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In a seminar I attended, a famous photographer explained his approach to photographing celebrities. "You have to remember, when you are shooting famous people, that the photo session is all about them. It is not about your vision or your artistic ability." This statement is true, and the bigger the "star" the more true it is. So photographing celebrities is not my favorite thing---but here are a few examples ofcelebrity shoots I've done.
When Dolph
Lundgren was
a kickboxer, he was so formidable and intimidating that his
opponents would avoid showing up where he was scheduled to
fight and he would often find himself unopposed in the heavyweight
division.
Race
driver Danny
Sullivan at
Long Beach the year he won the Indy 500. At right he is pictured
with team-owner and CART founder Roger Penske.
Margaux
Hemingway,
about a year before her suicide.
Jesse "The
Governor" Ventura
Michiko
Nishiwaki was
the first Women's National Bodybuilding Champion of Japan---and
was known as Japan's Rachel McLish. After bodybuilding, Michiko
went to Hong Kong to star in a series of Jackie-Chan type
martial arts movies.