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Learn Digital Photography with Sandro Dzneladze

Female Photography

Category: Photo stories
Written on Jun 30, 2008 by Sandro Dzneladze

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One of the most favorite subjects in the absorbing world of photography is no less then the female specie.

Art and Culture, both traditional and contemporary, have lucidly reflected the significance and attractiveness of the female subject and form.

A country lass, a busy mother, waltzing ladies, a grumpy elderly woman and a pregnant teenage girl; Female photography has captured the interest and delight of the public for centuries and will definitely continue to do so with the emergence of new technology in the field of taking pictures.

The woman’s body contour, the feet, the legs, the breasts, the hair, the lips, the nose, the eyes, the face, the smile, the look, the expression… every detail entraps the curiosity of someone’s eyes and entices the imagination to run wild. One cannot just simply fail to acknowledge the visual impact a picture of a woman can render, be it a fully-clothed woman or a barely-naked one.

Some of the fields and genres in photography where women are the focal point are the following:

• Portraits (royals, heads of states, high-ranking officials, big-time celebrities, well-known public figures, simple strangers)
• Graphic and Advertisement (lucratively generating interests among the buying public)
• Fashion Industry (cover girls of magazines, “live mannequins” and “walking hangers” for clothes, trends and accessories, run-away shows)
• Woman Empowerment and Public Awareness (prostitution, abortion, teenage pregnancy, gender equality, cancer-awareness, feministic movements)
• Nude and Glamour (1850’s saw the commencement of nude photography; exploration and depiction of women’s sensuality)

Female Photographers

Of course, who else could more triumphantly and convincingly portray and publicly expose the candidness, seriousness, mysteriousness and overall persona of a woman but a photographer? Below are two of the reputable female photographers in the land:

• Jane Bown
The eighty-two-year-old British photographer who is a master of black and white photography is out to prove to everyone that if you really have the eye for this kind of field, advanced technology such as Photoshop is unwanted. Bown only used a 40-year old camera and natural lighting source to effectively capture hundreds of subjects which included the who’s who in society, film, music and politics. She is not a huge fan of artificial lighting. Her pictures lucidly reflect the subject’s personalities that make her shots stand-outs.

• Annie Leibovitz (Annie-Lou Leibovitz)
The fifty-eight-year-old, renowned and every now and then deemed controversial, US-based Jewish photographer initially got inspired to take pictures during her stay in the Philippines during the Vietnam War (1959-1975) when her father (lieutenant colonel) got assigned in this tropical country in Asia.
For more than a decade, she was responsible for the arresting and more-often-than-not intriguing covers and inside pictures of Rolling Stone magazine.

In an interview with Polish photographer Anna Beta Bohdziewicz in 1998, she disclosed that she has always used a 35 mm lens and that she finds a person’s body more interesting and more revealing to photograph than just the face alone. In the interview, Leibovitz also divulged her dislike over pictures edited via the computer. She strongly prefers the manual process or the traditional way of developing pictures and revealed that she finds computer-edited/enhanced pictures a “little boring” and she “personally don’t like it.” She further added that taking a lot of pictures on a single subject is just practical since the time and efforts of the photographer, the subject and the other people involved in a shoot are far more important and expensive in some aspects.

Both photographers should not be carelessly judged as technophobes; rather, persons who simply rely on raw talent and acquired skills in producing only “real” photographs of their subjects—as is, where is.

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