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Published by Taschen, 2007 Foreword by Nicole Kidman I first met Mario Testino in the late summer of 2002, when we did a shoot together for Vanity Fair. We were at a remote beach location in Malibu. It was a perfect sunny, breezy day. There was the usual organized chaos of catering truck and wardrobe and props and lighting equipment, and we were bivouacked at a funny beach house with very little room to squeeze all of us in... but there in the midst of the activity was Mario: energetic and calm, somehow, at the same time. We worked together again this fall, 2006 in England, for Vogue. No sun this time, just buckets and buckets of rain. We were on a magnificent country estate, having to jump in and out of the house and a mobile camper between storm fronts. Mario was just the same as I had remembered him from four years before: spontaneous but focused, and very funny. As an artist he responds instinctively to his environment, it becomes part of his photographs, and you, the subject, become an integral part of the environment. Among his many gifts is the ability to capture something about the sitter’s essence, an immediacy, a shared moment. What’s more, he makes you feel special, which is a lovely way to feel, especially under the scrutiny of a camera lens. Also includes introduction by Michael Roberts and Conversation between Mario Testino and Patrick Kinmonth |
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