Timothy Greenfield-Sanders is an American portrait photographer who is a contributing photographer to the magazine Vanity Fair. He also gained much attention for his 2004 book XXX: 30 Porn Star Photographs (ISBN 0821277545).
Greeenfield-Sanders has photographed such diverse figures as Orson Welles, Monica Lewinsky (his photo was used on the cover of her memoir), George H. W. Bush, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Madeline Albright. In 1999, he had an exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City called "Art World", 700 portraits of artists, buyers, dealers, and other denizens of the art community. He has also made films about musician Lou Reed (which won the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video in 1999) and performance artist Karen Finley . A full set of his photographs is held by the Museum of Modern Art.
Greenfield-Sanders got the idea for XXX after watching the film Boogie Nights, about the porn industry in the 1970s. "I found with porn stars that they're much more comfortable nude than they are clothed. They're energized, and they feel more in control." XXX included pictures of porn stars clothed and on the facing page, the star naked in the same pose. The thirty included were Sunrise Adams , Briana Banks, Belladonna, Seymour Butts , Christy Canyon, Chloe , Nina Hartley, Jason Hawke , Chad Hunt, Heather Hunter , Jenna Jameson (who is on the front cover of the book), Jesse Jane , Jasmine , Ron Jeremy, Jeremy Jordan , Kira Kener , Reina Leone , Michael Lucas, Gina Lynn, Ginger Lynn, Sean Michaels, Peter North, Tera Patrick, Marc Possa , Lukas Ridgeston , Tawny Roberts, Savanna Samson, Aiden Shaw , Lexington Steele, and May Ling Su . The book also featured essays from Gore Vidal, Salman Rushdie, John Malkovich and others.
He is a resident of New York City.
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