Bruce Weber

Bruce Weber is a photographer and American scenario writer born on March 29th, 1946 with Greensburg in Pennsylvania, the United States. It is especially famous for its advertizing campaigns for the marks of clothing Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch and Ralph Lauren.

Biography

Bruce Weber studies photography with the Université of Princeton. It settles then with New York and continues its studies with the New School for Social Research then with the Université of New York. It carries out its first exposure in solo in 1974 to the Razor Gallery of New York.

Its first photographs of mode are published in the end of the years 1970 in the magazine GQ of which Weber will make the cover on several occasions. Quickly recognized like one of the pioneers of the photography of male mode, it draws the attention of the general public at the end of the years 1980 and to the beginning of the year 1990 with the images which it carries out for the advertizing campaign Calvin Klein. He was a long time photographer for the mark of clothing Abercrombie & Fitch. In 2006, Weber photographs the collection winter 2006 of Ralph Lauren.

Weber is also known to have launched the career of signal-model of Isabella Rossellini.

Its work

Photographs

The photographs of Weber are generally in Noir and white. Weber, although it is not the only one to do it - like the Greek antiques, George Platt Lynes and several others - watch with the general public the delicately engraved beauty of the man. He is in particular known for his photographs of the twin Brewer and the twin Carlson .

Its direct photographs in Black and white representative, an heterosexual couple stripped on a swing, two men equipped in a bed or the mannequin Marcus Schenkenberg naked in a Jean under the shower, enabled him to be recognized by the general public. Its photograph for Calvin Klein of the athlete Tom Hintnaus in white slipway is a emblematic image. Its photographs are often gathered in works in limited edition, such as for example, has House is Not has Home and Bear Pond , a recent work of which one of the models is Eric Nies, one of the high-speed motorboats of the emission of MTV, The Real World .

Films

At the end of the years 1980, Weber turns to the realization of films. It carries out films having for subject of the young boxers ( Broken Noses , 1987) and the trumpet player of jazz Chet Baker ( Let' S Get Lost , 1988).

In 2001, it carries out a film entitled Chop Suey Club . Filmed in black and white, this documentary film deals at the same time with the fighter Peter Johnson, as well as career and sources of inspiration of Weber. In 2004, it carries out the documentary one against the war has Letter to True .

Video clips

In 1988, Weber is contacted by the British pop group Pet Shop Boys, whereas the group is in New York to work on the album Results of Liza Minnelli. The Fart Shop Boys wish that Weber carry it out video of their next individual Domino Dance hall drawn from their album Introspective . Weber interested, but is occupied too much by the realization of its film on Chet Baker to accept.

Two years pass before another opportunity arises. In 1990, the Fart Shop Boys leave their new album Behavior whose Being Boring is the individual one. Weber accepts the proposal and produces the clip which is the time acclaimed and discussed. The idea of Weber is to film a festival in which take part of the very diverse people. Filmed in one day by two teams in a house of Long Island, it is, with a cost of 225 000 $, the most expensive clip of the Fart Shop Servant boys. Although without explicit sexual contents, the vision of the buttocks of a man at the beginning of the clip is enough so that the clip is not diffused on MTV in the United States.

Weber also produces the clip of the piece Blue Spanish Sky of Chris Isaak.

The Fart Shop Servant boys enormously appreciating the clip produced per Weber, again request it in 1996 for the clip of is had emptied E , one of the pieces of their album to the influences latino Bilingual . This clip is turned to Wet “Wild , a watery park close to Orlando in Florida.

Six years later, in 2002, Weber produces again a clip of the Fart Shop Boys, for the piece I Get Along drawn from the album Release . The idea of Weber is to film one of its photo sessions taking place in its own studio Little Bear of New York. The clip with the pace of documentary, by showing the mannequins, as well as the Fart Shop Servant boys, dining and preparing for the meeting of photograph. Version DVD includes/understands a short film illustrating the piece E-mail .

Outstanding achievements

Books

See too

External bonds

Official site of Bruce Weber

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