{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Short description|American photographer}}
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'''Michael Halsband''' is an American photographer.<ref name="ambrose">{{Cite web|url=https://www.friendsoffriends.com/profiles/michael-halsband/|title=Michael Halsband|website=Freunde von Freunden|last=Ambrose|first=Chris|date=December 6, 2011 |access-date =November 9, 2022}}</ref> He makes portraits of celebrities, from musicians to artists, and produces work for fashion and lifestyle publications.<ref name="swanngalleries">{{Cite web|url=https://www.swanngalleries.com/news/photographs-and-photobooks/2020/06/the-making-of-a-portrait-michael-halsbands-photograph-of-andy-warhol-and-jean-michel-basquiat/|title=The Making of a Portrait: Michael Halsband's Photograph of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat|website=Swann Galleries|last=Hunter|first=Jessica|date=June 5, 2020|access-date =November 9, 2022}}</ref> He has also directed short films, music videos and commercials.
==Early life and education== Michael Halsband was born in 1956 in New York City. He grew up in Manhattan and at age 10 became interested in photography as a hobby.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cerebralwomen.com/2020/04/01/episode-9-a-conversation-with-michael-halsband/|title=A Conversation with Michael Halsband|website=Cerebral Women|date=April 2020 |access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> He took photography classes in high school. In college, he studied psychology but found himself unhappy with his path. When his mother suggested art school, Halsband showed his portfolio of drawings to the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City, but they did not feel his drawing was up to par. When asked if he had anything else to show, Halsband brought them photographs he had made from age 10 to 19 and was accepted into the photography program in 1976.<ref name="pilgrim">{{cite web |title=Making A Portrait With Michael Halsband |url=https://pilgrimsurfsupply.com/blogs/news/83522500-making-a-portrait-with-michael-halsband |publisher=pilgrimsurfsupply.com |date=October 16, 2013 |access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> Halsband graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.<ref name="halsband bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.michaelhalsband.com/bio/index.php|title=Michael Halsband Bio Chronology|website=michaelhalsband.com|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref>{{better source needed| date= November 2022}} Part of his senior thesis at the School of Visual Arts was a series of portraits of singer Klaus Nomi, one of which ended up as the album cover for Nomi's 1981 eponymous debut album.<ref name="whitehot">{{cite web |url=https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/everyday-interview-with-michael-halsband/2015 |title=Moments in Pop Culture and the Everyday: an Interview with Michael Halsband |last=Conner |first=Jill |date=February 2010|work=Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref>
==Photographic career== ===Early beginnings=== Halsband began photographing professionally in 1978, while still attending SVA. By 1979, he had made enough money to buy his own studio, the Michael Halsband Studio.<ref name="betsyhotel">{{cite web |title=Michael Halsband: Artists |url=https://www.thebetsyhotel.com/explore/arts-culture/exhibitions/michael-halsband-artists |publisher=The Betsy Hotel |access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> Among the people Halsband photographed at that time were artist Andy Warhol,<ref name="interviewmagazine" /> musicians David Byrne,<ref name="interviewmagazine" /> Alan Vega, James Brown,<ref name="interviewmagazine" /> Jim Carroll, Peter Tosh, and Lydia Lunch, and ''Penthouse'' founder Bob Guccione. He also continued to work for magazines including ''Interview'', ''Avenue'' and ''Rolling Stone''.{{cn|date=November 2022}}
===Fashion=== Halsband spent most of the 1980s as a fashion photographer for various magazines, including ''Vogue'',<ref name="interviewmagazine" /> ''Mademoiselle'', ''Glamour'', ''Self'', ''Esquire'', ''GQ'',<ref name="interviewmagazine" /> and ''House & Garden'', as well as working on international ad campaigns for Gap, J.Crew, Barneys, Pepsi, and press kits for designers Calvin Klein and Adrienne Vittadini.<ref name="musee">{{Cite web|url=https://museemagazine.com/culture/culture/art-out/michael-halsband-halsband-portraits-at-the-national-arts-club|title=Apr 14 Michael Halsband: Halsband Portraits at The National Arts Club|website=Musée Magazine|date=April 14, 2015 |access-date =November 9, 2022}}</ref>
===Tour photographer=== In the summer of 1981, Halsband got an assignment to photograph Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones for the cover of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, and consequently ended up as tour photographer for the Rolling Stones' American Tour in 1981.<ref name="halsband bio"/>{{better source needed| date= November 2022}}<ref name="emperorgo">{{cite web |title=Michael Halsband photographer |url=https://emperorgo.com/filter/interviews/MICHAEL-HALSBAND-photographerby-Marc-Santo |last=Santo|first=Marc|publisher=Emperor Go! |access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> He would work once again with the band in 1994 on their Voodoo Lounge Tour. In 1982, Halsband went on tour with the Who on their Farewell Tour of North America.<ref name="emperorgo"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Greene|first=Andy|title=Flashback: The Who Wrap Up Their 'Farewell' Tour in 1982 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-the-who-wrap-up-their-farewell-tour-in-1982-244591/ |date=June 13, 2013|publisher=Rolling Stone |access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> He served as photographer on AC/DC's 1996 Ballbreaker World Tour and the ''Stiff Upper Lip World Tour'' between 2000 and 2001, as well as photographing the promotions and advertising.<ref name="halsband bio"/>{{better source needed| date= November 2022}}
===Other work=== In 1985, Halsband created a double portrait of artists Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat pictured side-by-side and wearing boxing trunks and gloves. Halsband was asked by Basquiat to photograph the poster for his and Warhol's collaborative exhibition "Paintings". The image of the two artists, with their arms crossed over their chests, is only one photograph from a series of more than 10 rolls of film. The other photographs show the artists together and individually.<ref name="swanngalleries"/>
In 1986, Halsband was approached by dancewear manufacturer Danskin to do an ad campaign with the School of American Ballet (SAB), capturing the rehearsals and the class-atmosphere of ballet.<ref name="whitehot"/>
In 1991, after SAB, Halsband began a five-year personal project on portraits of strippers and sex industry workers.<ref name="halsband bio"/>{{better source needed| date= November 2022}} Reading books on the subject, Halsband looked at how nude photography and erotica had been represented in both America and Europe. "I came to the conclusion that there was a lot of lying going on in nude photography," Halsband said in 2010. "I decided that I was going to be really honest. I wanted to find out how women like sex. I wanted them to control the picture while I served the medium as the photographer."<ref name="whitehot"/>
When author Hunter S. Thompson invited actor Johnny Depp to join him on a week-long visit to Cuba in 1999, Halsband was assigned by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine to document the trip. As a result, Halsband was written into Thompson's 2003 book, ''Kingdom of Fear''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sargent |first=Ryan |title=Inside Johnny Depp And Hunter S. Thompson's Bizarre Bromance |url=https://www.ranker.com/list/johnny-depp-and-hunter-s-thompson/ryan-sargent |publisher=Ranker |date=June 14, 2019 |access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref>
==Books== Halsband released the book ''Surf Book'' in 2005. It is a collaborative book project with professional surfer Joel Tudor, which began in 1999. Halsband has called it "a portrait of surfing, through the people who have influenced it spiritually and technologically over the past 50 years."<ref name="pilgrim"/>
His second book, ''Halsband Portraits'' from 2015, is an accompaniment to the National Arts Club exhibition in New York City titled "Halsband Portraits: Portraits from 1979 – Present".<ref name="betsyhotel"/> The book consists of portraits of musicians and artists such as Warhol, Basquiat, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, and LeRoy Neiman.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael Halsband Profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Keith Richards and More in 'Halsband Portraits' |url=https://hypebeast.com/2015/4/michael-halsband-profiles-jean-michel-basquiat-andy-warhol-keith-richards-and-more-in-halsband-portraits |publisher=Hypebeast |date=April 13, 2015 |access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref>
==Collections== Work by Halsband are held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,<ref name="MFAH">{{cite web |title=Michael Halsband, Model and Slashing Victim Marla Hanson |url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/search/%22Michael%20Halsband%22 |website=The Museum of Fine Arts Houston |access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref> the Parrish Art Museum,<ref name="PAM">{{cite web |title=Michael Halsband, Untitled (Dancer), 1987 |url=https://parrishart.org/artist-stories/#/collection/?select-artist=true&artist=Halsband,%20Michael |website=Parrish Art Museum |access-date=13 November 2022}}</ref> and the SCAD Museum of Art.<ref name="SCAD Muse">{{cite web |title=Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Michael Halsband1985 |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/andy-warhol-and-jean-michel-basquiat-michael-halsband/pQFt2pV8piR4Vg |website=Google Arts & Culture (SCAD Museum collection) |access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref>
==Directing== ===Music videos=== In the 1990s, Halsband directed music videos for, among others, blues musician Taj Mahal, R&B singer Kenny Lattimore, Nuno Bettencourt of rock band Extreme, and Psychedelic Furs offshoot Love Spit Love.<ref name="halsband bio" />{{better source needed| date= November 2022}}
===''Surf Movie: reels 1–14''=== Between 1999 and 2004,<ref name="halsband bio"/>{{better source needed| date= November 2022}} Halsband traveled the world with surfer Joel Tudor taking photographs for their collaborative book project ''Surf Book'' (2005), as well as filming Super-8 footage that would become the 48-minute short film ''Surf Movie: reels 1–14'', released in 2002. The film is a collection of 14 reels of footage, straight from the camera and unedited, that Halsband shot of Tudor and other professional surfers such as Beau Young, Kelly Slater and Rob Machado. It features an original musical score by guitarist Richard Fortus.<ref name="icecreamheadaches">{{cite web |last=Thompson |first=Ed|title=Michael Halsband |url=http://www.icecreamheadaches.nyc/michael-halsband |publisher=Ice-Cream Headaches |access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Surf movie : a film |publisher=WorldCat |oclc=057076740 }}</ref>
===''The Water Dancer''=== The surfwear brand Quiksilver commissioned Halsband to shoot and direct three short films with professional surfer Stephanie Gilmore titled ''The Water Dancer'', released on January 12, 2012. In the films, Gilmore is paired with three professional female dancers: choreographer Noémie Lafrance, ballet dancer Tiler Peck and hip hop dancer Casandra "Defy" Rivera, with the intention to explore the similarities between surfing and dancing.<ref name="halsband bio"/>{{better source needed| date= November 2022}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Quiksilver Introduces Stephanie Gilmore's The Water Dancer |url=https://www.surfer.com/blogs/industry-news/quiksilver-introduces-stephanie-gilmores-the-water-dancer/ |publisher=surfer.com |date=January 12, 2012|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Burton |first=Monica|title=Quiksilver's 'The Water Dancer': Surfing, Ballet & Fashion |url=https://stylecaster.com/whats-nextquiksilvers-water-dancer-surfing-ballet/ |publisher=STYLECASTER |date=January 30, 2012|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref>
===''Growing Farmers''=== ''Growing Farmers'' is a 16-minute-long documentary film, shot and directed by Halsband, and produced in conjunction with the Peconic Land Trust. The film deals with the challenges of young aspiring Long Island farmers, such as the issue of affordable farmland and the industry's future. ''Growing Farmers'' premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October 2012, winning the festival's Audience Choice award.<ref name="halsband bio"/>{{better source needed| date= November 2022}}<ref>{{cite web |title='Growing Farmers' On The East End |url=https://www.27east.com/arts/growing-farmers-on-the-east-end-1364223/ |publisher=27east.com |date=October 1, 2012|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=DeBow-Salsedo |first=Yvette |title=Growing Farmers Documentary Wins Audience Choice at 2012 Hamptons International Film Festival |url=https://peconiclandtrust.org/blog/growing-farmers-documentary-wins-audience-choice-at-2012-hamptons-international-film-festival |publisher=peconiclandtrust.org |date=October 1, 2017|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref>
==Personal life== Halsband began playing the guitar when he was 10 years old and "couldn't get enough of it, and I couldn't play very well either", he said in 2015. "I was so frustrated, but I passionately loved music." Halsband cites the Rolling Stones and AC/DC as among his favorite bands.<ref name="interviewmagazine">{{cite web |title=Inside the World of Michael Halsband |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/michael-halsband-national-arts-club |last=Levels|first=Calvin|publisher=Interview |date=April 3, 2015|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref>
==Filmography== ===Music videos=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Song ! Artist ! Album ! Credit !{{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}} |- | 1994 | Soulsville | Shä-Key | ''A Head Nädda's Journey to Adidi Skizm'' | Director, 2nd camera |<ref name="Billboard March1995">{{cite magazine |last=Russell|first=Deborah|date=March 4, 1995 |title=Production Notes (New York) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2gsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Love+Spit+Love+Change+in+the+Weather+michael+halsband&pg=PA46 |magazine=Billboard |page=46|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> |- | 1994 | Change in the Weather | Love Spit Love | ''Love Spit Love'' | Director, 2nd camera |<ref name="Billboard March1995"/> |- | 1995 | The Creator Has a Master Plan | Brooklyn Funk Essentials | ''Cool and Steady and Easy'' | Director, 2nd camera |<ref>{{cite web |title=Cool & Steady & Easy (1994 / 1995) |url=http://www.brooklynfunkessentials.com/the-band-v-1 |publisher=brooklynfunkessentials.com |access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> |- | 1996 | Never Too Busy | Kenny Lattimore | ''Kenny Lattimore'' | Director |<ref>{{cite magazine |last=|first=|date=April 6, 1996 |title=R&B – Artists and Music |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tw0EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Kenny+Lattimore+Never+Too+Busy+michael+halsband&pg=PA23 |magazine=Billboard |page=23|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> |- | 1997 | Crave | Nuno Bettencourt | ''Schizophonic'' | Director |{{cn|date=November 2022}} |- | 1997 | Mr. Pitiful | Taj Mahal | ''Señor Blues'' | Director |<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Atwood |first=Brett |title=Music Video Programming |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fg8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Taj+Mahal+Mr.+Pitiful+michael+halsband&pg=PA87 |magazine=Billboard |page=87|date=June 7, 1997|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> |- | 1997 | Nothing but Strife | Coolbone | ''Brass-Hop'' | Director, 2nd camera |<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Atwood |first=Brett |title=Music Video Programming – For the Record |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qA4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Coolbone+Nothing+but+Strife+michael+halsband&pg=PA97 |magazine=Billboard |page=97|date=July 19, 1997|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> |- |}
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