5 Documentaries Every Photographer and Creative Should Watch | Fstoppers
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Abstraction: Recommended photography and creative documentaries for artistic inspiration
Key points:
- Erwin Blumenfeld was the world's highest-paid photographer in the 1940s-50s, shooting Vogue and Harper's Bazaar
- Gregory Crewdson creates cinematic single-image narratives of small-town America using film-set-scale production
- Diana Vreeland edited Harper's Bazaar and Vogue from the 1930s to 1970s; creative inspiration beyond photography
- Slim Aarons documented luxury lifestyle; his 1970s work is widely imitated by today's Instagram travel photographers
- Reine Paradis shoots fine-art photography using real locations rather than composite compositing
Connections: Erwin Blumenfeld · Gregory Crewdson · Slim Aarons · Photography · Creative Process