{"id":3205,"date":"2011-10-29T01:53:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T08:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/10\/mark-abrahams-eponymous\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T02:03:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T09:03:32","slug":"mark-abrahams-eponymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/29\/mark-abrahams-eponymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Abrahams (Eponymous)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mark Abrahams: Candid Camera<\/h1>\n

The Photographer\u2019s Revealing Portraiture Captures an Unseen Side of Iconic Celebrities<\/h2>\n

Celebrated photographer Mark Abrahams draws out understated honesty from A-list subjects such as\u00a0Michael Pitt<\/a>, James Franco, Lindsay Lohan and Michelle Obama. A former truck driver, Abrahams is entirely self-taught, but his textured and compelling style is often seen in the pages of\u00a0L\u2019Uomo Vogue<\/em>,\u00a0Vogue Deutsch<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0GQ<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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His new eponymous monograph from Damiani Editore contains a potent introductory text from writer James Frey, author of\u00a0A Million Little Pieces<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning<\/em>, poetically relating a story of a young man falling in love with his camera and mastering the photographic arts. \u201cI wanted to write my intuitive version of what I thought his process was. I looked at the pictures and I just wrote the essay, thinking: that must be what he tries to do, because that’s what I see,\u201d explains Frey of Abrahams\u2019 work. \u201cI respect him a lot, I think his photographs are beautiful and haunting, intense and pure.\u201d Here, the California-born Abrahams recounts his earliest images and his love of Ed Ruscha.<\/p>\n

Both you and James Frey are self-taught. Is that how you connected?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My story in photography is similar to his story in writing, and also similar to some of the characters in his books. I actually owned a truck in California, and would haul sand and gravel from plants. One I would go to was called Sully Miller; there was a hut in it with all the old time truckers, 70-year-old guys who have been doing it since the 30s. I literally bought a camera to take pictures of these guys to show my friends. I didn’t even know there was a job [as] a professional photographer. It literally had never occurred to me that people do this for a living. My only association with photography really was family pictures. I wasn’t picking up\u00a0Vogue<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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from NOWNESS Mark Abrahams: Candid Camera The Photographer\u2019s Revealing Portraiture Captures an Unseen Side of Iconic Celebrities Celebrated photographer Mark Abrahams draws out understated honesty from A-list subjects such as\u00a0Michael Pitt, James Franco, Lindsay Lohan and Michelle Obama. A former truck driver, Abrahams is entirely self-taught, but his textured and compelling style is often seen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}