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Mark Abrahams
One of the foremost fashion and magazine cover photographers of the past two decades, American photographer Mark Abrahams has straddled the gap between fashion and celebrity portraiture with guileless simplicity and exacting care. A self-taught photographer, Abrahams portrays his subjects with an introspective depth and candor. His subjects run the gamut of the A-list: Julianne Moore, George Clooney, James Franco, Dakota Fanning, Sean Diddy Combs, Ashley Olsen, Dennis Hopper, Lindsay Lohan, Larry Clark, Michelle Obama, Ed Ruscha, Philip Roth, Roberto Bolle, Evander Holyfield, Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Tom Hanks, Rachel Weisz and countless others. This volume provides a dazzling parade of the glitterati under Abrahams' lens, devoid of affectation or artifice. Abrahams is donating his portion of the proceeds from this book to benefit Hope For Haiti Now.
Mark Abrahams was born in 1958 in Santa Ana, California. The gift of a Nikon FM from his mother ignited his passion for photography. Working as a truck driver by day, Abrahams transformed his tiny bathroom into a functioning darkroom to develop film, retouch negatives and manipulate surfaces at night. Against all odds, in the early 1990s Abrahams found himself shooting iconic musicians, jetting to Milan with supermodels and landing editorial shoots with "L'Uomo Vogue," "Deutsch Vogue"and "GQ."
Mark Abrahams was born in 1958 in Santa Ana, California. The gift of a Nikon FM from his mother ignited his passion for photography. Working as a truck driver by day, Abrahams transformed his tiny bathroom into a functioning darkroom to develop film, retouch negatives and manipulate surfaces at night. Against all odds, in the early 1990s Abrahams found himself shooting iconic musicians, jetting to Milan with supermodels and landing editorial shoots with "L'Uomo Vogue," "Deutsch Vogue"and "GQ."
300 pages, Hardcover
First published June 30, 2011
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February 22, 2020
This book is everything that it aspires to be: a photo collection but also a silent movie, a portrait of various artists but also a record of time flowing.
There are so much ambivalence in Mark Abrahams' pictures-- an arrested fluidity, a translucent solidity, and that delicate moment of balance just before it breaks. The subjects in these portraits are not just BEING; you constantly get the feeling that they are about to say something, to shake your hand, or even break your nose. The tension is always there, yet it never feels noisy or violent. The tension manifests itself via a tranquil rebellion against the self.
I like the fact that the portraits collected are called "Plates," as if they are merely plates set out on the table, waiting for you to put meaning onto them. And I admire the fact that the information to each portrait appears only in the appendix, so that the book is a smooth flow from image to image, from moment to moment, without the faintest trace of wordy intrusion.
There are so much ambivalence in Mark Abrahams' pictures-- an arrested fluidity, a translucent solidity, and that delicate moment of balance just before it breaks. The subjects in these portraits are not just BEING; you constantly get the feeling that they are about to say something, to shake your hand, or even break your nose. The tension is always there, yet it never feels noisy or violent. The tension manifests itself via a tranquil rebellion against the self.
I like the fact that the portraits collected are called "Plates," as if they are merely plates set out on the table, waiting for you to put meaning onto them. And I admire the fact that the information to each portrait appears only in the appendix, so that the book is a smooth flow from image to image, from moment to moment, without the faintest trace of wordy intrusion.
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