Mark Seliger on His Iconic Portrait of Kurt Cobain

Are you famous? If so, you probably had your portrait taken by Mark Seliger. If not, you have most definitely seen his iconic portraits. Perhaps it was the one of Kurt Cobain, Barack Obama, Angelina Jolie or P Diddy, to name just a few examples.
We recently had the privilege of meeting this master of portrait photography. The meeting resulted in five unique videos, in which Seliger shares his thoughts on lighting and portrait photography.
Here he explains how Kurt Cobain's rebellious rock star attitude can both turn into a representation of grunge music and an iconic portrait when caught off guard.
Watch all videos at: www.profoto.com/light-shaping-by-mark-seliger
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[@lizardinarabia]

The white and black portrait is an amazing work!

[@devil_pls]

This is probably my personal favorite Portrait ever taken of Kurt.

[@Crewchief227]

Wow to hear that story and that photography was actually a polaroid I never knew. It demonstrates what sets simple photography and art. If he still had his Polaroid back on he was testing lighting and I imagine he just caught the real Kurt looking up at the camera not thinking these were the actual shot. For him to junk his other dozen or so actual shots and realize that one is the shot, that is what many try but never notice.

[@TripodJonas]

Thank you for this video.

[@lucy-mayb222]

i love kurt so much and just the way he was

[@rafaelgilabert5710]

I love it