Viddy Well: Spotlight on photographer JASON BELL

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

- Jean-Luc Godard

I don’t know if we can take that as a truth universally acknowledged, Jean-Luc’s God being the art of cinema, but we would like to pay homage to the special bond that has always linked both arts together with a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have collaborated with actors and directors, thus contributing to their immortalization as movie stars.

Spotlight on Jason Bell

British photographer Jason Bell graduated from Oxford in Politics, Philosophy and Economy and has, since then, worked with publications such as Vanity Fair, Vogue UK and Vogue US with series of portraits and fashion photographs. He is also the eye behind several film posters such as those of Billy Elliot, About a Boy and Love Actually.

His most recent work features pictures for Warner Bros with photographs of the cast of Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, and of the cast of the British hit period drama Downton Abbey.

His photographs can be found at the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of the permanent collection. Among his published books we count Gold Rush (2000), Hats off (2002), Giveget (2004), and An Englishman in New York (2010).

Despite a lot of commercial shots, some are quite visually striking as open windows on the world of cinema. Here is a selection of 11 photographs presenting his work.

For more photographs of his work including landscapes, check out his website: www.jasonbellphoto.com

Viddy Well,

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