His rigorous and systematic approach to image making echoes the grand tradition of German typographies pioneered by Bernd and Hilla Becher, and he often exhibits his photographs in neat, orderly grids that belie the human content they contain. I don’t believe you can capture the soul of someone, but there are pictures that are more honest and ones that are less honest.”īorn in Germany, the artist has lived in New York for many years and has worked as a contract photographer for the New Yorker, allowing him access to many of his subjects.
“The pictures that survive over the years are ones where you see something of somebody that they normally wouldn’t share so easily,” he says. His method, he has explained, involves taking many, many photographs until he manages to catch his subject at an honest moment, ideally when his or her guard is down-and he thereby exposes in them something viewers would not otherwise witness. In his tightly cropped representations, his models face him squarely, even despite the blaring studio light he turns in their direction. 1968) has captured such famed faces as Jack Nicholson, Cate Blanchett, and Angelina Jolie, political figures including Bill Clinton, and incumbent president, Barack Obama.
Characterized by his models' unflinching, direct gazes, which meet the eyes of the viewer and then hold them for eternity, his Close Up photographs, often presented in larger than life sizes, offer raw and revealing glimpses into his subjects, exposing them in a way that feels almost unforgivingly truthful. Celebrated photographer Martin Schoeller's distinct method for creating his striking large-scale portraits involves getting up close and personal with his subjects.
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