UNEASY Cinema Verité: D.A. Pennebaker
This is the fifth and final interview that I’m posting today from the Cinema Verité filmmakers. All of these interviews were done in 1997/1998 for Index and ran as a special pull-out section in the magazine.
UNEASY Cinema Verité: Frederick Wiseman
This is the fourth interview with Cinema Verité greats that I’m going to post today.
UNEASY Cinema Verité: Richard Leacock
This is the third of five interviews with Cinema Verité greats that I’m going to post today.
UNEASY Cinema Verité: Albert Maysles
This is the second of five interviews with Cinema Verité greats that I’m going to post today.
UNEASY Cinema Verité: Robert Drew
I interviewed five of the masters of the Cinema Verité movement in the late nineties. With Drew the interview was congenial and relaxed, but then came the photos, and he seemed a little shocked when I was bossy and controlling.
UNEASY Tony Curtis
I mentioned to my mother-in-law that I was going to the West Coast to shoot with Tony Curtis. She said to me, “We know him as ‘Bernard Schwartz.’”
UNEASY Jake Tapper
As the launch of the Uneasy exhibition wound down on a cold February night my First Assistant pulled up in a vehicle full of gear and we were off to D.C. to photograph Jake Tapper for GQ Magazine.
UNEASY Spike Jonze
While preparing to publish Uneasy I contacted Spike Jonze to see if he would write a piece for the book. I was thinking that he could provide the foreword, but here is what he sent instead.
UNEASY Pussy Galore
While photographing them in a Toronto park, I mentioned that I had “Cocksucker Blues” on video. The band had some time to kill, so they drove out to where I lived with my family in the suburbs.
UNEASY Kendrick Lamar
The sitting with Kendrick Lamar is one of the last ones that ended up in the Uneasy book, and that's quite fitting as he was an un-uneasy as you'll find in a subject.
UNEASY Moby
Pat Boone and Moby had both released heavy metal inspired albums so I pitched the idea of doing a story of them together to New York Magazine.
Uneasy Party!
The exhibition of every portrait from Uneasy at PictureHouse is coming down soon so we’re marking it with a party. Featuring a full DJ set by sound artist Maria Chavez!
UNEASY Adrienne Shelly
Adrienne was the star of Trust, for which I was the on-set photographer.
UNEASY Gary Oldman
I’d been in this sort of situation before and had learned that subjects may be more open to ideas than we’re led to believe.
UNEASY John Cale & Lou Reed
John Cale is the first portrait in Uneasy, shot in January of 1986, and then Lou Reed appears from a 2002 sitting. Today I’m featuring pictures of these Velvet Underground veterans.
UNEASY - Mac is Back
Here are some fun alternate shots from the Pitchfork Mac DeMarco sitting in 2014. His longtime girlfriend Kiera McNally was present and the shots of them together are some of my favorites.
UNEASY - Sheila Heti iFAQ
In 2000 I asked a number of friends to send me “infrequently asked questions” for my website, here are some of the questions (and answers) from Sheila Heti’s submission.
UNEASY Margaret Atwood
We began making a real connection when I told her about my experience nine years earlier photographing Robertson Davies.
UNEASY Anton Corbjin
We met up with the Dutch music photographer in a modest hotel room in downtown Toronto in 1987, where we interviewed and photographed him.
UNEASY A$AP
By an odd coincidence of timing, I was set to take care of my daughter at the same time as this last-minute shoot with A$AP Rocky.