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Inside the Life of China’s Most Famous Actress (Aug. 3, 2015)
This American photographer was the English tutor of the most celebrated Chinese actress, Fan Bingbing
It was 2008 when Californian photographer Rian Dundon, while working as a freelance editorial photographer in Beijing, learned about an unexpected job opportunity: tutor Chinese actress and pop singer, Fan Bingbing.
Fan is well accustomed to being in the spotlight since her teenage years. Now 33, she regularly stars in China’s highest-grossing movies and has represented international fashion powerhouses like Louis Vuitton. Still, the ability to speak fluent English was instrumental to advance Fan’s career – with the potential to help her land Hollywood roles, Dundon says.
But Dundon, who had been living in China since 2005, had no idea how grandiose Fan’s fame was, until the day he accompanied her to a live performance in the coastal city of Qingdao in northeastern China. “I was just impressed by the fanaticism, the number of people that were there to see her, the big crowds of college students chasing us down the road, swarming our car as we arrived,” Dundon recalls.
For the next nine months, Dundon joined Fan’s entourage of assistants and traveled frequently in China and Southeast Asia. During the tour, he met celebrities such as prolific American director Oliver Stone and Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan. “It was exciting definitely at first to be traveling, staying at fancy hotels, eating a lot of really good, expensive meals,” Dundon tells TIME.
But soon the excitement wore off, as the photographer often had to put his life on hold to accommodate Fan’s taxing schedule. “I was the last to know when we were making moves,” Dundon says. “Often I would get a call in the middle of the night that said, ‘Be at the airport in a few hours,’ the next thing I knew [we] would be gone for two months filming a movie or a soap opera somewhere.”
Despite the grind, the job gave Dundon the unprecedented opportunity to document the actress’s life, capturing the spontaneous yet intimate moments that largely remained unknown to Chinese tabloids, in which Fan was portrayed as arrogant and pompous.
In one photo, we see the starlet eating out of Styrofoam takeout boxes, minding no one. In another, we see her sitting unaccompanied at a big round dining table, eyes fixed on her phone. Shorn of makeup and designer clothes, Fan is just like any ordinary girl. “After all of the fame, beauty and wealth, she’s a pretty approachable and down-to-earth person actually,” Dundon says.
Although Fan didn’t have editorial control over Dundon’s photographs, he’s well aware of the intent of Fan’s image-conscious management team. “They sought the opportunity to have this foreign, more journalistic, candid perspective on her world that might be more telling,” he says.
After Dundon moved back to the U.S., he was approached by independent publisher Modes Vu, who employs a print-on-demand model that ships books right off the printer to the readers. After 10 book dummies came Dundon’s latest monograph, Fan, in which the photographs of the starlet’s public and private lives as well as the urban landscape in China are seamlessly weaved together.
“I wanted to bring it in to a broader vision of celebrity and entertainment production in the context of urban China at the time,” Dundon says. The book, which resembles a low-cost paperback with a cheap sticker price, reflects the disposability of fame, he says.
He purposefully left out captions, leaving viewers to ponder “when it’s a performance, when it’s on set or when it’s real life.” In one photograph, Fan is seen staring into the camera with two strips of tears sliding down her cheek. The emotion seems genuine but her meticulously groomed hair hints otherwise. “She was crying for a scene in a film,” Dundon says. “It’s real tears but not necessarily real crying.”
Images like these, Dundon says, play with the line between fact and fiction, and ultimately pose the question of whether pictures of celebrity can ever be authentic or unposed. “Everything is curated, for the audience, for the media, for the fans,” Dundon tells TIME.
Although marketing the book in China seems to be a logical idea, Dundon says that it isn’t his intent to sell Fan back to her established audience. “I think part of the intrigue being a Westerner or non-Chinese reader of this book is that you don’t recognize her. You recognize fame and the structure of fame and celebrity. To me, it’s almost more interesting if you don’t know who she is.”
http://time.com/3972014/fan-bingbing/
This American photographer was the English tutor of the most celebrated Chinese actress, Fan Bingbing
It was 2008 when Californian photographer Rian Dundon, while working as a freelance editorial photographer in Beijing, learned about an unexpected job opportunity: tutor Chinese actress and pop singer, Fan Bingbing.
Fan is well accustomed to being in the spotlight since her teenage years. Now 33, she regularly stars in China’s highest-grossing movies and has represented international fashion powerhouses like Louis Vuitton. Still, the ability to speak fluent English was instrumental to advance Fan’s career – with the potential to help her land Hollywood roles, Dundon says.
But Dundon, who had been living in China since 2005, had no idea how grandiose Fan’s fame was, until the day he accompanied her to a live performance in the coastal city of Qingdao in northeastern China. “I was just impressed by the fanaticism, the number of people that were there to see her, the big crowds of college students chasing us down the road, swarming our car as we arrived,” Dundon recalls.
For the next nine months, Dundon joined Fan’s entourage of assistants and traveled frequently in China and Southeast Asia. During the tour, he met celebrities such as prolific American director Oliver Stone and Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan. “It was exciting definitely at first to be traveling, staying at fancy hotels, eating a lot of really good, expensive meals,” Dundon tells TIME.
But soon the excitement wore off, as the photographer often had to put his life on hold to accommodate Fan’s taxing schedule. “I was the last to know when we were making moves,” Dundon says. “Often I would get a call in the middle of the night that said, ‘Be at the airport in a few hours,’ the next thing I knew [we] would be gone for two months filming a movie or a soap opera somewhere.”
Despite the grind, the job gave Dundon the unprecedented opportunity to document the actress’s life, capturing the spontaneous yet intimate moments that largely remained unknown to Chinese tabloids, in which Fan was portrayed as arrogant and pompous.
In one photo, we see the starlet eating out of Styrofoam takeout boxes, minding no one. In another, we see her sitting unaccompanied at a big round dining table, eyes fixed on her phone. Shorn of makeup and designer clothes, Fan is just like any ordinary girl. “After all of the fame, beauty and wealth, she’s a pretty approachable and down-to-earth person actually,” Dundon says.
Although Fan didn’t have editorial control over Dundon’s photographs, he’s well aware of the intent of Fan’s image-conscious management team. “They sought the opportunity to have this foreign, more journalistic, candid perspective on her world that might be more telling,” he says.
After Dundon moved back to the U.S., he was approached by independent publisher Modes Vu, who employs a print-on-demand model that ships books right off the printer to the readers. After 10 book dummies came Dundon’s latest monograph, Fan, in which the photographs of the starlet’s public and private lives as well as the urban landscape in China are seamlessly weaved together.
“I wanted to bring it in to a broader vision of celebrity and entertainment production in the context of urban China at the time,” Dundon says. The book, which resembles a low-cost paperback with a cheap sticker price, reflects the disposability of fame, he says.
He purposefully left out captions, leaving viewers to ponder “when it’s a performance, when it’s on set or when it’s real life.” In one photograph, Fan is seen staring into the camera with two strips of tears sliding down her cheek. The emotion seems genuine but her meticulously groomed hair hints otherwise. “She was crying for a scene in a film,” Dundon says. “It’s real tears but not necessarily real crying.”
Images like these, Dundon says, play with the line between fact and fiction, and ultimately pose the question of whether pictures of celebrity can ever be authentic or unposed. “Everything is curated, for the audience, for the media, for the fans,” Dundon tells TIME.
Although marketing the book in China seems to be a logical idea, Dundon says that it isn’t his intent to sell Fan back to her established audience. “I think part of the intrigue being a Westerner or non-Chinese reader of this book is that you don’t recognize her. You recognize fame and the structure of fame and celebrity. To me, it’s almost more interesting if you don’t know who she is.”
http://time.com/3972014/fan-bingbing/
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The 2015 International Best-Dressed List:
Fan Bingbing
Occupation: Actor.
Residence: Beijing.
Designers: Stéphane Rolland, Elie Saab, Christopher Bu.
Favorite Items of Clothing: Hats.
Favorite Place to Shop: Vintage stores.
In a Ralph & Russo gown at the Cannes Film Festival.
Photo: By Nicolas Briquet/AbacaUSA/Polaris.
vanityfair.com/style/photos/2015/08/international-best-dressed-list-2015#hollywood
Fan Bingbing
Occupation: Actor.
Residence: Beijing.
Designers: Stéphane Rolland, Elie Saab, Christopher Bu.
Favorite Items of Clothing: Hats.
Favorite Place to Shop: Vintage stores.
In a Ralph & Russo gown at the Cannes Film Festival.
Photo: By Nicolas Briquet/AbacaUSA/Polaris.
vanityfair.com/style/photos/2015/08/international-best-dressed-list-2015#hollywood
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Harper's Bazaar China September 2015
Photographer: Chen Man
Stylist: Xiao Mu Fan
Hair: Bon Fan Zhang
Make-up: Sun Qi
Source:weibo.com/bazaarchina
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The World's Highest-Paid Actresses 2015: Jennifer Lawrence Leads With $52 Million
AUG 20, 2015 @ 8:30 PM 42,637 VIEWS
Jennifer Lawrence may have been made famous by The Hunger Games, but she’s certainly not short of bread: The 25-year-old banked $52 million pre-tax over 12 months to be the best paid actress–$16.5 million more than second-ranked Scarlett Johansson, who earned $35.5 million.
For the first time ever, the ranking examined the world’s highest-paid leading ladies to create a truly global list of actress earnings. Despite the broader valuations, only one non-American made the list: Chinese actress Bingbing Fan, who ranked No. 4 with a $21 million haul. Fan, who joins the ranking thanks to roles in movies such as The White-Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom and endorsements with Chopard and L’Oreal, is likely best-known to U.S. cinema-goers for her role in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Melissa McCarthy, ranked third with $23 million, is the only other actress to bank over $20 million in our scoring period. The Bridesmaids star has proven her ability to carry movies solo–Spy and Tammy grossed a combined $335 million worldwide–and now she’s turning to fashion, launching an all-sizes clothing line.
“I started to think if I could do anything to build women up rather than the constant tear down I’m going to do it,” says McCarthy of her designs, which aim to break down the size barriers within women’s fashion.
The World’s 18 Highest-Paid Actresses earned a combined $281 million before taxes and fees–$660 million less than the 34 World’s Highest-Paid Actors, who banked a cumulative $941 million. Only four actresses made north of $20 million, while 21 actors banked $20 million-plus. We included actresses who earned over $6 million and up, while the male barrier for entry was far higher, at $13 million.
Though these elite actresses are still well remunerated, the Hollywood pay gap has been well publicized. Lawrence made headlines this year when Wikileaks revealed she and her female American Hustle costar received a lower cut of profits than their male counterparts. The leaked Sony correspondence relayed Lawrence’s representatives complaining that male actors (Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale and Jeremy Renner) received a 9% cut of profits, while Lawrence and Amy Adams pocketed just 7%.
Top women can earn between $10 million to $20 million a film with the option to negotiate a share of the movie’s profits, but Lawrence’s Hunger Games is one of few major movies with a woman as its main character. In fact, a recent study found that just 21 of the 100 top-grossing films of 2014 featured a female lead or co-lead, while only 28.1% of characters in 100 top-grossing films were female, period. This means it’s much rarer for women to get the sort of blockbuster role which would warrant the massive backend deals many male counterparts demand (Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible or Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man, for example).
Full list: The World’s Highest-Paid Actresses 2015
“The really top [female] stars get paid the same thing as their male counterparts, the problem is the averages don’t work because there are not enough parts for women to star in for them to get paid,” explained Sony’s former co-chair Amy Pascal, then one of two female studio heads with Universal’s Donna Langley, in a 2013 interview with FORBES’ Dorothy Pomerantz.
As the ranking shows, the movie pay gap is even more pronounced overseas. In Bollywood, a top male star might earn the equivalent of $4.7 million per movie, while prominent Indian actresses rarely receive one sixth of that – the equivalent of some $780,000. This year, five Bollywood actors made the Highest-Paid Actors ranking – not a single Bollywood actress made the Highest-Paid Actresses list.
Last year’s top-earning actress, Sandra Bullock, saw her payday drop to $8 million from $51 million after a quiet 12 months. Other big stars, such as Emma Stone (tied at No. 16; $6.5 million) and Kristen Stewart (No. 9; $12 million), this year received critical acclaim for indie films over major box office successes.
Many of the names on the list are mainstays who make fewer movies but still earn from endorsements. Case in point: Jennifer Aniston ($16.5 million) whose two films in our scoring period grossed just $108.6 million but makes bank shilling for Aveeno, SmartWater and Living Proof. Gwyneth Paltrow makes the majority of her $9 million paycheck from Max Factor and Hugo Boss contracts, while Julia Roberts returns to the ranking with a $16 million haul thanks largely to deals with Lancome, Givenchy and Calzedonia.
Another actress returning to the ranking: Wild star Reese Witherspoon, who banked $15 million from a slew of new production and acting credits to rejoin the list since dropping off in 2011. Amanda Seyfried, tied for No. 13 with Meryl Streep at $8 million, is the only other newcomer besides Fan. Seyfried joins the elite club with roles in Ted 2 and Pan, plus Givenchy and Clé de Peau Beauté endorsements.
Our list measures earnings before subtracting management fees and taxes; figures are based on data from Nielsen, Box Office Mojo and IMDB, as well as interviews with agents, managers, lawyers—and stars themselves. It only examines women–a separate list of highest-paid actors was published earlier in the month.
forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2015/08/20/the-worlds-highest-paid-actresses-2015-jennifer-lawrence-leads-with-52-million/
AUG 20, 2015 @ 8:30 PM 42,637 VIEWS
Jennifer Lawrence may have been made famous by The Hunger Games, but she’s certainly not short of bread: The 25-year-old banked $52 million pre-tax over 12 months to be the best paid actress–$16.5 million more than second-ranked Scarlett Johansson, who earned $35.5 million.
For the first time ever, the ranking examined the world’s highest-paid leading ladies to create a truly global list of actress earnings. Despite the broader valuations, only one non-American made the list: Chinese actress Bingbing Fan, who ranked No. 4 with a $21 million haul. Fan, who joins the ranking thanks to roles in movies such as The White-Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom and endorsements with Chopard and L’Oreal, is likely best-known to U.S. cinema-goers for her role in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Melissa McCarthy, ranked third with $23 million, is the only other actress to bank over $20 million in our scoring period. The Bridesmaids star has proven her ability to carry movies solo–Spy and Tammy grossed a combined $335 million worldwide–and now she’s turning to fashion, launching an all-sizes clothing line.
“I started to think if I could do anything to build women up rather than the constant tear down I’m going to do it,” says McCarthy of her designs, which aim to break down the size barriers within women’s fashion.
The World’s 18 Highest-Paid Actresses earned a combined $281 million before taxes and fees–$660 million less than the 34 World’s Highest-Paid Actors, who banked a cumulative $941 million. Only four actresses made north of $20 million, while 21 actors banked $20 million-plus. We included actresses who earned over $6 million and up, while the male barrier for entry was far higher, at $13 million.
Though these elite actresses are still well remunerated, the Hollywood pay gap has been well publicized. Lawrence made headlines this year when Wikileaks revealed she and her female American Hustle costar received a lower cut of profits than their male counterparts. The leaked Sony correspondence relayed Lawrence’s representatives complaining that male actors (Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale and Jeremy Renner) received a 9% cut of profits, while Lawrence and Amy Adams pocketed just 7%.
Top women can earn between $10 million to $20 million a film with the option to negotiate a share of the movie’s profits, but Lawrence’s Hunger Games is one of few major movies with a woman as its main character. In fact, a recent study found that just 21 of the 100 top-grossing films of 2014 featured a female lead or co-lead, while only 28.1% of characters in 100 top-grossing films were female, period. This means it’s much rarer for women to get the sort of blockbuster role which would warrant the massive backend deals many male counterparts demand (Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible or Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man, for example).
Full list: The World’s Highest-Paid Actresses 2015
“The really top [female] stars get paid the same thing as their male counterparts, the problem is the averages don’t work because there are not enough parts for women to star in for them to get paid,” explained Sony’s former co-chair Amy Pascal, then one of two female studio heads with Universal’s Donna Langley, in a 2013 interview with FORBES’ Dorothy Pomerantz.
As the ranking shows, the movie pay gap is even more pronounced overseas. In Bollywood, a top male star might earn the equivalent of $4.7 million per movie, while prominent Indian actresses rarely receive one sixth of that – the equivalent of some $780,000. This year, five Bollywood actors made the Highest-Paid Actors ranking – not a single Bollywood actress made the Highest-Paid Actresses list.
Last year’s top-earning actress, Sandra Bullock, saw her payday drop to $8 million from $51 million after a quiet 12 months. Other big stars, such as Emma Stone (tied at No. 16; $6.5 million) and Kristen Stewart (No. 9; $12 million), this year received critical acclaim for indie films over major box office successes.
Many of the names on the list are mainstays who make fewer movies but still earn from endorsements. Case in point: Jennifer Aniston ($16.5 million) whose two films in our scoring period grossed just $108.6 million but makes bank shilling for Aveeno, SmartWater and Living Proof. Gwyneth Paltrow makes the majority of her $9 million paycheck from Max Factor and Hugo Boss contracts, while Julia Roberts returns to the ranking with a $16 million haul thanks largely to deals with Lancome, Givenchy and Calzedonia.
Another actress returning to the ranking: Wild star Reese Witherspoon, who banked $15 million from a slew of new production and acting credits to rejoin the list since dropping off in 2011. Amanda Seyfried, tied for No. 13 with Meryl Streep at $8 million, is the only other newcomer besides Fan. Seyfried joins the elite club with roles in Ted 2 and Pan, plus Givenchy and Clé de Peau Beauté endorsements.
Our list measures earnings before subtracting management fees and taxes; figures are based on data from Nielsen, Box Office Mojo and IMDB, as well as interviews with agents, managers, lawyers—and stars themselves. It only examines women–a separate list of highest-paid actors was published earlier in the month.
forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2015/08/20/the-worlds-highest-paid-actresses-2015-jennifer-lawrence-leads-with-52-million/
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She is very popular in Taiwan！because the drama 《Empress of China》。
PS:
Vogue China Fashion's Night Out 2011 ambassador
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L'Oreal Paris Revitalift Laser X3 F/W 2015
Photographers: Peter Lindbergh & Simon Emmett
Hair: Stephane Lancien
Make-up: Charlotte Willer
Stylist: Mika Mizutani
Models: Andie MacDowell, Fan Bingbing, Helena Christensen, Julianne Moore and Naomi Watts.
Source:loreal-paris.com
Photographers: Peter Lindbergh & Simon Emmett
Hair: Stephane Lancien
Make-up: Charlotte Willer
Stylist: Mika Mizutani
Models: Andie MacDowell, Fan Bingbing, Helena Christensen, Julianne Moore and Naomi Watts.
Source:loreal-paris.com
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L'Oreal Paris Collection Exclusive La Vie en Rose Part 1 F/W 2015
Photographer: Norman Jean Roy
Hair: Stephane Lancien
Make-up: Charlotte Willer
Models: Blake Lively, Doutzen Kroes, Eva Longoria, Fan Bingbing, John Legend, Julianne Moore, Leïla Bekhti, Karlie Kloss and Naomi Watts.
Source:twitter.com/lorealparisfr
Photographer: Norman Jean Roy
Hair: Stephane Lancien
Make-up: Charlotte Willer
Models: Blake Lively, Doutzen Kroes, Eva Longoria, Fan Bingbing, John Legend, Julianne Moore, Leïla Bekhti, Karlie Kloss and Naomi Watts.
Source:twitter.com/lorealparisfr
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