What is an intermediate excellent DSLR camera?

So I'm gonna start studying photography and I don't know much about cameras other then reading and comparing camera features given in the descriptions but I know that for example some camera might have more Megapixels but not be as good as another one with less Megapixels but more (something else).
I say "intermediate" because I don't want to start with the lowest camera first since eventually I will change for a better one so I'd rather increase my budget for a smarter investment (thinking more in my future), and also because depending on what camera I take it's gonna be the one i'm gonna be taught through.

I surfed through official camera pages and amazon.com (my most trusted online store) and I saw that the Nikon D5200 was around my budget and seemed to have some good features; since I have yet no knowledge about DSLR's, I searched mostly Nikon cameras but I'm open for suggestions to other brands as long as they have good reviews from professionals and good reputation for the picture qualities, camera material and the camera overall.

I know the camera I want depends on what my photograph interests are and my bugdet
•My budget:
- Around $800 and $1000 if it's a bundle
•Photograph interests
- Fashion (People just posing next to the best cars with the finest suits/jewelry)
- Celebrities/Magazines/FashionRunways (be their personal photographer, NOT a paparazzi)
- Urban/Rural (Old chinese towns and temples / Tokyo, London, Paris)
- People/Culture (Amazing random people or getting people to pose on awesome backgrounds)
- Creative/Artistic photographs
- Monuments (Lincoln Memorial, Tibetan temples, art structures)

If possible, recommend a camera for each interest and please no fights or fanboys over brands, each camera is good on its own way.

The camera will be far less important than the amount of time and effort you put in to take the pictures you want.

For instance, the list of photographic styles you used each requires its own particular skill. Most photographers are better at some styles than others. For fashion you will need to learn how to use flash well. For urban and rural you will need quick reactions to catch fleeting moments, and no camera can teach that. For monuments, you might want to learn his to use tilt-shift lenses, etc. There are many aspects to photography.

The Nikon D5200 will be more than enough to start with, and to be blunt you could spend several years "growing into" it. You will also need lenses, and the lenses you choose will be defined by what you want to photograph. You seem to want to do a range of styles, so an all-in-one lens like the 28-300 could be worth a look.

But let me say it again - it will be you, not the camera, which determines how good your pictures are. Nick Brandt's animal pictures were shot on a medium format film Pentax with a shutter sound like a rifle going off and scanned with an old scanner… And they are some if the most astounding photos I've ever seen.

Another quick note: megapixels don't mean squat. Unless you plan on printing massive prints, 10 megapixels is more than enough. 24 (or however many the D5200 has) is more than 99.9% of photographers will ever need.

I've just started too. Cannon's got some cool stuff.

The camera brand and model of camera body are much less important than the skill of the photographer and the quality of the lenses you use. All DSLRs are good.

If you want unbiased reviews go here: http://www.dpreview.com/...egory=slrs