Gregory Heisler Research Paper

[01-Gregory Heisler-Carroll] [02-Gregory Heisler-Carroll.jpg] [03-Gregory Heisler-Carroll.jpg} Gregory Heisler is a reminiscent portrait photographer that photographs for magazines such as Time, Sports Illustrated, GQ and more. He is a well known A-list celebrity photographer that captures unique photos that make you look twice. His photographs of extremely well known celebrities, business leaders, government leaders, etc are considered evocative and astonishing. [04-Greogry Heisler-Carroll.jpg] Some of Gregory Heisler’s most famous portraits that have been featured on covers of Time, GQ, Esquire, and ESPN are collected in the photographers book titled, “50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer’s Photographer”. One of the photographs displayed in the book is of Rudy Giuliani at the Ground Zero sight. What is interesting about this photograph is that Rudy Giuliani did not want to be photographed at that certain location because the celebrity thought that would show that he was self absorbed and that it would be aggrandizing. Even though Rudy felt that way, the photographer insisted on photographing at that location because it …show more content…
When taking a photograph of the former president, Heisler decided to use in camera techniques to create a double exposure to reflect on Bush’s positive and negative aspects as president. The photographer wanted to show that as president, Bush was a great leader in foreign policy but in contrast, the former president’s domestic policies were “hollow at the center”. The insane part about Gregory Heisler’s photograph was that George H.W Bush had no idea that Heisler was going to portray the former president in such a way and that is why the image came to be a controversial topic among people. the photographer ended up having his White house press privileges revoked for the image he took of the former president of the United