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Saturday, 19 July 2008

She dreamed of her wanton luxury


Most days I spend my time retouching gorgeous photographs by the photographer Robert Polidori. I always loved his work and somehow ended up working with him, which is fantastic as I am always surrounded by beautiful images. For the past few months we've been working on a project on Versailles- he's been shooting there for 25 years and, while he published a book on Versailles in 1996, a new book of his images will be published by Steidl around Christmas. The book and shows of the work have been occupying most of our time- he just had a show at the Edwynn Houk gallery in New York and there are upcoming shows in Paris, Toronto and London. It can get rather exhausting to work on thousands of images of the same place, however beautiful they are, which was why it was rather good that I happened to watch Marie Antoinette again last night. I've seen it several times before, but it was more fun to intimately recognize all of the rooms and to see how they connected to one another (it has been a long time since I've been to Versailles in real life). It's such gorgeous building. And don't even get me started on the clothes in the film!




All Photos Copyright © Robert Polidori

Monday, 9 June 2008

Crosby Street

Trying to shoot a lot more- making a lot more appointments to shoot different apartments, trying to get closer to completing this book. Last week I shot two apartments- one in Soho, one in the East Village. This is the one in Soho- the tenant is moving out in the next couple weeks after living there for the past few years. He's bought a loft a few blocks away, which sounds like it will be a great space but I've always thought there was something beautiful about this apartment. The light is sublime.

Soho, New York, NY May 26, 2008

Occupation: Actor/ Filmmaker
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
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