It’s not easy being green. Of the nearly 1,000 celebrity caricatures on the walls of iconic theater-district institution Sardi’s, the one pilfered the most, oddly, is Kermit the Frog. “Kermit was stolen three times. And then we screwed him up to the wall,” Johnny Felidi, longtime maître d’ at the 100-year-old eatery, told The Post ahead … Read more
Princess Isabella of Denmark has marked her 18th birthday with a series of official portraits — and she’s wearing her first tiara. The eldest daughter of King Frederik X and Queen Mary posed for several photographs at Knight’s Hall at Amalienborg Palace — the Danish royal family’s main residence located in the capital city of Copenhagen. … Read more
Rudy Callegari is no top model. So when fashion photographer Nigel Barker tapped him to strike a pose for his “Senior Portraits” series, the 97-year-old World War II vet was thunderstruck. “I thought, ‘Who the hell am I that he’d want to take my picture?’” Callegari, from Red Hook, told The Post with a laugh. … Read more
The modern-day portrait is the Emoji Lisa. Lauren Edelstein has pulled countless all-nighters layering thousands of emojis on top of each other on her iPhone to create wacky celebrity portraits made entirely of the popular images usually relegated to social media and texts. “A lot of them I’ve worked on for months,” Edelstein, 38, told … Read more
This experimental nonfiction feature from Kimi Takesue aims to reflect on travel and tourism in Laos, but offers few striking images. Source link #Onlookers #Review #Portraits #Picture #Takers
Pop open the “documentaries” section of your friendly local streaming service, and a bevy of movies about celebrities will greet you. Rockers, politicians, artists, authors, athletes — increasingly everyone you’ve heard of has a documentary, and probably served as a producer on it, too. The appeal of such films is obvious: If you like someone … Read more
Lincoln Townley has gone from a seedy life of drugs and strippers to doing portraits of Jody Foster and schmoozing with Michael Caine. Celebrity paintings by Townley – besides Foster and Caine, he’s captured the likes of Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Lady Gaga, Matt Damon and others – sell for hundreds of thousands … Read more
These portraits are fit for a king and queen. The official coronation photos of King Charles III and Queen Camilla were revealed Monday and showed the new leaders of the Commonwealth in their finest regalia. But two royals were notably missing from the portrait session: Prince Harry and Prince Andrew. Hugo Burnand, who took Charles … Read more
Insecurities are the wurst. King Charles III has been accused of hiding his “sausage fingers” out of embarrassment in new portraits released ahead of his coronation. Charles wore a simple pinstripe suit while Queen Consort Camilla wore a blue dress — but royal fans on Twitter were quick to notice that the king’s hands were … Read more