Famous Photographer List News
Music moments: Photographer's celebrity images coming to Michigan City library
MICHIGAN CITY — Based in Chicago, photographer Bobby Talamine has photographed nearly every major musical act for nearly four decades. His list includes Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Jay-Z and Katy Perry, among many others.
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Annie Leibovitz’s personal ‘Pilgrimage’ feels commercial
Annie Leibovitz photographs the 1 percent, the rich, beautiful and famous, conspiring with the apparatus of celebrity and capitalism to make the lives of successful people feel even more glamorous and alluring. The Library of Congress has officially declared her a “Living Legend,” and despite a few financial problems awhile back — a massive home-renovation project in Greenwich Village ...
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In 'Pilgrimage,' Leibovitz Explores Portraits Without People
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, the story of a portrait photographer viewing her world through a different lens. Jeffrey Brown has our story. ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, photographer: What's interesting about the picture is -- I get asked all the time, well, God, how'd you get to that position to take this picture? You know, it -- actually, it's on the walkway. JEFFREY BROWN ...
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In Boca, Schoeller's 'Close Up' exhibit unmasks faces of fantasy
At the Boca Raton Museum of Art, entering the small alcove devoted to "Martin Schoeller: Close Up" can, at once, be an unsettling experience. With near-microscopic detail, five-foot-tall portraits of dozens of famous people eerily gawk at entering museum patrons like Orwellian Big Brothers on telescreens. The placid, poker-faced expressions of hyper-recognizable faces - George Clooney, Helen ...
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Michele Willens: FACE IT: Documentaries Are the New Therapy
At the Sundance Film Festival this month, the most anticipated documentary was Ethel, about the matriarch of the Robert Kennedy clan, directed by her daughter Rory. It joins a growing list of personal passion projects made by filmmakers.
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