Martin Schoeller lives and works in New York City. and are included in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. His portraits are exhibited and collected internationally, including in several solo exhibitions in Europe and the U.S. There, he continues to produce his award-winning images. Schoeller joined Richard Avedon as a contributing portrait photographer at The New Yorker in 1999. His work gained recognition for its strong visual impact and has been feautred in Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, and W, among other publications since 1998. He continued to advance as a freelance photographer, producing portraits of people he met on the streets. Schoeller worked as an assistant to Annie Leibovitz from 1993 to 1996. Growing up in Germany, he was deeply influenced by August Sander's numerous portraits of the working classes and the bourgeoisie, as well as by the photography of Bernd and Hilla Becher, who spawned a school known as the Becher-Schüler. Martin Schoeller was born in Munich in 1968. Since the 1990s Martin Schoeller has staged the portraits of his models as spectacular close-ups in a recurring way: he defines the eye level and positions his camera at the same height instead of a flash he uses soft neon light, creating the effect of luminous eyes which is so characteristic for his work.
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