avant-garde artists such as the dancer Tatsumi Hijikata.
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Izima Kaoru, born 1954 in Kyoto, is a japanise photographer. He assisted in establishing the cassette magazine Tra and became later editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine Zyappu, which he founded. Lives and works in Tokyo.
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Ken Schles, born 1960 is an American photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Schles has published five monographs over 25 years. In 2014, both, the New York Times and Time magazine named »Invisible City« among the notable photobooks of the year. His work can be seen in many private and public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is held in more than 100 library and museum collections throughout the world

Henry Bond, born 13 June 1966, is an English writer, photographer, and visual artist. With Sarah Lucas, Bond organised in 1990 the art exhibition East Country Yard Show, which was influential in the formation and development of the Young British Artists movement; together with Damien Hirst, Angela Bulloch and Liam Gillick, the two were »the earliest of the YBAs«.
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Pierre Faure, born in 1972 in Nice, lives and works in the Yvelines, France. He studied economics. For several years he devoted himself entirely to photography. (Source Website Pierre Faure)

David Shale is an English freelance photographer and film maker. For over 30 Years he has been a Wildlife Filmmaker. He contributed to many wildlife documentaries, culminating in the BAFTA  Award Winning series »The Blue Planet«. He specialised in macro photography especially of Deep Sea Animals.

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