Layouts

Looking through several fashion magazines and fashion layouts, i noticed that most spreads have an introduction page. To say who the designer of the clothes is, and a little about themselves if not about them but a small piece on the spread. I then began looking at several introduction pages to spreads and especially liked these:

 

I liked this one as it was plain and simple, bringing the reader straight to the point. I liked the big bold photographs, and the small elegant font used for the writing. The writing does not get in the way of the photograph but gives the reader enough information. 

 

Second was this layout, i liked the designer being on left and the writing on the right. I liked the black and white colouring used. I also liked how the header and sub titles was placed underneath the text, as headers are usually on top.

 

Coming away from the black and white, i liked the bright colours and layout of this magazine. The headers are bold and i especially like the font used. The photographs are placed in the middle of the page giving it that thick white border. I like the small text placed on the left, it is not interferring with the photograph. 

 

Again i liked the bright colours used in this layout. The photograph takes the readers main attention and is spread across nearly both two pages but the text still stands out. I like the font used and how the text is placed to the right hand side of the photograph.

 

I liked this layout because of its simplicity. The photograph takes up the left hand page, no border is used at all and on the right hand side there is minimal writing. 

Studio Test Shots

Rankin

John Rankin Waddell, working name Rankin, born 1966, is a British portrait and fashion photographer. Rankin first came known when he co-founded Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack. One of the most important magazines of the 90’s, it established its stylists in the fashion elite, broke some of today’s top designers and nurtured the budding careers of a generation of creative photographers. 

Earning a reputation for creative portraiture and a talent for capturing the character and spirit of his subjects, Rankin quickly became a formidable force in photography, shooting Brit-pop bands including Pulp and Blur and darlings of pop such as Kylie and Madonna. Rankin’s career continued to blossom and covers for German Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Arena and GQ quickly followed.

His body of work includes some of the most influential politicians, popular musicians, revered artists and celebrated models since the early 90’s. However, Rankin also continued to take on projects that featured ordinary people, often questioning established notions of beauty and causing controversy and igniting debates along the way. Most recently he travelled to Johannesburg with the BBC to film South Africa in Pictures, a documentary in which he traces the country’s photographic history.

David La Chapelle

David  La Chapelle was born on March 11th, 1963 in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is a photographer and director who works in fashion, advertising and fine art photographer. David LaChapelle’s photography career began in the 1980’s in New York City galleries. After attending the North Carolina School of Arts, he moved to New York where he enrolled at both the Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts. With shows at 303 Gallery, Trabia McAffee and others, his work caught the eye of his hero Andy Warhol and the editors of Interview Magazine, who offered him his first professional photography job.

His striking images have appeared on and in between the covers of magazines such as Italian Vogue, French Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone and i-D. In his twenty-year career in publishing, he has photographed Tupac Shakur, Madonna, Eminem, Lance Armstrong, Pamela Anderson, Elizabeth Taylor, David Beckham, Paris Hilton, Jeff Koons, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, and Britney Spears.

His ability to create scenes of extreme reality using rich and vibrant colours makes his work instantly recognizable and often imitated. He continues to be inspired by everything from art history and street culture, to the Hawaiian jungle in where he lives, creating both a record and mirror of all popular culture today.