JEFF BRIDGES CRAZY HEART: Stephen Bruton Tribute

Photograph (c) Jeff Bridges /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Jeff Bridges /All Rights Reserved

Bruton Tribute Video

Stephen Bruton, with music collaborator and fellow Texan, T-Bone Burnett, created the original 'classics' for the film Crazy Heart.

JEFF BRIDGES won the Best Actor SAG Award and the Best Actor Golden Globe Award for his amazing performance in Crazy Heart...and he received lengthy standing ovations both nights! This week you can view Bridges must-see photographs he took while making Crazy Heart here. More about Crazy Heart's soundtrack and video's here. More about Jeff Bridges Wide-lux Camera here.

JEFF BRIDGES: The Widelux Camera

Peter Bogdanovich: Lining Up A Shot, Texasville 1990
Photograph (c) Jeff Bridges /All Rights Reserved

Sam Elliot and Jeff Bridges: 'The Stranger' and 'The Dude', The Big Lebowski 1998 Photograph (c) Jeff Bridges /All Rights Reserved

"The Wide-Lux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that. It's something I aspire to in all my work --- a lack of preciousness that makes things more human and honest, a willingness to receive what's there in the moment, and to let go of the result. Getting out of the way seems to be one of the main tasks for me as an artist." – Jeff Bridges, Intro to PICTURES

JEFF BRIDGES has one of the most creative and enjoyable WEBSITES to explore. Among his drawings, music, and film news, there are a couple of (not to missed) Photo Galleries of his behind-the-scenes photographs of Making Iron Man, The Amateurs, and Crazy Heart, taken with a Widelux camera given to him by his wife, photographer Susan Geston. Also posted on his site are useful tips on using the Widelux.

PICTURES is Jeff Bridges book of photographs taken over twenty years, on dozens of movie sets, published by powerHouse Books/Herter Studio. With a foreword by Peter Bogdanovich, the book includes handwritten captions and personal commentary throughout. The proceeds from the sale of the book go to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, a non-profit organization that offers charitable care and support to film-industry workers.

JeffBridges.com
...And more about making of Crazy Heart
Great Interview: Jeff Bridges with Bernie Glassman here!

TRAVEL NOTES: Khyongla Rato Rinpoche

Richard Gere and Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, with HH the Dalai Lama's senior tutor, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche (embalmed body d. 1983), Dharamsala, India 1988. Photograph (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon /All Rights Reserved

A Monk's PhotoJournal: December 2009

Greetings From The Mountains In Taiwan

Photograph (c) 2009 Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, Taiwan
Photograph (c) 2009 Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

Rato Dratsang Foundation
The Gere Foundation

RICHARD GERE: Pilgrim

Mongolian Warrior, Mongolia 1995 • Fahey/Klein Gallery
Photograph (c) Richard Gere /All Rights Reserved

Pilgrim, Zanskar, 1983 • Fahey/Klein Gallery
Photograph (c) Richard Gere /All Rights Reserved

The alchemy of photography is mysterious and unstable...it's component parts of grain shift like smoke in the wind and somehow emerge as an image with only an illusion of beingness – Richard Gere

FAHEY/KLEIN GALLERY
The Gere Foundation