Brian Smith

Brian Smith is a Miami photographer. He won a Pulitzer Prize at 25, appeared on the X-Factor, exhibited at the Library of Congress, dined with the President and 3,000 of their closest friends, and shared cupcakes with Anne Hathaway. His iconic portraits of famous celebrities, athletes, and executives have been used in advertising by corporations and have been used in hundreds of magazines including Sports Illustrated, ESPN the magazine, Time, Forbes, New York Times Magazine, Elle, and British GQ. His first magazine photograph appeared in LIFE magazine when he was a 20 year old student at the University of Missouri. Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography five years later for his photographs of the Los Angeles Olympic Games. He has won many other awards, has had many exhibitions, and has been featured in a lot of things including American Photo, Inside Edge, and Digital Photo Pro. He also has 2 books.  http://briansmith.com/about/

 This is from his Project section Art & Soul. He took pictures of celebrities and then next to each one he put a hand-written description of what art means to them. A lot of his pictures especially his portrait shots are very central. Usually portrait shots are central though. This is a picture of Portia Doubleday. He also has pictures of Anne Hathaway and Samuel Jackson. I like the expression on her face. She is in the middle of blowing a bubble and he caught it. She looks cute in this picture and she looks a little surprised too. I like how her hair is covering one of her eyes up and I also like how her hair falls. This is a fun picture. I like how he put what she wrote about art next to her picture. I think the levels work is well done. Her blue eye really pops. Her black shirt is getting lost in the background, but her shirt isn't that important so I don't mind that it's getting lost.

 

 http://briansmith.com/nude-golf/

This is a picture from his project Nude Golf. He has some very interesting pictures on his website. I'm not sure where this place is at. It's good that he made the people cover up the parts that need to be covered. The couple in this picture looks very yellow and orange. It looks like it was a bright and sunny day out. I just wanted to share this picture because I thought it was very different and interesting... The people do look happy in this photo though.