Uneasy: Portraits 1986-2016
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (521 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 069276030X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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What's not to love about this photographer Magda olszewski What's not to love about this photographer. I'm enamored Its a very large book too, which I was pleasantly surprised with (I didn't bother checking the size, the photographer was all I needed). Because of its size, you get such richness in every portrait (which truly deserves it). These images are endlessly inspiring.. Tim said Fantastic photo book.. SO excited to finally add this photobook collection, “Uneasy” is a fantastic monograph. Chris Buck has been shooting for the last thirty years and right from the start he’s concentrated on making really unique and memorable portraits.As a photo professor I’ve shown examples of his work in class for as long as I’ve been teaching. He’s a perfect photographer to show to students! He makes photos that people remember, but not. A great overview of a fascinating career You get to follow a photographer's career from grainy black and whites shot for little music magazines to the covers of mass market newsmagazines with Chris Buck's Uneasy. You also get to see a very distinct style slowly emerge with each year - a style that mirrors our own discomfort with fame and celebrity and politics as it articulates itself more clearly with each page. Chris Buck's career built slowly for two decades until he became a news sensation wit
Many of his portraits have become the iconic images of these subjects, including Steve Martin, Andy Samberg, Chris Farley, Billy Bob Thornton, and Michele Bachmann.. Uneasy constructs a road map of contemporary culture, featuring a wide range of subjects, including many of the most recognizable names today: President Barack Obama, George Clooney, Joaquin Phoenix, Lena Dunham, Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Louis C.K., Philip Seymour Hoffman, William Shatner, Aziz Ansari, Kristen Stewart, Jay Z, Cindy Sherman, Jimmy Fallon, and Donald Trump. For three decades Buck has been carving out a unique space in the world of celebrity portraiture, capturing its ineffability--its danger, its oddness, its warped sense of reality. Uneasy
His first book, Presence: The Invisible Portrait, published in 2012, was a collection of celebrity photos in which the famous sitters are present, but not visible. . Chris Buck was born in Toronto in July of 1964. Chris moved to New York in 1990 and established himself as a sought-after editorial and advertising photographer; his cl
''I've never enjoyed having someone else take my picture but Chris makes it seem effortless and natural & the results show - his portraits are revealing, witty and flattering.'' - Cindy Sherman, artist ''Every Chris Buck photo is a mystery, a pervading, off-putting idea, always conceptual, often visceral, and sometimes unfathomable.'' --- George Lois, legendary art director