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DAY 25 | PORTRAITS |
Conceptual
ELI WILNER, MASTER ANTIQUE FRAMER
This was shot on film, without the use of Photoshop, and actually made it to the cover of the magazine that I was shooting for. It’s an example of where a concept for an image turns out better than expected; I had simply wanted to make a portrait of him behind the kind of antique frame that he is world renowned for finding and selling. I had Eli’s collaboration completely; he loved the idea that he was in a frame on the wall. It was shot in his then-tiny frame shop and studio, using a doorway and a roll of blue paper hanging over it with the frame on top of that, and a hole ...
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