Portraits

[love.cat]

wow incredible the crying ones! wow i cant get over them

 

[peppi]

From Vanity Fair: Mary Ellen Mark, Hollywood's On-Set Photographer

Only Mary Ellen Mark can claim to have documented the turmoil on the most notorious film set of all time (Apocalypse Now), as well as the making of classics as diverse as Tootsie, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Fellini’s Satyricon. With photographs from more than 50 film sets, Mark’s recently published book, Seen Behind the Scene: Forty Years of Photographing On Set (Phaidon), provides a revealing look at how the movies get made.

Director Francis Ford Coppola shelters himself from the driving rain that added to the troubles of an already beleaguered shoot for "Apocalypse Now" (1979).



Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, and Art Garfunkel “French-kissing” on the set of Mike Nichols’s "Carnal Knowledge" (1971), in Vancouver, Canada.



Dustin Hoffman sneaks up on Lawrence Olivier on the set of John Schlesinger’s "Marathon Man" (1976) in New York’s Central Park.




Melanie Griffith with her then boyfriend, Don Johnson, on Sanibel Island, Florida, during a break in filming of "Night Moves" (1975), directed by Arthur Penn.



Cinematographer Billy Williams checks Katharine Hepburn’s light in the woods of New Hampshire on the set of "On Golden Pond" (1981), directed by Mark Rydell.



Johnny Depp and Gunpowder, his character’s horse, in Tim Burton’s "Sleepy Hollow" (1999), Surrey, England.




Director Federico Fellini surveys the elaborate set of "Satyricon" (1969) in Rome, including the house where the movie’s two protagonists, Encopio and Ascilto, live.



Alejandro González Iñárritu directs Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt in a small Moroccan village for a scene of "Babel" (2006).

 

[peppi]

Tim Burton prepares for a scene with Paul Giamatti (in orangutan costume) in his remake of "Planet of the Apes" (2001).



Courtney Love in her trailer on the set of "The People vs. Larry Flynt" (1996), directed by Milos Forman, in Los Angeles. Love portrayed the wife of the publisher of Hustler magazine.




Sean Penn in his dressing room for the Broadway play "Slab Boys", Manhattan, 1983.



ONTD

 

[BetteT]

These are marvelous!! Thank you for posting them. It's amazing what a good portrait photographer can do to bring out the person behind the face ..... it's obvious that Mary Ellen Mark is one of the best.

 

[Mchunu]

the one on the previous page of Paul Newman is just...
i really love portraiture and i think that along with fashion photography it's another field i want to explore with BFA in photography.

 

[ChrissyM]

i agree with bette.. these portraits are so great..

there is so much life and vibrancy to them..

so many times, portraits can be so still and sort of quiet...
but these are so active and authentic...

i had typed a different, more instinctive response but then lost in when i pressed some wrong keys

anyway... there's just so much life in these shots without seeming forced or posed in any way

thanks for the pics peppi

 

[peppi]

you're welcome

 

[cecil]

that sean penn portrait is great. he looks so... enigmatic.

 

[peppi]

The New York City Ballerina Project by Dane ****agi

There's lots more at the source
http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/117549.html#cutid1

 

[peppi]

Haha I guess the photographer's name was too racy.. Well, go to the source to find out..starts wiht a S and ends with a T + agi..