February 20, 2006

Photography Dos & Don'ts (for Celebrities)


Do allow yourself to be liberally covered in face and body paint, real and/or photoshopped, especially if the photographers are Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin (they seem to know what they are doing):

Witherspoon

Hurt

Don't allow yourself to be photographed while uncomfortably reclining topless, especially while holding a lit cigarette, even if the photographer is Annie Liebowitz (contrary to popular belief, she is not the God of Photography):

Miller

The only people who ever looked sexier with a cigarette were Humphrey Bogart and Jean Paul Belmondo imitating Bogart in Breathless:

Bogie

Belmondo
(Notice how sexy Jean Seberg looks with a shirt on, sans cigarette)

For my readers: Do check out The New York Times Magazine's Great Performers portfolio.

Don't waste your money on this month's Vanity Fair (the more copies they sell, the more it will encourage guest editor and Keira Knightley sniffer Tom Ford):

Sniffer

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