angela sarafyan
angela sarafyan

Angie is my most photographed subject. Shooting her for over twenty years now… a dear friend, brilliant actor and one of the great peoples.

angie
angie

Her unique beauty and spirit grows with each passing year.

angie
angie

We always shoot alone, no hair, no make-up, nobody . . . just us.

alec balwin
alec balwin

shot this a little while back . . . so glad he made it through all the shit

sylvia miles & andy warhol at the factory
sylvia miles & andy warhol at the factory

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andy warhol at the factory . . .
andy warhol at the factory . . .

. . . 860 Broadway in the formal dining room. This changed the trajectory of my life, 19 years old, 1975 being invited to The Factory to photograph Andy from a letter I wrote him asking to shoot his portrait.

carrie fisher
carrie fisher

As a beautiful gargoyle… West End Ave. Manhattan, circa 1990.

three generations...  james earl jones, robert earl jones & flynn earl jones
three generations... james earl jones, robert earl jones & flynn earl jones
bob fosse . . . NYC 1975
bob fosse . . . NYC 1975

Nineteen years old when I shot this… quite in awe of him.

julia roberts
julia roberts

getting her hair dyed

julia
julia

. . . platinum blond

self portrait
self portrait

Shot in my bedroom / studio, 18 years old, still living at home, our family brownstone on the upper west side, manhattan, 1974.

self portrait
self portrait

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self portrait
self portrait

Lighting test for a video I was prepping to shoot.

angie . . . 20 something
angie . . . 20 something

Our routine for many years was meeting for coffee, chatting about everything and then wander the streets or back to my studio to shoot.

tim roth
tim roth

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tim roth
tim roth

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sandra bullock
sandra bullock

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angie
angie

my place . . . just hanging, shooting . . . always shooting

carrie fisher
carrie fisher

“Take your broken heart and turn it into art” she said.

debbie reynolds & carrie fisher
debbie reynolds & carrie fisher

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debbie & carrie
debbie & carrie

Carrie affectionately chokes Debbie . . . last frame of the shoot.

faye dunaway
faye dunaway

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joan fontaine
joan fontaine

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michael keaton, danny devito, michelle pfeiffer . . . "batman returns"
michael keaton, danny devito, michelle pfeiffer . . . "batman returns"

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angie
angie

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self portrait
self portrait

19 years old in my bedroom studio.

morgan freeman
morgan freeman

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walter mathau
walter mathau

The face he’s making was on the punchline of a joke he was entertaining us with.

congresswoman shirley chisolm, at her bedford-stuyvesant offices, brooklyn
congresswoman shirley chisolm, at her bedford-stuyvesant offices, brooklyn

Barack Obama was not the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for POTUS and Hillary Clinton was not the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Shirley Chisolm was on both accounts. As a nineteen year old kid I was quite in awe of meeting her. One of the heroes of my youth growing up in New York City. Loved her, an amazing lady.

allen ginsberg
allen ginsberg

East 14th st., Alphabet City, Manhattan . . . a few blocks from his apartment. On our way to the post office to get his mail. He couldn’t have it delivered to his building because the mailboxes were routinely broken into.

my brother Butch
my brother Butch

fun house mirror outside Howard Johnson’s , Times Square, NYC

harvey keitel & robert deniro
harvey keitel & robert deniro

…at a private party in Little Italy, NYC.

daniel day lewis
daniel day lewis

Shot in his hotel room, NYC. He was in the city on a press junket for “The Boxer”. Three days of photos and interviews, the same obvious questions over and over again. I got him towards the end of it all and he was pretty fed up.

kiefer sutherland
kiefer sutherland

At the Chateau Marmont . . . waking up, initially too hung over to shoot when he arrived, so he crashed out in the bedroom for a while.

kiefer
kiefer

. . . at the Chateau Marmont, looking east on Sunset Blvd. I too am standing on that ledge with a camera in my face.

bridget fonda
bridget fonda

Cruising up the Pacific Coast Highway in her Cadillac.

angie
angie

mirror test for a video we shot

me & Angie
me & Angie

still from the video

annabella sciorra
annabella sciorra

On the rooftop of my final residence in NYC. Looking west on Houston St. from Avenue A, Manhattan.

dead end for delia
dead end for delia

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gary oldman . . . "dead end for delia"
gary oldman . . . "dead end for delia"

Film noir series for Showtime.

santa monica pier
santa monica pier

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pool party
pool party

Los Feliz

santa monica beach
santa monica beach

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julia
julia

Venice Beach . . . our first shoot, about a year before “Pretty Woman”. We became friends and were hanging a lot which evolved to my unofficially being her personal photographer for several years. Shot on most of her movie sets, lots of behind the scenes stuff. It was extraordinary access I had to her private life . . . at the time one of the biggest movie stars in the world.

angie
angie

heading downtown on the subway, LA

christopher walken
christopher walken

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cuba cooding jr.
cuba cooding jr.

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Philippe Halsman
Philippe Halsman

Mr. Halsman was my teacher & mentor . . . one of the most sought after and revered portraitists of his era. He shot over 100 Life Magazine covers. His subjects were a who’s who of world leaders, scientists, writers, legendary artists, actors, musicians, athletes . . . an extraordinary archives. He often asked his subjects at the end of shoots to jump, a psychology he developed that how people jumped, as he explains it . . . “When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.” This is the only jumping photo I’m aware of that he joined in . . . with Marilyn Monroe. The photo on the right I shot of him and his wife and life long assistant, Yvonne, against the same wall as Miss Monroe was shot, at his studio on the upper west side of Manhattan. I was 19 years old. I had recently completed his first “master class” he offered to his favorite students from years of teaching his “Psychological Portraiture” class. Ended up being his first and last master class, as his failing health caused him to stop teaching.

head on red . . . self portrait
head on red . . . self portrait

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andy warhol
andy warhol

At The Factory, 860 Broadway, Manhattan. My studio was right across the street, 873 Broadway. I was shooting every month for Interview Magazine, also located at 860 . . . so I was in & out of there a lot.

RED
RED

For my new acting class, my first scene, from the play "RED", about artist Mark Rothko, I painted this 9 foot mural. Took up half the stage. Inspired to start painting again, I so enjoyed this.

kiefer
kiefer

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jasper johns
jasper johns

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robert scull
robert scull

The owner of what was once the largest taxi cab fleet in NYC, “Scull’s Angels”. He was a famous patron of the arts whose collection included works of Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, James Rosenquist, Barnett Newman… among others.

ralph lauren
ralph lauren

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Andy at The Factory, 1977
Andy at The Factory, 1977

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jenifer tilly
jenifer tilly

hotel room

john travolta
john travolta

hotel room, NYC

elizabeth taylor
elizabeth taylor

On set of 1989 television production of “Sweet Bird of Youth”. Flipping off the director, Nicolas Roeg, just because.

viggo mortenson
viggo mortenson

On set of Sean Penn’s directorial debut, "Indian Runner", Omaha, Nebraska.

viggo
viggo

“Indian Runner”

viggo mortenson & dennis hopper
viggo mortenson & dennis hopper

“Indian Runner”

angie . . . new year's eve, 2019
angie . . . new year's eve, 2019

Little did we know the tsunami of a year that was heading our way. She was coming down with the flu that night but rallied to let me shoot her final photos to close out the decade.

impromptu self portrait
impromptu self portrait

in my bathroom

river phoenix
river phoenix

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river
river

. . . at the family compound on the edge of a swamp, Florida.

michael stipe
michael stipe

I’d shot photos for REM’s “GREEN” album. We got along very well. Michael asked me to come hang out, shoot stills on set of a music video. Don’t remember what song it was.

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harry dean stanton
harry dean stanton

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Harry Dean Stanton 2.jpg
 I never shot anyone so drunk and stoned as Harry was. I didn’t know if he couldn’t talk or wouldn’t talk, but he didn’t. Which I was fine with, a welcomed change. Cause I didn’t have to talk either. Just shot him like he was a statue… drinking, smok

I never shot anyone so drunk and stoned as Harry was. I didn’t know if he couldn’t talk or wouldn’t talk, but he didn’t. Which I was fine with, a welcomed change. Cause I didn’t have to talk either. Just shot him like he was a statue… drinking, smoking and not giving a shit.

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eric roberts
eric roberts

During Broadway production of “Burn This”.

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angie
angie

From the last roll of black & white film I ever shot.

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traffic jam
traffic jam

santa monica beach

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diana vreeland
diana vreeland

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do not mess with the MacArthur Park geese, they will fuck you up
do not mess with the MacArthur Park geese, they will fuck you up

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amanda plummer & isadora
amanda plummer & isadora

Christopher’s daughter . . . a brilliant actress, won a Tony award for “Agnes of God”. Thought I was in love with her, I don’t know, deeply infatuated.

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amanda
amanda

at her Prince St. apt., Soho, NYC

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angie
angie

We were rehearsing something . . . then one of those gorgeous moments shows up.

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acting class
acting class

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margaret hamilton
margaret hamilton

The Wicked Witch of the West from the original Wizard of Oz.

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mikhail baryshnikov
mikhail baryshnikov

My first shoot for Interview Magazine, 1976

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norman lear
norman lear

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james earl jones
james earl jones

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geraldine page
geraldine page

Shot in her dressing room, backstage at theater she was performing at. Don’t remember the play. Just two weeks before receiving academy award, best actress for “Trip to Bountiful”.

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robert altman
robert altman

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walter cronkite
walter cronkite

CBS studios, west 57th St, Manhattan

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kirk douglas
kirk douglas

My third shoot for Interview Magazine....Plaza Hotel, NYC....he was so intrigued by my old style Hollywood lighting, which he hadn't seen in a long time, he made his jabbering entourage leave the room so we could be alone, give me all his attention. Amazing gesture for this twenty year old photographer from someone who truly was a living legend at the time.

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kiefer sutherland & ray liotta
kiefer sutherland & ray liotta

wedding guests

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patricia arquette
patricia arquette

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my first self portrait
my first self portrait

18 years old . . . 1974, NYC

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oliver stone
oliver stone

west 46th St., manhattan
west 46th St., manhattan

When I was still in high school… an assignment for a photography class to shoot a double exposure inside the camera on the same frame of film. Found myself an empty billboard, found myself a fish.

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ally sheedy
ally sheedy

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mom & Bill
mom & Bill

waiting on the subway . . . Arlington, Virginia

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bill & mom
bill & mom

From a facebook post, January 8, 2021 . . . Thank you Bill for all the love & joy you brought into my mom's life. You have been such a blessing to our family and will be so deeply missed.

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chevy chase & john belushi
chevy chase & john belushi

Outside the offices of SNL at Rockefeller Center.

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angie
angie

She needed a “full body” shot for the SFX department of a film.

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freedom tower . . . manhattan
freedom tower . . . manhattan

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angie
angie

An unhappy day . . .

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angie
angie

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7th at Park View
7th at Park View

An absolutely gorgeous work of art, it seems, that someone painted elsewhere on sheets of gray paper then put it up on this plywood barrier of an empty lot around the corner from my building. Then on site further worked on it blending into the decaying poster already there. I spotted it walking home from my parking lot and was blown away. Ran to get my camera before anyone could vandalize it. Had to shoot it in sections, five frames to get it all. It is quite beautiful if you look closer.

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me mum
me mum

Christmas visit . . . 2019

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7:03 AM
7:03 AM

downtown LA from my rooftop, MacArthur Park . . .

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street clown . . . central park, NYC
street clown . . . central park, NYC

My earliest surviving photo, shot the summer my family moved from the suburbs to Manhattan, 1969.

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dad
dad

Pretty sure this is the first formal portrait I ever shot....with his Pentax Spotmatic....in the backyard of our brownstone on West 85th, Manhattan, circa 1972. Was starting to think about this as a career.

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norbert sander winning the NYC marathon, 1974
norbert sander winning the NYC marathon, 1974

When the entire race was still held in Central Park, it’s 4th running. Norbert is the only NYC resident to ever win the men’s race.

I got the wedgie of a lifetime when I stepped in front of a Daily News staff photographer to get this shot blocking his. A big guy, he hoisted me up by the waist of my pants and tossed me airborne into the crowd.

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washington blvd., east LA
washington blvd., east LA

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roller derby
roller derby

locker room entrance

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horsey ride, alvarado st.
horsey ride, alvarado st.

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alley cat
alley cat

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angie
angie

My favorite room in her new house, the walk in closet.

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tippi hedren
tippi hedren

At Shambala, her animal preserve for rescued big cats.

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kathleen turner
kathleen turner

In her dressing room, Broadway production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”.

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alec baldwin
alec baldwin

Shot for the cover of his autobiography… “Nevertheless”.

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muhammad ali
muhammad ali

At his home gym . . . Indiana, 1999, Time Magazine Cover . . . “Athlete of the Century”.

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ali
ali

Portrait I shot in NYC, 1986. He’d been out of public view for a long time at the onset of his Parkinson’s Disease. It was unsettling seeing him in the very diminished condition he was in, this once great warrior. He’d never seen this photo until I presented it to him at the Time Magazine shoot, during a break we took for lunch in his house. I handed it to him. He stared at it for a while… a very uncomfortable silence as his eyes water up. Everyone from the shoot, I could sense… thinking this was a big mistake. He handed it back to me. Made a gesture with his hand I didn’t understand. His wife said he wants you to sign it, please.

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ali
ali

Time Magazine shoot.

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Riley runs
Riley runs

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me & julia
me & julia

The summer I moved to LA, 1991... polaroid of us in the make-up trailer, during production of "Dying Young".

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julia
julia

I shot thousands of photos of Julia. I was unofficially her official photographer during the Pretty Woman era. We were good friends and she allowed me intimate access to her life.

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john baldessari
john baldessari

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alfred molina
alfred molina

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angie
angie

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dog & clown act . . . traveling circus
dog & clown act . . . traveling circus

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circus
circus

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echo park
echo park

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JUST DO IT
JUST DO IT

Alvarado Street, LA

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baja sunset
baja sunset

The farm right next to where I lived. The horizon peaking through the undulating landscape is the Pacific Ocean.

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baja sunset
baja sunset

from the backyard

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baja sunset
baja sunset

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baja sunset
baja sunset

from the back yard

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baja sunset
baja sunset

This gorgeous wild beach, that was often peopleless, was about a half mile walk along a sandy road from where I lived for a year.

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al hirschfeld
al hirschfeld

In the living room of his upper eastside town house, Manhattan. Of all the photos I’d ever seen of Mr. Hirschfeld, not one in front of this amazing mural he created, I believe, in the 1950s. Could I be the only photographer who ever thought to shoot him there?

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milla jovovich
milla jovovich

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angie
angie

spins . . . . . . .

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self portrait
self portrait

rubbernecking

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jack nicholson & danny devito
jack nicholson & danny devito

Hotel bar in Pittsburgh during production of “Hoffa”.

kendall
kendall

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angie
angie

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park chan-wook
park chan-wook

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sound garden
sound garden

I never shot much in the music business. Much more interested in movieland. But the day I shot these guys was one of the most fun, silly, playful times I ever had.

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my first pro, getting paid shoot
my first pro, getting paid shoot

When I was 16, to shoot William F. Buckely Jr. & Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson behind the scenes at “Firing Line” for WNET (national education television), channel 13, NYC. The senator was on the campaign trail, the democratic nomination for president, at the time. A friend of my dad who did PR for the show, hired me.

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frank stella
frank stella

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steve rubell
steve rubell

Co-founder & frontman, Studio 54

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julie harris
julie harris

dressing room, backstage Broadway… don’t remember what play

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self portrait in a dark room
self portrait in a dark room

shot this in a very dark room, very under exposed, hardly anything there…. in photo-shop cranking up the exposure all the way, several times…this is what emerged

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steve tyler
steve tyler

Backyard concert at rich person’s estate in Malibu . . . campaign fundraiser for Marianne Williamson when she was running for Congress. I had volunteered to be the campaign’s photographer.

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LA Dance Project
LA Dance Project

rehearsals . . .

tennesee williams
tennesee williams

Shot in NYC on the balcony of his hotel room. A strange looking photo. In my constant efforts to create dramatic lighting and composition it can easily fail. The man in the foreground was directing one of Tennessee’s plays for Broadway. Shot this for Interview Magazine. Andy (Warhol) was just out of frame to the right doing his Q&A.

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half court game
half court game

Boyle Heights, LA

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self portrait
self portrait

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Angie spins . . .
Angie spins . . .

Interrupting me from my morning meditation… an urgent call from her car across the street… “I’ve got this great dress. Can you shoot it!?”

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gia . . . superstar model who died of aids from heroin addiction
gia . . . superstar model who died of aids from heroin addiction

with star model patti hansen, the future mrs. keith richards and sandy linter, make-up artist and gia’s girlfriend at the time

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charles addams & sally
charles addams & sally

Creator of the Addams Family, long before the movie or television series.

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jackie gleason
jackie gleason

The last portrait shot of “The Great One”.

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peter maas
peter maas

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valerie perrine
valerie perrine

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julia
julia

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"Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde"
"Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde"

set shot . . . Cambridge, England

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"Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde"
"Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde"

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upper west side, circa 1970...  84th & amsterdam ave., NYC
upper west side, circa 1970... 84th & amsterdam ave., NYC

Two blocks from where I grew up, 85th & Columbus Ave.

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farah fawcett
farah fawcett

Shot during production of “The Burning Bed”, Edmonton, Canada.

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angie
angie

us reading the play “Blackbird”

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julianne moore
julianne moore
anne jackson & eli wallach
anne jackson & eli wallach
morning light
morning light

. . . at my mom’s place, guest bedroom, Arlington, Virginia.

late afternoon light
late afternoon light

my loft, MacArthur Park, LA

angie . . .
angie . . .
julia
julia
alec & hilaria baldwin
alec & hilaria baldwin

dinner with friends

alec & rafael
alec & rafael
angie visits . . .
angie visits . . .
april lang
april lang

My longest surviving friendship. April and I go back to the mid 70s in NYC.

rebecca demornay
rebecca demornay
rebecca . . .
rebecca . . .
margaux hemingway
margaux hemingway
river phoenix . . . 1993
river phoenix . . . 1993

As far as I know, his last formal portrait shoot, about a month before he passed.

river . . . 1993
river . . . 1993
tom waits
tom waits
angie
angie
angie
angie
self portrait
self portrait

mixed media

rutger hauer
rutger hauer
michael jackson
michael jackson

sixteen years old . . . hotel room, NYC

rae dawn chong
rae dawn chong

At the time I thought she was one of the most beautiful women in the world, truly. A mutual friend asked if I’d like to shoot her. YES! How it happened that her clothes came off, I don’t remember. I know I didn’t ask. I’d never asked anyone to pose nude. Too shy about something like that to do so.

Stella & Harvey Keitel
Stella & Harvey Keitel
martin balsam
martin balsam

dressing room, backstage Broadway… I think it was “Long Day’s Journey into Night”

sean penn
sean penn

rehearsals for stage production of “Hurly Burly”, LA

angie
angie

Getting ready for a formal evening event . . . the team assembled to make her beauty more beautified.

angie
angie

Off to the Emmy Awards . . .

angela sarafyan
angie
angie
alec balwin
sylvia miles & andy warhol at the factory
andy warhol at the factory . . .
carrie fisher
three generations...  james earl jones, robert earl jones & flynn earl jones
bob fosse . . . NYC 1975
julia roberts
julia
self portrait
self portrait
self portrait
angie . . . 20 something
tim roth
tim roth
sandra bullock
angie
carrie fisher
debbie reynolds & carrie fisher
debbie & carrie
faye dunaway
joan fontaine
michael keaton, danny devito, michelle pfeiffer . . . "batman returns"
angie
self portrait
morgan freeman
walter mathau
congresswoman shirley chisolm, at her bedford-stuyvesant offices, brooklyn
allen ginsberg
my brother Butch
harvey keitel & robert deniro
daniel day lewis
kiefer sutherland
kiefer
bridget fonda
angie
me & Angie
annabella sciorra
dead end for delia
gary oldman . . . "dead end for delia"
santa monica pier
pool party
santa monica beach
julia
angie
christopher walken
cuba cooding jr.
Philippe Halsman
head on red . . . self portrait
andy warhol
RED
kiefer
jasper johns
robert scull
ralph lauren
Andy at The Factory, 1977
jenifer tilly
john travolta
elizabeth taylor
viggo mortenson
viggo
viggo mortenson & dennis hopper
angie . . . new year's eve, 2019
impromptu self portrait
river phoenix
river
michael stipe
harry dean stanton
Harry Dean Stanton 2.jpg
 I never shot anyone so drunk and stoned as Harry was. I didn’t know if he couldn’t talk or wouldn’t talk, but he didn’t. Which I was fine with, a welcomed change. Cause I didn’t have to talk either. Just shot him like he was a statue… drinking, smok
eric roberts
angie
traffic jam
diana vreeland
do not mess with the MacArthur Park geese, they will fuck you up
amanda plummer & isadora
amanda
angie
acting class
margaret hamilton
mikhail baryshnikov
norman lear
james earl jones
geraldine page
robert altman
walter cronkite
kirk douglas
kiefer sutherland & ray liotta
patricia arquette
my first self portrait
oliver stone
west 46th St., manhattan
ally sheedy
mom & Bill
bill & mom
chevy chase & john belushi
angie
freedom tower . . . manhattan
angie
angie
7th at Park View
me mum
7:03 AM
street clown . . . central park, NYC
dad
norbert sander winning the NYC marathon, 1974
washington blvd., east LA
roller derby
horsey ride, alvarado st.
alley cat
angie
tippi hedren
kathleen turner
alec baldwin
muhammad ali
ali
ali
Riley runs
me & julia
julia
john baldessari
alfred molina
angie
dog & clown act . . . traveling circus
circus
echo park
JUST DO IT
baja sunset
baja sunset
baja sunset
baja sunset
baja sunset
al hirschfeld
milla jovovich
angie
self portrait
jack nicholson & danny devito
kendall
angie
park chan-wook
sound garden
my first pro, getting paid shoot
frank stella
steve rubell
julie harris
self portrait in a dark room
steve tyler
LA Dance Project
tennesee williams
half court game
self portrait
Angie spins . . .
gia . . . superstar model who died of aids from heroin addiction
charles addams & sally
jackie gleason
peter maas
valerie perrine
julia
"Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde"
"Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde"
upper west side, circa 1970...  84th & amsterdam ave., NYC
farah fawcett
angie
julianne moore
anne jackson & eli wallach
morning light
late afternoon light
angie . . .
julia
alec & hilaria baldwin
alec & rafael
angie visits . . .
april lang
rebecca demornay
rebecca . . .
margaux hemingway
river phoenix . . . 1993
river . . . 1993
tom waits
angie
angie
self portrait
rutger hauer
michael jackson
rae dawn chong
Stella & Harvey Keitel
martin balsam
sean penn
angie
angie
angela sarafyan

Angie is my most photographed subject. Shooting her for over twenty years now… a dear friend, brilliant actor and one of the great peoples.

angie

Her unique beauty and spirit grows with each passing year.

angie

We always shoot alone, no hair, no make-up, nobody . . . just us.

alec balwin

shot this a little while back . . . so glad he made it through all the shit

sylvia miles & andy warhol at the factory

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andy warhol at the factory . . .

. . . 860 Broadway in the formal dining room. This changed the trajectory of my life, 19 years old, 1975 being invited to The Factory to photograph Andy from a letter I wrote him asking to shoot his portrait.

carrie fisher

As a beautiful gargoyle… West End Ave. Manhattan, circa 1990.

three generations... james earl jones, robert earl jones & flynn earl jones
bob fosse . . . NYC 1975

Nineteen years old when I shot this… quite in awe of him.

julia roberts

getting her hair dyed

julia

. . . platinum blond

self portrait

Shot in my bedroom / studio, 18 years old, still living at home, our family brownstone on the upper west side, manhattan, 1974.

self portrait

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self portrait

Lighting test for a video I was prepping to shoot.

angie . . . 20 something

Our routine for many years was meeting for coffee, chatting about everything and then wander the streets or back to my studio to shoot.

tim roth

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tim roth

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sandra bullock

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angie

my place . . . just hanging, shooting . . . always shooting

carrie fisher

“Take your broken heart and turn it into art” she said.

debbie reynolds & carrie fisher

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debbie & carrie

Carrie affectionately chokes Debbie . . . last frame of the shoot.

faye dunaway

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joan fontaine

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michael keaton, danny devito, michelle pfeiffer . . . "batman returns"

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angie

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self portrait

19 years old in my bedroom studio.

morgan freeman

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walter mathau

The face he’s making was on the punchline of a joke he was entertaining us with.

congresswoman shirley chisolm, at her bedford-stuyvesant offices, brooklyn

Barack Obama was not the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for POTUS and Hillary Clinton was not the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Shirley Chisolm was on both accounts. As a nineteen year old kid I was quite in awe of meeting her. One of the heroes of my youth growing up in New York City. Loved her, an amazing lady.

allen ginsberg

East 14th st., Alphabet City, Manhattan . . . a few blocks from his apartment. On our way to the post office to get his mail. He couldn’t have it delivered to his building because the mailboxes were routinely broken into.

my brother Butch

fun house mirror outside Howard Johnson’s , Times Square, NYC

harvey keitel & robert deniro

…at a private party in Little Italy, NYC.

daniel day lewis

Shot in his hotel room, NYC. He was in the city on a press junket for “The Boxer”. Three days of photos and interviews, the same obvious questions over and over again. I got him towards the end of it all and he was pretty fed up.

kiefer sutherland

At the Chateau Marmont . . . waking up, initially too hung over to shoot when he arrived, so he crashed out in the bedroom for a while.

kiefer

. . . at the Chateau Marmont, looking east on Sunset Blvd. I too am standing on that ledge with a camera in my face.

bridget fonda

Cruising up the Pacific Coast Highway in her Cadillac.

angie

mirror test for a video we shot

me & Angie

still from the video

annabella sciorra

On the rooftop of my final residence in NYC. Looking west on Houston St. from Avenue A, Manhattan.

dead end for delia

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gary oldman . . . "dead end for delia"

Film noir series for Showtime.

santa monica pier

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pool party

Los Feliz

santa monica beach

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julia

Venice Beach . . . our first shoot, about a year before “Pretty Woman”. We became friends and were hanging a lot which evolved to my unofficially being her personal photographer for several years. Shot on most of her movie sets, lots of behind the scenes stuff. It was extraordinary access I had to her private life . . . at the time one of the biggest movie stars in the world.

angie

heading downtown on the subway, LA

christopher walken

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cuba cooding jr.

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Philippe Halsman

Mr. Halsman was my teacher & mentor . . . one of the most sought after and revered portraitists of his era. He shot over 100 Life Magazine covers. His subjects were a who’s who of world leaders, scientists, writers, legendary artists, actors, musicians, athletes . . . an extraordinary archives. He often asked his subjects at the end of shoots to jump, a psychology he developed that how people jumped, as he explains it . . . “When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.” This is the only jumping photo I’m aware of that he joined in . . . with Marilyn Monroe. The photo on the right I shot of him and his wife and life long assistant, Yvonne, against the same wall as Miss Monroe was shot, at his studio on the upper west side of Manhattan. I was 19 years old. I had recently completed his first “master class” he offered to his favorite students from years of teaching his “Psychological Portraiture” class. Ended up being his first and last master class, as his failing health caused him to stop teaching.

head on red . . . self portrait

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andy warhol

At The Factory, 860 Broadway, Manhattan. My studio was right across the street, 873 Broadway. I was shooting every month for Interview Magazine, also located at 860 . . . so I was in & out of there a lot.

RED

For my new acting class, my first scene, from the play "RED", about artist Mark Rothko, I painted this 9 foot mural. Took up half the stage. Inspired to start painting again, I so enjoyed this.

kiefer

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jasper johns

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robert scull

The owner of what was once the largest taxi cab fleet in NYC, “Scull’s Angels”. He was a famous patron of the arts whose collection included works of Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, James Rosenquist, Barnett Newman… among others.

ralph lauren

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Andy at The Factory, 1977

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jenifer tilly

hotel room

john travolta

hotel room, NYC

elizabeth taylor

On set of 1989 television production of “Sweet Bird of Youth”. Flipping off the director, Nicolas Roeg, just because.

viggo mortenson

On set of Sean Penn’s directorial debut, "Indian Runner", Omaha, Nebraska.

viggo

“Indian Runner”

viggo mortenson & dennis hopper

“Indian Runner”

angie . . . new year's eve, 2019

Little did we know the tsunami of a year that was heading our way. She was coming down with the flu that night but rallied to let me shoot her final photos to close out the decade.

impromptu self portrait

in my bathroom

river phoenix

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river

. . . at the family compound on the edge of a swamp, Florida.

michael stipe

I’d shot photos for REM’s “GREEN” album. We got along very well. Michael asked me to come hang out, shoot stills on set of a music video. Don’t remember what song it was.

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harry dean stanton

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I never shot anyone so drunk and stoned as Harry was. I didn’t know if he couldn’t talk or wouldn’t talk, but he didn’t. Which I was fine with, a welcomed change. Cause I didn’t have to talk either. Just shot him like he was a statue… drinking, smoking and not giving a shit.

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eric roberts

During Broadway production of “Burn This”.

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angie

From the last roll of black & white film I ever shot.

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traffic jam

santa monica beach

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diana vreeland

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do not mess with the MacArthur Park geese, they will fuck you up

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amanda plummer & isadora

Christopher’s daughter . . . a brilliant actress, won a Tony award for “Agnes of God”. Thought I was in love with her, I don’t know, deeply infatuated.

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amanda

at her Prince St. apt., Soho, NYC

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angie

We were rehearsing something . . . then one of those gorgeous moments shows up.

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acting class

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margaret hamilton

The Wicked Witch of the West from the original Wizard of Oz.

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mikhail baryshnikov

My first shoot for Interview Magazine, 1976

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norman lear

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james earl jones

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geraldine page

Shot in her dressing room, backstage at theater she was performing at. Don’t remember the play. Just two weeks before receiving academy award, best actress for “Trip to Bountiful”.

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robert altman

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walter cronkite

CBS studios, west 57th St, Manhattan

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kirk douglas

My third shoot for Interview Magazine....Plaza Hotel, NYC....he was so intrigued by my old style Hollywood lighting, which he hadn't seen in a long time, he made his jabbering entourage leave the room so we could be alone, give me all his attention. Amazing gesture for this twenty year old photographer from someone who truly was a living legend at the time.

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kiefer sutherland & ray liotta

wedding guests

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patricia arquette

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my first self portrait

18 years old . . . 1974, NYC

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oliver stone

west 46th St., manhattan

When I was still in high school… an assignment for a photography class to shoot a double exposure inside the camera on the same frame of film. Found myself an empty billboard, found myself a fish.

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ally sheedy

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mom & Bill

waiting on the subway . . . Arlington, Virginia

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bill & mom

From a facebook post, January 8, 2021 . . . Thank you Bill for all the love & joy you brought into my mom's life. You have been such a blessing to our family and will be so deeply missed.

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chevy chase & john belushi

Outside the offices of SNL at Rockefeller Center.

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angie

She needed a “full body” shot for the SFX department of a film.

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freedom tower . . . manhattan

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angie

An unhappy day . . .

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angie

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7th at Park View

An absolutely gorgeous work of art, it seems, that someone painted elsewhere on sheets of gray paper then put it up on this plywood barrier of an empty lot around the corner from my building. Then on site further worked on it blending into the decaying poster already there. I spotted it walking home from my parking lot and was blown away. Ran to get my camera before anyone could vandalize it. Had to shoot it in sections, five frames to get it all. It is quite beautiful if you look closer.

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me mum

Christmas visit . . . 2019

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7:03 AM

downtown LA from my rooftop, MacArthur Park . . .

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street clown . . . central park, NYC

My earliest surviving photo, shot the summer my family moved from the suburbs to Manhattan, 1969.

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dad

Pretty sure this is the first formal portrait I ever shot....with his Pentax Spotmatic....in the backyard of our brownstone on West 85th, Manhattan, circa 1972. Was starting to think about this as a career.

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norbert sander winning the NYC marathon, 1974

When the entire race was still held in Central Park, it’s 4th running. Norbert is the only NYC resident to ever win the men’s race.

I got the wedgie of a lifetime when I stepped in front of a Daily News staff photographer to get this shot blocking his. A big guy, he hoisted me up by the waist of my pants and tossed me airborne into the crowd.

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washington blvd., east LA

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roller derby

locker room entrance

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horsey ride, alvarado st.

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alley cat

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angie

My favorite room in her new house, the walk in closet.

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tippi hedren

At Shambala, her animal preserve for rescued big cats.

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kathleen turner

In her dressing room, Broadway production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”.

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alec baldwin

Shot for the cover of his autobiography… “Nevertheless”.

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muhammad ali

At his home gym . . . Indiana, 1999, Time Magazine Cover . . . “Athlete of the Century”.

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ali

Portrait I shot in NYC, 1986. He’d been out of public view for a long time at the onset of his Parkinson’s Disease. It was unsettling seeing him in the very diminished condition he was in, this once great warrior. He’d never seen this photo until I presented it to him at the Time Magazine shoot, during a break we took for lunch in his house. I handed it to him. He stared at it for a while… a very uncomfortable silence as his eyes water up. Everyone from the shoot, I could sense… thinking this was a big mistake. He handed it back to me. Made a gesture with his hand I didn’t understand. His wife said he wants you to sign it, please.

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ali

Time Magazine shoot.

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Riley runs

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me & julia

The summer I moved to LA, 1991... polaroid of us in the make-up trailer, during production of "Dying Young".

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julia

I shot thousands of photos of Julia. I was unofficially her official photographer during the Pretty Woman era. We were good friends and she allowed me intimate access to her life.

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john baldessari

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alfred molina

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angie

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dog & clown act . . . traveling circus

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circus

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echo park

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JUST DO IT

Alvarado Street, LA

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baja sunset

The farm right next to where I lived. The horizon peaking through the undulating landscape is the Pacific Ocean.

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baja sunset

from the backyard

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baja sunset

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baja sunset

from the back yard

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baja sunset

This gorgeous wild beach, that was often peopleless, was about a half mile walk along a sandy road from where I lived for a year.

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al hirschfeld

In the living room of his upper eastside town house, Manhattan. Of all the photos I’d ever seen of Mr. Hirschfeld, not one in front of this amazing mural he created, I believe, in the 1950s. Could I be the only photographer who ever thought to shoot him there?

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milla jovovich

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angie

spins . . . . . . .

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self portrait

rubbernecking

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jack nicholson & danny devito

Hotel bar in Pittsburgh during production of “Hoffa”.

kendall

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angie

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park chan-wook

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sound garden

I never shot much in the music business. Much more interested in movieland. But the day I shot these guys was one of the most fun, silly, playful times I ever had.

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my first pro, getting paid shoot

When I was 16, to shoot William F. Buckely Jr. & Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson behind the scenes at “Firing Line” for WNET (national education television), channel 13, NYC. The senator was on the campaign trail, the democratic nomination for president, at the time. A friend of my dad who did PR for the show, hired me.

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frank stella

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steve rubell

Co-founder & frontman, Studio 54

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julie harris

dressing room, backstage Broadway… don’t remember what play

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self portrait in a dark room

shot this in a very dark room, very under exposed, hardly anything there…. in photo-shop cranking up the exposure all the way, several times…this is what emerged

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steve tyler

Backyard concert at rich person’s estate in Malibu . . . campaign fundraiser for Marianne Williamson when she was running for Congress. I had volunteered to be the campaign’s photographer.

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LA Dance Project

rehearsals . . .

tennesee williams

Shot in NYC on the balcony of his hotel room. A strange looking photo. In my constant efforts to create dramatic lighting and composition it can easily fail. The man in the foreground was directing one of Tennessee’s plays for Broadway. Shot this for Interview Magazine. Andy (Warhol) was just out of frame to the right doing his Q&A.

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half court game

Boyle Heights, LA

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self portrait

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Angie spins . . .

Interrupting me from my morning meditation… an urgent call from her car across the street… “I’ve got this great dress. Can you shoot it!?”

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gia . . . superstar model who died of aids from heroin addiction

with star model patti hansen, the future mrs. keith richards and sandy linter, make-up artist and gia’s girlfriend at the time

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charles addams & sally

Creator of the Addams Family, long before the movie or television series.

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jackie gleason

The last portrait shot of “The Great One”.

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peter maas

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valerie perrine

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julia

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"Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde"

set shot . . . Cambridge, England

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"Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde"

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upper west side, circa 1970... 84th & amsterdam ave., NYC

Two blocks from where I grew up, 85th & Columbus Ave.

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farah fawcett

Shot during production of “The Burning Bed”, Edmonton, Canada.

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angie

us reading the play “Blackbird”

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julianne moore
anne jackson & eli wallach
morning light

. . . at my mom’s place, guest bedroom, Arlington, Virginia.

late afternoon light

my loft, MacArthur Park, LA

angie . . .
julia
alec & hilaria baldwin

dinner with friends

alec & rafael
angie visits . . .
april lang

My longest surviving friendship. April and I go back to the mid 70s in NYC.

rebecca demornay
rebecca . . .
margaux hemingway
river phoenix . . . 1993

As far as I know, his last formal portrait shoot, about a month before he passed.

river . . . 1993
tom waits
angie
angie
self portrait

mixed media

rutger hauer
michael jackson

sixteen years old . . . hotel room, NYC

rae dawn chong

At the time I thought she was one of the most beautiful women in the world, truly. A mutual friend asked if I’d like to shoot her. YES! How it happened that her clothes came off, I don’t remember. I know I didn’t ask. I’d never asked anyone to pose nude. Too shy about something like that to do so.

Stella & Harvey Keitel
martin balsam

dressing room, backstage Broadway… I think it was “Long Day’s Journey into Night”

sean penn

rehearsals for stage production of “Hurly Burly”, LA

angie

Getting ready for a formal evening event . . . the team assembled to make her beauty more beautified.

angie

Off to the Emmy Awards . . .

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