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The film director’s debut collection of portrait-photographs. Every subject is photographed in a frontal pose, taken at a medium-shot angle with minimal lighting, thereby bringing out both the chiaroscuro effect of light and shadow and the expressiveness of his subjects’ faces and bodies. Gus Van Sant began taking photographs for the auditions of Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. The casual picture-taking quickly developed into a full-fledged project, encompassing a Who’s Who of twentieth-century cinema and capturing the exuberance and hedonism of a decade.
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One Hundred-Eight Portraits
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Twin Palms Pub March 1993, 1993
ISBN 10: 0944092233
ISBN 13: 9780944092231
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. #12/100 signed and in New condition, clean copy. Seller Inventory # 290515
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108 Portraits
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Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Pub, 1993
ISBN 10: 0944092233
ISBN 13: 9780944092231
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Seller: Lee Madden, Book Dealer, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Limited edition, signed by author. Fine HC in Fine Slipcase. Black cloth over boards with blind stamped titles; black end papers. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; tightly bound; author full signature and date (1993) in silver on black front fly leaf; bright, crisp, clean interior. Slipcase is same black cloth over board with blind stamped titles and is bright, clean, square. Laid in is publisher's statement of signature authenticity and print number (26 of 100) as well as publisher's post card for catalog. Folio, unpaged. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 17662
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Gus Van Sant: 108 Portraits (Signed, Slipcased Edition, 44/100)
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Twin Palms Publishers, 1992
ISBN 10: 0944092233
ISBN 13: 9780944092231
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Seller: Whitledge Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Van Sant, Gus (illustrator). Limited Edition. GUS VAN SANT: 108 PORTRAITS, hardcover in a slipcase, limited first edition of 100 (marked #44), signed by author/photographer, 1992. BOOK CONDITION: fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition with no dogears, marks, or tears. No bookplate or signature of a prior owner. This is not a library book or remainder. The signature of the author/photographer/filmmaker is written in silver ink along with the year signed, 1993. No gift inscription. The black boards and slipcase are in fine condition. 13 x 10 ½, 116 pages, 55 ounces. NOTE: BECAUSE OF THE SIZE AND WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE MAY BE REQUIRED IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE US. XX [From Van Sant?s introduction] The faces in this book were originally Polaroids used to cast the movies I've made. Beginning with my film MALA NOCHE, I took the pictures of the lead actors, so that when planning the details of the shoot I could stare at the pictures and imagine the characters coming to life, and how they might visually relate to one another. As my films grew larger and when I started to get more money to make them, I used the Polaroids of the faces to do the initial casting. I think that the bulk of these pictures are people that I had a meeting with about playing a part in either DRUGSTORE COWBOY or MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. These were taken in casting sessions. During the casting sessions, the actor or actress would come in to talk with me or the producers or the film executives on the project. Generally they would read or act out a section of the script and then we would usually chat about something, like I remember during DRUGSTORE COWBOY (it was an active earthquake here and the casting office was in a high rise) we could talk about how stupid it was to be so high up in a building 16 floors for an earthquake or perhaps maybe the building was safer than most places. Everyone had their earthquake expertise, because nobody really quite knew what would happen to us when we were in a really bad earthquake. After we talked about something innocuous and removed from the task at hand, like earthquakes, I would generally grab my camera which was sitting in front of me (I actually sort of hid behind it, it was so big) and I would ask, can I take a picture of you and every time I ask, so far, people have said yes. I always thought they were nice to agree, because they weren't necessarily prepared or anything like that. But it's more that it's possible they are used to a lot more unusual demands during casting sessions. I began collecting the negatives from these pictures (Polaroid makes a black and white film that produces a negative at the same time as the instant picture) with an idea to later make blowups, but it took five years before I decided to do anything with the pictures. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 002964