American photographer Mark Abrahams is one of the foremost fashion and magazine cover photographers of the past two decades. In his photographs he follows an opposite direction to the predominant commercial, spacing from the cinema to the theatre, from the art to the literature, up to the politics. Abrahams wants to capture the subject without affectations or sentimentalisms. It’s a “pure instants”. He portrays his subjects with an introspective depth and purity. 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 these people 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, German Vogue and American GQ.
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