وُلد بروس ويبر في 29 مارس 1946 في جرينسبرج بولاية بنسلفانيا بالولايات المتحدة. بعد دراسة التصوير في جامعة برينستون في نيو جيرسي ، 
انتقل بروس ويبر إلى مدينة نيويورك في عام 1966 حيث تابع دراسته في المدرسة الجديدة للبحوث الاجتماعية ، ثم في جامعة نيويورك.
 وكان أول معرض له في عام 1974 ، في معرض نيويورك رازور ، هو بداية مسيرته المهنية في التصوير الفوتوغرافي

بروس ويبر (من مواليد 29 مارس 1946) هو مصور أزياء أمريكي  ومنتج أفلام عرضية. 
وهو معروف على نطاق واسع بحملاته الإعلانية لكالفن كلاين ، رالف لورين ، 

 Pirelli ، Abercrombie & Fitch ، Revlon ، و Gianni Versace ،
 بالإضافة إلى عمله في Vogue و GQ و Vanity Fair و Elle و Life و Interview و ومجلات رولينج ستون.

Bruce Weber

American photographer

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Bruce Weber (photographer)

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Bruce Weber
Weber in September 2011
Born	March 29, 1946 (age 72) Greensburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Residence	Miami, Florida
Occupation	Photographer, filmmaker
Spouse(s)	Nan Bush

Bruce Weber (born March 29, 1946) is an American fashion photographer^[1] and occasional filmmaker.^[2] He is most widely known for his ad campaigns for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren,^[3] Pirelli, Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon, and Gianni Versace, as well as his work for Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone magazines.

Life and work

Weber was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. His fashion photography first appeared in the late 1970s in GQ magazine, where he had frequent cover photos. Nan Bush, his longtime companion and agent, was able to secure a contract with Federated Department Stores to shoot the 1978 Bloomingdales mail catalog. He came to the attention of the general public^{[citation needed]} in the late 1980s and early 1990s with his advertising images for Calvin Klein, and his portrait of the then young actor Richard Gere. His straightforward black-and-white shots, featuring an unclothed heterosexual couple on a swing facing each other, two clothed men in bed, and model Marcus Schenkenberg barely holding jeans in front of himself in a shower, catapulted him into the national spotlight.^{[citation needed]} His photograph for Calvin Klein of Olympic athlete Tom Hintnaus in white briefs is an iconic image.^[vague] He photographed the winter 2006 Ralph Lauren Collection.

Some of Weber’s other earliest fashion photography appeared in the SoHo Weekly News and featured a spread of men wearing only their underwear. The photos became the center of controversy and Weber was told by some that he would never find work as a fashion photographer again. This reputation stuck with him, as he says: “I don’t really work editorially in a large number of magazines because a lot of magazines don’t want my kind of photographs. It’s too risky for them”.^[4]

After doing photo shoots for and of famous people (many of whom were featured in Andy Warhol‘s Interview magazine), Weber made short films of teenage boxers (Broken Noses),^[2] his beloved pet dogs, and later, a longer film entitled Chop Suey. He directed Let’s Get Lost, a 1988 documentary about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.

Weber’s photographs are occasionally in color; however, most are in black and white or toned shades.^[2] They are gathered in limited edition books, including A House is Not a Home and Bear Pond, an early work that shows Eric Nies from MTV‘s The Real World series, among other models.

Weber began collaborating with crooner Chris Isaak in the mid-1980s, photographing Isaak in 1986 for his second album, Chris Isaak. In 1988, Weber photographed a shirtless Isaak in bed for a fashion spread in Rolling Stone.^[5] Isaak appeared in Let’s Get Lost and Weber has directed a music video for Isaak.

Weber photographed Harry Connick, Jr. for his 1991 album Blue Light, Red Light.

In 1993, Weber photographed singer-songwriter Jackson Browne for his 1993 album I’m Alive.

Fashion label

Weber created the fashion label Weberbilt in 2003; his first line, “eat, swim, sex, sleep”, went on sale in boutiques in London and Miami Beach, Florida, in 2004.^[6]

Personal life

Weber has been living since the early 1970s with his girlfriend, Nan Bush, who is also his agent and one his closest collaborators. He has stated, in a 2002 interview : “I’ve had a lot of great romances. Men and women, I mean I feel like I can fall in love almost every day. I feel sorry for people who don’t feel that.”^[7] He has lived in Miami since 1998.^[8][9]

Sexual assault allegations

In December 2017, model Jason Boyce sued Weber for sexual assault, including inappropriate touching during a 2014 casting session, in New York State Supreme Court.^[10][11] The suit also targets Jason Kanner of Soul Artist Management, which managed Boyce when the assault took place, and Little Bear Inc., the production company operated by Weber’s companion, Nan Bush.^[12] A second model, Mark Ricketson, came forward in December 2017 alleging similar claims and joined Boyce’s lawsuit against Weber.^[13]

Weber has denied the allegations,^[14] stating to The New York Times that the allegations were “untrue” and that he had “never touched anyone inappropriately”.^[15]

In January 2018, The New York Times detailed sexual assault allegations by fifteen former and current male models against Bruce Weber.^[16]

Filmography

Feature films and shorts

Music videos

In 1990, Weber directed the music video for the Pet Shop Boys single “Being Boring“. He filmed a party with a diverse group of models. The video was filmed in one day by two film crews in a house on Long Island. Content including male and female nudity prevented the video from being played on MTV in the United States. In 1996 he directed the video for the Pet Shop Boys single “Se a vida é (That’s the Way Life Is)” on location in a Wet ‘n’ Wild, a water park near Orlando, Florida. In 2002, he again directed a Pet Shop Boys video, for the song “I Get Along” from the album Release. Weber filmed this video on location at his own Little Bear studio in New York City. He also directed the music video for the Chris Isaak song “Blue Spanish Sky”.

Bibliography

Books and monographs

Other books

• Rolling Stone: The Photographs, Simon & Schuster Editions (1989), pp. ??-??
• Pictures Of Peace, Alfred A. Knopf (1991), pp. ??-??
• Bruce Hainley and David Rimanelli, Shock of the Newfoundland: Bruce Weber’s canine camera, “Artforum International 33” (April 1995), pp. 78–81.
• Il Tempo E La Moda, Skira; Exhibition Catalogue: “Biennale Firenze” (1996), pp. ??-??
• Gianni Versace, Rock and Royalty, Abbeville Press (Febbraio 1997), pp. ??-??
• David Leddick, The Male Nude, New York: Taschen (1998), pp. ??-??
• Pirelli Calendar 1964–2004, Rizzoli (2004), pp. ??-??
• Heel To Heal (2004), pp. ??-??
• Paintings of New York, 1800–1950 (2005), pp. ??-??
• Monica Bellucci, Rizzoli (2010), pp. ??-??
• Kate Moss, Rizzoli (2012), pp. ??-??

References

• “Bruce Weber”. Photography. Victoria and Albert Museum.
• Maslin, Janet (March 24, 1989), Review/Film Festival; The History of a Musician’s Disintegration, The New York Times.
• McNulty, Bernadette (May 24, 2008). “Chet Baker: ‘There aren’t a lot of people like Chet left'”, The Telegraph.
• Carroll, Rosemary, “Bruce Weber”, BOMB Magazine, Spring 1985. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
• Chris Isaak by Bruce Weber
• Bruceweber.com Archived August 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
• Tim Adams, Mad about the boys, The Guardian, 30 June 2002
• Cashdan, Marina (November 17, 2010). “Weber Takes to the Streets in an Exhibition Focusing on Miami’s Haitian Community”. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
• Boardman, Micky (December 2, 2010). “Bruce Weber On Haiti, The Kennedys and His Many, Many Pet Dogs”. artbasel.aol.com. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
• Jacob Bernstein; Matthew Schneier; Vanessa Friedman (13 January 2018). “Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them”. The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
• Petrarca, Emilia (1 December 2017). “This Famous Fashion Photographer Is Being Sued for Harassment”. The Cut. Retrieved 1 Dec 2017.
• Feitelberg, Rosemary (4 December 2017). “Male model Jason Boyce accuses Bruce Weber of sexual harassment and discrimination”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
• http://www.thefashionlaw.com/home/second-male-model-comes-forward-against-bruce-weber
• Lockwood, Lisa (22 December 2017). “Bruce Weber Denies All Allegations of Wrongdoing in Answer to Complaint”. Women’s Wear Daily. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
• Friedman, Vanessa (13 January 2018). “Condé Nast Crafts Rules to Protect Models From Harassment”. The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
• Bernstein, Jacob; Schneier, Matthew; Friedman, Vanessa (2018). “Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-22.

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