Albert Watson

Yesterday while I was strolling the streets of Chelsea (and not working on my studio project) I came across these posters...

This is the second time I'd seen this tiger faced man in one day and I thought "who is Albert Watson and WHY don't I know him?!?!"

Well this is Albert Watson 

and it turns out I do know him...I just didn't know I knew him

Confused a little???

Let me explain...

Albert Watson was a Scottish photographer well known for his fashion, celebrity and art photography. So well known in fact, that his work is featured all over the world and he is deemed one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time. 

His first celebrity shoot was for the 1973 Christmas edition of  Harper's Bazaar, a portrait of Alfred Hitchcock holding a dead goose with a ribbon around its neck.

 Since then he's gone on to do pieces of many well known actors, musicians, models and other celebrities. Hundreds of his works have been on the covers of countless magazines from Vogue to Rolling Stone to QG to Harper's Bazaar. He's directed over 600 TV commercials, has done the posters for many major Hollywood movies like Kill Bill and the Da Vinci Code, and has created the photography for hundreds of successful ad campaigns for the brands we use every day like Revlon, Chanel, and Gap.  So there's about a 100% chance you've seen something of his.

Here's MJ

My girl Sade

And the infamous portrait of Steve Jobs

Did I mention Watson did all this beautiful work, had his own personal projects, and published a handful of books... all while blind in one eye??? Hence his nickname 'Cyclops'. I guess disabilities can't stop genius. 
Check out the exhibit at HASTED KRAEUTLER- 537 West 24th Street. Open until December 8

~ Lisa Lou