Artists

Fader, The, March, 2007 by Alex Wagner

Short of, like, stalking Philip Lorca Di Corcia's on-campus housing at Yale, the chances of glimpsing the boldfaced art gods behind the canvases/contact sheets are slim. Photographer Jason Schmidt does the hard work for us. Artists is the lensman's first book and it's an all out whammy jammy Who's Who of the contemporary art scene. Schmidt manages to frame heavy hitters like Maurizio Cattelan and Wolfgang Tillmans alongside rising stars Banks Violette and Roe Ethridge.

ALEX WAGNER

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