All along his career as a music video and movie director, Mark Romanek got pretty close with some of the most influential artists of the last decades, both in the area of music and cinema.
In 3O years, he managed to shoot incredibly intimate pictures in 35mm and in black and white. The celebrities he had the opportunity to photograph are thus showed natural, in a single take, in conditions that confer the impression to be with them. Discover a superb panel composed by personalities as diversified as Paul McCartney, Kanye West, Francis Ford Coppola and his daughter Sofia, Lil Wayne, Gus Van Sant, Patti Smith, Mick Jagger or Leonard Cohen.
A selection of photos from this series titled Snapshots is displayed at Colette, in Paris, from January 9th to February 18th.
Kanye West, Los Angeles, 2005
Paul McCartney, Shepperton Studios, 2007
Sofia Coppola, New York, 1997
Robin Williams, San Francisco, 2003
Lil Wayne, Los Angeles, 2008
Gus Van Sant, New York, 2003
Harmony Korine, Nashville, 2004
Wes Anderson, Los Angeles, 1995
Iggy Pop, New York, 2002
Leonard Cohen, Los Angeles, 2005
Patti Smith, London, 2000
Johnny Cash, Hendersonville, 2006
Jay Z, Brooklyn, 2004
Thurston Moore, New York, 1997
