In Their Youth: Early Portraits by Greg Gorman

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A photographer I like very much has a coming soon art book, In Their Youth: Early Portraits. Only for the fact that he puts a beautiful and so young Rupert Everett on the cover, I would buy it!

In Their Youth: Early Portraits comprises over 200 of the California-based photographer's previously unpublished portraits from the last three decades, featuring famous actors shot when they were still unknown young men, from teen years into their early twenties.



Amazon: Greg Gorman: In Their Youth

"I decided to do a project that expressed my infatuation with male beauty," Gorman explains, "especially in terms of youth... the portraits don't have lots of backgrounds, they're straightforward. It's really about the person, not the elements. It boils down to the graphics of the individual more than the graphics of the setting." Gorman's intimate celebrity portraits hinge on the sense of his subjects' vulnerability. Here, famous young men are juxtaposed with photographs of promising unknowns: one of the first shots of Tom Cruise, for instance, shares a spread with some anonymous ephebe that Andy Warhol met at Studio 54.

Enjoy some of Greg Gorman's works:


Greg Gorman, David Michelak, Los Angeles, 1987


Greg Gorman, Tony Ward "Bent Over", 1988




Greg Gorman, Paul IV, Los Angeles, 1991


Greg Gorman, Dolph Lundgren


Greg Gorman, Johnny Depp, 1993


Greg Gorman, Aino III


Greg Gorman, Ben Horizontal


Greg Gorman, Clint with Arms Up

 
Greg Gorman, Atherton Twins, Andy and Kevin

Greg Gorman discovered his calling after taking a borrowed camera to a Jimi Hendrix concert in 1968. In 1990, after producing images for over 20 years, he published his first book, Greg Gorman Volume One, which reveals his skills as a portraitist. Gorman has created innumerable unforgettable images (for instance, a 2000 portrait of Jeff Koons shows the artist perched on a filthy toilet, flanked by two leather-clad ladies). His work has been featured in ad campaigns and has been featured on the covers of a number of magazines, including Esquire, GQ, Interview, Vogue, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.

http://www.gormanphotography.com/

More Photographers at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Art

Comments

[krakozyubra.livejournal.com]

Same here, I'd fallen in love with him before I knew what gay means and I think I found out when he came out so in a sense he's my first gay man, hahaha. Such a charming English gentleman. Too bad I don't come across pics of him paying random visits to Moscow. )))

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere that he indeed lived in Moscow for a short period. He was working somewhere there, and he told in an interview that he was living in a small apartment in a quite poor building... imagine his neighbors, how lucky they were :-) Elisa

[krakozyubra.livejournal.com]

Small apartment? Poor building? My, somehow I feel sorry for him. :) Such pity, I haven't heard about him living here...somewhere. I know it'd have been imposible to find him in such a big city, but still... Well, I hope his neighbours recognized him and asked for a couple of autographs. At least.
Thanks for telling me! :)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

In "Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins", his biography, he said that he was in Moscow at the beginning of the '90. Elisa

[krakozyubra.livejournal.com]

Cripes! Poor Everett, the early 90s are one of the worst in our history. I guess he won't be coming back here willingly. Well, who know, hope dies last. ;) Thanks again.