An excellent copy of Martin Schoeller's large-format stern portfolio featuring some of the Close-Up and Female bodybuilders photographs.
Thomas Osterkorn, and Andreas Petzold (eds.), Martin Schoeller, teNeues, 2009. First edition. Hardcover, 96 pp. 36,5 x27,8 cm. (Stern Fotografie, Portfolio Nr. 54).
If you have asked yourself if Paris Hilton has pores, or what Clint Eastwood's and George Clooney's eyebrows look like, check Martin Schoeller's extreme close-up photographs.
Schoeller (b. 1968, Germany) is a commercial portrait photographer whose photographs appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone, Esquire, and many others. After working as Annie Leibovitz's assistant for three years in the 1990s, Schoeller made a name for himself with his hyper-detailed, extreme close-up portraits of celebrities.
Close-Up, Schoeller's website says, is 'a series in which familiar faces are treated with the same scrutiny as the unfamous. The stylistic consistency of this work creates a democratic platform for comparison between his subjects, challenging a viewer’s existing notions of celebrity, value and honesty.'
The portfolio selection contains portraits of Cindy Sherman, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Eddie Izzard, Benedikt Taschen, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Lyle Lovetet, Quentin Tarrantino, Cesar Milan, plus a few pictures from Schoeller's female bodybuilders series