Van Sant never shied away from queering the moviegoing experience. Here, portraits of his muses past and present, including Matt Dillon, Keanu Reeves, and the late River Phoenix, and rare behind-the-scenes shots shed new light on the filmmaker's career
Julien Sauvalle OUT Magazine The book is a gold mine of images, artwork, essays, portraits, sketches, interviews, and first-person ... Read moreaccounts, that offer insight into the inner workings of the iconic American filmmaker.
Eileen Kinsella Artnet Presents a welcome opportunity to step inside Van Sant's mind courtesy of expansive interviews, influential artworks, visually arresting moodboards, diagrams plotting out scenes, on-set photographs, and perhaps best of all, the many Polaroids the director took early in his career to document the stars who passed through his studio, which acted as a key casting tool in the days before digital photography.
Another Magazine Coffee-table tome Gus Van Sant: Icons surveys the Oscar nominated filmmaker's wide body of work, from photography (of, say, his To Die For leading lady Nicole Kidman) to watercolor and charcoal portraits.
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