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Researching the subject

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Researching the subject

- With dancers, you want to know what their favorite pieces might be. If they are rehearsing something in particular and there might be last season's performance up on the website, go there, take a look at it, read their history, that type of thing. Research is very important, not only from knowing the tack that you're going to take photographically, but also just for the simple fact of small talk on the set. With a movie actor or actress, look at all their movies. Just look at 'em all. I had dialogue memorized from movies of people that I have photographed. Again, referring to Michelle Pfeiffer. She was having a tough moment. I could tell she was kind of getting distracted or maybe down or something, I don't know. And I went into Married to the Mob immediately and the Alec Baldwin character who played her husband on the set, and I just looked at her and I said, "Honey, what's the matter? "You got your girlfriends, you got your game shows." (laughs) And she went right into character…

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