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Gilles Larrain
American photographer · United States · On the map · Artists · Lived 1938 to 2025 · aged 86
Gilles Larrain was a French-American photographer who believed that photography is a way to "capture the landscape of the soul of a person".
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A typical day, 30 days to 24 August 2026
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By taking a unique approach to photography, which included creating his own lighting, managing the entire darkroom process, and always having subjects come to his personal studio space, Larrain had created acclaimed pieces of art since 1969. In 1973, Larrain published the highly successful photographic book, Idols, which presented portraits of transvestites. Two generations later, the book inspired American photographer Ryan McGinley who wrote an April 2010 article in Vice, which identified Larrain and the book Idols as one of his early and biggest influences for experimenting with colors, casting, and props, because all of Larrain's images in the book are raw without any manipulation. Larrain had photographed notable personalities in a wide range of creative disciplines, including the dancers of the American Ballet Theatre, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Salvador Dalí, Miles Davis, Sting, Billy Joel, Roberto Rossellini, Norman Mailer, and more.
