In Their Youth: Early Portraits comprises over 200 of the California-based photographer's previously unpublished portraits from the last three decades, featuring famous actors shot when they were still unknown young men, from teen years into their early twenties. "I decided to do a project that expressed my infatuation with male beauty," Gorman explains, "especially in terms of youth... the portraits don't have lots of backgrounds, they're straightforward. It's really about the person, not the elements. It boils down to the graphics of the individual more than the graphics of the setting." Gorman's intimate celebrity portraits hinge on the sense of his subjects' vulnerability. Here, famous young men are juxtaposed with photographs of promising unknowns: one of the first shots of Tom Cruise, for instance, shares a spread with some anonymous ephebe that Andy Warhol met at Studio 54. This limited edition comes with a signed archival print photograph of Christopher Atkins (13 x 17 inches), signed by both Atkins and Gorman, and comes housed in a linen cloth box.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Damiani
ISBN-10
8862081413
ISBN-13
9788862081412
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102840596
Product Key Features
Book Title
Greg Gorman: in Their Youth (Limited Edition)
Author
Greg Gorman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Men's Studies, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Photography, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science