Sam Jones (photographer)
Sam Jones is an American photographer and director whose portraits of U.S. President Barack Obama, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Bob Dylan, Kristen Stewart, Robert Downey Jr., Amy Adams, and Jack Nicholson have appeared on the covers of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, Time, Entertainment Weekly and Men's Journal.[1]
His photos have received awards from American Photography and an Eisie award from Communication Arts and Life magazine, and his image for the cover of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was published in "The Greatest Album Covers of All Time".[citation needed] His collection of candid celebrity portraiture, The Here And Now: The Photographs of Sam Jones, was published by HarperCollins. Other published works include Non-Fiction, a collection of cinematic portraiture, and Some Where Else, a photographic book and musical collaboration with musician Blake Mills.
Jones has created national commercials for
In 2013 Jones launched
In 2014, Jones directed the feature length
Jones has also worked in television, directing episodes of Cougar Town,[citation needed] Ted Lasso, Music Box, Smartless: On the Road, and the documentary Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off.
Selected works
- Jones, Sam (2007). The Here And Now: The Photographs of Sam Jones. New York: HarperEntertainment. ISBN 978-0-06-134812-9.
- Jones, Sam (2015). Some Where Else. Santa Monica, CA: Beware Doll. ISBN 978-0-692-35344-8.
References
- ^ "Sam Jones: Photographer of the Super-Famous". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
- ^ "Sam Jones, Wilco Documentarian". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
- ^ "What Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes Can Teach Us". Esquire. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
- ^ "Fire Down Below: Revisiting The Basement Tapes with Sam Jones". Musicfilmweb. Retrieved 2018-06-25.