I chose to research Annie Leibovitz, a fairly modern photographer. Annie Leibovitz is known for her dramatic photographs of celebrities. I first heard of Leibovitz a few years back watching Oprah, where Annie was being interviewed. They showed a very elegant and beautiful picture of Nichole Kidman and it sort of stuck with me because it was so interesting.
Below is the Nicole Kidman picture, followed by a Bette Midler picture, and a Whoopi Goldberg picture-all courtesy of http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/annie-leibovitz/photo-gallery/19/ .