Swapping sides
Canadian singer Bryan Adams is best known for his music, but he's also pretty good with a camera and his Hear the World photography exhibition is currently on show at London's Saatchi Gallery until 26 July.
The exhibition contains portraits of a number of celebrities including Jude Law, Elle MacPherson, Lord Attenborough and Amy Winehouse and aims to raise awareness of the importance of healthy hearing and the impact of hearing loss.
It's by no means Adams' first show; in addition to many exhibitions he has published a number of books.
It made me wonder how many other celebrities also enjoy taking the odd snap or two.
Actor Jeff Bridges is an obvious place to start. He is well known for taking pictures whilst on set using a Wide-Lux camera, capturing those moment between takes that only an actor sees.
Another musician, David Byrne of Talking Heads has also been exhibiting his work for many years, though it's in direct contrast to that of Adams and Bridges work.
A couple of models have also made the leap from one side of the lens to the other, Helena Christensen is one.
Looking back a little further there was of course Koo Stark, one time girlfriend of Prince Andrew, who incidentally has also published a book of his pictures. During their time together Stark was photographed relentlessly by the media so she picked up a camera and was lucky enough to be tutored by photographic master Norman Parkinson, who later wrote the foreword to her book Contrasts, which was published in 1985.
Anyone know of any others?
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Peter Sellers? I think I remember him saying in a Parkinson interview that he'd taken photos for some magazines. I know he was a big home movie enthusiast, too.
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Denis Healey, Dave Lee Travis... Maybe not "stars", but very fine photographers nevertheless
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Dennis Hopper produced a credible body of work from the 1960s.
And apparently Bono and Chris Martin have also switched to the other side of the lens for charitable endeavours.
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Melissa Auf der Maur. She was a photography major before becoming an musician.
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Graham Nash of "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young" comes to mind. Apart from being a photographer of some note and a major collector of photographic prints he was the primary adaptor and developer (sorry pun unintended) in turning the IRIS printer in to the de facto fine arts black and white digital printing system in late 80s and early 90s.
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Brad Pitt is a shooter, Lenny Kravitz enjoys using a Leica M8 and from what i've seen, knows how to use it...
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Marty Stuart is famous for his pictures of music stars in the US. Also, I hear from Nikon that Ashton Kutcher is an avid photographer. Snicker.
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Amanda De Cadenet, shoots for Vogue, syndicates through Camera Press
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I saw a documentary a while back on Kenny Rogers. Not my kind of music, but a very accomplished photographer; Uses a view camera to photograph portraits including many celebreties.
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Leonard Nimoy (Spock from Star Trek) is an enthusiastic and talented shooter exhibiting in galleries and at www.leonardnimoyphotography.com
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Leonard Nimoy is a first class photographer. Has had books of his work published and had exhibitions.
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Carel Struycken, who played Lurch in the Adams Family movies, is an accomplished creator of photographic panoramas.... http://www.sphericalpanoramas.com/
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Any twit can take a picture, if you can physically see 99.9% of the job is done, right? I rest my case my citing the paparazzi, none of whom Id trust to sit on a loo the right way round when sober.
Eat that.
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Interesting but why don't we give the same amount of publicity (for free) to professional photographers and would we really think these celebrity photographers were that great if they weren't already celebrities.
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Silent film star Harold Lloyd had a strong interest in photography, particularly nudes and pin-ups, and even photographed in 3-D. There's a recent book of 3-D pin-ups published by his granddaughter.
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Viggo Mortensen is an extremely talented photographer and has had numerous highly successful exhibitions.
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Zoe McConnell, a page 3 girl, does some good work.
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