Editor’s Note: This video is a section from the NCS Style show.
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Martin Schoeller is likely one of the world’s most celebrated portrait photographers. He’s taken footage of everybody from President Obama and Lady Gaga, to feminine bodybuilders and the homeless of Los Angeles.
But what really distinguishes the German-born New Yorker’s observe is his his constant model.
“It’s been 20 years that I’ve been taking these close-up portraits and everybody (has) the same lighting, the same setting, the same angle, the same camera. Nobody is retouched – what you see is what you get,” Schoeller defined to NCS Style present presenter Derek Blasberg.
Martin Schoeller’s celebrity portraits
By treating every portrait in the identical manner, whatever the topic, Schoeller makes an attempt to search out some fact in what he feels is usually a very dishonest medium.
“I do think all photographs lie. I don’t think there is one picture that is really honest. You can’t describe a person in a split second, but maybe in the grand scheme of photography, I think there are some pictures that are more honest than others, you know? So I’m trying to steer to the little bit more honest side of the spectrum,” he stated.
Out of the hundreds of individuals he has photographed, who does Schoeller discover essentially the most difficult to {photograph}?
“Actors in general are difficult to shoot because they are always acting. You feel like ‘Oh, this was an honest, great portrait’ while you’re photographing them… and then (I’m) looking at the contact sheets and I feel like, ‘Oh my god, they were playing the whole time and I didn’t even notice it.’”
Watch the video above to search out out extra about Martin Schoeller’s images.