Individuals: Portraits from the Gap Collection

by Melcher Media (Creator)

Know who you are and be it. Celebrate your uniqueness with passion and conviction. This is the powerful philosophy at the heart of more than thirty years of Gap advertising-ads that have created an indelible imprint on American pop culture. Virtually every icon from every artistic field has sat for a Gap ad, and Individuals brings the best of these together for the first time. Kim Basinger, Brandon Boyd, Danny Glover, Dominick Dunne, Heather Graham, Scarlett Johansson, B.B. King, Ashton Kutcher, Karl Lagerfeld, and Michelle Williams are just some of the influential icons featured.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2006

About the author

Melcher Media is a New York-based book packager and publisher founded by Charles Melcher in 1993. Known for creating visually inventive and physically distinctive books, the company has produced over 175 titles, including 30 New York Times bestsellers such as An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore and The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant. Melcher Media has also created companion books for hit productions like Hamilton, Stranger Things, and Wicked. It pioneered DuraBooks, a patented waterproof and recyclable book format, and launched the Future of StoryTelling (FoST), a summit celebrating innovation in digital-era storytelling.

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

there are great shots of kris kristofferson, steve young, dizzy gillespie and scarlett johansen in here, but they don't photo bad anyway. more interesting to me were the photos of people i'd not heard of (i'm not near trendy enough to know a lot of these people) franca sozzani, horst p. horst etc and wondering who they were. best photo i've ever seen of jada pinkett smith here.

my one critism, cropping at the forehead makes the picture look silly and incomplete or poorly photoed. i know that's the "correct" way to shoot/print but draws attention to the photographer instead of the subject.