Key facts
Steve Pyke was born in Leicester 1957
Steve Pyke left school at 16 to work in the local textile industry
Steve Pyke's early work was sold to magazines and the music press, and exhibited from 1982. It helped to define the emergent visual signature of the iconic 1980s magazine, The Face.
It was during an early project on film directors that Pyke established his trademark portrait style.
Throughout his career Steve Pyke has developed, funded and then published a number of personal projects which have given his work shape and thrust. Best known perhaps are those on the world's leading thinkers 'Philosophers' and on youth identity as expressed through Uniforms.
Steve Pyke is fascinated by collecting the Faces of Our Times, for almost thirty years, recording those who have made a contribution to the history of the age.
Steve Pyke has worked for many of the world's leading magazines, and published eight books which concentrate on different aspects of his work. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, Japan, Mexico and the USA.
In 2004 Pyke received the MBE in the Queen's New Years Honours list for his services to the Arts. In 2006 he was made a Friend of the Royal Photographic Society. He became staff photographer at The New Yorker in 2004 and lives in New York City.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfuAOCIaCs0
In this video Steve Pyke explains his photography stance. He explains the finer points of the craft, including why he shoots on a Rolleiflex and the process of taking portraits for his original Philosophers edition.
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ReplyDeleteYou need to add some written work underneath this work, the analysis of the images that you see, in this way you can identify what it is that you like about this work. Use the correct visual vocabulary to describe correctly what you are seeing using words such as perspective, scale, colour, shapes, etc... As discussed on the tutor site.
Steve
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ReplyDeleteCan you add more written work to this as you need to also write about what you are doing within each session.
The studio work can be extended by doing portraits at home or on location anywhere with any theme, this needs to be happening now and written about on this blog.
Steve