UFO

(Hardback)

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Albert Watson is one of the world's most successful fashion and commercial photographers. His striking images have appeared on more than 250 Vogue covers, and have been featured in countless other publications such as Time, Vibe and on over 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine. Albert's celebrity portraits include well-known and iconic movie stars, rock stars, rappers, supermodels, even President Clinton and Queen Elizabeth II (Watson was the official Royal Photographer for Prince Andrew's wedding to Sarah Ferguson). Here, for the first time, Watson presents a 40-year retrospective of the best of his work for the world's leading fashion magazines. With over 350 images, individually hand-picked from his phenomenal archive and including a huge amount of unpublished material from an extraordinary career, UFO is a landmark publishing event from one of the world's greatest photographers.

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In addition to shooting for the world's top magazines, Watson has created images for hundreds of successful advertising campaigns such as Gap, Levi's, Revlon and Chanel, and has directed more than 500 TV commercials and shot dozens of posters for major Hollywood movies such as Kill Bill, Memoirs of a Geisha and The Da Vinci Code. Watson's photographs have been featured at museums and galleries worldwide. He has won numerous awards including a Lucie Award, a Grammy Award, and three ANDY Awards from Carnegie Mellon University. Watson's previous books are Cyclops (1994), Maroc (1998) and Albert Watson (2007).