108 Portraits OOP towing its seemingly paradoxical strict

towing its seemingly paradoxical strict docu-aesthetic line: he never crops his photographs

William Burroughs

watercolor

veers between oblivion and salvation

and American Photo

108 Portraits OOP towing its seemingly paradoxical strictThe 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