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This is the long-awaited reprint of Bryan Adams' first comprehensive monograph of his portrait photography. In the late 1990s Adams became curious about making photographic self-portraits for his album covers, and so chose to pick up the camera himself. This serendipitous decision proved the beginning of a successful photographic career parallel to Adams' impressive achievements as a singer, songwriter and producer. Exposed is a retrospective of his photography and features portraits of friends and colleagues in the entertainment, fashion and art industries. Including Morrissey, Ben Kingsley, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Louise Bourgeois, Lindsay Lohan and Judi Dench, among many others, the book "exposes" not only unknown facets of his subjects but also the depth of Adams' photographic faculty.
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Born in 1959 in Canada, musician and photographer Bryan Adams has photographed for magazines including Interview, i-D, Harper’s Bazaar, and British, Spanish, German and Italian Vogue. In 2003 he co-founded Zoo and received a Goldene Feder Award for his photographs for the magazine. Adams has twice received a German Lead Award and was honored with an honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society in 2015. His books include Made in Canada (1999), American Women (2005) with Calvin Klein, Exposed (2012), Wounded: The Legacy of War (2013), Untitled (2016), Homeless (2019) and Hear The World (2024). Adams’ work is held in the National Portrait Gallery in London, and his many exhibitions include those at Somerset House in London, NRW Forum in Düsseldorf, the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul, and upcoming at the Reichstag in Berlin.
Summary
This is the long-awaited reprint of Bryan Adams’ first comprehensive monograph of his portrait photography. In the late 1990s Adams became curious about making photographic self-portraits for his album covers, and so chose to pick up the camera himself. This serendipitous decision proved the beginning of a successful photographic career parallel to Adams’ impressive achievements as a singer, songwriter and producer. Exposed is a retrospective of his photography and features portraits of friends and colleagues in the entertainment, fashion and art industries. Including Morrissey, Ben Kingsley, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Louise Bourgeois, Lindsay Lohan and Judi Dench, among many others, the book “exposes” not only unknown facets of his subjects but also the depth of Adams’ photographic faculty.
