#Martin Schoeller

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Britney Spears by Martin Schoeller 2003

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Photographed by Martin Schoeller for The New Yorker in 2002:

 "I was hired by the New Yorker in 2002 to photograph Robin Williams, and after doing my research what stood out most for me was that he was a very physical comedian. I came up with this idea to photograph him swinging from a chandelier in a grand hotel room. Most publicists shoot down these kinds of wild ideas, so I didn't tell anyone what I was up to, but rigged up a chandelier at the Waldorf Astoria hotel for him to swing from. When Robin got there and saw what was happening, he lifted up his shirt and showed me this enormous scar on his shoulder. He'd just had surgery and couldn't so much as lift his arm. He was so disappointed! He really felt bad about not being able to do it, because he loved the idea and really wanted to help me accomplish my vision. 

Unlike most Hollywood stars, he was unfazed by his success and position. He talked to everyone from stylists to the crew, to the hotel staff. We ended up asking a maid at the hotel to swing from the chandelier instead, and I asked him to just sit there and read a newspaper, which I think in the end was an even funnier, more unexpected picture.

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Alexei Navalny by Martin Schoeller

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“If I have a kid, I’ll call him Dracula.”

All About My Year: Gerard Way

My Chemical Romance Screamo King and Unironic Mustache Advocate

From Blender Magazine, January/February 2007, Volume 6, No. 1 Photograph by: Martin Schoeller

Transcript below

Favorite new band of 2006 Mew, from Scandinavia. They're huge in Europe, but I just found out about them, It’s breathtaking fantasy rock. 

Favorite new catchphrase I'm tired of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane.

What are you going to rename your adopted African baby? Dracula. I've always said, “If I have a kid, I’ll call him Dracula”

Man-crush of 2006 Johnny Depp. He's been a steady winner for years now. Ask a lot of bands in black, they'll probably tell you him.

Favorite new toy I got a Sidekick III, but it’s really just a Sidekick II that's black. I love it. You can AIM people back home for pennies.

Trend you're most sick of What are hipsters doing these days? Oh, right: the ironic mustache! Not that there’s anything wrong with a real mustache.

Favorite sign of the Apocalypse This video I saw of Kevin Federline listening to “PopoZão.”

Most outlandish purchase of the year I got the entire original Star Trek TV series on DVD last night. Our record came out, and I wanted to get myself something nice. As if I didn’t already have enough nerdy shit.

Country the U.S. should “liberate” next None. I think we should send a country some cupcakes. You think some cupcakes would cheer up North Korea? Kill ‘em with deliciousness.

Funniest YouTube video I really hate physical violence, but there’s this one where this kid is talking shit forever to this other kid, and the dude gets into this weird jujitsu pose and just knocks him out with one punch.

Ambition/hope for 2007 Quit smoking. That's my goal. 

Will you be our MySpace friend? Of course!

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Happy 60th, Russell Crowe.

Photo by Martin Schoeller.

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by Martin Schoeller

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Angelina Jolie (Photo by Martin Schoeller)

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Jake Gyllenhaal by Martin Schoeller

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Mira Nair photographed by Martin Schoeller 

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Jake Gyllenhaal, photographed by Martin Schoeller

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Colin Farrell by Martin Schoeller 2006

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Robert De Niro on Subway; Brooklyn, NY, 2013

Photo by Martin Schoeller

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Martin Schoeller, Photographer

(2007) “I shot Dame Judi Dench in her dressing room at Stratford-upon-Avon. I asked her to relax for a moment between poses and in that instant I got my shot. It’s candid, she’s barely aware of me because she had stopped thinking about the portrait and was deeply pensive, her attention on something else. I choose to think it was her performance and I hope this image gives some sense of her struggle as an actor, of having to perform and give of herself nightly, on command. It feels very authentic and has an intimacy that I like. Dame Judi has aged well. She looks her age, but is still absolutely beautiful, unlike some other stars of her generation who have messed about with their faces.”

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"In a wonderful essay called 'On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual,' Schopenhauer points out that once you have reached an advanced age, as I have, as you look back over your life, it can seem to have had a plot, as though composed by a novelist. Events that seemed entirely accidental or incidental turn out to have been central in the composition. "So who composed that plot? Schopenhauer's idea is that, just like our dreams, our lives are directed by what he called the will, that self of which we are largely unconscious. We have been, he says, dreamers of our own lives, like Vishnu on his seven-headed serpent." Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss, p.112 Joseph Campbell

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Natalie Portman, 2010 by Martin Schoeller

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Liev Schreiber by Martin Schoeller, 1999

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Source: Jane Choi, Make-Up Artist. Photographed by Martin Schoeller