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Fobes Featured in Huffington Post, Lynda.com

21 June 2011
Published in People in the Industry

The last several months have been a busy time for acclaimed Seattle portrait and wedding photographer Natalie Fobes.

In April, Fobes was profiled in the Huffington Post. The article illustrates the highlights of Fobes' career, including...

Natalie Fobes Featured in Lynda.com Documentary Series

14 October 2010
Published in People in the Industry

Award-winning portrait, nature and wedding photographer Natalie Fobes, whose work has been featured in such magazines as National Geographic and the Smithsonian, has been chosen as the latest subject of the "Creative Inspiration" documentary series for the online education company Lynda.com.

The hour-long film features the Seattle-based photographer's work and is divided into 14 segments chronicling different aspects of her career and life.

Irving Penn, 1917-2009

26 March 2010
Published in Passages

Irving Penn, the man whose stark, minimalist black-and-white fashion images adorned the cover of Vogue for many years, died in October 2009 at the age of 92.

Born in 1917, Penn was a renowned celebrity fashion and portrait photographer. Beginning his artistic career as a painter and designer at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, he quickly transitioned into photography when he was offered a position as a fashion photographer for Vogue in the 1940s. Within a short period of time, Penn's modernist portraiture style landed him a...

Arnold Newman, 1918-2006

25 October 2006
Published in Passages

Photographer Arnold Newman, known for his portraits of artists and politicians, passed away in early June at the age of 88. Newman, who had been recovering from a stroke, died of a heart attack.

Newman's style was known as environmental portraiture, placing his subjects in the context of their life and work. Among his most famous portraits are those of composer Igor Stravinsky, Andy Warhol, Alfried Krupp, Pablo Picasso, Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Among his many honors, Newman was voted one of the world's 10 best photographers in a...

Yosouf Karsch: 1908-2002

10 October 2002
Published in Passages

Yousuf Karsh, known for his dramatically lit portraits of the 20th century’s most influential people, died at 93 on July 13 in Boston from complications following surgery. In his 60-year career, Karsh’s subjects included 15,000 celebrities from around the globe, including political and military leaders, writers, artists and entertainers. His camera often produced the defining portraits of such people as...