"In My StairWell"
Une série de portraits de quarante cinq artistes qui ont marqué la decennie dans les domaines de la musique, du cinéma et de la télévision.
MARK SELIGER est né à Amarillo et a grandi a Houston, deux villes du Texas. Il vit actuellement à NEW YORK où il est depuis bientôt quinze ans.
Le photographe attitré des célébrités américaines : ROLLING STONE et US.
Ses photos inventives et souvent drôles ont fait le Tour du Monde. Brad Pitt (Los Angeles 1998), Mick Jagger (New York City 1994), John Lee Hooker (Vallejo 1991), Susan Sarandon (NEW YORK City 1994), Nicole Kidman (NEWPORT 1996), Bob Dylan (Los Angeles 1998), Kurt Cobain (Michigan 1993), Tom Hanks (Los Angeles 1994), Sean Penn (Los Angeles 1992), Neil Young (Chicago 1992), Bruce Springsteen (New Jersey 1998), autant de Stars qui ont su reconnaitre en lui un artiste majeur de notre époque.
De nombreux prix photographiques lui ont été attribués : ART DIRECTION ANNUAL AWARDS 1989, 1993, 1995, THE ART DIRECTORS CLUB AWARDS 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, ALFRED EISENSTAEDT AWARD 1999, ETC.., CONSACRANT SA CARRIERE AUTANT POUR SON TRAVAIL EDITORIAL QUE PUBLICITAIRE (I.B.M., NIKE, FUJI, WRANGLER ...)
MARK SELIGER est également un réalisateur de clip video très apprecié. Il a notamment mis en scène les music-videos de Lenny Kravitz, Hole, Paula Cole, Nathalie Merchant, sans parler des nombreux clips publicitaires réalisés entre autre pour GAP.
Mark Seliger was born in Amarillo, Texas and moved to Houston when he was five years old. He attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts there and later graduated from East Texas State University. Mark worked as a photographerÕs assistant in Houston for several years before moving to New York.
Seliger began freelancing for Rolling Stone in 1987 and in 1993 became the third chief photographer in the magazine's history, following in the footsteps of Annie Leibovitz, who was one of MarkÕs early influences. Also, as a photographer for Us and MenÕs Journal, he has shot more than a hundred covers. In 1996, Seliger completed a two year project of documenting Holocaust survivors.
The photographs culminated into his first book entitled, When They Came to Take My Father, Voices of the Holocaust. His latest book, Physiognomy, was published in 1999. His images from these books and other Rolling Stone stories have been exhibited around the world. His photographs of musicians and celebrities have won various awards including the 1999 Alfred Eisenstaedt Photography Award for a Single Image, which was given for a portrait of Ben Stiller. Mark has also done editorial and advertising work for clients such as IBM, Nike, American Express and MTV. His photographs are also in several important museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Mark Seliger currently lives and works in New York City.
