- Hardcover: 140 pages
- Publisher: Damiani (October 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 8862080972
- ISBN-13: 978-8862080972
- Product Dimensions: 26.1 x 21.2 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #372,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"In Their Youth: Early Portraits" comprises over 200 of the California-based photographer's previously unpublished portraits from the last three decades, featuring famous actors shot when they were still unknown young men, from teen years into their early twenties.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.
Greg Gorman discovered his calling after taking a borrowed camera to a Jimi Hendrix concert in 1968. In 1990, after producing images for over 20 years, he published his first book, "Greg Gorman Volume One, " which reveals his skills as a portraitist. Gorman has created innumerable unforgettable images (for instance, a 2000 portrait of Jeff Koons shows the artist perched on a filthy toilet, flanked by two leather-clad ladies). His work has been featured in ad campaigns and has been featured on the covers of a number of magazines, including "Esquire, GQ, Interview, Vogue, Rolling Stone" and "Vanity Fair."
Greg Gorman discovered his calling after taking a borrowed camera to a Jimi Hendrix concert in 1968. In 1990, after producing images for over 20 years, he published his first book, "Greg Gorman Volume One, " which reveals his skills as a portraitist. Gorman has created innumerable unforgettable images (for instance, a 2000 portrait of Jeff Koons shows the artist perched on a filthy toilet, flanked by two leather-clad ladies). His work has been featured in ad campaigns and has been featured on the covers of a number of magazines, including "Esquire, GQ, Interview, Vogue, Rolling Stone" and "Vanity Fair."
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4.8 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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His best yet!, Nov 30 2009
By Manly Ernest Marshall "M. Ernest Marshall" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: In Their Youth (Hardcover)
I have all of Greg Gorman's books of photographs. I believe him to be the greatest portrait photographer of our time and one of the few that I would label as highly serious about the portrait. His photographic style is his "signature" and his has not changed in decades. Why change something that works! This is his best book of them all. I have spent hours with it already.This book is not just for people who enjoy celebrities. It is for amateur and professional portrait photographers who want to study serious lighting, mood setting and the capture of character. This book would be a great contribution to this genre if all of the subjects were unknowns. That the subjects are celebrities simply adds to the interest.
M. Ernest Marshall, M.D.
Lynchburg, Virginia
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Gorgeous, Nov 18 2009
By Christopher Carpenter - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: In Their Youth (Hardcover)
I would have bought this book just for the seven portraits of Alex Pettyfer that close it, but luckily the whole book is just beautiful. Gorman is an amazing photographer- he has the gift of making you feel has if you can see right into his subject's soul.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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A superb time capsule, Dec 6 2009
By Andrew Mcconaghy "andymack" - Published on Amazon.com
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In their youth is a superb time capsule of beautiful young men - many of them actors - whose photographs date back, in some cases, to the 1970's. In his introduction, Greg Gorman states "Throughout my career I have found that I have achieved my most telling, significant pictures when I got in close with a long lens."And what a collection of significant photos he has offered up. Impossibly clear complexions, crystalline eyes and superb physiques - this is a terrific collection, at a very reasonably price.
It would make an excellent gift for someone special to you - and has a photo index at the back for easy identification of the more than 200 black and white photos on offer.
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