108 Portraits OOP and American Photo

and American Photo

Essay by Leonard Feather

William Burroughs

It is the record of the moments I have shared with them at the point of intersection of our lives

108 Portraits OOP and American PhotoThe 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