Matthew Russell Rolston is an American artist, photographer, director and creative director. He is known for his signature lighting techniques and detailed approach to art direction and design and has been repeatedly identified throughout his career with the revival and modern expression of Hollywood glamour.
Table of Contents
- 1 Photography career
- 1.1 Big Pictures: A Book of Photographs
- 1.2 beautyLight (Photography)
- 1.3 Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles
- 1.4 Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits
- 1.5 Matthew Rolston Beautylight by Matthew Rolston (2008-09-01)
- 1.6 Big Pictures
- 1.7 Matthew Rolston, beautyLIGHT
- 1.8 Matthew Rolston
- 1.9 Madonna - Video Collection 1993-99
- 1.10 Everlasting Comfort Office Chair Seat Cushion for Back, Coccyx, & Tailbone Pain Relief (Black)
Photography career
Born in Los Angeles, Rolston studied drawing and painting in his house town at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis College of Art & Design, as capably as in the Bay Area at the San Francisco Art Institute. He along with studied illustration, photography, imaging and film at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where in 2006, he customary an Honorary Doctorate.
While still a student at Art Center, Rolston was “discovered” by Andy Warhol, for Warhol’s celebrity focused Interview magazine, where he began a affluent career in photography. Soon after, Rolston began shooting covers and editorial assignments for founding editor Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone, as competently as for additional publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Vanity Fair, W, GQ, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, O: The Oprah Magazine and The New York Times. Along behind his buddy Herb Ritts, Rolston was a aficionada of an influential outfit of photographers, among them, Bruce Weber, Annie Leibovitz and Steven Meisel, to emerge from the 1980s magazine scene. Rolston has completed thousands of photoshoots in his career, including on height of 100 covers for Rolling Stone alone.
Rolston’s photographs have been exhibited at museums and institutions worldwide, with combination in work shows Beauty CULTure (with Lauren Greenfield, Herb Ritts, Andres Serrano, and Carrie Mae Weems, 2011), The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, California; The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion (curated by Mark Francis and Margery King), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1997); and Fashion and Surrealism, FIT Gallery, New York, 1987 (traveled to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK, 1988). His works are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and the National Portrait Gallery (Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture at The Smithsonian, Washington D.C.).
Rolston’s career spans the areas of photography, film, creative direction, experiential design (including hospitality development), branding, product design, new media ventures, fine art and publishing.
Five monographs have been published of Rolston’s work: Big Pictures, A Book of Photographs (1991), a stock of early doing with an start by Tim Burton, published by Bullfinch Press, New York; beautyLIGHT, Pictures at a Magazine (2008), a survey of twenty years of Rolston’s celebrity portrait photographs, published by teNeues, Germany; Talking Heads: The Vent Haven Portraits (2012), a fine art project composed of monumental portraits of ventriloquial figures, published by Pointed Leaf Press, New York; Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles (2017), a mid-career retrospective, published by teNeues, Germany; and Matthew Rolston, Art People: The Pageant Portraits (2021), an exhibition catalogue published by Laguna Art Museum.
Last update 2021-08-06