The Life of the Characters in Owen Pan's Works

Payne was born in New Jersey, USA (19 17). 17 years old attended the arts and crafts school run by Feicheng Museum. Here he met a good teacher, the famous art designer Alexei Brodovich. Porovic likes this young man very much. In order to train and exercise him, he was asked to work in Harper's Market, a fashion magazine, during the summer vacation. 1938 after graduating from art school, Payne went to new york to do commercial photography for a period of time. 1939 A still life photo he took was adopted as the cover of a magazine, which became the beginning of his brilliant photography career in the future. 1943, Payne was hired as a full-time photographer by Alenxander Liberman, the production designer of Vogue magazine. His talent has been further developed. He swept away the stereotype in fashion photography at that time and opened up a new world with fresh style and distinctive personality. Photographic method

In the American photography field, Payne has been carrying out his meticulous and meticulous "perfectionism" in photography from beginning to end, striving to portray any image in detail. When introducing Payne, IPC Photography Encyclopedia once commented: "Coordinated layout, rigorous composition, delicate lighting and rich colors are Payne's consistent tendencies." Lieberman even said, "Any photo, if it comes from Payne's hand, must be a masterpiece."

Payne likes to work in absolute silence in order to get a high degree of concentration and singleness when shooting. He likes to shoot quiet expressions and dynamics in a quiet state of mind.

While he was working, the phone was cut off; People present were asked to talk as little as possible; The instructions to the assistant were given almost in a whisper.

The whole studio is filled with an awe-inspiring atmosphere, and only the sound of opening the shutter door again and again constantly breaks this almost sacred silence.

Contrary to many photography studios, which are always filled with various sets and props, Payne's studio is simple and empty. He painted all the walls, floors and cabinets in the studio gray. He thinks neutral gray is most suitable for all kinds of people.

Payne has two studios. One room is equipped with 24 800W/s electronic flashlights; The other room is equipped with two rows of 60 floodlights. One line is used to simulate the sunlight effect, and the other line is used to illuminate the background. These two rows of floodlights are equipped with removable masks to adjust the hardness of light quality.

He hired four assistants, one in charge of secretarial and external liaison, one in charge of finance, one in charge of negative materials and one in charge of legal affairs. In addition, Payne has a technician who is responsible for developing and printing black and white photos; Give the color film to the specialty store for processing.

Payne is not exclusive in using cameras. He chose different cameras according to different shooting needs, from a small camera of 135 to a large negative editor of 8* 10.

His usual 135 camera is a German Leica camera, which is equipped with a full set of lenses from wide angle to telephoto. But in specific shooting, Payne prefers to use telephoto lenses. This may be because the telephoto lens has small viewing angle, short depth of field, simple picture and prominent subject. 120 camera, Payne has both "Lu Lai" with double lens reflection and "Hasselblad" with single lens reflection. In order to change the lens conveniently, he often uses Hasselblad camera in real shooting.

When taking photos of fashion and commercial advertisements, Payne often uses a large negative camera with a frosted glass focusing screen, such as "Diadolph". In addition, he often uses "Flex", which is a SLR camera that can shoot large negatives.

Payne's commonly used color films are mainly "Love Taikang" and "Kedakang". In black and white films, he shot all kinds of photographic films from ISO25 microfilm to ISO400 high-speed film. Between color and black and white, Payne prefers black and white. He thinks that "black and white movies are superior to color movies in all aspects", and he says, "I have never seen really great color photos. Every time I think of those immortal photos, all the images that immediately come to my mind are black and white. "