Photography is classified into many types like aerial, documentary, macro, nature, sports, composite and the list goes on. Some take the camera in the shape of a DSLR and believe in capturing exotic and diverse images in whichever category their interest lies in.
Adding the results to their collection of visual assets and getting awards for best work too. You will be surprised to know that apart from the usual photographers, some celebrities also come forward in this craft, who have successfully left their mark in the niche too.
Are you curious to know who they are? Let’s move on to unveil the names of the most famous photographers who also happen to be celebrities.
Jessica Lange
In the list of famous celebrity photographers, the first is Jessica Lange. Does the name ring a bell? Yes, we are talking about the same Jessica Lange, who appeared in the hit TV show An American Horror Story. Apart from performing well on the big screen, the actor is talented in the world of photography too.
In 2008, she published her first photobook named 50 Photographs which was a compilation of black-and-white studies of anonymous people from Russia, Africa Mexico, and ahead.
The 50 Photographs, were displayed at George Eastman’s House Exhibition which is considered the photography museum located in Rochester, NewYork. Here, Jessica’s contributions were acknowledged in the same year as she was presented with the first George Eastman House Honors Award.
Aperture magazine shared their feedback regarding her photobook that her images are true depictions of the photographer’s personality. The pictures are loving, warm, delicate, powerful, and poetic at high levels.
Besides this, her works include Highway 61, and she is a proud Leica photographer as well.
Jeff Bridges
Next in line is Jeff Bridges. We are sure that Jeff Bridges must have left you star-struck through his acting in The Big Lebowski, Tron, and True Grit. Which made him fill his shelves with Academy Awards. Did you know that Jeff had a keen interest in photography ever since he was a high school student?
Hence, when he is not practicing his dialogues on the sets, he is doing photography. Yes, Bridges clicks Widelux panoramas leaving viewers amazed. The panoramas add life to the behind-the-scenes of Hollywood.
People are fond of watching behind-the-scenes images of the film industry as they get a reason to laugh and enjoy what their favorite actors are up to. You can watch the works of Jeff Bridges on his photography website full of his best clicks or grab his book, Pictures.
Pictures have exciting stuff in store for the audiences as Bridges has captured moments of Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Robert Duvall, and Olivia Wilde rehearsing their scenes. The actor depends on his Widelux F8 as that helps him in making the imagery inviting. Furthermore, he sells the physical images through The Rose Gallery.
Lenny Kravitz
What inspired Lenny Kravitz to step inside the realm of photography? Well, his mother had a black-and-white image of Martin Luther King Jr addressing the public that got in the hands of the young Kravitz and his father was also a famous photographer, who gifted Lenny with his first camera to capture sights.
Then, Lenny’s inner photographer got a great motivation but the skills did not see the light of the day until he showed his pictures to a French fashion photographer, Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
The guy appreciated his work when Kravitz finally revealed his art to the world and the passion was motivated to remain alive throughout his life.
In 2021, Lenny’s photography was displayed at none other than the international art fair called Art Basel, where the pictures were sold at ranging prices from $1,800 to $4,000. The singer proved his humanity by donating the entire amount of the exhibition to charity.
Apart from that, Kravitz possesses his personal Leica camera, covered in faux snakeskin and you wouldn’t believe that only 125 models of the camera are available for other like-minded photographers to pursue their passion in the same field.
Tabitha Soren
If you hail from the 1990s and were an active news watcher, then you must have easily recognized, Tabitha Soren. She started her career as a news reporter and worked for several channels like MTV, NBC, and ABC News.
After that, she found her calling in the domain of photography. Yes, that is right. Tabitha switched to becoming a fine art photographer. But hold on, she just did not start clicking pictures randomly.
After working on the film The Cable Guy, she was admitted to the University Of Stanford and enrolled herself in the one-year degree of arts and photography.
The education proved to be fruitful in her case as Soren went on to be successful through photography projects that grabbed immense attention as they got published in a variety of recognized magazines: Canteen, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, McSweeney’s.
Furthermore, the artwork was added to the public collections of the Oakland Museum of California, the LA Country Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Pier 24 Photography, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in Louisiana, and Transformer Station in Ohio.
It is said that the former reporter began her photography career with a Hasselblad film camera and now she uses tools as the project demands.
In 2021, Aperture Magazine acknowledged Tabitha Soren by publishing the selected imagery of the photographer, Fantasy Life, to display at this primary exhibition at San Fransico City Hall.
Interested in viewing her work? How about you log into your Instagram and see her latest pictures?
Norman Reedus
Any Walking Dead fans here? As we are talking about your favorite actor, Norman Reedus!
The host, actor, and model is a photographer too. Before he officially unlocked the door of fame, he first took care of his passion for photography which was triggered when he was a student in junior high and high school.
Things took a serious turn when he moved to LA, where he chose to put on artwork along with his friends from Otis College of Art and Design.
Moreover, Reedus’s work was exhibited in New York, Hamburg, San Fransico, and Berlin and was published in an exclusive limited edition collector’s volume and witnessed being auctioned at Sotheby’s.
Conclusion
Photography is an art that manages to capture normal citizens and celebrities as well. The blog has provided you with sufficient knowledge regarding the actual jobs of the celebs and how they got into the magnificence of photography, getting excellent chances of having their works published in several exhibitions and limited collections receiving immense appreciation from the public.
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