The first monograph, lavishly illustrated, with a preface by Martin Scorsese and numerous texts, devoted to the work of the astonishing American photographer who resurrects forgotten techniques to revisit the aesthetics of the early days of photography (and capture all its uncanny strangeness).
Stephen Berkman (born 1963 in Syracuse, New York, based in Los Angeles), who teaches film at the Art Center College in Pasadena, is an American photographer and the author of numerous international exhibitions. Stephen Berkman uses equipment from the earliest days of photography and resurrects forgotten techniques—tintypes, wet collodion, etc.—to develop disturbing narrative projects that blur the boundary between the historical past and the imaginary. Stephen Berkman is also known for producing "vintage" photographs in his Pasadena laboratory, which can be seen in a number of American period films, including Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella, 2003), Lone Ranger (Gore Werbinski, 2013), Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2020) and Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). He also plays himself as a photographer in Werbinski's and Scorsese's films.
