Martin Schoeller
(American/German, born 1968)
Biography
Martin Schoeller is a New York-based photographer who depicts both celebrities and ordinary people in highly detailed close-up portraits. His work is notably influenced by photographers such as August Sander, whose lifelong focus was also the subject of portraiture. Schoeller’s stylistic hallmarks include even lighting, standardized cropping, and a medium tonal range. “Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed,” he explains, “striving to get beyond the practiced facial performance, reaching for something unplanned.” Born on March 12, 1968 in Munich, Germany, Schoeller studied photography at Lette Verein in Berlin. He moved to New York in 1993, where he started freelancing for Rolling Stone, Esquire, and other publications. Schoeller also worked as an assistant to famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, from whom he learned techniques for the large portraits for which he is best known. In 1999, he joined Richard Avedon as a photo contributor to The New Yorker, and his work can be found in the permanent collection of The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Schoeller lives and works in New York, NY.
Martin Schoeller
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Martin Schoeller
Angela Merkel, from the series »Close Up«, 2010
OstLicht. Gallery for Photography
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English (US)
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