Bruce Weber American, b. 29/3/1946
Leonardo DiCaprio, Coney Island, NY, 1994.
Gelatin Silver Print.
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11 x 14 in / 27 x 35 cm
Edition of 15
20 x 24 in / 50 x 60 cm
Edition of 5
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Edition of 15
20 x 24 in / 50 x 60 cm
Edition of 5
.
Hand-signed by artist, titled, numbered and dated on print verso.
'This sitting with Leonardo DiCaprio for Interview Magazine was a revelation to me. Few people have the capacity to accomplish such remarkable transformations in front of the camera. One minute...
"This sitting with Leonardo DiCaprio for Interview Magazine was a revelation to me.
Few people have the capacity to accomplish such remarkable transformations in front of the camera. One minute he looked like a kid from a small town lost in Coney Island, the next a small-time thug on the run from the police, the next a cocky carnival hustler type.
He jumped from one character to another faster than I could load my Pentax. A total chameleon-pathos, then toughness in his eyes from one moment to the next. I could have gone on photographing Leonardo forever.
I took this photograph in 1994, and I've been kind of angry with him ever since, because he totally spoiled the experience of photographing every big actor after that.
I know that Leonardo will probably never take pictures like this again, because of course he doesn't have any need to. I ran into him a couple years ago at an event and he said, "You haven't photographed me in a long time-how come?" I laughed and said, "Because all you'll ever wear in pictures now is an Armani suit!" "That's true," he admitted.
I was lucky enough to be there before all of that, and I'll always have a great tenderness for Leonardo as a person and a great artist for that madcap day we spent in Coney Island years ago."
Bruce Weber
Few people have the capacity to accomplish such remarkable transformations in front of the camera. One minute he looked like a kid from a small town lost in Coney Island, the next a small-time thug on the run from the police, the next a cocky carnival hustler type.
He jumped from one character to another faster than I could load my Pentax. A total chameleon-pathos, then toughness in his eyes from one moment to the next. I could have gone on photographing Leonardo forever.
I took this photograph in 1994, and I've been kind of angry with him ever since, because he totally spoiled the experience of photographing every big actor after that.
I know that Leonardo will probably never take pictures like this again, because of course he doesn't have any need to. I ran into him a couple years ago at an event and he said, "You haven't photographed me in a long time-how come?" I laughed and said, "Because all you'll ever wear in pictures now is an Armani suit!" "That's true," he admitted.
I was lucky enough to be there before all of that, and I'll always have a great tenderness for Leonardo as a person and a great artist for that madcap day we spent in Coney Island years ago."
Bruce Weber
