Image DAY 365 PORTRAITS

Interior Location

MICHAEL GRAVES, ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER

Meeting and photographing Michael Graves was in itself an honor and pleasure—a commission to make images that would appear on a front cover of a magazine was an added bonus. This image was shot in his house in Princeton, New Jersey, where he created a museum of sorts and homage to the concept of the “Grand Tour,” showing off antiques and objets d’art that he had collected on his trips to Europe.

The challenge in this portrait was to allow enough space for the magazine’s cover logo and feature lines as well as lighting Michael and the background with the right balance ...

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