Product Description

LOOK includes essays by actor Alec Baldwin, news anchor Katie Couric, pop culture commentator Simon Dumenco, fashion designers Heatherette, Fashion Week visionary Fern Mallis, fashion expert Patrick McDonald, socialite Tinsley Mortimer, editor of People Magazine Martha Nelson, and fashion designer Zac Posen.

Beginning in February 2005, famed portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders began photographing the personalities of New York’s Olympus Fashion Week in a specially designed photo studio backstage at Bryant Park. Over the course of three seasons, Greenfield-Sanders has photographed more than 200 famous faces. With LOOK: PORTRAITS BACKSTAGE AT OLYMPUS FASHION WEEK, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders continues his tradition of documenting the wide cast of characters that comprise a single industry. As he did with the art scene in ARTWORLD (Fotofolio, 1999) and porn stars in XXX: 30 PORN-STAR PORTRAITS (Bulfinch, 2004), Greenfield-Sanders now turns his lens on the fashion industry. LOOK captures the fabulous and fashionable who come together under the Bryant Park tents twice a year for New York Fashion Week. This commemorative photography book from one of the most prestigious photographers of our time offers unique insight into the personalities who make New York Fashion Week one of America’s most exciting events. The limited first edition run of 2,500 copies includes portraits of Lindsay Lohan, Eva Longoria, Courteney Cox, Rosario Dawson, Paula Abdul, Hilary Duff, Jason Lewis, Kristin Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Heidi Klum, Naomi Campbell, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Claire Danes, Anne Hathaway, Patricia Clarkson, Jake Shears, Jenna Jameson, Carolina Herrera, Michael Kors, Kenneth Cole, Betsey Johnson, Tommy Hilfiger, Oscar de la Renta, André Leon Talley, Hamish Bowles, and many, many more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #338812 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781576873526
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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About the Author
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders has achieved critical acclaim photographing world leaders and major cultural figures, including presidents, writers, artists, actors, and musicians. He is a contributing photographer at Vanity Fair, and his photographs appear regularly in publications worldwide. Greenfield-Sanders’ feature documentary Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart aired on the PBS series American Masters and won a Grammy Award in 1999. His portraits are in numerous museum collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum, New York; and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. In 2003 his series of 700 art world portraits was accepted into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2004 his book XXX: 30 PORN STAR PORTRAITS received worldwide acclaim, including its own HBO documentary and a feature on 60 Minutes. Greenfield-Sanders’ work will be featured in a one person show at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples opening in October 2006. He received a BA in art history from Columbia University and an MFA in film from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

A departure
Full disclosure: I know Timothy.

That said, though, I was honestly astonished at the difference between this series and the photographer's previous essays -- especially in the color. There's a blushy or even feverish tone running through every picture, and it's definitely not just the printing. People here really look the way they do at the shows -- flushed, pumped-up, and raring to rock, or shop, or put clothes on or off, or whatever.

Form aside, the content should make this book essential for anyone in or interested in the high-end garment trade. There are a few especially fashion-literate actors and other ante-camera celebrities here, but the emphasis is on people like, say, Kim Hastreiter or Stan Herman, who are immensely powerful in the industry but not often photographed, and then not usually very well. With all of these people together you get a vivid cross-section of what's really going on under the tents. Five stars.

Pure brilliance...
Mr. Greenfield-Sanders has done it again. After such an insightful 'look' into the world of adult film with XXX, I was so pleased to see he was able to do the same with the fashion industry. The portraits are beautiful and the essays certainly add to the experience.