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User:Rezimmerman/mahurin

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Matt Mahurin
NationalityAmerican
Known forillustration
photography
film director
Notable workFilm I Like Killing Flies (2003)
Film Feel (2006)
Film Mugshot (1996)
Book Matt Mahurin (1999)

Matt Mahurin

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Matt Mahurin (b. January 31, 1959 in Los Angeles, California) is an American artist, film director and music video director.
Matt Mahurin is an American illustrator, photographer and film director. Mahurin's illustrations appear in Time, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Forbes, and The New York Times. Mahurin's work as a photo essayist have dealt with issues such as homelessness, people with AIDS, the Texas prison system, abortion clinics, Nicaragua, Haiti and Belfast. His extensive work directing music videos since 1986 have resulted in working with U2, Tracy Chapman and many other popular music performers.

Photographs by Mahurin, including Clemmons Prison, Texas (1985), Texas Prison (1988), Woman's Face in Darkness (1989) and Paris (1984) are included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

Mahurin created the controversial photo-illustration of O. J. Simpson for the June 27, 1994 cover of Time Magazine.[2][1] The original photograph was taken by the Los Angeles Police Department and used by Mahurin as the source material for the photo-illustration. Both Mahurin and Time were criticized for allegedly darkening the face of O.J. Simpson to intentionally make him appear more sinister.[3] In a 2006 interview with CBS News, Mahurin stated that he works in dark imagery and that darkening the image was his own interpretation. Regarding the controversy, Mahurin stated that he both would not wish the same on anyone, but at the same time would not trade the experience for anything.[4]

Mahurin has a reputation for photographing himself and manipulating his own likeness in his commercial photo-illustration work. Examples of his own face appearing on magazine covers are the November 29, 2003 cover of Time Magazine, with Mahurin as Sigmund Freud [2], the March 14, 1994 cover of Time, with himself as a caveman [3] and the May 17, 2004 Time cover where Mahurin posed and photographed himself as an Abu Ghraib prisoner[4].

Awards

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Film and Video

Photography and Photo-Illustration

Filmography

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Videography

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Director

Photography Credits

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Most Notable

Bibilography

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photography books

  • Matt Mahurin (ISBN 0-944-09260-8)
  • Japan and America (ISBN 4-947-67101-7)

illustrated by for children

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Portfolio Collection at illoz

References

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  1. ^ "Metropolitan Museum of Art - Collection Database". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  2. ^ Barron, James (1994-06-21). "Dueling Magazine Covers: A Police Photo vs. a 'Photo-Illustration'". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-18. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ Carmody, Deirdre (1994-06-25). "Time Responds to Criticism Over Simpson Cover". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-18. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "The Art of Image Altering". CBS News. CBS News. 2006-10-29. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  5. ^ "mvpa - music video award winners 2003". The Music Video Production Association. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  6. ^ "The 14th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival - Archive - 1996 Award Winners". The Hamptons International Film Festival. 1996. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
  7. ^ "First Eisie Photo Awards". The New York Times. The New York Times. 1998-01-13. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
  8. ^ "village voice > aboutus". The Village Voice. The Village Voice. 1996. Retrieved 2008-05-18. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
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