"Dennis Hopper Shows Joan Quinn His Photos-1985" © Eugene Pinkowski

 This was one of my first shoots as a staff photographer for INTERVIEW Magazine.
Andy Warhol called me personally on a Saturday to ask me "if I wanted to do a shoot"
That next Tuesday was Dennis Hopper, who had just wrapped "Blue Velvet". at first,he just hated me. I couldn't light him,I couldn't capture him,and he was unrelenting. Then, he was perspiring, so I took a blotter over and touched his face. He said:"I never wore any f------ make-up in a film, I'm not wearing any f------ make-up for you!"
I burst out laughing as he was so over the top.
He laughed,and the ice was broken. Joan Quinn,West Coast editor for INTERVIEW arrived. the shoot wrapped,and Dennis asked me "Do you want to see some of my work?" Out came this stack of prints, Joan sitting next to Dennis, and this image is the result.
Dennis and I worked together often.If he was walking down any street in any city, he would run up and give me a hug if he saw me. I miss Dennis very much.E.P.

"Chafik and Virginia" © Eugene Pinkowski

"Chafik And Virginia In My 89 Christopher Street Apartment,N.Y.-1995" © Eugene Pinkowski

I asked friends,strangers,neighbors that I found interesting to do anything they wanted for my camera. Everything was shot at 89 Christopher Street, my apartment then, with this striped couch, brick walls.
Everything was shot on TMAX 1600 black + white film, pushed two stops.
Chafik is holding his cigarette,but his right hand is curled.Look at his fingers.Virginia asked if she could "bring a friend", and Chafik was her very young Egyptian lover. their body language and faces are amazingly expressive.

"The Money Shot"

                                                          "Jim Carrey With Iron-1985" © Eugene Pinkowski
Jim Carrey was just hitting his stride in his career. INTERVIEW Magazine wanted to feature Carrey as "We Predict" in front of magazine.                                                                                                                              
Four hours into the shoot,after Carrey had used every prop and expression, as he was young and trying to get a classic image to advance his career. My stylist walked over to Carrey with the iron,as the Armani suit he's wearing was wrinkling. Jim Carrey grabbed the hot iron, and said:"Look. I'm an ironing board. Get rid of those wrinkles..."  And, here it is. A perfect shot.E.P.

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"The Blue Iguana" © Eugene Pinkowski/Paramount Pictures;          One of  Internet Movie Posters  Favorite Posters.
I originally shot this in Black & White. Paramount Pictures decided they would hand color my photograph,so it resembled a 1950's film noire poster,which was a great idea. Dylan McDemott and Pam Gidley.Add caption

 The New Packaging for "the Blue Iguana" Re-release

 Publicity shots of the cast.

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"Poor Little Rich Girl"1972 © Eugene Pinkowski

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"The $1.00 Laundromat-2012" © Eugene Pinkowski
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Nina May Designs

Nina May Designs

The Best American Sports Writing of the Century: David Halberstam,Glenn Stout: 0046442945141: Amazon.com: Books

The Best American Sports Writing of the Century: David Halberstam,Glenn Stout: 0046442945141: Amazon.com: Books

"Tangled Up In Blue" by Peter Richmond, is a great read. Originally featured in GQ Magazine, it is brilliant writing about Tom Lasorda Jr., a dear friend . Peter Richmond was generous enough to include my photos, plus ten pages of an interview with me in this story. E. P.

The Best American Sports Writing of the Century: David Halberstam,Glenn Stout: 0046442945141: Amazon.com: Books

The Best American Sports Writing of the Century: David Halberstam,Glenn Stout: 0046442945141: Amazon.com: Books

"Tangled Up In Blue" by Peter Richmond, is a great read. Originally featured in GQ Magazine, it is brilliant writing about Tom Lasorda Jr., a dear friend . Peter Richmond was generous enough to include my photos, plus ten pages of an interview with me in this story. E. P.

May 6, 2011

E_P Photoseugene: "Virginia Madsen in Schlumberger"

E_P Photoseugene: "Virginia Madsen in Schlumberger": "Virginia Madsen in Schlumberger" © Eugene Pinkowski Virginia stood for hours while being made up, draped, hair sprayed gold. Then, the ...

"Virginia Madsen in Schlumberger"

"Virginia Madsen in Schlumberger" © Eugene Pinkowski

Virginia stood for hours while being made up, draped, hair sprayed gold. Then, the jewelry arrived.
This is the largest collection of Jean Schlumberger Jewelry ever photographed at one time on one person.
Virginia looks as if she is a goddess descending. She never looked more radiant...E.P.

(6) Photos - Google+

(6) Photos - Google+

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James Whitlow Delano is creating some of the most socially conscious and insightful photographs I have seen recently. A must see artist based in Japan.

"Tanya O. In White Dolce and Gabbana-1992"© Eugene Pinkowski

 Tanya was fiftenn at the time I shot this image. An absolutely beautiful young woman,physically and spiritually. A ballet dancer in her youth, her grace and ease with her body made her even more lovely.Notice her hands and feet..positioned so gracefully,echoing the diaphenous white of this couture gown.
I shot natural light with reflectors as fill, fil capture on 35mm TMax 400 and Ekatachrome 64 pushed. I very,very rarely reduce color to black and white as I see color images in color,and black and white as tonal in my head before snapping one frame of film. E.P.

"Karen Murphy Being Robbed of...(1979)"© Eugene Pinkowski

 This is one of my first professional shoots back in 1979. I used 35mm Kodak PlusX Pan Film,handline developed,and printed, by me.Being self-taught, I rarely read instructions, and simply worked by the seat of my pants,trial and error.Last year,we needed to digitize my film archive. When scanning the negs from this shoot, I noticed moisture had caused condesation.as well, I must not have fully rinsed these negatives,as the fix was reactivated from that moisture, and caused the dnsest areas of the negs, namely the blacks, to become thicker, with lowlights looking solarized in the scans. I used Photoshop CS6, and, by cloning and meticulously repairing this image, restored missing areas of emulsion, and removed all of the thickened emulsion outlining the blacks in this image.The male model,Todd, in the bed next to Karen Murphy, was missing his right hand and most of his right shirt,into his neck and face.Karen's lace blouse was missing all detail in the sleeves.Now, it looks as it did when I shot it in Beverly Hills in 1979. E.P.