New Hollywood, Classic Glamour: Vincent Peters’s Celebrity Portraits
Vincent Peters’s photographs of Scarlett Johansson and other stars have a special intimacy. He says he photographs famous women as he would his girlfriend.
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In his introduction to The Light Between Us: The Work of Vincent Peters, the author Jochen Siemens says of Peters' pictures of Hollywood stars that “rather than questioning his subjects' choices and forcing them into even more artifice, he allows their tensed muscles of self-control to relax.” Certainly the portraits are more intimate than run-of-the-mill celebrity photography, and feel both modern, but also artifully, classically composed, too. In color, but most especially black-and-white, the pictures have a glamour and regalness to them, recalling the Golden Age of Hollywood. “I photograph the Hollywood starlet on a bed exactly how I used to take photos of my girlfriend on a bed,” says Peters.
Here, Peters photographs Johansson, the star of Lost in Translation.
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The Italian actress and model, who was award-nominated for her role in 1996 film The Apartment.
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Hermione paints her face white, and has all the intensity of an old-school diva.
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The Angel Heart actor and former boxer.
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The French actress and model and former Victoria's Secret Angel.
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Spiffy in a suit, the American Psycho actor.
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The singer, captured looking more "Annie Hall" than wild.
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The actress, known for movies like 17 Girls.
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The Russian model and actress.
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The Academy Award-winning actress and producer.
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