For almost 50 years moviestar Jeff Bridges has been at the top of his profession, garnering seven Academy Award nominations and winning the 2009 Best Actor Oscar for his performance as an ageing country singer in Crazy Heart. Yet throughout much of this period Bridges has also been pursuing his passion for photography by shooting on-set pictures with his beloved 35mm Widelux F8 panoramic camera.
The second book of Bridges’ on-set photography was published in October 2019 and it spans films he has made since 2003 – the likes of Seabiscuit, Iron Man, Tron: Legacy, True Grit, Hell or High Water and Crazy Heart.
Jeff Bridges: Pictures, Volume 2 features dozens of his images, which range from true candids to posed tragedia/comedia pictures, where the long shutter span of the camera allows the subject to go from one side of the frame to the other to pull two different faces.
Bridges’ ongoing fascination with shooting on-set images was sparked by his co-star Karen Allen on the set of the 1984 movie Starman. She suggested to him to combine the images he’d been shooting with those of unit photographer Sid Baldwin into a photo book for the cast and crew of the movie… and that’s exactly what he did. Now, over 30 years later, he’s still doing it.
Teenage interest in photography
His initial interest in photography dates back to his teenage years, ‘When I was about 15 or so I kind of took my father’s 35mm Nikon camera and would shoot pictures of my friends and so forth. I made a little darkroom in my bathroom, got an enlarger and did all that kind of stuff. So I got into it around that age.’
Bu hikaye Amateur Photographer dergisinin December 21, 2019 sayısından alınmıştır.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Giriş Yap
Bu hikaye Amateur Photographer dergisinin December 21, 2019 sayısından alınmıştır.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Giriş Yap
APOY Inspiration
If youre planning to enter our Urban Life round, take note of these tips from three of last year’s top ten photographers
Specs versus design
It’s a common ailment for a particular type of photographer to be obsessed by specifications.
Urban light
Rod Lawton demonstrates two editing techniques to intensify and dramatise the light in your urban life photography for striking scenes
New Fujifilm GFX100S II - affordable medium format
Fujifilm has unveiled a new, relatively affordable medium-format camera, the Fujifilm GFX100S II.
Northern souls
Two years after a major retrospective that was intended to be his swansong, Ian Beesley is back with a new exhibition for the fans who still want more.
Xiaomi 14 Ultra
With a large sensor, four lenses and Leica backing, is this the best smartphone for photographers?
Fight club
How to capture the key moments when garden birds take to the air and go to war. Andrew Fusek Peters shares his set-up and techniques which are crucial to capture both flight and fight action
Canon finally opens up RF mount
SIGMA is releasing six APS-C lenses for Canon EOS RF mount, thus widening the choice of glass for Canon’s previously ‘closed’ RF system.
Tony Kemplen on the.Leidolf Lordomat
A camera made in Germany in the early 1950s and discovered at a charity shop
Stories from the heart
Kenyan fine art photographer Thandiwe Muriu has a gift that she was encouraged by her parents to explore from a young age.
