My First Still-Life, Age 13 I was a kid when I built this Apollo 13 plastic model; I carried it outside to the yard and took this photograph--my first concept shot. I Almost Always Wear Black, 2017 I had been storing my used black shirts, black t-shirts, and black jeans for a long time with the intention of someday shooting them. Just before moving to a new studio, I decided the time had come to pile them up and photograph them. The day after the shoot, I dropped all of them off at the Salvation Army on West 23rd street in Manhattan. 10 Years of Shoes, 2001In the decade between 1990 and 2000, I shot over one thousand pairs of shoes for various commercial jobs in my studio. It was my responsibility to make each pair look sleek, elegant, unique, and (always) expensive. In the same span of time I wore out 24 pairs of shoes. I enjoyed shooting them in their true condition. Things We Don't Use, 2011 I decided to make a list of some of the iconic, classic things that due to technology we simply don’t use anymore, such as: a Rolodex, Polaroid camera, the Yellow Pages, magazines, daily newspapers, tape cassettes, film, wall clocks, film cameras, boom boxes, VCRs, videotape cameras, globes, vinyl records, tape recorders, and land-line phones. The 4 Elements, 2011 Decomposing, 2011 Anna, 2008For this portrait of a 16-year-old New York City girl, I asked my daughter for 20 of the objects most important to her. Among the 20 pictured here: a canvas bag, Bobby Brown mascara, nail polish, straw hat, Chloe shoes, Coco Chanel perfume, coffee yogurt, notebook, painting palette, book of Gustav Klimt drawings, Sailers Storm shirt, Prada bag, Nabokov’s Lolita, flip phone, Apple Mac laptop, vintage fur coat. Quote by Oscar Wilde: "Before Turner there was no fog in London", 2003 Times Square, New York; Midnight January 1st, 2000 I had just run into my friend, the photographer Peter Cunningham, when I took this shot. Like me, he was taking pictures of the aftermath of the Y2K frenzy: Nothing happened. It was just a big but colorful mess.

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