Get close-up: Survey results unveiled
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::::: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :::::
What better day to reveal the results of the Get Ready for Your Close-up survey. I’d like to thank the 27 participants, and give a special shout out to those of you who chose your own artist and offered an explanation as to why they were special to you. Working the personal branding – nice.
Here are the numbers – 59% of the participants chose one of the 12 artists listed.
And here are the remaining 41% “other” selective and very creative responses (alpha’d by artist):
“Photographer Matthew Brookes and stylist Serge Girardi were featured in the men’s fashion section of the NYTimes magazine last week. I want them to set up a shoot for me in that gothic setting. Though darker, it reminded me of the film, Last Year at Marienbad. That degree of mystery suits me.”
“Patrick Demarchelier. And I’d like the shot to be on the cover of Vogue.”
“Marcel Duchamp. For his playful, challenging and rebellious interpretations that pull-in spectators. I would rather be not so much ‘captured’ by an artist, but ‘interpreted.’ ”
“Al Hirschfeld. I’m an actor.”
“[Horst P.] Horst, but only if he shot it like one of his fantasy fashion images. His portraits are too stiff and his nudes are unflattering.”
“[Jean Auguste Dominique] Ingres is a very interesting selection, I wouldn’t have thought of him. Being captured as one of his beautiful odalisque pencil studies would be nice.”
“I would prefer to have Andre Kertesz ‘capture my essence’. I saw a show last year of his work that was called ‘on reading’. It gathered many of the images that Kertesz had taken over his career that dealt [with] people reading. There were some wonderful environmental portraits along with great candid shots of people and their books in all kinds of settings. He seemed very in tune with them. Since I have a great love of reading and books in general I think Kertesz would be the one I would trust to capture that important part of me.”
“I like Mary Ellen Mark. Her style is beautiful, and I love her portraiture with the documentary feel. She succeeds in capturing the humanity of her subjects. I’d prefer to be presented as human, rather than objectified.”
“Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee is someone who has always interested me. His very personal storytelling style would extend well to telling others’ stories. I’d like 15 minutes please.”
“Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. I want to be immortalized in one of his posters.”
“I think [William] Wegman would be great, look what he did for Man and Fay.”
“Joel-Peter Witkin. Only when I’m dead.”
