Monday, 3 November 2008

Anthony Mandler

Anthony Mandler is an American music video director, raised in Hollywood with celebrity classmates and people from the industry around him. He knew early on what he wanted to do as he realised his passion for photography and film.
Starting off as a photographer, his photos featured on the front covers of major magazines such as Entertainment Weekly, Esquire and ESPN. This further expanded into the music video industry in which he is notably a frequent collaborator with Rihanna (having directed nine of her music videos).

Mandler's videos are predominantly for artist within the R&B and Hip Hop genre of music with a career in music videos spanning back to 2000. It wasn't until 2005 however when his videos gained a lot of interest and gained credit. He directed videos for big rap stars 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg and Eminem in this year which really lauched his career and made other artists interested in the work he created.
In recent years, he has direced many successful videos:
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  1. c_fernandez5 November 2008 at 03:13

    Mark - as discussed in class - this is not what I was after. Don't cut and paste from other websites. I'm interested in your response to the work. Have those questions in front of you and comment on motifs, style, visual techniques etc.

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  2. MarkP75 November 2008 at 04:16

    I have now studied the work of Auteur 'Chris Milk' as his narrative videos are the style we may use in our video.

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