Actress Jessica Lange can add published photographer to her impressive resume after cataloging her life and travels in a new book.
The Oscar winner, who is an avid snapper, has collected her favorite shots of film locations, family and the places she has visited on her travels for new coffee-table book, titled 50 Photographs by Jessica Lange. But fans shouldn't expect a collection of starry shots - many of the black and white photos are studies of unknown people and far-away places, such as Ethiopia and Romania.
The actress tells the Los Angeles Times newspaper she's also a keen collector of black-and-white photography, and admits her love of the art gives her a greater purpose.
She explains, "As an actor, the work is so dependent on a number of elements. It comes together because of the co-ordination of many people. With photography, like any solitary art form, you can do it any time. You are not dependent on other people and things coming together."
And, in many ways, she's like a paparazzo covering normal people: "In some of my photographs, the people are looking at me. I try to do it as fast as possible if I attract their attention. I have found whenever you turn a camera toward somebody, they are aware they are being photographed and something subtly shifts. I love the thing of not being observed."
Lange adds that she loves the fact that no one knows who the "crazy white woman" behind the camera is. (KL/LT/LR)
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