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Greg Gorman

Greg Gorman (born 1949) is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in articles and covers of renowned magazines, such as Esquire, GQ, Interview, Life, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair and the London Sunday Times. Although he studied photojournalism in college, his passion for rock and roll led him to the field he chose when he photographed Jimi Hendrix in 1968. John Waters once said, "Greg Gorman is the only person I would let photograph my corpse". He works mainly in black and white.

His famous photographic development method, a style that photographers from all over the world use today when converting their photos to black and white, whether they are landscape or portrait: the "Greg Gorman method".

he has also directed music videos, television commercials, and graphic design layouts for advertisers.

From 2016 to 2019 Gorman lived in a relationship with the Spanish-Catalan film impact producer Samuel Rubin.

 

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