Andreas H. Bitesnich

Through his career, Andreas H. Bitesnich (b. Austria 1964) has given the world perfectly crafted images celebrating the human form touched with a fragrance of eroticism.Andreas H. Bitesnich is a perfectionist “the only way to fly higher than the others“, as he expresses it. By his own admission, he lives, breathes, devours photography; he learns, explores, experiments. Self-taught, he dreamed at a young age of becoming a fashion photographer. To pursue his dream, he equipped himself with a camera and a light and persuaded models to pose. In his subjects, he was looking for harmony and balance yet tension was an important ingredient too. As he puts it, “The (images) belong to an organic creative process that has to do with the fascination for the relation between body, time and space in a continual interaction of tension and balance“. Oftentimes he found what he was looking for when the models posed undressed which allowed him to capture the bodies surprisingly well with the play of light and shadow. Andreas H. Bitesnich’s approach has always been to allow for and trust his intuition. He feels it important to interact with his models to gain an appreciation of who they are before turning the camera upon them. His respect of personalities unearths the subjects most beautiful side which becomes central to the power visible within his images. Combined with a mastery of technique, this style gives Andreas H. Bitesnich the tools to achieve the exact image he envisions.Unsurprisingly, Bitesnich’s nude portraits soon caught the attention of top European magazines and consequently images were published in Stern, Playboy, Max and GQ, to name a few commercial projects followed. The quality of his work quickly established Bitesnich as a top photographer.In 1998, Edition Stemmle published his first book‚ “Nudes”. In the same year, it won the Kodak Photography Book Award. In 2001, publisher teNeues released‚ “Woman” and “Travel”, and a fourth title “On Form” in 2003. His fifth book “Polanude”, a collection of his best Polaroid’s, was released in February 2006..

Julia Margaret Cameron

Sadness 1864

© Julia Margaret Cameron

Cameron is recognized as a pioneer of photography and one of the great portrait photographers of all time. She photographed many of the major figures of the nineteenth century, including Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Alfred Tennyson.The bulk of her work, however, consists of portraits of women.

Using dramatic lighting and soft focus, Cameron made mesmerizing psychological portraits that exhibit an intensity of emotion not often publicly revealed in Victorian society. Her portraits of women are variously defiant, fortright, melancholy, or languidly sensual, offering, when seen together, an unexpectedly complex view of the photographer and her time.

The Echo

1868

© Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Jackson 1867

© Julia Margaret Cameron