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  • Jeff Koons and rabbit of stainless steel (41"x19"x12") molded after an inflatable rabbit.  I photographed Koons in my Manhattan studio, blew up an eight foot print of Koons, flew it to the Satchi Museum and photogrpahed his portrait with a 4x5 camera through a hole cut out in the neck of his shirt.  For the series "Portraits of Artists in the style of their own work."
    Koons Jeff 0001 Bunny.jpg
  • Sly played a Jimmy-Hoffa-like character for the movie F.I.S.T. a forgetable movie in which I played his wedding photographer.  Louie Psihoyos
    Stallone Sylvester 0001 Sl copy.jpg
  • Holland Dock, Blokijl, Netherlands.  This dock, in the idylic town of Blokijl was covered with a thin layer of ice which reflected the hue of the morning sky.
    Dutch Docks 0001 Blokijl.jpg
  • This picture was made near the northernmost Island of the Galapagos called Darwin.  This whale shark, a harmless plankton-eater was about 50 feet long making it one of the world's largest fish.
    Whale Shark 0001 Jamie.jpg
  • Hunter S. Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, photographed at his 40-acre lair he calls Owl Farm outside Woody Creek, Colorado for his book Better than Sex.
    Thompson Hunter S 0001.jpg
  • Footsteps on the Beach
    scf4383-583_Bali Footsteps 0001.jpg
  • This Diplodocus longus from Wyoming, originally described by O.C. Marsh, is mounted in a state-of-the-art pose in Senckenberg Nature Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.  At 90 ft long but only 12 tons, it is kind of a Brontosaurus lite.
    Diplodocuslongus 2.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.
    scf4327-901_American Trash 0003.jpg
  • Cats had the run of a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand.
    Thailand Buddha Cat.jpg
  • Snowstorm in Soho, New York City.
    Soho Snowstorm.jpg
  • The infamous couch was given to Freud, the founder of Psychoanalysis, by a grateful patient, madame Benvenisti around 1890.  Freud's patients would recline on the couch during psychoanalytic sessions but not quite lie down as the couch is short.  Freud lived at the home, now the Sigmund Freud Museum from 1838-1939 when he died.
    Sigmund Freuds Couch.jpg
  • Computers and Televisions inundate users with an avalanche of information that can empower or overwelm.
    Info Rev 0001 500 tvs.jpg
  • The snow blew in from one direction dusting this scene near Wijster, Holland just after sunset.
    Holland Lane 0001.jpg
  • There are images that come into my head sometimes and I’m not sure where they come from.  Dreams have always been a rich resource for me and poems too and this shot came through both channels.  One of my assistants in New York was Roy Michaels, a former rock star of sorts whose band, Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys, was produced by Jimi Hendrix.  He used to play concerts with Hendrix, several hundred thousand people screaming fans and now he was painting my studio ceiling - and not in the Michael Angelo sense -  we're talking flat white Sears’ house paint.  A decade plus later Roy was happy with his life, content to live without crowds and the rock star life. He kept a little sailboat in San Francisco Bay called Invictus where he could get away from it all.  I had never heard the poem Invictus and Roy recited it to me as he painted my ceiling.  I had a dream that night and started making this little set in the corner of my loft with seagulls soon after.  These were the days before PhotoShop.  The guy in this photo, another assistant is actually hanging there suspended with seagulls tied to his wrists – he wasn’t dropped in later by a computer.  I guess this set looked pretty strange even to the artists in the building who would pass by my loft and ask what I was doing.   Some of these same artists would paint some pretty strange imagery while working through various neuroses but it’s one thing to paint a fantasy, its quite another to actually build it.
    Deja Blue.jpg
  • Photography is usually one of the professions where, if you do a bad job nobody dies but when I photographed the Chrysler Building there was every chance that if we messed up – statistically someone was going to get hurt.  We fabricated a scaffold with adjustable platforms to mount four motorized Hasselblad cameras and hang it over the edge of the Chrysler Building to get this viewpoint. One of my assistants, a bit of an electronics buff wired all the cameras to a single switching box so I could fire them all with one button. It so happened that the previous tenants had vacated the week before so we had the whole wing of the floor to ourselves.  We strung climbing rope through the windows and around the building as a main lifeline and clipped ourselves onto the line with harnesses.  The whole heavy contraption was lowered and raised about thirty times over rush hour pedestrian traffic some 57 stories above Lexington Avenue as we changed film backs and adjusted exposures and made slight adjustments in camera angles.  Even though we were all roped and harnessed in, if anything fell, say a film back or film slide and hit someone it would have been a disaster.<br />
We photographed the building over several days during a couple of sunsets and sunrises, even at different times of year but the best shot was taken the first day.  It was one of those miraculously rare clear days when the pollution was blown out to sea leaving metropolis looking like it just got out of the bath.  I used Tungsten film to accentuate the blues of magic hour when two divergent spectrums of light, blues and reds, coverag
    Chrysler 0001 Guardian.jpg
  • Blue Man Group on Stilts.  Improvised act atop the Clocktower Gallery in New York City.
    Blue Man Group 0003 Paint.jpg
  • I was staying with the Italian painter Sandro Chia at his upstate farm when his son entered the room with a 22 rifle.  His father wasn't around just then and the child didn't speak a word of English nor I of Italian.  He was very possesive of his gun when I tried to relieve him of it so I just took his picture until his father came back.
    Chias Child 0001.jpg
  • I modified an original quote by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington to become, "If you put a hundred monkeys in the British Library with hundred typewriters for a hundred years – one of them would produce a Shakespeare play."
    100th Monkey.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Armpit Testers 0002longshot.jpg
  • A monk meditates in Sing Buri, Thailand under the watchful eye of a 52-meter long buddah at wat pra nan chaksri.
    scf4356-421_Sleep 0091 Sing Buri.jpg
  • There was a convention of hazardous waste workers at a Holiday Inn where inspectors learned to work in these uncomfortable protective suits by playing games.  It made for some interesting looks for vacationeers checking in.
    scf4327-307_Hazardous Waste Volley 0...jpg
  • A family rests by the pool as a brush fire descends down a nearby hillside outside San Diego, California where brush fires a rather commonplace.
    Heated Pool 0001.jpg
  • I slept on top of the Great Pyramid one night and in the morning I woke up to see a pair of Adidas sneakers by my face.  This pyramid guide was escorting tourists to the top.
    Egypt Pyramid Guide 0001.jpg
  • I built this set in Cornell University’s sheep barn to illustrate a story for National Geographic on Sleep and Dreams.  We built it over a holiday weekend and were told that someone from the animal husbandry department would be around to help us get sheep onto the set.  So I became a bit nervous when our handler told us he was going to enjoy supper with his family leaving me to wrangle the sheep onto the set by myself.  “It’ll be easy,” he told me, “just get the most dominant sheep tied to the bed and the others will follow.”  After pointing out the most dominant sheep to me which didn’t look at all that dominant, he left. I led the begrudging sheep to the set, tied it to the bedpost and waited.  I waited quite awhile.  After more than a reasonable amount of time passed I noticed that the other less dominant sheep still looked quite content to be apart from the dominant one. What may have unnerved them was that I had rigged a stuffed sheep (doomed to die at a slaughterhouse) with all sorts of ropes and pulleys in a jumping position above the bed. (N.G. does not like to use Photoshop)  Every one of the sheep had to be carried onto the set.  None came by their own will.
    Counting Sheep 0001.jpg
  • Phoograph of printing presses at the Georgia Pacific Paper Mill.
    scf4356-020_Georgia Pacific Mill 000...jpg
  • Photograph of printing presses at the Georgia Pacific Paper Mill.
    Georgia Pacific Mill 0002.jpg
  • Phoograph of printing presses at the Georgia Pacific Paper Mill.
    Georgia Pacific Mill 0001.jpg
  • Printing Presses at Georgia Pacific Paper Mill.
    Georgia Pacific Mill 0003.jpg
  • Original Print from Marsh drawing of Brontosaurus.
    Brontosaurus Drawing Marsh.jpg
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