Gorman

Greg (1949). American photographer. He took a course in news photography at the University of Kansas from 1967 to 1969, followed by a Masters in Fine Arts and Cinema at the University of Southern California in 1972. His career began in 1968 when, using a camera borrowed from a friend, he photographed Jimi Hendrix’s concert in Kansas City and, immediately afterwards, The Doors. These first successes urged him to continue to portray situations which he recreates both in studios and outdoors. The photographs portraying David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Elton John, Joe Cocker and many others that are also used on record covers were produced in this way. The images of the following actors were also shot in the same way: Kevin Costner, Kim Basinger, Tom Cruise, and Robert De Niro. He also creates advertising campaigns with his famous nudes, and does work for clients such as Reebok, Rolex, Shisheido, and AT&T. His photos appear in GQ, Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue, Vogue Homme, Amica, Tempo, Life, Esquire, Rolling Stone as well as in the Italian, French, and German editions of Max. In 1990 and 1992 he published his photographs in Volume 1 and Volume 2, his explicit male nudes in As I See It (2000) and in Just Between Us (2001), while his most recent anthologies are Inside Life in 2000 and Prospectives in 2001. He has co-directed the video Love on Top of Love with the singer Grace Jones.