Photographer: Jill Furmanovsky

Jill Furmanovsky was born in Zimbabwe in 1953. She is a well known photographer known for her iconic rock pictures, especially Oasis, with whom she released a book "Was There Then - A Photographic Journey with Oasis"
She has also photographed well known bands such as The Clash, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Blondie and many more. She has also produced music videos for Oasis and The Pretenders.



This picture of Amy Winehouse I particularly like as it is completely different to what you would expect from an image of an artist. Furmanovsky has changed the way in which portrait photography can be undertaken; she is like a fly-on-the-wall and takes portraits of artists when they are being natural and doing what they do. I think it is a beautiful shot of Winehouse as it is completely different to pictures that were being taken of her at this time, most of the pictures taken were of Winehouse all done up or drugged up.



I like this shot as it shows the Gallager brothers before they were torn apart by arguments. It is simple, and I like how they are focused on the camera and not posing for it.



I love this shot as Courtney Love is lit really nicely and is the only person in the picture that you can clearly see. Everything else is dark and you can only just see it; another way of doing this would be to use depth of field to make the people out of focus except for Courtney. I think that the way lighting has been used to accentuate certain areas of the picture is really clever and makes it appear more dramatic.