Daily Photographer Post: Mark Seliger

Mark Seliger

Contemporary

Mark Seliger is an editorial photographer, currently living in New York, under contract with Conde Nast publications. Now shooting covers primarily for GQ and Vanity Fair, he did spend ten years as Chief Photographer for Rolling Stone. His work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and a large portion have his works have been published in books. Photographing mostly celebrities, and musicians especially, Seliger does mostly portrait work, but also has done commercial work for Bebe, St. John, Ralph Lauren, Diesel, Macy's, Capitol Records, Showtime, Rocawear, Sony Music, the Gap, HBO, MTV, Universal Pictures, Pepsi, Smartwater, and the Sundance Channel. He has also won numerous awards, and continues to work as one of the top modern photographers.

Two of Seliger's most famous musician portraits: Kurt Cobain (at top), and Johnny Cash (above).

Gretchen Mol for Italian Vogue.

Johnny Depp.

An image from the book, When They Came to Take my Father.

An image of Jerry Seinfeld, from Seliger's latest project, In My Stairwell.