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    Portrait maestro

    by ALL IMAGES FROM THE BOOK PHOTOGRAPHS ©MARKSELIGER2018 Jun 17, 2018 6 minutes
    Source:   The then-US President Barack Obama pictured in Washington DC, USA, in 2010  

    Musician Paul McCartney in New York, USA, in 2001

    In the realm of portrait photography Mark Seliger is a superstar, yet he’s refreshingly down-to-earth and relaxed when speaking to AP via Skype from his New York City studio. He’s discussing his new book, Photographs, which features celebrity portraits from the first 30 years of his career – but he reveals his first love was developing pictures rather than taking them. ‘As a kid I was really fascinated with the darkroom. I took a course at junior high school and my focus was on making prints. I wasn’t really that interested in taking pictures at first, but that was probably a good thing. I settled into photography once I got to college.’

    A native of Texas, Seliger attended Texas State University and names his then professor, James Newberry, as a key influence in sparking his love of photography. ‘I was inspired a lot by documentary photography and portraiture. [James] Newberry was really focused on giving us pretty

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