Up Close and Personal

by Dunas, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9781858942315
• ISBN10: 1858942314
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Merrell Pub Ltd

Summary

Up Close & Personal is more than just a collection of portraits of some of the best-known actors and entertainers of our own time; it is, quite deliberately, an exploration of the intangible qualities of fame and celebrity. Jeff Dunas is concerned not so much with who his sitters are, but with the question why we, the audience, can so easily identify with this group of individuals, and whether they have certain qualities that others of us seem not to possess. Common sense would indicate that the stars depicted - ranging from Cameron Diaz, Angelina Jolie, and Nastassja Kinski, to Martin Sheen, Nick Nolte, and James Brown - are all "normal" people, yet there is something about them that draws us in. When we confront these famous individuals in real life, it can be quite an unnerving experience. Dunas's rich and engaging photographs have much the same affect.

Author Biography

Jeff Dunas is an award-winning portrait, documentary, and fine-art photographer whose work has been published in major magazines worldwide, including GQ, Life, Paris Match, Esquire, Der Spiegel, American Photo, and the British Journal of Photography. His work has been the subject of over thirty solo exhibitions in the United States and elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Preface / Preface / Erstes Vorwort	p. 7
Foreword / Avant-propos / Zweites Vorwort	p. 13
Celebrity and the Notion of Fame / Celebrite et renommee / Stars und Beruhmtheit	p. 17
The Photographs / Les Photographes / Die Fotografien	p. 21
Some Recollections Upon Certain Subjects / Quelques souvenirs a propos de mes sujets / Erinnerungen an einige meiner Modelle	p. 200
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