Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

Mark Seliger is one of America´s most remarkable portrait photographers. Be it Julia Roberts, Johnny Depp, Jennifer Lopez, Lenny Kravitz - to name a few - Mark Seliger depicts these stars with an intensity and deepness that is hard to match. Time and again Mark Seliger succeeds in creating an individual photographic frame that allows him to capture the hidden facettes of the stars. Thus, top-model Gtsèle Bündchen becomes a stunning Indian in her feathered headdress, the somewhat bizarre artistry of the singer Tom Waits becomes the reflection of his intangible personality, actor Philip Seymour Hoffman seems shy but intense, like Truman Capote, for whose brilliant representation he won an Oscar this year. Mark Seliger gained his reputation as outstanding photographer in the late 80s through his work for the magazine ROLLING STONE, whose chief-photographer he later became. The native Texan, having studied Visual Arts in Houston, has produced many award-winning titles and features over 15 years. The music world and its interpreters became the basis of his artistic product. For the last four years Seliger, who is under contract with Condé Nast Publications, has photographed great personality-stories for VANITY FAIR and G.Q.. His portfolio is a meeting place fort the big names of the American music, film and show-scenes: 50 Cent, Mick Jagger, P.Diddy, Iman, Sean Penn, David Bowie, Brad Pitt, Robert Wilson - they all, in addition to countless others, had their pictures taken by Mark Seliger, who apart from his work as a photographer also produces music-videos, and performs with his own band, "Rusty Truck". Now from June 2 until August 19, 2006, 45 portraits are on show at the FLO PETERS GALLERY. Publications: "In my Stairwell" published by Rizzoli, New York, 2005 "Physiognomy: The Mark Seliger Photographs", Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown & Company, 1999 "When they came to take my father. Voices of the Holocaust", Arcade Publishing, 1999