PORTRAITS by Michael Thompson

PORTRAITS by Michael Thompson

Another Photograph Book with Michelle has been published recently — “PORTRAITS” by Michael Thompson, the famous fashion/magazine photographer who worked with Michelle since 1998.

2 images of Michelle Pfeiffer has been chosen for the book. Both of the images were taken at 1998 for W Magazine and being published in February of 1999.

Acclaimed by American Photo as “one of the most important photographers working today,” the fashion and celebrity photographer Michael Thompson began his career in the late 1980s as a studio assistant to Irving Penn, and now is famed for his glamorous portraiture. In our celebrity-besotted culture, the magazine photographer holds tremendous power to sculpt the public’s conception of a star; and Thompson has done so for such A-listers as Cate Blanchett, Sting, Mariah Carey, Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Sting and Meryl Streep. Michael Thompson: Portraits presents work spanning Thompson’s illustrious 20-year career. Taken from the pages of fashion and lifestyle magazines including Vogue, W, GQ, Allure and Vanity Fair, the nearly 150 images in this book intensify the mythic pungency of their subjects while simultaneously inviting an intimate glimpse into their inner lives. The images have been selected by the widely admired photography critic and connoisseur Vince Aletti, who conducts a far-reaching appraisal of celebrity, using Thompson’s images as a touchstone to examine the emergence of celebrity as cult, as well as the power of the photographer’s astringent gaze to strip artifice from his subject. As one of the foremost celebrity photographers of the last two decades, Thompson emerges here as a leading image-broker for our times.

MICHAEL THOMPSON “PORTRAITS” released in book store at April 1, 2011.

AOYAMA Francfranc

Portraits Exhiition in AOYAMA Francfranc, Japan | April

Official website (Japanese): http://www.mt-portraits.com

2 Comments

  • Tachu
    April 26, 2011
    reply

    Lovely pic!

  • mudslide
    April 27, 2011
    reply

    Thanks for the news! 🙂

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