timothywhite: Conan OโBrien, Manhattan NY, 2003. Conan and I met in midtown Manhattan at his office to start our photo shoot. I brought him down to the street and we ran all over the neighborhood. Iโm shooting him on 42nd Street, in restaurants, in lobbies of random buildingsโwe just ran around manhattanโhe was really up for anything. Heโs so tallโI mean like 8 foot 3. Heโs like gigantic.
We were passing the subway entrance, and I just ran down a few steps. I normally wouldnโt do this, but this is somebody I could shoot up at, and just elongate even more, and do this whole wide and low angle thing. So I shot him from below with the vortex of Manhattan skyscrapers coming up behind him. I normally wouldnโt do that with anybody, but there was something funny about making this big character even bigger. It made total sense with him.
Shooting with Conan was one of my real guerrilla photography around New York kind of shoots. Like a boxerโsticking and movingโgrab one here, grab one there. And Iโm already on the subway step. So I was like, come on, letโs go down the subway. So we went down at the 42nd Street station, and he jumped on a car and stuck his head out the doorโjust before the train took off.
It was funโrunning around the city and through the subway with this big starโjust kind of winging it. People recognized him, of course, but he didnโt careโฆand neither did I. It was my kind of shoot.
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