His recent exhibition, Most Wanted at White Cube in London, for example, featured 10 larger than
life celebrity portraits set against red carpet step - and - repeat backdrops.
Not exact matches
With his subsequent usher textbooks, autobiography (There Is
life Beyond Name Tags, Dude Books, 2001), magazine (Badge and Bulletin, the only ushering magazine including a centerfold
portrait) and cultlike following, Glibface had almost singlehandedly brought ushering into the sunlight of ecclesiastical
celebrity ~ To his fame are credited such innovative strategies as parhug valets; tour guides, computerized seating readouts - for latecomers, and Roy Dude University's School of Usherology.
Throughout the 80s, Mapplethorpe produced a bevy of images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still
lifes, and studio
portraits of artists and
celebrities, to name a few of his preferred genres.
During the 80s, Mapplethorpe produced a series of photographs that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still
lifes, and studio
portraits of artists and
celebrities.
He also used Polaroid photographs as source materials for his iconic
celebrity portraits and many still
lifes throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
His iconic images range from
portraits of artists and
celebrities, posed male and female nudes, to flower still
lifes.
13 Most Beautiful Avatars (part of their larger
Portraits project from 2006 - 7) is a photographic series of «
celebrity» avatars exhibited in a contemporary art gallery in Second
Life.
But the swiftly moving art world, latching on to the latest, often - superficial thing, had little time for this contemplative artist who considered every brush stroke, whose works were small, who favored landscape painting and studio still
lifes, and whose
portraits were homely but sensitive studies of people he knew, rather than
celebrities.
These 140 photographs capture the depth of his work, from fashion photos that appeared in Vogue, to images of the American South in the 1940s,
celebrity portraits, still
lifes and private studio images.
Working — and
living — in one of the artist studios above Carnegie Hall for more than six decades, Sherman charmed her
celebrity clients with a vivacity and warmth that's reflected in her
portraits.
Hendricks is best known for his
life - size
portraits of people of color from the urban Northeast; he elevates the common and overlooked person to
celebrity status with bold portrayals of his subjects» attitude and style.