Word: lensman
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...earlier, he had the distinction of being the first in the paparazzi pack to snap a young widow after her aging husband, a famous pop composer, had blown his brains out. That "coup" did not make him feel especially proud. "A trained monkey can do it," says the tabloid lensman. "This is not photography. It's waiting around in a car. It starts getting on my nerves..." Then, he quickly corrects himself: "Don't jot that down. You have to write I am a motivated, successful, young paparazzo who doesn't mind getting busted...
...dissembles as much as it documents, stretching "the camera never lies" maxim to breaking point. Appropriately titled Tensio-Latin for tension-is Brook Andrew's mirrored image of a currawong poised as if to attack a coiled snake. These are in fact stuffed museum exhibits, reappropriated by this Aboriginal lensman to tell his own personal Dreaming story (as academic Marcia Langton tells it, "When color spread throughout the bird world, crows ignored their fellow birds and missed out, remaining black like the inchoate world from which life sprang"). If Andrew's silken surfaces seduce the eye, Liu Xiao Xian...
...category and whose core customer had crept up into the fortysomething age range--an image makeover. She lobbied successfully to bring on Murphy as a spokeswoman alongside veteran Elizabeth Hurley, signed Ethiopian-born Liya Kebede to the company's first major contract with a black model and replaced brand lensman Steven Meisel with Mario Testino, whose naturalistic aesthetic seemed more suited to the times. And she stuck with the same small cadre of creatives for each campaign. "We used to use one stylist for one ad, another stylist for another," says Lauder. "I think it was a mistake...
...another style icon--deceased French fashion photographer Guy Bourdin. Bourdin's son filed a copyright-infringement suit last week, claiming the images in Madonna's video for Hollywood--including one of the star twirling in an office chair in her lingerie--virtually duplicate 11 pictures by the influential lensman. "Madonna is certainly a fan of [Bourdin's] work," her publicist said, adding that the singer had not yet read the claim. If Madge has to settle, perhaps she can get Britney and Kylie Minogue to cough up for their "homages...
...working for the first time since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. We get a gently pulsing Beijing nightscape saturated with promise; a lens that relaxes when it needs to, then agitates and finds its focus. Director Ang Lee thinks Pau is the best cinematographer anywhere, and on this evidence, the lensman rocks...