Celebrity portrait photographer Brian Smith offers up a behind-the-scenes glimpse of his celebrity portrait photo shoots of Hollywood stars
I was always a big fan of Brittany Murphy’s work and became an bigger fan after we photographed Brittany following her breakout performance in Clueless. After photographing Brittany with her mom in her Soho loft for People magazine, we decided to head off for a walk through the streets in her neighborhood. We lost a […]
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My thanks to the highly entertaining Vincent Kartheiser of ‘Mad Men’ for a great portrait photography shoot today for Draft magazine. We had a lot of fun with the highly entertaining actor from one of my favorite shows. Cheers to another great season from Pete Campbell! Big Thanks to Editor Erika Reitz, Art Director Kevin
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Does this look fun? Fame is a funny thing. A lot of notions about fame and celebrity are based on which side of the velvet rope you find yourself. There’s a great scene in Barry Levinson’s “PoliWood” where two actors shoot down any notion that Hollywood celebrities are motivated by the desire for photo ops.
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I ran into Matthew Modine at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Barry Levinson’s documentary PoliWood. After the screening, Matthew took the stage with several of his follow actors and director Barry Levinson to speak about the film. I loved Matthews’ response to a question about why Hollywood was…so…liberal. I loved Matthew’s response. As he
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We’re in New York shooting portraits of celebrities for the book ‘Art & Soul‘ with The Creative Coalition and Sony. Assignments this good are really rare. Even though I’ve been l blessed with more than my share of unbelievable assignments in my career, shooting portraits of so many Oscar winners, Tony winners, Grammy winners and
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